What was the reason for the Jedi to start the clone wars and fight on the republican side in this conflict? Werent they supposed to be some sort of peacekeepers and diplomats rather than soldiers?
Kinda makes no sense
What was the reason for the Jedi to start the clone wars and fight on the republican side in this conflict?
We're keepers of the peace, not soldiers. Now if you'll excuse me, I have war plans to draw, armies to lead, battles to fight, and casualties to make. Oh, also, this weapon is your life.
theyre supposed to be a mystical class of knights or samurai. the peacekeeping/diplomat thing is just busywork. Episode I has jedi acting in diplomatic capacity for 5 minutes, they walk themselves into a trap and then suddenly theyre in a battle. Normal diplomats wouldnt be sent out to that kind of environment, using high level warriors as diplomats to begin with was a statement in itself by the Republic, and the Jedi seem to have always been a strongarm tactic of the galactic order, as long as you didnt ask them to commit too many dishonorable acts.
That. Was. The. Point.
Literally the point. Watch this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btp1BoGbuiM&ab_channel=SoUncivilized
Because they saw themselves as protectors of the Republic and the democracy it was supposed to represent.
Just watch the Plinkett reviews.
(do anything but this)
This is a good question. Why tarkin didn't resent Jedis?
Why the military leaders of individual planets like alderaan didn't became leaders?
>Why tarkin didn't resent Jedis?
He probably did.
>Why the military leaders of individual planets like alderaan didn't became leaders?
The Jedi are the main law enforcement of the republic and are seen as not having their own agenda beyond that. They are also super human and can battle plan with the aid of the force etc.
>Why the military leaders of individual planets like alderaan didn't became leaders?
Because they couldn't be trusted to put any planet's welfare above their own. Tarkin himself was notoriously pro-Eriadu uber alles, and resented the Core Worlds for their softness and treatment of worlds just as rich or productive as the Core but looked down on for their galactic position not being in the Core. By and large, the member worlds of the Republic don't actually give a shit about the Republic except as an institution to play with for the benefit of their world.
So... The republic had no option but to entrust an army to the jedi, no questions asked...
Pretty much. The Jedi were the only organization connected to the Republic government that took the whole of the Republic seriously over individual systems, regardless of where in the galaxy a system happened to be.
This like saying the HRE would entrust the Imperial army to be led be Jesuits in the thirty years war.
Why not comission clone generals too?
They didn't want clones to have army-wide leadership over themselves. Better they be subservient to 'actual people'.
But what if war is a discipline, a science, some kind of thing that needs to be developed and taught and learned?
Jedis never waged war before, then suddenly they are commanding fleets and troops? Seems strange.
Where were they going to get clone generals from anyway? Serpentor? Everyone was on that same learning curve in the Clone Wars. The Separatists had the same issue, not enough qualified leadership, which was why they had to shit out Tactical Droids and hope they were sufficient to get the job done. No one was actually ready to fight the Clone Wars, not even Dooku, he expected the unarmed and unprepared Republic to roll over in the face of armies of droids.
Wasn't grievous some kind of local warlord?
>No one was actually ready to fight the Clone Wars, not even Dooku
Dumbass, Dooku literally ordered the clone army. Did you watch it with your ass?
A later retcon to explain how the Republic shat out a clone army without Senate knowledge. None of that was part of the original plan. Dooku bilked the Separatists to his side secure in the knowledge that the only threat to the droid army were the few thousand Jedi, not millions of soldiers.
>retcon
It's literally in Attack of the Clones you fricking schizo moron.
How did Jedi get immediately appointed as generals?
Wouldn't career Republic officers and even clones make better military leaders than the Jedi?
Jedi would work best as special forces, Republic glowBlack folk and even diplomats.
>Wouldn't career Republic officers
There weren't any.
A better question is, what exactly is the importance or weight for a land army like the clones, in a civil war that is mostly decided through ships battling in space?
How came the republic had the industrial capacity to produce such ships? The clones by themselves are irrelevant. Even in the the third movie we see the battle raging hard on coruscant space.
Because it's a fantasy my man. This isn't a cop out answer, it's the real answer to your question. The clone wars was a WW2 etc style war because it's a fantasy story that uses true life touchstones as part of the formula. It's not hard sci fi.
It seems more like the American civil war or the Russian civil war than WW2... Even an attempt on the galactic leader...
I now see it clear as the day. The clone war was in a fact a nod to the thirty years war ravaging the hre. Count dooku is the Protestant Swedish king.
That's why I said "etc", it's a history mashup.
It was one line in A New Hope. However, Leia's recording makes it clear that Obi-Wan was a general and fought in the Clone Wars so that much was already set in stone. Everything else was Lucas trying to expand on it.