Why Palpatine Didn't Choose to Keep the OP Magnaguards after the Clone Wars Ended 

Imagine the droids are in the red suits for the empire

The Emperor probably also wanted to feel their loyalty and passion. Where as it probably wouldn't have felt any different than a roomba cleaning his chambers.

I wonder if the Republic has ever tried to capture a few Magna Guards and reprogram them to assassinate Grievous.

How about the real reason? The one where he probably didn't want to be associated with the CIS so directly.

Because after Episode 3, Palpatine set out on part 2 of his master plan, destroy everything he'd built in part 1 of his plan

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1) They are expensive and rare 2) Not as many Jedi anymore, so no need for specialized units 3) George Lucas didn't think of them during the original trilogy 4) Palpatine had a habit of keeping armored guards around him already 5) He was human-centric

I can think of two main reasons. First of all Magnaguards were iconic of the might of the Confederacy and Palpatine simply couldn't allow them to be in the public eye because they would disrupt the political narrative of the Empire, which thrived and survived based on tyrannical unity. Sure, the Empire used leftover Droidekas and Dwarf Spider droids, but those were pretty obscure by comparison. Second, they had already been replaced in the bodyguard role by Death Troopers and other elite trooper types. The Empire believed they already had something better.

The magnaguards would have been exceptional companions to the inquisitors

I love how he described the Jedi as “pesky space wizards”.

Yoda throwing the Royal Guards into the wall was one of the best bits in Revenge of the Sith.

The problem with droids is they can be hacked or reprogrammed, a human who has be brainwashed however can't be turned as easy, that and I kinda love the red guard armor.

Magnagrauds are tricky to kill and They great fighters against Jedi they are so freaking scary looked

Palpatine preferred organics because he could link to them with the force. That’s another reason.

Me: should we us the clones that killed most of the Jedi Palpatine: nah Me: the droids that could overwhelm and kill Jedi Palpatine: nah Me: regular guys that can’t even hit slow protocol droids? Palpatine: do it

Royal Guards: we are badasses selected by the emperor himself we killed our own to prove our loyalty Yoda laughing: you serious?

He was so confident in me he didn't want to replace me respect 💯

Technically in the original books he kept a large amount of the magma droids as security for his palace. Most had their armor redesigned to look like statues and where placed in a shut down state around his palace till someone would be stupid enough to trigger security. No further units were ever produced though.

“If anyone COULD get a chance to cut their heads off” Unless you’re Mary Sue Palpatine

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I heard a rumor that once a Magnaguard referred to organics as meatbags and Sidious ordered them all destroyed out of fear of what could happen next.

God Magna guards were so damn intimidating, they look like they could behead an entire platoon of clones with that dead red stare. However to me, I believe droids always fall short from the Royal Guard because if you look into their training, they’re probably the best trained for their time and paygrade in the galaxy.

Once the best of the best, now getting beaten up by f***ing Ezra. Disney *really* hates the Empire.

The Crimson Empire is easily one of my most favorite series to ever come of Star Wars comics.

Important clarification, the Senate Guard were the ones with Palpatine in RotS. The Imperial Royal Guard accademy was not yet established, these guards were chosen purely for loyalty as Palpatine didn't have the systems up yet to create the terrifying Imperial Royal Guard. There were also elements of maintaining appearances, but for the most part it was loyalty and ability.

I imagine keeping up appearances as a faithful member of the Republic and subsequent Empire was one of the determining factors. The galaxy didn't know that Palps and his order were the architects of the clone wars, so using some of their deadliest assassin's to serve Imperial higher ups would create a conflicting image. It's one thing to use probe droids for the entire military, but adopting their protection system is another

I just wonder how purge troopers fit into this whole thing, given that many of them use Magnaguard weapons.

Man, I keep thinking how cool it would be if Grievous survived a little longer after the clone wars ended. Like getting to seem him maybe round up a small force made up of pirates and old CIS droids out in the outer rim. Then he would fight a brutal hit and run war with the empire. It just seems like such a cool story, plus we get the chance to see more battles with stormtroopers and droids!

I think the magnaguards where just know for beeing the Personal bodyguards of Grievous. Something that Palpatine doesn't wantet for his empire. Maybe even to make the troopers more effective. The royal guards can be seen as the Elite of the Elite. And if Troopers maybe think:" i want to be like them" they would fight harder to Achieve this Goals. To serve Palpatine. And to stay in line.

In terms of feats and scaling Magna guards do scale higher, being able to contend with high level Jedi knights and even masters, however Royal Guards, at least the best, like Kir Kanos are pretty close in feats and whatnot, they can fight numerous Stormtroopers, even TIE fighters and come out on top, Magnaguards could most likely do the same, as high level Jedi can as well, but it certainly leads credence to the idea that the gap between them isn't so absurdly large. I'd say Magnaguard's win 6.5/10 times.

