Let’s be fair, even the movies can only focus on so much at a time. But you’re right, more variety would help, even if it’s just one or two new focal planets.
@@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 Worse, when they do focus on a new planet, it's not drawing from the rich established lore, it's making up something new that's basically "Not Tatooine".
That's exactly been my experience. The main series are way too limited; my brain craves expansive stories with deep lore and multiple points of view; not the same handful of characters on the same handful of planets... IT'S BORING!
I rather enjoy the impossibly singular ecosystems we see on each planet....only Naboo seemingly had an ecological diversity with swamps, oceans/huge lakes, and rolling grasslands
Ah, the first Alsakan Conflicts. Starting 17,000+ years long tradition of their being periods of civil war between Coruscant demanding increased centralization, a confederation of other worlds demanding increased decentralization, and Corellia just building ships, crafting industrial goods, and for the most part minding it's own business until the very end of each conflict. "It's like poetry, it rhymes."
@@ADGZone ; Because it has the exact same letter, just that the 2nd "a" & the s adjacent to it are swapped. And you're not the only one. When I type out "Alsakan" the RU-vid typo detector keeps on trying to change it to "Alaskan".
@@geetslys Because, I could have sworn someone asked you in the comment of another video sometime after part 3 if you were going to continue this series, but you said no because there just weren't that many people interested in it. Of course, I could be miss remembering.
Coruscant and Alsakan spending thousands of years punching each other in the face Corellia- takes a shot of Spice "Wanna see if I can survive blind jumping into the Void kid?"
Have you ever heard the tragedy of the imperial civil war? I suppose not... It's not a tale the republic would tell you. . The imperial factions all had super fascinating characters and kept the galaxy in constant flux.. up to the Vong War.. super cool stuff
Ironically the Galactic Republic’s will later be similar to that of a Confederation rather than a centralized government it claim to be. Though considering that the Galactic Republic’s was a massive organization that span the Galaxy one must never underestimate how large and unpredictable it can be, and the fact that the Galactic Republic’s lasted for twenty seven thousand years is something to admire, compared to its successor government of the Galactic Empire didn’t even last a quarter of a century.
Undoubtedly. 27,000 years is certainly nothing to scoff at. I feel though the problem with the Republic was much like that of Rome, it became too big to effectively govern and police. Towards the Clone Wars a huge reform to their bureaucracy (Anyone else have a really hard time spelling that word?) would've been to have divided it up into multiple smaller administrative units with their own Senates that would've reported to a central government.
@@CollinMcLean Yeah, have perhaps 3 or 5 major sections of the Republic, all united with a few basic laws and have their own systems running with self sustainability, but still benefiting from being united as one overlying entity
I’ll side with the neutral isolationist Corollians instead of joining the other two factions. Let them argue with one another for all I care for. Though awesome video by the way!
You know it is bad when a civil war lasts for literall centuries and they don't really come to a close. And honestly, to me, an idea of war lasting for so long is a bit of an overkill. But cool nevertheles
maybe the notion of war is also different, when I started playing stellaris I would catch myself trying to figure out what a normal citizen would think about the war, the best comparison I could think of would be the hundred wars or some war periods in China, where the war didn't actually meant constant conflict, but some small and sparse conflicts between warring parties. It's not easy to imagine how it would really feel like though
@@danielfang749 I get your point, things get twisted in space. But for politicans and leaders a prospect of another war with neighbouring planet is probably something they would like to end eventauly. It is just funny that it took so long
If we talked about our own history like we did with Star Wars, we might say the Thirty Years War, Napoleon's Conquests, the First World War, and Second World War were all one long ethno-national-religious conflict between France and Germany for 300+ years. Or America and Russia have been in conflict a little over a hundred years now, starting with the first Red Scare and now it's bubbling up again in Ukraine. The Punic Wars also lasted 118 years, but 76 of them were at peace. Historians have argued that the Hundred Years War actually began in 1066 with William the Conqueror, making the English-French conflict 387 years long, mostly filled with peacetime. China's warring states period is usually listed as 254 years, although that one was truly brutal. The first imperial census of China after the wars listed the population as only 1/3 of its prewar population, despite holding more territory. Tens of thousands of years from now, wars this long will be the only ones interesting enough to talk about.
