Like, everything about how lightning was a drain on life etc was from the EU at that point
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Fromage10x and
How often is any form of hand-to-hand combat relevant in the context of military space operations? It must all be very esoteric for ordinary people in the galaxy, both lightsabers and force lightning, when wars are mostly fought between armies and spaceships.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @BootlegGirl and
TBH Obi Wan’s dialogue in the first film rather implies that it was primarily a dueling weapon.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @mssilverstein and
I mean, they were meant to be like Samurai. So having it all based around a 1 on 1 duel scans st least.
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Replying to @BetaDecayPlus @mssilverstein and
Or Arthurian knights errant. Or western gunslingers.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @BetaDecayPlus and
All of the above, to some extent. But also, the war was much bigger than the handful of soldiers of fortune the plot centers around.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @bazzalisk and
It was, and it was also the only war for centuries. The republic had no military besides the jedi.
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Replying to @BetaDecayPlus @bazzalisk and
Where did the giant spaceships come from? Immediately after the imperial takeover? Or was the galaxy just full of militias.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @BetaDecayPlus and
Clone Wars. In Phantom Menace everything we see are just fighters for local militia, and armored transports
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @BetaDecayPlus and
The Republic was a total mess from the getgo. Totally unequipped for the task before it, and ultimately, barely even sovereign.
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Well yeah it's not the equivalent of the US, more like the EU
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Yeah - something like the Articles of Confederation United States, which also immediately failed, but at least realized it quickly and reformed itself.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @BootlegGirl and
The Clone Wars are kind of unsubtly a reference to the US Civil War, with the creation of a massive central military and a vast shift to centralized federal power after putting down a secessionist movement They even call the clonetroopers the Grand Army of the Republic
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