#Galactic Republic

[yiliy]

A gentle reminder that Tatooine is not part of the Republic.

Jedi have no authority on Tatooine

Republic has no authority on Tatooine

Republic system didn't fail the people of Tatooine, because people of Tatooine don't live within the Republic's system

Yes, Republic is flawed, yes it's horrible a planet is controlled by gangsters. But membership in the Republic is completely voluntary. To act against rulers of another planet is an act of war. To absorb a planet without it willingly applying is not what freedom and democracy stand for.

Tatooine is messed up because of the Hutts, not because of the Republic or the Jedi.

Qui-Gon talking about Anakin not having been born in the Republic.

#Star Wars #Galactic Republic #Tatooine #Star Wars prequels #Jedi #Star Wars The Republic #Anakin #Qui Gon #Anakin Skywalker #Qui Gon Jinn #QuiGon Jinn

[coaz-photography]

Embankment

#star wars #Revenge of the Sith #The Clone Wars #star wars rebels #clone wars saved #clone trooper #captain rex #toys #Galactic Republic #toy photography #emulation project #coazphotography #501stlegion #501st #501

[short-wooloo]

George Lucas makes an entire trilogy about how a flawed democracy is better than dictatorship, only for countless people to stan the separatists

#wooloo-writes #wooloo writes #star wars #sw #george lucas #the galactic republic #galactic republic #separatist alliance #confederacy of independent systems #anti separatists #separatists

[brrmian]

something that so many star wars fans somehow fail to realize is that george lucas always intended for the fall of the republic to be a completely unavoidable tragedy. that’s what makes it such brilliant storytelling.

placing the blame on just one party in the galaxy-wide farce that was the clone wars just isn’t interpreting the story the way its writer intended. neither is saying that all players should be held equally accountable. i don’t think the jedi were at fault for the state of the republic, and (despite the fact that he did horrible things) neither was anakin, on a galactic or governmental scale.

the real villain is palpatine, who shaped the government into a corrupt system by his own hand. the blame for turning a democratic republic into an authoritarian dictatorship (which it was long before it became the empire) under the noses of thousands of incredibly corrupt politicians must be placed entirely on him, and him alone.

by the end of the war, the jedi council recognized that they had already lost the ability to hold onto what it truly means to be a jedi. in their prime during the days of the old republic, the jedi knights were “the guardians of peace and justice.” they’re meant to as diplomats, peacekeepers, mediators, and public servants. when the clone wars began, they were essentially forced into being soldiers, generals, and quasi-politicians by palpatine and the senate. all of those things are antithetical to the jedi’s beliefs, but they had no other choice.

placing even the smallest bit of blame on the jedi for anything leading to the republic’s downfall—and their own—is not only unfair, it’s factually incorrect. the jedi order is a monastic organization. they have no say in the senate and no voting power. saying they’re corrupt, when in fact they were just as conned by palpatine as the rest of the galaxy, is victim-blaming and scapegoating.

palpatine shoved the jedi face first into fighting the war, and pretty much threw the clone army into their laps on top of that. the jedi had no say in the matter, and they certainly had no say in the war itself being started, either. because he controlled both sides, palpatine was able to make the CIS and the republic declare war on each other even though its citizens wanted the same outcome: political independence and survival. if not for palpatine’s schemes, the separatists would have been allowed to secede peacefully, the republic would have continued existing, and the war would have been completely avoided. but that was unfortunately not the case.

so in a galaxy thrown into an unavoidable war by its own secret dictator, with an army of sentient slaves suddenly at their command, and the risk of billions of deaths at the hands of the droid army imminently approaching, what do the galaxy’s official peacekeepers have no other choice but to do? be peacekeepers. why wouldn’t the sworn defenders of the galaxy be out on the battlefields trying to end the war? if they sat in the temple and did nothing, they simply wouldn’t be jedi.

the jedi were forced into a lose/lose situation. every religion and organization has faults, but that doesn’t place any blame on them for the catch-22 they were trapped into falling for. when the clone wars started—and the key point here is that it never should have in the first place—the jedi still needed to be jedi. unfortunately for them, that meant having positions of power not meant for them being thrust upon their shoulders. they couldn’t drop the burden, because that meant actively choosing not to save lives—but the other option, becoming soldiers despite the tenet of their beliefs that dictates they shouldn’t, was no better.

see what a cruel trap palpatine set? it’s like a fish being caught in a fisherman’s net. the net is spread out across the ocean floor, and the fish swim above it, not knowing that the trap is waiting to be drawn in around them from below. in the end, when the net starts to tighten, dragging them closer to the surface, they can’t swim fast enough to escape from the middle to the edge—and to safety—before the net is completely tied. it’s the cruelest kind of trap: the kind that gives you just the right amount of time to think you can escape while being sprung just quick enough to make actually escaping impossible.

in the end, the order actively chose to fight the war because they needed to. there was no other way to continue on as who they were. militarizing the order was not the right choice in a vacuum, but this was not that; this was a situation in which every galaxy-changing choice was the wrong one. the jedi knew they were making a decision that drew them farther away from their beliefs, but it was the lesser of an infinite list of evils, and they didn’t see the walls closing in on them until it was too late.

