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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 9838369" data-attributes="member: 7808">One possible explanation that helps this make a little more sense: Palpatine actually likes/values the Republic and wants it to survive.  Not the senate or government, of course.  But the actual group of planets, people, and everything in it.  His goal is to rule it and rename it, but not to destroy it.And as we see, his ultimate plan is to gain all of the political control, and destroy the groups that have control outside of the government (the Jedi and the Trade Federation). The way he does this is by starting a war between those two groups.  There's a subtle elegance to this in the way that his two rivals both fund the war, and account for almost all the lost troops (remember, the TF builds the droids and the Jedi paid for the clones). Effectively, a minimal number of Republic citizens actually take part in the war, and the cost to the Republic's resources is minimized.If he used both armies to forcibly take power, he would rule over the warn torn husk of what's left of the Republic after they fought, with a generation of lost soldiers and a pile of depleted resources. This way, when he tricks the government into giving him political power, he effectively wins control of an undamaged Republic at full strength. He gets everything he wanted, and his enemies spent their resources fighting each other instead of him.Of course, it is still overly complicated. But there's a kind of a logic to it.</blockquote>

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