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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 1306114" data-attributes="member: 8704">I'm not screwing around with  he plot I'm just telling you what it really is. This isn't my interpretation it's what is going on. This is the plot of the movies. There are a million different worlds out there and more people and races than you can even count, I thought it was a 100,000 man army myself but even at 1 million it wasn't all that (There are droid armies out there with 10 times that number). Heck even when you just compare it to Earth, the Russians lost 500,000 troops in the battle of Stalingrad. 1 million troops on a Galactic scale is a freaking personal guard (US armed Forces run about 1.4 million active duty troops), it wouldn't even cost all that when say compared to the upkeep of a million worlds, You have a massive beurocracy here, I mean it's a galactic massive one, do you know how easy it would be for the Channellor to slip a little out here and there, we can't keep up it one countries spending in the US how could anybody keep up with the spending of a million planets? Off the top of your head name every town in the world with more than 500 people.... Ok go to the library and do a days research and then name them...... You can't, Well that's not a drop in the bucket compared to a million planets full of people. You are missing the scale here, You could loose a million person clone army and forget where you placed it as easy as forgetting where you parked your car at the mall. Besides in the old Republic nobody would pretend to be a Jedi, they got a order from the Jedi council were expecting a Jedi and a Jedi showed up, it would be unheard of to ever doubt the word of a Jedi that he was in fact a Jedi, it was the fact that for tens of thousands of years people trusted that the Jedi were the Jedi that allowed Palpatine to manuver the way he did, nobody would ever expect somebody who was not a Jedi to say they were. Once again there is the scale thing to look at, Yoda was 800 years old, that would put him at being born around the time of the Norman invasion of England. Jedi had been Jedi for so long that people would even have a hard time finding reference to a time before the Jedi in a library, this isn't a old system of government it's a system of government that goes back longer than all of Earth's recorded history. To 99% of the population attacking a Jedi was tatamount to suicide (as they portrayed it at the first of Phantom Menace). The Kaminoans were honored to do buisness with the Jedi, they were a isolationist society on the outer rim who probably had very little contact with Jedi and mostly knew them through legend, they expected a Jedi to come check on the army, and a Jedi came to check on the army (gee wonder if that was a set up too), Then shortly after that the 800 year old Jedi Master Yoda (do you think they questioned Yoda?) showed up and picked up the army (Obi Wan didn't pick up the army he just looked at it). These people are cloners not arms dealers, heck they were all clones themselves, they probably did a lot of different types of clones and most likely did buisness with a wide variety of characters, and it wasn't in their nature to mistrust a Jedi, that was unheard of. The story isn't perfect but come on do you think it was a written to be a big coincidence? I'm not making excuses or twisting things for reasons, I am giving a plot synopsis of what the story was. It's a fact it was written to work the way it worked yes there may be some loopholes (every movie ever made has some) but this is the storyline it was all set up by Palpatine in advance the whole thing was a trap he designed. The galaxy is huge there are near infinite people out there, that is the context the story is set in, you can't use real world context for it. (I gave up on the link half way down the page, the guy has a personal agenda and is all over the place.)</blockquote>

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