GM: "Darth Vader will personally Force Choke your character to death if I accept him into this game!"

This happened on a certain Play-by-Post site a long time ago. Basically, I wanted to play Star Wars: Saga Edition. As luck would have it, there was a game using that system that was just starting, set right after A New Hope. It was advertised as some kind of sandbox game. "You can serve the Empire, be part of the Rebel Alliance or be neutral", the description said.

I decided to try out the Noble class and in order to keep things simple, I based my character's backstory on one of the sample character concepts from the rulebook. Basically, my character's family ruled over some poor, backwater planet in the Galactic Empire, but they hated the Empire and had sympathies to the Rebel Alliance. After Luke Skywalker destroyed the Death Star, my character was inspired and wanted to get his family to secretly support the Rebel Alliance or at least to join the fight against the empire himself.

Mechanically, he was a Human Noble, had high Charisma and focused on Social and Knowledge skills. I think he also had a talent that boosted attack rolls of any allies he inspired. Think Bard in DnD terms, without any magic.

I submitted this character concept to the game and the GMs response was basically this:

GM: "Do you know what happens if I accept this character into the game? Darth Vader will personally show up with a fleet of Star Destroyers, force choke your character to death and then order orbital bombardment on your character's home planet until nothing remains of it. What did you think would happen? Opposing the Galactic Empire is a death sentence! And aside from that, this character concept doesn't even fit into Star Wars at all! You must try harder if you want to play in my game!

I was surprised by this reaction, but when I reviewed my backstory, I noticed one line there that might've been taken out of context. It said something like: "*Character Name* knew that now was the time to support the Rebel Alliance and overthrow the Galactic Empire." I thought GM took it as my character and his family openly declaring war on the Empire, so I messaged him again and clarified that no, my character and his family would only be supporting the Rebel Alliance secretly. I wanted my character to basically be similar in concept to Princess Leia, only male.

The response I got to that was brief:

GM: "No, Darth Vader, force choke! That's the only way this can go if I accept this character concept! How about you make something less ridiculous and stop wasting my time?"

Well, I didn't get to join that game, not that I wanted to anymore. I have no idea why that GM was so opposed to my Human Noble character. I deliberately made that character as generic and basic as it could be.