Why is it that. one minute, Mace Windu had Sidious at his mercy and sid "You are under arrest, 'my Lord'", and the next he's suddenly "too dangerous to be left alive"?

 

That's one that coms to mind, anyway.

 

Conflicting thoughts?

Why is it that. one minute, Mace Windu had Sidious at his mercy and sid "You are under arrest, 'my Lord'", and the next he's suddenly "too dangerous to be left alive"?

 

That's one that coms to mind, anyway.

Between the first comment and the second one, Sidious killed three Jedi Masters and nearly killed a fourth. That, one would think, would be a sufficient demonstration of 'dangerous'.

 

Besides, Jedi were at that time connected to the Judicial Forces. Windu basically had to offer Sidious a chance to surrender, regardless of whether he thought that offer would actually be accepted.

oh gawd so many wrong answers on this thread

 

^ this!!!

Between the first comment and the second one, Sidious killed three Jedi Masters and nearly killed a fourth. That, one would think, would be a sufficient demonstration of 'dangerous'.

 

Besides, Jedi were at that time connected to the Judicial Forces. Windu basically had to offer Sidious a chance to surrender, regardless of whether he thought that offer would actually be accepted.

 

Yeah, this. It would be like a police officer giving a criminal the chance to surrender. The criminal then guns down three other cops, and the first policeman shoots him dead. It's not like he did anything wrong, but giving the guy another chance to surrender would be idiotic.

Did you think these things smelled bad..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

 

 

 

 

 

On the outside?

Edited April 26, 2013 by Lordmird

Did you think these things smelled bad..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

 

 

 

 

 

On the outside?

+1

You win this thread.

How does Vader know that Luke is his son, and why does he never mention his lost love, Padame, in episodes 4, 5, and 6? Edited April 26, 2013 by BellsofGuilt

How does Vader know that Luke is his son, and why does he never mention his lost love, Padame, in episodes 4, 5, and 6?

 

Extracting a name from a Rebel pilot and learning of Luke(in Star Wars 35: Dark Lord's Gambit), among other things Vader did. As per why he doesn't mention Padme...well am sure he doesn't want the past to come back and haunt him so he shuts everything away from his former life.

Edited April 26, 2013 by Wolfninjajedi

Mine is: Why do people actually like Boba Fett and Mandalorians in general? I just don't get it.

 

Because he was so mysterious initially then George Lucas and the EU gave him a backstory of being a clone of another mysterious guy in nearly identical armor. Well until the EU revealed HIS backstory. Why people still like him after he fell in the Sarlacc....it depends, but for me it's how the EU portrayed him as a stoic Bounty Hunter that got the job done. The fact that he survived the Sarlacc makes him more of a Badarse in my opinion.

 

Yea why do people like warriors who go around wearing armor that has built in weapons systems, JETPACKS!, have proven to be great warriors, have their own code and language, and generally are the combination Spartans, Vikings, and a lot of other warriors from our history? That is such a good question HOW DARE THEY BE INTERESTING!

Mine is a bit of an interesting one. There may be an answer, I don't know. But here it is:

 

In the Clone Wars, to the best of my knowledge, Korriban was a Republic world. Since it's the birthplace of the Sith, why didn't Count Dooku capture it? Did he try and fail?

In the Clone Wars, to the best of my knowledge, Korriban was a Republic world. Since it's the birthplace of the Sith, why didn't Count Dooku capture it? Did he try and fail?

 

I think Korriban is a long forgotten world, probably only palpatine knows about it, also its not a highly important military target unless you want to train sith lords and dooku didn't want to do that.

Theres a battle fought there but its only mentioned not detailed. Thus it must not be important.

 

Even if Sidious cared about the world (I'm not really sure if he did) it would likely have little tactical significance to the Confederacy. Sidious wouldn't need them to invade it since he would flat out own it once he became Emperor regardless.

 

Wookiepedia is your friend for factual questions like that.

Edited April 27, 2013 by Doctoglethorpe

I always wanted to know how many Stormtroopers did Princess Leia 86 throughout all of the movies.

She seems to have a pretty decent body count going.

Someone must keep track of those things.

Between the first comment and the second one, Sidious killed three Jedi Masters and nearly killed a fourth. That, one would think, would be a sufficient demonstration of 'dangerous'.

 

Besides, Jedi were at that time connected to the Judicial Forces. Windu basically had to offer Sidious a chance to surrender, regardless of whether he thought that offer would actually be accepted.

 

This "would" make sense, except if you watch the scene again, I'm not talking about when he first walks in and says "In the name of the Galactic Senate of the Republic, you are under arrest, Chancellor."

 

He says this just as Anakin is walking in, after all three other Jedi Masters have been killed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzTY2VmXMPQ

(skip to around 1:40)

But okay, I guess the second part of your answer makes sense, although it didn't seem like Mace was exactly concerned with judicial approval!

Edited April 27, 2013 by BradTheImpaler

Why are the armies of the republic and empire so small after all 50000 imperial soldiers at the second batlle of bothawui why is the imperial army so small? The han empire in 20 bc had a bigger army then them the hungarians the romanians the greeks and many other countries in WW2 could send more troops in fighting and these are not big countries, the empire has worlds that have billions of inhabitants and the rep billion upon billion upon billion upon billions of inhabitants why did they not send more troops there like 500 millions and do not tell me that they can not get the manpower for such an army they have from were. Edited April 28, 2013 by adormitul

Why are the armies of the republic and empire so small after all 50000 imperial soldiers at the second batlle of bothawui why is the imperial army so small? The han empire in 20 bc had a bigger army then them the hungarians the romanians the greeks and many other countries in WW2 could send more troops in fighting and these are not big countries, the empire has worlds that have billions of inhabitants and the rep billion upon billion upon billion upon billions of inhabitants why did they not send more troops there like 500 millions and do not tell me that they can not get the manpower for such an army they have from were.

