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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Replying to @mssilverstein @BootlegGirl and
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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Unfortunately this makes George Lucas sound like a Lost Cause/John Birch type and makes Palpatine his version of Abraham Lincoln Still less bad than the way Joss Whedon did it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
I guess nowadays you could also make the comparison to Brexit Ha ha the UK is the CIS
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
The comparison is perfectly valid: UK spent decades demanding policies that weakened the EU, and when the Commission and Parliament became *slightly* harsher on the tax havens where the british upper class hid its money, it seceded.
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