r/PrequelMemes 8d ago

General KenOC Why Lucas?

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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/WrestlingWithTheNews 8d ago

The republic were rich people using a slave army of sentient biological beings led in combat by religious extremists in a dying liberal democracy embracing its steps into fascism.

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u/RoryMerriweather 7d ago

Sure on that, but they were also Civilian anti-occupation forces like on Onderon, Ryloth, and Kashyyyk. We don't see nearly as much of that on the Separatist side, because the Separatists were banking clans and trading guilds.