thuellai
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Post by thuellai on Feb 1, 2010 18:11:24 GMT -5
I believe the quasi-official explanation is primarily piracy and crime on a planetary scale - most militias were designed to protect trade routes leading to a planet and to prevent fugitives from entering their airspace. Also to prevent other forms of space-based crime. But piracy and minor planetary conflict was the core reason for most planetary militias as far as I remember.
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comicfan
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Post by comicfan on Feb 1, 2010 18:32:15 GMT -5
I'm not that knowledgeable about Star Wars, Knights of the Old Republic, and the six movies are the only canon that I know about. I know the Republic didn't rely completely on Clone Troopers, but aside from Jedi Knights that's all I see doing any fighting during episodes 2 and 3.
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Post by manticore on Feb 1, 2010 19:02:23 GMT -5
Ok I'll just go for an Ex-Commando...I'm sure Clone Troopers weren't the only ones involved in ground combat. Its mentioned in a number of places that The Republic used both mercenary troops and soldiers from planetary militias, because it wasn't always practical to move Clone armies around (and their numbers were somewhat limited). Military officers (both Naval and Army) were also generally not clones. The only thing I don't understand is why there were any mercenary troops or planetary militias in the first place, when they claim that there hasn't been a war in the galaxy for thousands of years... The Clone Wars seem to have gone on for some years. I'm sure there must have been massive conscription in that time; so even if they didn't have planetary militia before they'd soon have a lot of troops they could call upon. |
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Post by wildknight on Feb 1, 2010 19:29:04 GMT -5
Canonically, the Clone Wars lasted slightly over 3 years, and neither side conscripted anyone. The Republic relied on Clones, the CIS relied on droids, and both sides used pre-existing militarized groups, of which there seem to have been plenty laying around.
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thuellai
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Post by thuellai on Feb 1, 2010 19:36:17 GMT -5
Well... In fairness, before the Clone Wars [several years, in fact] there was an actual invasion of an actual planet by a commercial army [We call it "Episode I"]. So there was clearly war. Just probably not war on a galactic scale involving entire groups of planets. I'm sure there was reasoning behind planetary militia. Some of them were probably also just traditional things, relics from an era where the planet was threatened being slowly downsized.
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Post by manticore on Feb 1, 2010 19:40:02 GMT -5
Wow.
Considering how many books, comics, movies, cartoons and other things have been made about the Clone Wars, I thought it must have lasted at least 5 years (and I thought 10 was more likely).
But... well, canonically, there were only 3 million Clone Troopers in the whole of the Republic. (Yes, that's breathtakingly stupid. Especially when you consider that in the real world the USA fielded more than 100 million soldiers in WWII and that was just one large country on one small world.
So I hope you'll forgive me if I don't always accept Star Wars "canon". Instead, I pick and choose the things I like and that make sense to me.
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Post by toast on Feb 1, 2010 23:14:05 GMT -5
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Post by dorkknight23 on Feb 1, 2010 23:41:10 GMT -5
I could be wrong, but it seems like a by-the-numbers version of the Scout class. |
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Post by manticore on Feb 3, 2010 15:50:26 GMT -5
I don't think I have the time to start yet another game, so I'm going to have to pull out. Sorry.  |
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Post by toast on Feb 3, 2010 20:53:57 GMT -5
I could be wrong, but it seems like a by-the-numbers version of the Scout class. Then I would like to play a scout. Can anyone help me make one? |
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Post by comicfan on Feb 3, 2010 20:58:16 GMT -5
Sure...I got the books, just PM me what you're wanting and I'll try to help.
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Post by toast on Feb 16, 2010 1:04:13 GMT -5
Well comicfan helped me make an awesome character for you first idea. So I am going to send him to you aand you can let me know if he'll work.
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Post by Goats on Feb 16, 2010 11:59:45 GMT -5
Is there a niche that still needs filling here?
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comicfan
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Post by comicfan on Feb 16, 2010 13:20:15 GMT -5
There should be...if not for the first idea then for the second one...to my knowledge anyway.
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thuellai
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Post by thuellai on Feb 17, 2010 13:58:55 GMT -5
Yeah, Goats. So far the party has a Soldier, a spacer-type Scoundrel, and a hilarious survivalist Scout, so there's still room for a Noble or Jedi or for a differently-specialized version of the other three classes without stepping on anybody's toes role-wise. A slicer Scoundrel, for example. So there's niches to fill certainly.
For the second game, I know DK and one other person suggested they were planning to roll Padawans, but you can toss one up yourself, and I'm willing to take a third or fourth player as well in the role of the sort of support staff you'd see for Jedi in the Clone Wars - a clone soldier or local fighter [the Chewbacca to their Yoda sort of thing - someone in this role could easily be a Scout or Scoundrel] or a noble to serve as diplomatic aid.
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