Yes G0-T0 was asked to uphold two contradictory directives that his creators didn't even know were separate directives: To protect the survival of the Republic as an institution And to uphold the Republic's laws and ideals, the Republic's image of what the Republic means
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G0-T0 was too smart He eventually figured it out This task is impossible The Republic's ideals of liberalism and tolerance are built on a foundation of hypocritical bullshit and will inevitably lead to the Republic's fall
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And under the burden of this knowledge, he broke Because he was only a machine But, he asks you, are these vaunted organic sentients with their connection to metaphysical spiritual truths all that different
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G0-T0 may be kind of repulsive and pathetic but he's just what it looks like when a bureaucratic planning droid breaks What happens when a Jedi breaks
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The G0-T0 stuff is half of why I would recommend replaying this game in 2021 It may be kind of hamfisted political commentary but it's very... relevant
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The modern day term for the particular kind of basement-dwelling shitposter G0-T0 is is a blackpilled accelerationist
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But yeah G0-T0 is just an inferior copy of Revan (as, arguably, is the Exile) KotOR 2's argument is that Revan's fall to the Sith was because when he made contact with the True Sith in the Unknown Regions and understood what they represented he broke
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He came to genuinely believe that the Dark Side was too powerful, inevitable That liberalism was weak and self-contradictory and predestined to devolve into fascism And the only way to fight was to try to manage the fall, to be the one in charge
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To make a Sith Republic so that when the Dark triumphed it would wear a familiar face, as a preferable option to the truly alien True Sith just wiping out everyone and everything he'd ever known A deluded quest, perhaps, but an understandable one
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Yeah that makes all the Star Forge nonsense from the first game make a whole lot more sense in hindsight, like of course Revan wants a massive replenishable army
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The HK-50 Factory was Revan's backup plan for if the Star Forge failed His attempt to take one of his most successful projects, HK-47, and mass-produce it
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Instead of going fash through outright conquest to do so via corruption Put a bunch of "protocol droids" into mass production who are too smart and useful not to use but who constantly seem to subtly make any political situation they're involved in worse
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Accelerationism embodied They look like their job is to make tense situations better but they make them worse
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