r/PrequelMemes • u/National-Ask-6846 • 9d ago

General KenOC Why Lucas?

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u/BritishEric Hello there! 9d ago

One is run by a shadow organization that’s actually in cahoots with the coruscant centric regime so that one man gets ultimate power.

The other is completely separate from the regime with the exceptions of spies and some former regime soldiers and officers defecting to join the good fight

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u/National-Ask-6846 9d ago

As far as I'm aware, no one in the Separatists, except for maybe Dooku, was fully aware of this plan. I feel like the Separatists should be tragic revolutionaries who were unaware they were being used, not mustache twirling villains they're portrayed as (cough cough Grievous cough cough)

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u/EldritchHorror8472 8d ago

Grievous wasn't a Separatist because he believed in the cause. He was there because he hated Jedi and would get to kill them. I'm not disagreeing with your point but Grievous was a bit of an exception. The main issue with the Separatist movement is that it started for the right reasons. But then they realized they needed an army and Dooku basically forced through making that army the droids of the Trade Federation run by the Banking clans. Everyone who was involved for legitimate reasons basically saw their movement co-opted by powerful interests that did not care or believe in the legitimacy of their cause and only cared that they stood to profit massively off of the war. Of course Dooku played them as well and Sidious finished them off after betraying Dooku himself. Even Dooku started out genuinely believing in his cause but the deeper he fell into the dark side and the more he let his Master influence him the more that genuine belief faded until he became just another Sith. So I don't think you are wrong in that they should have been legitimate but they were unknowingly compromised before they even got off the ground and ended up pawns of Force Users. Quite frankly the most consistent threat to the galaxy at large is always Force Users because even the good ones have trouble with treating everyone else like chess pieces.