Every Google search of "trade federation" leads directly to star wars. You know why? Because such a thing doesn't fricking exist in the world and no one who watches TPM for the first time, or even the 100th, is going to have any idea what the frick they or why they're allowed to blockade planets and arbitrarily control 'trade routes' in the 3 dimensions of space
Lucas, you fricking moron
Uhm actually the prequels are a MASTER CLASS of political theory. Like how the heckin senate is dumb(just like democrats irl) and sign over all their political power to a guy who looks like a demon cause he said the guys defending them for eons are evil and killed them all before they could defend themselves. It's just like 9/11! And also the taxes on trade routes are just like modern day taxes. And then there's the obvious parallels to mass surveillance and erosion of civil rights told by the cgi bugs and cgi mexican clones
>It's just like 9/11!
Lol. Fricking zoomers, I swear. The Prequeks were thinly disguised criticism of the First Gulf War and how the Neocons took over the Republicans and government.
Why does every prequel critique rely on being purposefully moronic?
yeah and "galactic empire" doesn't exist in real life
It's almost like its a fictional universe, you fricking moron
>galactic empire
An empire that invades and annexes planets instead of continents. Pretty self explanatory.
That isn't even what the Empire in Star Wars is. All the planets were already part of the Republic, they just restructured the governing body. moron.
>trade federation
An federation that controls trade between planets instead of continents. Pretty self explanatory.
>"galactic empire" doesn't exist in real life
Yes it does.
>"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..."
It literally said so in the very first shot of the original Star Wars movie that all these events happened irl.
In fact 'trade federation' was simply the place holder for the Empire before it was the empire, but Lucas was too stupid to come with an organization that would be huge and powerful enough to be invading planets for some sort of actual "legal" reason. The best he could come was trade, they enforce....trade? Lmao
You're a dumb frick
The dumb frick is Lucas who got the idea for the trade federation from the British empire controlling the seas and its colonies and tried to mimic that without the EMPIRE part
They're weren't like the Empire though. They were Amazon with a seat in the US Senate and their own army.
>They're weren't like the Empire though.
They were literally modeled after the British naval empire and its control of the seas. You're trying to understand Lucas' moronic logic and make sense out if it, but it's never going to happen. Lucas had no idea what the trade federation in TPM even is either. He thought an armada of ships with the ability to blockade planets would be a cool basic for a war and didn't think of that would actually function in its universe
George isn't the first person to come up with the idea of mega corporations that rival counties in power. They weren't powerful enough to fight the Republic or the empire but they were powerful enough to push around a relative backwater planet like naboo and pay off other senators to back their plays.
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They were the Hanseatic League, who were never a nation but had enough military presence to fight wars against Denmark, England, and Sweden and win.
The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was a European organization created after World War II to integrate Europe's coal and steel industries into a single common market based on the principle of supranationalism ... The organization's subsequent enlargement of both members and duties ultimately led to the creation of the European Union.
I don't like phantom menace. I saw it as a kid and thought it was worse than the original trilogy. When the RLM guys whined about this embargo and called it boring it actually peaked my interest enough that I rewatched the movie. Well, obviously there wasn't much more to it than a couple of lines and it wasn't really worth a rewatch but the concept is very good and interesting.
It's like golden age of sail with chartered trade companies. Or like medieval venice or hanseatic league. Who doesn't like the history of the Dutch East India Company? They should make kino about such things.
Never heard of the WTO or SWIFT?
Literally has nothing to do with lucas' idea
Those tools that are used by the world's hegemon (US) to sanction and prevent countries from being able to trade with the rest of the world when they don't obey his orders. Lucas literally admitted that the Empire was an allegory of what the US could become and the rebels were the Vietnamese and other countries who were attacked by the US.
>Lucas literally admitted that the Empire was an allegory of what the US could become
That's something he said 30 years after he made the OT where in they were literally copying WW2 gundam footage shot for shot from P-51s shooting down 109s. Lmao
>if one element of a movie is inspired by a conflict, it cannot reference any other conflict
You're probably very young, but if you grew up with the 1995 VHS tapes, or maybe the special editions, you would have had the extra making of documentary about how the OT was made. I'm sure it's on YouTube somewhere. At any rate, it's nothing more than WW2 in space mixed with king Arthur and the wizard of oz, and Lucas doesn't shy away from admitting that any step of the way. The empire is Germany. The rebels are Britain. The death star in ANH is the battle of Britain.