 

The Grammar Gods should never have let you post.

^They let me get away with a lot more then what you saw there. I can make your eyes bleed if I really want to.

Why are the armies of the republic and empire so small after all 50000 imperial soldiers at the second batlle of bothawui why is the imperial army so small? The han empire in 20 bc had a bigger army then them the hungarians the romanians the greeks and many other countries in WW2 could send more troops in fighting and these are not big countries, the empire has worlds that have billions of inhabitants and the rep billion upon billion upon billion upon billions of inhabitants why did they not send more troops there like 500 millions and do not tell me that they can not get the manpower for such an army they have from were.

 

well the armies should be bigger, but in a battle groups above a certain size gain little advantage and gather more casualties. The blaster power of fity thousand troops should reduce most fortresses to rubble, another fifty thousand won't do much more damage, or significantly speed it up, but a bomb amongst them would kill and maim twice as many. And the larger the concentration of troops the more likely one of the captains of the ships involved (assuming more than one fleet) is to take a pot shot at the battlefield, on the basis that he will kill plenty of the enemy.

Well yeah its more easy to attack with a small army but what I do not understand is why did the republic did not conscript more troops to defend the planet. Does it seem that hard to bring an army 5 times the size of the imperial one before the imperials attack again if lets say they know how big the assault army is?

Well yeah its more easy to attack with a small army but what I do not understand is why did the republic did not conscript more troops to defend the planet. Does it seem that hard to bring an army 5 times the size of the imperial one before the imperials attack again if lets say they know how big the assault army is?

Yes, it's almost as though the Bothans themselves possessed no military forces whatsoever and were unable or unwilling to extemporize any, either. A very puzzling state of affairs.

 

Still, one could try to make an argument for it. If the shield generator were destroyed, those fifty thousand Imperial troops - less the casualties incurred in seizing control of the generator - would not, theoretically, have to garrison the entire planet. Without the shield generator, attempts to rally armed opposition would be able to be crushed by orbital bombardment.

 

It's not a particularly sound plan, because it requires indefinite detachment of space naval assets for what is basically garrison duty instead of participating in the battle fleet or on hit-and-fade ops, and it ignores potential difficulty with identifying and eliminating resistance targets. Apart from the creation of a government able to command acceptance, if not allegiance, from the majority of the population - almost certainly an impossibility given the Empire's racism-as-state-policy - the Imperials would need to flood the planet with troops and demonstrate constant presence all over in order to forestall resistance. It is a time-tested solution - 1840s Algeria, late 1940s Dongbei, early 1970s ARVN, the American "troop surge" in Iraq, and so on - and the consequences of not employing that solution are also clear and time-tested. And with fifty thousand soldiers, they simply can't have done that.

 

Fifty thousand troops are no more capable of garrisoning a populated planet with dedicated resistance than are five to ten thousand.

Edited April 29, 2013 by Euphrosyne

Lets say that because of the planetary shield the empire could not send more troops on the planet but the republic did not have that problem they could have send more troops on the planet to defend it. Why did they not do this the republic at that time in the war might have lacked in many things but not in manpower they have billions of sentient beings on planets that are not in the capital the capital has far bigger population. What stopped them from having 500000 troops on the planet to defend it?

Good questions so far!!!

 

My "curiosity" has always been piqued by the trajectory that Luke's torpedo's go in at to destroy the Death Star...they make an arbitrary 90° turn at exactly the right moment to go down the exhaust port...how the flip did they make that turn???

 

More importantly, why did they have to skim the trench if the torpedoes were going to take a 90 degree turn? Why not just fly directly towards the exhaust port? That way you're not confined to a small space (and a lack of maneuvering) and dodge as many other fighters and turrets as needed before unloading on the unsuspecting exhaust port!

 

Also, TIE Fighters were used by the Empire because they were cheap. The Empire relied on brute force and fear to get the job done, meaning that numbers counted for more than keeping their pilots alive. Combine that with the massive fleet of capital ships (various Star Destroyers and other smaller ships) and you've got a force to be reckoned with. TIE Fighters didn't need to be long range fighters because they were always deployed with capital ships (with the exception of a few specialised TIE Interceptor units that had hyperdrives and later the TIE Defender, although the Defender only went into production because of the Rebellion's success with the X-wings and other starfighters).

 

The Rebels, with their limited resources and personnel, preferred to use their resources keeping their pilots alive and without a major capital ship fleet, they didn't have the support that TIEs had. That meant that lone squadrons could do things that the Imperial fleet could do just as well (obviously not on the same scale, though). The shields also meant that pilots lived longer to learn from their mistakes and got better.

i have one.

Would padme had died anyway if anakin did not break her heart and choked her?

i have one.

Would padme had died anyway if anakin did not break her heart and choked her?

 

No.....why would she?

More importantly, why did they have to skim the trench if the torpedoes were going to take a 90 degree turn? Why not just fly directly towards the exhaust port? That way you're not confined to a small space (and a lack of maneuvering) and dodge as many other fighters and turrets as needed before unloading on the unsuspecting exhaust port!

Flying into the trench was a way to reduce casualties, because it meant that the fighters wouldn't have to contend with the much heavier defenses concentrated on the "surface" of the Death Star. Flying straight toward the exhaust port would've exposed Gold and Red squadrons to far more turbolaser batteries, without the cover granted by the trench.

 

Dodonna and the other tacticians judged that even the trench run, with the twin turbolaser towers able to fire down its length and the danger of TIE attack from the rear, was a less costly proposition than sending the fighters directly at the entrance through a far denser concentration of antifighter and antiship defenses.

Edited April 30, 2013 by Euphrosyne