dracodevis:
quasicandid:
The political background to the prequel Star Wars trilogy is MAD COMPLICATED
I just watched Star Wars II for like the third time in my life and then had to pull up several Wikipedia pages and I’m still trying to comprehend what’s happening
For centuries the…
George does love convoluted stories.
1. The important thing to remember about Jango is that he’s a bounty hunter. He owes loyalty to no one. You pay him for a job, he does a job. Sometimes they have an agreement with a customer to do lots of jobs for them, with the understanding that thy will always be paid well for them (Jango with Tyranus, later Boba with Jaba and Vader). But in the end, he is always his own man. Someone offered him ludicrous amounts of money for his genetic material, so of course he agreed. As for Tyranus, he actually did know about the clone army. He was in on the whole thing with Palpatine. In Tyranus’ eyes, this whole war was an excuse to make the galactic government into something stronger and more efficient. So he played a role in the creation of the clone army, as I’ll explain in 3.
2. Assassinating a senator on Coruscant while she’s under the protection of two Jedi is a ridiculously dangerous job. Jango is tough and brave, but not stupid. Assassinations don’t tend to pay as well as bounties, so he’s not going to risk his neck on a job like that. So he pushes that job off on someone else. Hence the hired assassin.
3. Sifo-Dyas was a Jedi master and old friend of Dooku who Palpatine met at the same time. He decided to recruit both of them, though I don’t think he ever told Sifo-Dyas he was a Sith Lord. He instead convinced him that shit was getting really bad in the galaxy and that the republic needed an army, partly by having Dooku very publicly leave the order, take up the title Count (his parents were nobles on some planet) and start making noise about separatism Sifo-Dyas ordered the army, then Palpatine had his newly renamed apprentice Tyranus murder him and take over the project.
Hope that clears it up!
quasicandid:
The political background to the prequel Star Wars trilogy is MAD COMPLICATED
I just watched Star Wars II for like the third time in my life and then had to pull up several Wikipedia pages and I’m still trying to comprehend what’s happening
For centuries the Republic Senate was bogged down in a huge mess of bureaucracy. This was a problem for Queen Padme Amidala, because her planet Naboo, which was rich in ship fuel, didn’t want to make a really crappy deal with the Trade Federation, who proceeded to set up an illegal blockade of her planet to force her to agree. When she escaped and went to the senate to ask for help, she had the Supreme Chancellor on her side but there was not much he could do about it because of said crappy bureaucracy. So she moved for a vote of no confidence, essentially kicking the supreme chancellor out of office. A new chancellor was elected, Palpatine (as was his plan all along). A bunch of less significant stuff happens and we fast forward to episode 2.
Years have passed and more and more star systems and corporations get fed up with the bureaucratic hell that is the senate, and with some prodding from Jedi Master Count Dooku, they decide to form the Confederacy of Independent Systems, starting a Civil War. Seeing as how these separatists had an endless droid army and the Republic hadn’t been allowed to have its own standing army, they would have been pretty screwed, had not a Jedi Master named Sifo-Dyas secretly ordered a clone army made for the republic, again all according to Palpatine’s plan. Once the presence of the Droid Army was revealed, Palpatine had to just tell the senate he could quickly have an army ready, they just needed to aprove it. Bam, the Grand Army of the Republic was formed and the Clone Wars began.
Again lots of unimportant stuff happened, mostly the war being fought and the Senate kept granting the Chancellor more and more emergency power, i.e. more control that he would of course give back when all this was over. Skipping over a lot of episode 3, reveals to Anikin that he is the Sith Lord, knowing Anikin will tell the council and they will attempt to apprehend him. With Anikin’s help, he fends off the attack, then uses it as an excuse to order the execution of all Jedi, convince the Senate that the Jedi were traitors to the republic, and form the Galactic Empire with himself as Emperor, to the “thunderous applause” of the senate.
And there you have it. See what happens when I get bored?
I was looking at a jar of Planters Peanut Butter, and I realized Mr. Peanut is grinding up his own people and feeding them to us.
SOYLENT BROWN IS PEANUTS!
Filed under Peanut Butter Mr. Peanut Cannibalism