Have fun looking that up and enjoy.
ok post comparison side by side vids?
it's true for the ot but the prequels are clearly inspired by modern politics
>where in they were literally copying WW2 gundam footage shot for shot from P-51s shooting down 109s. Lmao
wat
All the space battle footage in the original star wars was copied 1:1 from ww2 guncam footage. This used to be common knowledge among sw fans
You want a link to the famous dam busters raid video?
what
Do zoomers really not know about this?
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dude i'm like 50 lmfao
Me too lma0, skibidibi
the dialogue always seemed so old fashioned
almost..too old fashioned even for 1977
Well, now I know
and the voices sound like when you get a lot of water in your ears
“Trade” and “federation” are English words, so you should be able to parse their meaning together. It’s pretty obvious.
>trade = commerce, the act of buying or selling goods or services
>federation = an encompassing political or societal entity formed by uniting smaller or more localized entities
The trade federation is some entity that controls commerce between different planets. If I wrote a story and invented some organization named something like “the Coffee Corporation” or “the Metropolis Bank,” would you be unable to imagine what those things were?
try not to sound so fat and upset next time lmao
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So if planet A wants to trade with planet B, they arbitrarily need to go through the Trade Federation? It can't be a government body, otherwise they'd have to reason to be upset over the taxation. Or are they just a 3rd party organization that leases out cargo ships for interstellar trade? If so, it's odd that this glorified UPS service can stand toe-to-toe with the galactic government
The Trade Federation was a powerful commerce guild, trade cartel, megacorporation, and lobbying group.
The initial goal of the Trade Federation was to mediate disputes between shipping firms, but it evolved into a powerful corporation with its own commercial trade fleet.
Imagine the mental gymnastics you have to use to think any of this is remotely true or stated anywhere in the movie, or that such an entity even makes logical sense
At what point during watching TPM does a viewer attain this information?
It's irrelevant to the story told in the movie.
George is a moron but so are you.
Why didn't Padmé allow the Senate to explore the validity of her accusations?
Because it had already been investigated by the jedi.
That was off the record. The Jedi were working directly for Chancellor Valorum, not the Senate.
Because he was a fricking cuck getting pushed around by bureaucrats and senators. Everyone knew that naboo had been invaded
Because she wanted to resolve the situation as soon as possible.
Shocking how much headcanon people have to invent for a series made for children and 80 IQ adults. Clearly Lucas didn't give a shit about the galactic politics beyond good vs. evil, why do you pretend it's anything deeper? You're just writing fan fiction at that point
>Because such a thing doesn't fricking exist in the world
We already have metanational corporations substantially richer then many nations, Apple alone has a larger "GDP" then 2/3 of the nations on the planet but yeah, we can trust these corporations to do the right thing...
Lucas came up with the "trade federation" before high speed internet existed and he modeled it after 1700s naval warfare....
Apple is a much better name than the generic "Trade Federation".
Apple is gay
Yup.
It's a nothing term.
They’re basically what the East India Company was.
Ah yes, the first of many globohomosexual corporations to plague humanity.
it's crazy that if you look it up you'll find out that there were cyberpunk corporation wars as early as in 17th century, like there were literal naval and land battles between british and french companies over spices and trade routes
Megacorps has always been our future
Does the trade federation have a state enforced monopoly?
Only in the sense that they had tax-free trade routes and zones to operate within so they didn't have to pay taxes to the Republic. It was the rumor that Chancellor Valorum was going to enact legislation to tax those zones that triggered the Naboo blockade in protest.
try searching Hanseatic league
I think the prequels are stupid but this is a shitty point to make. Its a megacorporation that due to weakening grasps of central authority, has alotted way too much power. in other words its a science-fiction staple.
sounds like the major corporations in galactic trade formed a union, probably so give power in tax negotiations and regulations. as for how theyre able to blockade planets it seems evident that its due to the massive power the federation has while the republic goverment has a fractured senateno standing army and is instead policed by a cult of religious fanatics.
if you want irl examples of similar though look at the Rio Tino blockade of Bouganvile
I always took it as "These guys helped facilitate trade across the galaxy and are now (Illegally) blockading Naboo from all trade, potentially starving them". That was my best guess on what a "Trade Federation" was and it seems on point plus fits with what is shown in the film.
ever heard of the East India Company?
why do you think we have wars? it's still all about trading, resources, and arbitrary rules