Yeah both DS9 and SWTOR turn the "good" government into a cynical liberal's view of America
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
The Republic just keeps on building genocidal superweapons. They've literally got at least half a dozen in the SWTOR main plot
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And in Rebels, this is actually made part of nuCanon - Ezra wins the support of a separatist tactics droid by pointing out that >
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> there's literally no difference between the Republic and the Empire except the name
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Well yeah they literally have continuity of government, Palpatine ensured that
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Not that a Separatist would share the Rebels' ideals but I think the original Separatist nations were all genocided anyway so
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Yeah it was just a droid and it was programmed to "defeat the Republic" and so Ezra was like "look, that's the Republic right there"
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Part of Saw Gerrera's arc is definitely that he goes through all this shit convincing his rebel movement to align with the Republic
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And then the Republic immediately becomes the real fascists who are 1000x worse than the Separatists he was initially fighting
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Which is why he sours on being a team player with the rest of the Rebel Alliance trying to convince him they're the real good guys
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An arc that many RL resistance movements become quite familiar with
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Replying to @arthur_affect
and I mean as of current canon the first encounter he has after the clone wars with rebels is with a kid who's literally Maul's apprentice
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Isn't his whole deal he thinks the Death Star exists and everyone treats him as an insane fanatic
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