@@Nukepositive That's actually a genius way to look at things, and makes the 'several hundred years long wars' in Star Wars make a lot of sense. In fact, what you're saying is even supported in established lore. The Old Sith Wars covered stuff like the War of Exar Kun, The Mandalorian War, Revan and Malik, the stuff that takes place in KOTOR 2 (but I haven't played that one yet), and the Great Galactic War in SWTOR. All those individual conflicts wrapped together under the label "The Old Sith wars" Makes me wonder about all the specific conflicts that happened in the original Alaskan War.
@@Nukepositive This is more comparable to the Franco-German enmity than the actual specific conflicts. Also I wouldn’t consider the Norman invasion as the start of an English-French rivalry given the Normans won completely and utterly and England has never again been ruled by a native dynasty (neither ‘British’ nor English) nor a native aristocracy.
I wonder what the technology was like in this era. I'm imagining like Halo-level stuff. The Jedi were also bumming about somewhere as hermits, but since this is pre-lightsaber their fighting would have probably looked like Force Kung Fu
@Fiorella Tyrell Not to mention people who religiously believe in conspiracy theories that literally center around the world uniting being a plot lead by Satan to lead a one world "NWO" government. There will never be "unity" or "peace" on this planet. lol
@@slicerneons3300 European Medieval age. Although I do have a soft spot for the Sengoku period of Japan and Roman history; I'm very much including the Byzantines because I don't care what others might think. They were Romans!
Bro tbh. Star Wars needs to stop going forward and just go backward making prequels. Not what we got from the sequel trilogy. I think some movies from the old republic or even before that could be amazing.
8:23 I don’t remember the free plants alliance with admiral Yang Wen-li joining the galactic republic. Must’ve missed that part. Is the republic fighting Reinhard von Lohengramm and the empire now?
I often notice people talking about star wars using the word battle and war to mean the same thing and as someone who heavily studies American war history and somewhat war history in general I feel obligated to correct them because a war has rules and outside spectators that aren't involved unless they join the war a battle does not it's much more barbaric, terroristic and uncontrolled. For instance the republic era conflicts are wars and the imperial era conflicts are battles to put the difference into context.
Thrackan Sal Solo, he is the Steve Bannon of Star Wars. He was a scum who supported the empire and used nationalism to mask his xenophobia and isolacionism.
I'd be on Alsakan's side here if I had to make a choice from the POV of an outsider. They fight in order to not become just another subject of Coruscant, while Coruscant essentially fights to maintain this level of power and influence that would allow them to do so (which is also understandable, but imo somewhat less righteous)
If you think about it, technically transformers could be in the Star Wars universe since they from a different galaxy, imagine a tri-fighter star scream
By the time of the Clone Wars, the only world in the Exploitation Region I know that's considered still habitable is Umbara. Speaking of which, 10:11 you can see the planet, off to the right of Ambria.
Early Republic is such rich history because the authors of this lore tried to base it on (fictional) material and economic development. Centralizing and centrifugal tensions.
Somewhere in an alternate universe a force sensitive teenager is watching the latest fan video about Europe, a fictional continent with a rich history.
I just looked up the First Alsakan Conflict, and the battle of Porus Vida occurred in 16,820 BBY, over a hundred years after the battle of Kes, not forty years after, according to the official fandom. Also 12:08, I guess Alsakan was colonized by the Imperium of Man. Edit: I was wrong. The battle of Kes lasted for nearly a hundred years. My question is, why did it last that long? You'd expect two sides without an official navy to just call it a draw after maybe two years, but apparently not.
Wait, hadn't the republic already known about Hutts by this point? I mean they manipulated them into attacking the Tion cluster some millennia prior, you'd think they would keep some records about them.
8:17 Yes! Does Geetsly like Legends of the Galactic Heroes? If you like Star Wars check out LotGH Its literally a perfect anime about politics and war.
