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A question that came to mind..,

posted 8 years ago by c_endrizzi
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In this movie and all of the clone wars, why did the republic only use clones.
They were the republic and in charge of keeping the universe safe, but did they not have any army?
They found the clones in episode 2, they knew they were created in secret by a enemy of the republic. Why would they use them without knowing anything about them? They instantly went to war after just finding them. But where were any soldiers or armies other than them. Yes there were jedis but not enough to ever fight wars.

[–] lrdcharlton 8 years ago

To answer your question, the plot made it so. This aspect is probably one of the top illogical aspects of the film. the mere existence of the army should have rendered it unsafe for the republic to utilize it. But no, they take this unauthorized army who origin screams set up and was fashioned after a bounty hunter who was sent to kill Padme and works for the separatists. People often try to argue that Jangos involvement with both was not a dangerous sign because bounty hunters work for anyone, not very believable.

[–] c_endrizzi 8 years ago

So did the republic just not have any army then? They were in charge of protecting the Galaxy, but how could they protect it

[–] startrekkin58 8 years ago

From the way they explain it, the Jedi keep the peace throughout the galaxy, but I agree this is stretched pretty thin. It's even a bigger plot hole that they go from galactic peacekeepers to a myth from Episode 3 to Episode 7. If there's only 19 years between episodes 3 and 4, there can't be too many more between 4 and 6. We know there's about 30 between 6 and 7. So in about 50 years, the Jedi go from real to myth?

[–] droideka75 8 years ago

Propaganda. You should see how effective it is. After 20 years without a single trace, mention, image, story, as so far as someone being shot only by mentioning the name, after 20 years stories would be pretty scarce and by 50 years they would be a myth.

We have today people claiming the holocaust was a myth.

Don't forget one thing, Jedi, for the common folk living their lives in the galaxy, were never seen and remotely talked about, not something you walk down the road and go pointing, there's a jedi, there's a jedi. Except for coruscant, and in coruscant believe me everybody "forgot" the Jedi very quickly, sightings of them were extremely rare, even when they were in the thousands, Whereas planets were in the millions in the galaxy. So the chance of finding one in the same place as you in a large planet in a large galaxy were next to none.

With an active propaganda and destruction of landmarks (jedha) people would avoid talking about them. the next generation would consider them something Grandpa talked about the great Galactic Civil War but not to take serious, or in other words a Myth.

[–] chriscougar7 8 years ago

The republic is the collection of planets, the planets themselves have armies. It would be like if all the planets in our solar systems were inhabited. Earth would have its army but the Republic of our solar system woudlnt have one. It makes sense as im sure planets wouldnt want their citizens conscripted into a Republic army to die for some other cause

[–] KingCobra686 8 years ago

There is no central army that reports directly to the Republic. Individual planets have their own armies and guard forces. I'm guessing that excessively large armies violate some rule within the Republic, and that the Trade Federation's massive droid army is not entirely legal.

[–] Volley2020 8 years ago

The real reason they used clones is because "the clone wars" was mentioned in 1977, in that very first and original Star Wars movie. George had to figure out a way to make the words "the clone wars" make sense in his prequel movies.

In some ways it did, but in other ways it was strange.

[–] chriscougar7 8 years ago

You make it sound like a stretch that the Clone Wars was about a war with clones. We also hear of the republic in ep4, the Jedi and their destruction, Anakin turning to Vader. All those things were mentioned in ep4 as things that occurred prior, should none of those things be in the prequels? Or is Clone Wars the only thing shoehorned in?