How Palpatine Destroyed the Senate Guard (The Republic's Last Line of Defense) 

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I wish we could see more of the Senate Guard. They look so cool with their Corinthian-looking helmets.

I like how there is still so much to learn from Palpatine's machinations to secure power and eliminate any opposition.

"What do you mean you can't find the Palpatine photo folder? Just get a pic of _Davros_ after his spa treatment for the thumbnail then...."

The Senate Guard still existed during the Imperial era, but they were called the “Blue Guards” and were sourced from the Imperial Royal Guard. They also acted more like the senators’ prison guards than their bodyguards.

According to Geetsly's, Palpatine miscalculated one thing, Alan. And that is Padme Amidala herself. Why? Because he cannot get rid of her without alienating Anakin, who is very important for his plan. What do you think of this?

With all due respect, it never feels like the Coruscant Guard are different from other clones. I mean, look at the guys with Yoda on Rugosa or the ones with Jar Jar on Florrum. Even the clones with Padme on Scipio don’t seem so different. Yeah, they were taken from Kamino and trained on Coruscant and we never really see them serve alongside Jedi like other clones, but the difference just seems so minimal if there is any. Hell, we even see in Bad Batch that they also get non-clone Shock Troopers about the same time as the other clones. Hell, I doubt even Fox would have lasted long in the Empire of Vader hadn’t executed him. Look at Wilco, the clone Rampart guns down. Yeah, Palpatine probably benefited from the clones taking over security from the Senate Guard, but that was probably because he knew they wouldn’t be nosy like the 501st clones, not because they would stay silent if they knew the truth. Take the case when Fives was accused of trying to kill Palpatine. I highly doubt Palpatine said out loud for the two clone guards to hear about the truth of the chips. But if he whispered to Fives instead and suddenly lurched back saying Fives threatened to kill him, the clones would move to arrest or kill Fives. Palpatine doesn’t need the clones to be in on his plans, he doesn’t need them to have evil morals. He just needs them to be so loyal that if he gives them a questionable order with a smile on his face, they do it no matter what. Because they trust him, because that’s what they were raised to think. Now, this admittedly doesn’t paint the Coruscant Guard in a better light. Sure they weren’t evil, but they’re also a bit more subservient than other clones. They have personalities and humanity, but so long as Palpatine doesn’t set off any obvious alarm bells, they’ll just stand around. They’re the last type of clones to butt their noses in like Fives, Kix, Rex, and the Bad Batch. The Guard is the closest to what Palpatine wanted in the clones without needing the inhibitor chips, but even they needed the chips. So the Guard in Canon isn’t as bad as they are in Legends or how RU-vidrs like Geetsly say they are, but even I have to acknowledge that Palpatine chose them for a reason. Hell, in Legends it was the 501st that remained pure with clones for the longest time in the Empire. Maybe in Canon it was the Coruscant Guard. Nowhere close as long, but still possible.

Palpatine would also replace them with imperial senate guard, like the coruscant guards and royal guards they were more loyal to him and they kept an eye on senators to ensure they would remain loyal to palpatine and the empire and eliminate them if they posed a threat. The imperial senate guard in legends also were tasked with helping the shadow guards hunt down the remaining jedi.

I know you probably don’t take request but I’d love a video talking about what happened to all the clones that weren’t soldiers at the time of the ending of the program. Like for as much as people praise things like clone wars and bad batch for getting dark they haven’t seemed to mention what happened to all the child and teenaged clones before Kamino being blown up or legends talking about the similar situation as the clones were phased out

Such an interesting topic that is never discussed

11:07 Not to mention that the death of their beloved senator led to the planet of Umbara succeeding from the Republic and leading to the bloody battle of Umbara.

