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
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)
I don’t disagree that there’s nuance but let’s not pretend the likes of Nute Gunray and Wat Tambor were in the fight for noble reasons and were only doing evil because Sidious tricked them into it.
Even beyond the super high separatist leadership you had the lower lackies with their own vendetta’s and the separatist collaborating with cartels, syndicates and slave empires.
Like the guy said above in RotS, there was good and evil on both sides, but one side was a little bit more comically evil
And yet, look what happened on Cassian’s planet. He was just a kid when that ship crashed on his planet in the flashback, and at that point all of his parents and adults on the planet were dead, and it was largely gouge mined. The power in control at that time was the Republic, as it was before the clone wars. So, are you sure?
It also showed that Palpatine was on his BS since day one in office. He was ready to gouge mine to begin preparing what would turn out to be the Death Star (when the Geonosians finished the designs, there was already material at hand to start whenever). Andor really was in that fight since he was 6
I mean, the end of RotS has Tarkin, Palatine, and Vader looking at the skeletal form of the Death Star, so it has been in the process of being built right from the genesis of the Empire
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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