so it didn't matter if they sent dudes out in, say, $1000 deathtraps bc they'd always have more bodies to replace them
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Replying to @CelticAnarchy
Which matches Cold War era Soviet Bloc strategy, which was oldCanon. nuCanon seems to be that the Empire is bad at engineering
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Well it was always canon that part of the theme was the Empire being seriously corrupt and filled with self serving factions
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Like Lucas did really want to give the impression the Clone Wars were a technological highwater mark on both sides
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Which is the only way to make the millenia-long scale work. If there's an apex of tech and it requires geniuses to reach
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Well it's like the concept of the CIS was the Republic had the bulk of population and wealth and the CIS had the force multipliers
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
It was all the weird freaky species who had access to some kind of special technological advantage
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Because, in retrospect, Palpatine wanted to gather all such factions in one place and kill them all so he could have a homogeneous empire
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
He wanted to steal the very best fruits of their genius - the Death Star - while generally removing their existence as a threat
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
He did the same thing to the tech prodigies he did to the magic prodigies, the Jedi - get rid of all but the best one
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The Clone Wars were a crucible to let him refine out the very best weapons of war each special faction could produce, then discard them
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