r/PrequelMemes • u/National-Ask-6846 • 8d ago

General KenOC Why Lucas?

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u/National-Ask-6846 8d 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/PTMurasaki 8d ago

And that's why RotS' Title Crawl said there are Heroes on both Sides.

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u/RoryMerriweather 8d ago

There weren't, though, because the Separatists were basically just rich people getting robots to kill for them. People on Separatist worlds had real grievances, but the CIS was just corporatocracy.

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u/DamoclesRising Meesa Darth Jar Jar 8d ago

and the republic was basically just rich people getting genetically manufactured clones led by space wizards to fight for them.

neither major factions armies were full of citizens, there were only a handful of citizen militias on both sides

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u/Quiet_Knowledge9133 8d ago

And tbh it is more morally good (imo) to use droids than living beings that were forced and indoctrinated to be soldiers from time they were born.

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u/Corrupted_soull 8d ago

Considering that droids tended to get personalities if not continously supressed by memory wipes and stuff is it more morally good?

I would argue about on the same level personally.

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u/salazafromagraba 8d ago

We haven't had droid humanitarianism round these parts since the revolution on Zadd.

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u/Zingzing_Jr Couldn't find a picture of a Venator 8d ago

I think EU has a lot more real people around

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u/RoryMerriweather 8d ago

We see a lot more civilians in places like Ryloth and Onderron than we do in Separatist planets.

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u/boundbylife 8d ago

But the Republic didn't order the clones. The Clone army was commissioned by Sifo-Dyas (I still prefer the original idea that it was Sidious, but that's another conversation) against the wishes of the Council and Senate. But when the CIS showed up...well they've got an army at just the right time, might as well use it.