lucas himself has even said that the order was not corrupt or decaying from the inside, nor did they make a series of bad choices that ultimately led to their own destruction. they were always just trying to do the right thing—but unlike literally everything else in fiction, the jedi order’s death was completely unaffected by any of the choices they made. no matter what they did, they were always going to lose. the fall of the republic wasn’t caused by its defenders choosing what they saw as the least bad choice. it didn’t come down to any decisions, political or not, that the jedi council made with the limited tools that they had. it certainly didn’t come down to one emotionally unstable twenty-three-year-old’s slow descent into insanity, either. the republic and the jedi would still have been destroyed with or without anakin’s unhinged nervous breakdown.

anakin, just like the order, the republic, and the separatists, was taken advantage of by palpatine. even if a person’s choices are their own, they don’t exist in a vacuum.

anakin would have made better choices if not for palpatine, but he didn’t. the jedi order would have kept the peace if not for palpatine, but no matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t. the republic, and democracy with it, would not have crumbled if not for palpatine. not the order, not anakin, not the separatists, and not the republic.

in the end, they were all just pawns in a decades-spanning plan, one that none of them saw coming until it was too late—and by then, it was already irreversible.

#jedi antis go away!!! #i don’t wanna hear any victim blaming here #if yall try to scapegoat the jedi for being genocided i will come for u #the person who put it best was the tiktoker who said ‘jedi are firemen in a world where the police won’t arrest arsonists’ #star wars #star wars rots #star wars prequels #star wars meta #sw prequels #sw meta #anakin skywalker #pro jedi #swtcw #the clone wars #jedi #jedi order #palpatine #count dooku #galactic empire #galactic republic #rant post #sw #doomed by the narrative #arc trooper fives #star wars tcw #tcw fanfic #ahsoka tano #obi wan kenobi #tales of the empire

[writerbuddha]

I think what most people don't realize about the Galactic Republic is that it was failing, but it was never flawed. This is a very important difference. A flawed republic is suffering from issues that are pretty much encoded into its DNA, so to speak, leading to its downfall. But a failing republic was the best that you could get, but democracy, by its very nature, is something we do, not something we have - so it's demise is the result of people no longer functioning as a republic. George Lucas repeatedly said, he was making a story about how a democracy turns itself into a dictatorship. Not about how power-hungry elites sapping and colonizing an entire galaxy then finally closing the coffin onto themselves.

#star wars #George lucas #galactic republic

[star-wars-forever]

#star wars #star wars art #star destroyer #galactic republic #the clone wars #attack of the clones #coruscant #grand army of the republic

[padawansuggest]

Also we all know that Coruscant is the city scene of the galaxy but what is the rave/festival scene of the galaxy? You don’t normally have rave festivals without some big field for everyone to enjoy their hangover in the next day before the next party, what’s the rave scene of the galaxy? You’d get heat stroke and die if you did it on Tatooine. You can’t mix alcohol/drugs and swimming so no water planets. You can’t fit the prim and pristine aesthetic of Alderaan or Naboo by having a bunch of drugged out idiots in a club… or maybe. Idk on Alderaan but DEF not Naboo. Naboo gets underground fight clubs and garden wine parties tho. Mandalore is the heart of conventions (mainly weapons, armor and slam poetry for sure) but not much in the way of nerdery. You can find a million nerd stores in Coruscants underground (meaning not ‘surface level’) shopping districts because what the fuck else are they gonna do down there but get drunk at a cantina, learn parkour and watch anime. Stewjon and Kalevala are obviously the Actual Scottish Highlands so they’re all making yarn and fabric (which is my scene but not a rave girls scene you feel me?) and so they think the pub on the weekend is a little rough but only 17 guys came home with black eyes and missing teeth so we’re calling it a win. Idk man, who’s got the rave scene???

#star wars #galactic republic

[yukipri]

The Prime Override - Chapter 65 is up!

Seventeen - The Present: Holocall, Part II - The Republic

Here's the next chapter!

As you may have noticed, I made a lil chapter header banner for myself to use to announce updates for this fic on my socials. I'm too lazy to go back and make them for all my past chapters, but I'll be using these for all the Book 2 chapters moving forward! I hope it makes these posts a lil easier to spot!

(and yeah, I'm reusing my filigree clone & Mando helmets yet again, but hey I worked hard on those, might as well use them? And yup, the symbol behind the logo is the Vode symbol in this AU! This might be the first time I've posted anything with it publicly??)

Anyway, onwards!

This Chapter: Bail updates Obi-Wan on his friends. And some unfortunate news regarding the direction the Republic will be taking.

Warnings: The Republic being a very transparent parody of the U.S., as George Lucas likely intended.

“War is like a drug, an addiction,” Organa murmurs. “Once they have felt the power of being able to beat those who oppose them into submission…it’s difficult to convince them that that power is not necessary.”

> > Read Ch 65 on AO3

Want to read ahead? Early access chapters up to chapter 67 are up on my Patreon rn, with 68 coming in a few more days!