Can you make a video about the different types of Sith in the reconstituted Sith empire

3:40 This is Palpatine. He pretends to be a xenophobe to gain control. In reality, he has no distaste for Aliens, he hates all equally. Be like Palpatine.

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Geetsley, “begging the question” refers to a logical fallacy in which you utilize circular reasoning (p therefore p). It is not the same as raising a question. I find this ambiguity is prevalent in your videos and I just wanted to inform you. Great video as always

They’ll always be my favorite droids.

Magna guard vs royal guard. That would honestly be a good fight.

Palpatine didn't need super strong bodyguards, he was one of the most powerful beings alive. The real question is (and you unfortunately didn't answer that): Why didn't the Emperor/Empire use the Magnaguards for something else than protecting some dude, e.g. as special forces etc.?

I hope we get to see more royal guards in movies or tv show in action.

It would make sense for Palpatine to not use the Magnaguards if he wanted Grevious (and as a result the Magnaguards) to be the symbol associated with separatism, I mean, you wouldn’t use the same thing you swore to destroy, right?

“Just as effective in combat as the droid general himself.” I like and respect the droids, but if that were true, the war would have ended a lot sooner with Grievous’ demise.

"There's a reason Palpatine chose to have these guys go with him wherever he went including to his private office or to bed." Ooooooh, I sense a spicy fanfics and fanarts

I really like that while Grievous hated most of the droids he commanded, that it makes sense that the ig-100s which were basically his and actually liked having around. The fact that he went out of his way to train them is cool too.

You forget that Grevious had to personally train all of the Magnaguards. Without Grevious, who would train them?

The Magnaguards were so awesome in live action. I’ll never forget in revenge of the sith when obi-wan chopped off one’s head and it continued to fight!

Off-Universe Explanation: The budget and technology wasn't available at the time.

Tbh that Empire red guards do sound cool if they are as reliable and fanatical as said -JACK

So these Guards were equals to Magna Guards, yet we never actually got to see them hunt down and fight Jedi. It was only Vader, the Inquisitors, and the Purge Troopers that were the Jedi Hunters appaerently.

Question: "Why Palpatine Didn't Choose to Keep the OP Magnaguards after the Clone Wars Ended" Answer: becasue the Magnaguards were not invented in 1976 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

In one of the Expanded Universe books, Luke and Mara Jade found one of Vader’s training vaults and a “battle droid from the Clone Wars” was activated. I remember it giving them a challenge. This book was written before at least “Attack of the Clones” released. Possibly before “The Phantom Menace”. I wonder if this unintentionally inspired the idea of the Magnadroids?

In my opinion the magnaguards are much more effective as they don't have the weakness of flesh, strong plating, quicker reaction time, more dangerous weaponry, better training (BY GRIEVOUS HIMSELF!!!) and doest get flung around by a little green Man (mainly because the reaction time)

battle meditation. Sheev could make them all fight as literal extensions of his will. Perhaps he could also feed off their emotions, rage, pain, etc. Having guards you can literally sense > than having guards you cannot.

It would be a terrible PR blunder for Palpatine to be flanked by such powerful, former enemies hand-built by the monster Grevious. In the Lords of the Sith novel, Palpatine is seen as a sage old man and father of the Empire. Vader was seen as Grevious 2.0 that must be controlling Palpatine and no one could stop.

Let’s not forget the droids hadn’t been design by Lucas

100% the reliability and zealous loyalty. Especially since there's been several droid rebellions in the SW universe A lot easier to re-program/corrupt a droid then a fanatical zealot

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Magna Guard: Exists Palpatine: I’m gonna end your whole career

Are you 100% sure there’s not at least a couple of Magna Guards lurking under those red cloaks?

I think he just liked the brutality of their training as a spectacle

He choose the real troopers because he was paranoid about the magnaguards could be hacked and used to attack him

Magma Guards also had to be trained to be effective. The ones personally trained by Greivous would have been loyal to him and trained in Kalish

i wish we could habe seen the magnaguards fight more against enemys which dont have plotarmor

Also, Droids can't be influenced through the force the way living being can. This would make the Royal Guards even more reliable to Palpatine.

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I agree with these points, but the first one I thought of was from a public image standpoint. That it would look bad if the man who defeated the Separatists and brought peace, now had the same bodyguards as Grievous. Since most Imperial citizens would remember he and his guards as evil mass murderers and oppressors.

Wait reputation more then droidicas right?

I’m drawing a lot of similarities between the Royal guards and the Custodes

so in short royal guards are galactic simps

6:35 >Extreme beyond human skill >gets clapped by Ezra Bridger >gets beaten by Lando and his cat Dark Jedi twins in mere seconds

Geetsly do you think you can do lore of commando droids? Since you barely ever hear about them.

crimson empire is my favorite comics trilogy of all star wars. Those tree comics are so awesome, I was amazed to see what the red guard training was like oO

Me: Should we use the clones? They killed a lotta Jedi. Palpatine: Nah, fam. Me: Magna guards? Palpatine: Nah, fam. Me: Useless discount-clones who can't hit sh*t? Palpatine: Yup. Dew it. DEW IT!!!!

