2. Surely it would be more helpful for all to work towards peace?
3. Dooku is here. The others you ask about are not. Therefore I do consider him more relevant to the present, yes.
As well, I hope you understand that we are speaking of a war that spanned an entire galaxy. I must break it down into the most rudimentary explanations to make sense of it to someone from outside that.
If it helps you to understand the scope of what you are seeking to understand, the Council of Neutral Systems alone was composed of over 1,500 star systems. Both the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems vastly outnumbered them.
You seem to be most interested in the clone army and its treatment, and there I can provide only some help. I was opposed at all points to the creation of such an army, and while I grew to know reasonably well several of the clones in my husband's command I was rarely a part of on the ground fighting. That was rather the area of the Jedi themselves.
I believe you would be right to say that many Senators in the Republic considered the clones to be expendable. I would not say the same of the Jedi. While I know of one who considered the clones little more than canon fodder, he was found to have been allied with the Separatists and betraying the Jedi Order and the clones to their deaths on purpose.
All Jedi were made Generals during the Clone Wars. (The appropriateness of this choice is an entirely different matter.) Most Jedi I knew led their clone troops from the front. While they had vastly different backgrounds and sometimes found it difficult to understand each other - the clones having been bred from a template that was geared strongly towards aggression and combat, and the Jedi having been intended as Peacekeepers before this as a beginning, and many others - I knew Jedi who gave their lives to protect their troops, just as many clones gave their lives to protect their Generals.
I do not pretend that the Senate was full of altruists, or that some of them would have fed as many clones as it took to keep a war going that filled their banks, but the Jedi should not be painted with that brush.
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2. Surely it would be more helpful for all to work towards peace?
3. Dooku is here. The others you ask about are not. Therefore I do consider him more relevant to the present, yes.
As well, I hope you understand that we are speaking of a war that spanned an entire galaxy. I must break it down into the most rudimentary explanations to make sense of it to someone from outside that.
If it helps you to understand the scope of what you are seeking to understand, the Council of Neutral Systems alone was composed of over 1,500 star systems. Both the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems vastly outnumbered them.
You seem to be most interested in the clone army and its treatment, and there I can provide only some help. I was opposed at all points to the creation of such an army, and while I grew to know reasonably well several of the clones in my husband's command I was rarely a part of on the ground fighting. That was rather the area of the Jedi themselves.
I believe you would be right to say that many Senators in the Republic considered the clones to be expendable. I would not say the same of the Jedi. While I know of one who considered the clones little more than canon fodder, he was found to have been allied with the Separatists and betraying the Jedi Order and the clones to their deaths on purpose.
All Jedi were made Generals during the Clone Wars. (The appropriateness of this choice is an entirely different matter.) Most Jedi I knew led their clone troops from the front. While they had vastly different backgrounds and sometimes found it difficult to understand each other - the clones having been bred from a template that was geared strongly towards aggression and combat, and the Jedi having been intended as Peacekeepers before this as a beginning, and many others - I knew Jedi who gave their lives to protect their troops, just as many clones gave their lives to protect their Generals.
I do not pretend that the Senate was full of altruists, or that some of them would have fed as many clones as it took to keep a war going that filled their banks, but the Jedi should not be painted with that brush.