Were those guys attempting assignation on Palpatine. Did they know what was going on

Sometimes my mind escapes to Star Wars and Generation Tech videos of Star Wars during work. I don’t talk as much compared to my co-workers, so, perhaps that’s why. I usually work the fries station in the kitchen, reading the screen, asking the bagger to ensure we’re in sync, dropping/picking up fries, and placing the fries into boxes and into the chute. Mostly keeping myself quiet though. This continues until whomever’s on boards decides I’m the one to start washing dishes (almost everyday). Between the vents, bubbling fryers, and the conveyer belt running from the front of the house to the back where the drive-thru is among other things, my surrounding environment gets very noisy. The reason why I wrote all of this is because your “Own a Saber” advertisements became a growing reoccurrence whenever my thoughts trail to Star Wars during work. I guess I can say that I’m living through un-skippable ads, regularly follow Generation Tech, or just am plain crazy. lol

Keep up the great work!!

Would love to hear thoughts on the Yuuzhan Vong war from a military perspective. And any of the later legends space battles too. Love what you do Generation Tech!

13:10 but if the senate guards were trained for full combat, why did Palpatine send in the 501st when he already had a force of Clones loyal only to him & without the potential corruption caused by fighting alongside the Jedi

Ehen Nute was arrested and a private guard broke him out but ran into a clone. He told. The clone I don't wanna life servitude like clone like. Next episode was the clone betrayal for freedoms claiming he was striking a blow for all clones . I wondered if that was the same clone

But the corusant guard was a part of the grand army of the republic since the start of the clone war So even tho they replaced the senate guard they were already used for law enforcement and senator protection from the start (they were here since frist episode of the clonewars)

Palpatine was a masterful lightsaber duelist and force user but I think his greatest asset was his intelligence. He became senator, gained control of the Trade Federation which indirectly helped him to become a chancellor and then it took him only ca. 10+ years - and a fake civil war - to turn mostly formal democratic position into a position with dictatorial powers.

Thanks for this history of the fall of the Senate Guards.

I always thought those blue Senate guards were just the Naboo guard?

Honestly can see a young Luthen as coming from the ranks of Senate Guard. Maybe from their intelligence wing and saw something he wasn't supposed to witness? Maybe a 'accident' happened to his intelligence unit to cover up Palpatines crimes just before the Senate leadership change?A select unit of senate guardsman investigating Palpatine on behalf of Valorum where he was the last member left surviving from his unit of guardsman?

I like how you have a box of go-gurt behind you

Man after this video I kinda wish we got like a senate guard revolt. Imagine if a clone wars era senate guard high command who was loyal more to the republic and democracy and was well liked and respected. And him and his men pull a full revolt and fight imperial stormtroopers. Would be interesting.

You really think Cad Bane and the Hutt Mission was influenced by Palpatine? No...but even if Palpatine didn't create this incident, he certainly made use of it.

Something this has made me think about, the Coruscant Guard's phase 1 armor had a darker red color similar to that of markings on Republic vehicles which is the color of the Republic, but with the switch to phase 2 the red becomes a brighter red similar to that of Palpatine's Red Guard, could just be an unintentional detail that I'm overthinking, but it's something interesting to think about, especially with Bad Batch showing how that darker shade of red with ties to the Republic has been removed from vehicles and ships it used to accent like the AT-TE walkers and Ventators, maybe he chose for the phase 2 shock troopers and his Red Guard to match the color of the blade of a Sith lightsaber.

Hey GT love the video's and have been watching for 2 years now. But I've never seen something that more recently has been touched on in the background of Star Wars. That is were the Separatist movement wrong? As in some ways if I try to scale their politics and faction as a whole I see that, they do happen to have some good points and predictions for that of the G.A.R. and some wrong ones for sure. But with the rise of the Empire and the aftermath of it Between Andor and Mando season 3 Episode 6. We get to see perspectives of the average Separatist citizen with the case of Mando season 3 and in Andor we as the fans are found cheering for a former Separatist citizen. I find this extremely interesting and have been wondering what's your opinion on it GT? As well as others opinions? I wanna hear it.