So...Kir Kanos video?

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Wow, never knew about the magnaguards' personalities. Epic. Very good companion to Grievous himself.

Because reasons

Magnaguards were not susceptible to Palpatine's more subtle force powers. He could read his royal guards.

I always wondered as a kid why they didn't just only make the powerful droids and now I realize they were too expensive and star wars still had an economy

I believe the empire should have recycled sepratist droids into imperial droid armies for the stormtroopers

I'm surprised they weren't used to support purge troopers and inquisitors after order 66

Heh. Pesky space wizards. Sounds almost like something the Clones would say about their battle leadership. I’ve not seen the movie, but I did see clips (and critiques) on Lore channels, specifically the one with Kylo and Rey fighting Snoke’s Red Guard. The ease with which Rey killed them (I think there were 11 killed out of 6 present - TF?), and the glacially slow clumsiness of the Red Guards while fighting, looked disappointingly pathetic. These guys are unquestionably the best fighters in the entire galaxy - the pinnacle of the physical and mental evolution of the human species. The fight scene looked like a bunch of 12-year-old blue belts in a Tae Kwon Do class. It reinforced my not bothering to waste my time watching the film. I just hope dinsey just keeps driving the New Republic, or whatever they’re called now, into the dirt, and keeps their let’s-pretend-writers away from TOR. Far, far, away.

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The Imperial Royal Guard. When mindless robots aren't loyal enough.

Why? Bexause Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition!

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Easy cause the Prequels werent made yet and they didnt had the Technology to made them yet Tell me that a bunch of Rebels would be any match for the sheer Numbers of the Droid Army Just take 3 Droidekas alone they would wipe out a whole Rebels platoon Just one Hailfire Tank would be an absolute Darksouls Boss for them An B2 Can literally punch a Human Man to death and as far as i know the Rebels only consistend of Organics Theire was a whole lot of Plot Armor in play here the Seperatists ruled so long ago that a whole Order of Space Wizards needed an additional Army to just survive I love the OGs and the Preequels but theire are huge Plot Holes here lets not kid ourselves

EU contradicts the fanaticism of the Royal Guard with Carnor Jax, a Royal Guard/Sovereign Protector who participated in a coup that helped bring down Palpatine.

Actually I think droids are more effective, you just need to install the data of your desired trading program. And the droid will do the next. Plus you can customise every parts of your droid making them even more powerful.

Imperial Royal Guard:*As to quote a warrior of sure might. *W E ARE T H E ANGELS O F DEATH*

Proactively here to say, I'm sorry I fucked this whole video up for you Geetz, but it's WORTH it, believe me

Magnaguards are better. Hands down.😋 *I SAID HANDS DOWN!* 😡

Yeah...no, I'd still keep The Magnaguard droids.

Ironically there is a link to an article about THE WEAPONIZATION OF HATE.

Prediction: Magna Guards, and combat droids in general, were associated with General Grievous and the Separatists, and they were the bad guys of the Clone Wars conflict according to Republic/Imperial propaganda and in the eyes of Republic/Empire supporters and victims of CIS crimes.

Palps: "General Grievous had WHAT researched and developed?!" "If those droids can effectively fight Jedi they could fight Sith as well. That technology must be restricted and discouraged from further development once I've establish my Empire. All of the Magnaguard units shall be destroyed after the Jedi have been dealt with."🤖💀

I believe those IG-100 series were much, much stronger than sort of organic guard only rivalled by very talented force users and those with plot armour. They were also the best pilots one could potentially wish for due to their extreme reflexes. That being said, their very high production cost was their downfall. Royal guards were indeed chosen among the clones themselves which means they're cheaper and insanely zealous while a droid is a droid. Palpatine himself was a fairly paranoid person, he would have never trusted his life into the hands of a machine that could potentially out match him given they always worked in squads. Human guards were probably more suitable to him since he could easily kill a possible defector with his force abilities.

If I remember correctly, Imperial Royal Guards were so dangerous that multiple of them being in one place even made VADER nervous.

Also Magnaguards specialized in killing Jedi. Since most Jedi were eliminated after Order 66, Palpatine wouldn't need a guard that specialized in eliminating Jedi. The Royal Guards were very suited for dealing with both Jedi and non-Jedi.

I’ve never understood why they were called Royal Guards. Royal is the wrong word. It means “of the king.” If you’re an emperor, you have Imperial Guards, not Royal Guards.

"Royal guards were some of the most skilled fighters in the galaxy" Rise of Skywalker Royal Guards: Haha me go spin!

Guards: *Talking trash about Vader in their own language.* Palatine and Vader: "We like your funny words magic men!"