#ThePrimeOverride #YukiPri writes #AO3 #clone troopers #galactic republic #bail organa #obi-wan kenobi #alpha-17 #does this count as political parody or just plain politics #also yeah i went back and added a banner to just last chapter's announcement post #since it was the first chapter of 'Book 2'

[coaz-photography]

Deadman's Clean-up

Captain Rex assists his troops in recovering fallen members of Torrent Company after a fierce battle.

#star wars #The Clone Wars #Revenge of the Sith #clone wars saved #clone trooper #captain rex #star wars rebels #Galactic Republic #501stlegion #501st #501 #toys #toy photography #coazphotography #emulation project

[short-wooloo]

Another way I realized the opinion that "the Jedi got too involved in Republic politics" is stupid:

How in the fuck are they supposed to be effective at their job of peacekeeper-diplomats if they aren't involved in politics?

You can't eat your cake and have it too! No one listens to people who have no political authority!

Politics involves you, whether or not you're involved in politics!

#that's a lesson for real life too #wooloo-writes #wooloo writes #star wars #sw #pro jedi #in defense of the jedi #jedi #jedi order #galactic republic #the republic #politics

[i-looove-dillydallying]

Jedi consular and Qyzen Fess are besties, sorry I don’t make the rules

#swtor #star wars the old republic #mmorpg #videogame #star wars #light side #galactic republic #jedi #jedi consular #oc #toon #origin story #class mission #base game #companion #besties #brotp #qyzen fess #nadia grell #felix iresso #zenith #tharan cedrax #facts #hot take #opinion

[derickbatista31]

Separatists Nightmare

fan art of my version of nose art separatists nightmare from clone wars

#star wars #501st legion #clone wars #clone wars art #sw tcw #captain rex #star wars the clone wars #clone trooper #art #illustration #the clone wars #graffiti digital #galactic republic #drawing #sketch wars #anakin skywalker #tcw #clone army #clone art #clones #ahsoka tano #clone trooper kano #kano #fan art #my art #artwork #concept art #star wars concept art

[jewishcissiekj]

never posted these

#star wars #the high republic #star wars the high republic #sw thr #thr #avon starros #imri cantaros #ghirra starros #vernestra rwoh #deva lompop #jay-6 #galactic republic #honesty weft #xylan graf #zeen mrala #stellan gios #star wars memes #doctor mkampa #the high republic adventures #defy the storm #the nameless #nameless #drengir #the drengir #sw #the high republic memes

[thesenate0066]

I’m having SO MUCH FUN doing all of my funny little projects instead of the things I need to do. Just about a week ago, I put together THIS GUY

With files from Droid Division on Etsy, I 3D printed this tactical droid head and painted him (for which I have no pictures yet but I will keep updating). Now all that is left is to put in the guts of a Google Home (or similar device) and make him corporate spyware!

#3d printing #battle droid #separatists #star wars #clone wars #the clone wars #etsy #the bad batch #star wars tcw #tcw #sw tcw #galactic republic #mandalorians

[writerbuddha]

I love how Darth Sidious and Cad Bane refer to Force-sensitive children, not yet took in by the Jedi Order as "children of the Jedi." This implies that the galaxy views Force-sensitive babies as children who born into two families: their birth families and the Jedi Order.

#jedi culture #star wars #galactic republic #jedi order #jedi younglings

[antianakin]

"Of course anti-Jedi people are also anti-Senate and anti-Republic!"

Then where's all the fucking anti-Senate and anti-Republic posts, huh? Maybe make more of those and less of your anti-Jedi rhetoric instead and I'll start to believe that statement.

Also I'll point out that most pro Jedi people (REAL pro Jedi, not fake pro Jedi) are actually also pro Republic and even, for the most part, pro Senate. Because the Republic and the Senate were a system that WORKED, for 1000 years. Palpatine manipulates a successful system into being dysfunctional, but that doesn't actually means the system itself was bad to start with. There are lots of people IN that system who are also corrupt, sure, but the system itself was very successful for a very long time. None of us are anti-Republic, we're anti Sith taking over the Republic for their own agenda and twisting it into something it isn't.

The people in narrative who were anti-Senate and anti-Republic were generally portrayed as EVIL or misguided. Look at all the Separatists who, while they had legitimate grievances, are mostly portrayed as absolutely gullible and idiotic and incompetent. Look at Dooku who is prepared to commit atrocities in the name of burning down the Republic for a "better" system (which seems to still totally rely on the Corporate Alliances and slavery, so, you know, better is subjective here). The people we see more actively FIGHTING for the Republic are pretty much always considered the good guys. Padme. Bail. Mon Mothma. The Jedi. Rex during TBB. The Rebellion, Leia, Luke. They're all fighting to bring back a system that WORKED, they're fighting to protect it or rebuild it from the ashes. You're not supposed to believe Maul when he claims that the Republic is already an Empire beyond saving. If that were true, then the Rebellion's efforts later are pretty much all in vain and pointless in the extreme.

#star wars #pro jedi #jedi #galactic republic #republic senate