That image of Palps got me actin' up! 🔥

He destroyed the senate guard with unlimited power !!!!

There was also a story in the comics involving a corrupt senate guard.

ownasaber spent their entire advertisement budget on youtube lmao

I noticed it earlier, but I like the little clones crawling all over Mando, Cody, and Rex back there

Out of curiosity, if I ordered a lightsaber replica, like, say, for example, the hilt design replica for Dooku’s saber hilt, would I be able to change the blade color to blue, rather than getting the red variant, or will I only get the red blade?

Well "Zelda, a Link to the Past" taught me that red is objectively better than blue, so I think Palps had the right idea.

Sidious is a master of the long game and making sure that all possible threats to his eventual ascension to emperor of the galaxy are nullified. That he could practically trach classes on how to subtly and slowly undermine and dismantle a democratic government and institutions and replace them with an autocratic military dictatorship.

Can you make a video about Plo Koon? He's one of my favourite jedi's but I don't see much about him

Why didn't Palatine just wait till after Valorum's terms were up

An idea i've been wondering about for a while is how the Empire "marketed" Vader, was he used for propaganda? Or was he just a ghost that somehow everyone knew about?

I really like their armour design

Hi generation tech, this is Bill Chrysler. I’m a big fan of your content, and your more realistic take on star wars with thought exercises and evidence based theories are amazing. However I am afraid that I must disagree with you on one thing: the dark saber is not destroyed. So I went and watched the scene multiple times, at the slowest speed possible and noticed something important. Bo Katan is wearing beskar. The hilt of the darksaber is also beskar. Not just any beskar though. At the time stamp of 13:20 on the disney plus book of boba fett episode five, return of the Mandalorian, Din Djarin says that the quality of beskar in the hilt is of a quality never seen before, to which the armorer says “indeed, it was forged over a thousand years ago.” At the same time, Bo Katan’s armor looks thin, of a quality most normal Mandalorians have, that can barely stop a blaster bolt. So how is it possible that Moff Gideon, who has a “Beskar alloy” cybernetic hand, can crush the darksaber, which is of high quality, without crushing the barely shielded and fragile human hand of Bo Katan. The answer is that he can’t. In fact, if you look at the crushed darksaber, the place where the crystal should be is barely damaged. That's because Gideons thumb and pointer finger rest slightly above Bo Katan's hand, so while the mixture of the beskar hilt plating, and Bo Kaktan’s armor stop Gideon from breaking the middle of the hilt, he does destroy the emitter, which is why the blade stops manifesting. But then the camera zoomed in at the crushed part, as we see a spasm of dark saber energy coming from the wrecked emitter. This proves that the crystal is not heavily damaged. If it was, the saber would explode, with the pent up energy as we see many time, such as the death stars crystals, the massive kyber crystal in rebels, the experimental lightsaber of that arrogant youngling in the Illum arc of the clone wars. But we don't see any kind of explosion from the saber. So the crystal is intact, big deal, so what? Well that means that Grogu could use the crystal from the dark saber to create a new lightsaber for himself. Now the major flaw in this theory is the massive explosion that take place soon after, but if you observe where they are standing in the crushing scene, it is almost exactly where Grogu stands during the explosion, and in the background, as Din is shooting Gideon right before the explosion you can see what looks like the darksaber, sitting on the ground, where it would be inside the force bubble. And even if it wasn't inside the force bubble, it wouldn't matter. The flash in temperature was severe, but it was not prolonged enough to melt the strongest metal in the galaxy to a point that it would permanently damage the crystal. And even if the crystal is cracked, it can still be made into a lightsaber, as shown by Kylo Ren. In the end, I think that the crystal survives and will be used by Grogu to construct a new lightsaber. What I thought you might be interested in is would this new lightsaber be considered the darksaber. Would it unite the clans again? Would Grogu be seen as a hero for repairing it, and therefore competition for Bo Katan. It’s an absolute disney move to have a horde of mandalorians following around a baby, refusing to leave. Then it raises the question of who the dark saber properly belongs to. Who defeated Moff Gideon? Was it Woves who flew the cruiser, Din, who shot Gideon, or will it be Grogu, who prevented the deaths of the others? Is saving someone's life kind of defeating them, because you have defeated their enemy by saving them. I don't know. Maybe Grogu will use the force to repair it, maybe he will reforge it in the great mines, or maybe the Mythosaur will help him somehow. I can see this becoming a whole thing. Anyways it's very interesting and I think that you should consider it as a possibility. Thought it might be the kind of thought exercise you might enjoy.

