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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8822773" data-attributes="member: 4937">The Separatist Holdouts are a very real and important part of the equation from BBY 18 to BBY 3 when they became overshadowed by the Alliance to Restore the Republic, and I very much agree that is territory that hasn't been explored enough.Despite being a treacherous scoundrel, Dooku was a charismatic figure with a public philosophical position that was attractive and defensible.  Lots of people kept the dream of a Separate outer rim based on a free association of worlds alive after or especially after the corporate backers of the CIS were eliminated by Palpatine.  While the Clone Wars officially ended, there were dozens of smaller campaigns in the early years of the Empire to subjugate separatist worlds and leaders that refused to give up their dreams.What's interesting about trying to fold those separatists into an 'Alliance to Restore the Republic' is that restoring the Republic is sort of the last thing on the Separatists minds.  For more than a decade they've been fighting to leave the Republic, then you've got to come along and convince them to join the project, possibly by convincing them that you are joining their project, a new equitable Republic with representation and guaranteed liberties and freedoms for all worlds.   It's a very interesting problem, and it's one that Andor has been at least touching on with Saw's speech decrying the politics of all other rebel factions but his own - "Human Cultists!" (apparently in his estimation, restoring the Republic goes with implicitly accepting the High Human Culture ideology that the Empire is built on?) or "Galaxy Partitionists!" (who are outsiders to decide for others were borders and sectors should be drawn?).  Saw has the clarity of purpose of a true fanatic, and Luthen is the consumate realist - all ideas get messy in the implementation.  The Star Wars campaign I've been running for the last 2 years is set in BBY 15 so this is all grist for the brain mill for me.  I had notes on a lot of these things, but the series is giving me lots of depth and lots of new canon to play with.</blockquote>

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