I thought this might be of interest :
From the Board at The Force.Net :
How to write evil (Getting inside the mind of your villian)What I find interesting , is the point of view that a villian , an evil person is sometimes someone who is not a villian from the own point of view. What I mean is, that in Star Wars the TIE Fighter pilots are not necessarily evil, but merely trying to establish and keep some sort of order.