8:49 you say clone commando detachment but its senate commandos :)

Palpatine really was a massive genios.

Why didn't the 501 order 66 anikin when he went to storm the temple? He was like my names Vader, I'm not a jedi. They were like cool, I'll follow you, then.

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PUT IT BACK ON

It's a shame the SG were so cucked. Their uniforms were so damn snazzy

You mean the senate guard helmet look like the royal Spartan guard, who had the same helmet shape and double crest. Not Roman

your description of the dictator elected to a democracy that sought to take power... very familiar.

In the promo you say the darksaber was made by "one of the only mandalprian jedi". Does that mean there were others? Who?

Uncle Palps took over the galaxy :D

If I was to be Emperor, I too would do my best to get rid of the guys looking like Roman praetorian guards that are prone to getting bribed into betrayal... I'd rather not get assassinated.

Just one question, can you duel with an ownasaber sabers? asking for myself and a friend

Who would have been best choice to replace palpatine as chancellor if he was discovered as Sith lord or killed by dooku before he could have Anakain kill Dooku?

damn i want some gorgurt.

Kries rhymes with bees, not cries.

Hello there Alan, welcome back to another episode of RU-vid comments, my name is bigafroman427

The Zilo beast was an accident, but the rest are probably right.

0:17 to be continued tomorrow

Who dares, wins.

Death trooper, Clone commando, or sith trooper, which one of these would be superior INDIVIDUALLY

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Palpetine was many things.. stupid was not one of em

Senate guard was so incompetent lol

Palps really is the best badie ever created, and a Scotsmen like myself 😂😂

It sucks, cause their armor looks sick as fuck, but I guess being pretty with no substance was all they were good for. The Senate Guard were a true peacock, and Palpatine was the tiger ambushing them from the blind spot.

What do you think about a system were only IQ and judgment standards or Net tax payers or military or police redigistration being requirements to vote. A system wee only thise contribute fight for or at least understand have a say ober current system of just over a certain age. The people least affected by a vote being tge majority vote

Ok

I've never seen the senate guard anything more then glorified bodyguard for the politicians. They were kinda lame

That is a cursed thumbnail

Going to accept that it’s physically impossible for you to pronounce that name correctly lol

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Stop calling her Satine "Cries" its pronounced "kreeeze"😂

Palpatine would fit right in todays' society. :)

He didn't destroy them The Senate guard destoyed themselves with treasonous and unskilled members. Even the Clone wars animated show proved how unskilled they are even when confronted with B1 battel droids. Hell padme had to save her own skin and the entire Senate when bounty hunters held the entire semate hostage. Did anyone see the senate guard in that episode because i didn't.

Palpatine sounds like George Lucas was watching Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Then that is just about someone winning narrowly and then changing the laws to keep power. Desantis has his new Florida Guard.

For the Boys in red let's hear😂🎉

None of this is canon... Its ALL Disney Star Wars. Karen Traviss, James Luceno, and Matthew Stover wrote the *_GEORGE LUCAS_* canon, and it is VERY different from Star Wars: Clone Wars. I suggest you read it, because Lucas is going to buy back the SW franchise from Disney.

Palpatine was not a populist

They were useless anyway.

The FBI and CIA ate supposed to be a political but look st actions

First...

Cringy thumbnail lol

Guarsntee this guy has way to many sabers