R.A Salvator, he wrote AOTC. Vector Prime doesnt feel like Star Wars to me. Give a guy the name Luke Skywalker doesnt make him Luke Skywalker, youve got to make him feel like Luke, slapping the name on doesnt cut it.
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Re: Re: Re: EU Continuity problem in KOTOR?
Incorrect again.
Officially according to the movies, the Republic is also a thousand GENERATIONS old, hence closer to 25000 years.
Hence it must have been re-formed several times. And if you think that's odd, that simply makes you ignorant of history. Look at the number of French Republics there have been, and that is only in mere centuries. Yet that still makes up part of one unbroken French history. Oddly enough, you will find the formations of new ones often come after wars...
In fact, the French Fifth Republic is only fifty years old, dating from 1958, coming after the Fourth Republic which was only 12 years old, dating from 1946 after World War II (that the Third Republic persished in; the Fourth Republic, incidentally, was basically killed off by the Algerian war). But as I say, the history of France itself, as a nation, goes back way further than any single incarnation of its Republic. As GL himself has stated that the Sith ruled the Galaxy at one point, it is in absolutely no way hard to believe that the Old Republic had to re-found itself several times also in the same way.
And the last time was 1000 years ago. Simple as that.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: EU Continuity problem in KOTOR?
Ok Anomaly, you're arguing with a moderator that knows what he's talking about. Next, Sidious' quote alone says there was once a full scale war and contradicts Sio Bibble's quote. Next, Sio might be wrong. Yoda says that "once you start down the dark path it will forever dominate your destiny" but he's wrong. Sio might not know his history too well.
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Re: Re: Re: EU Continuity problem in KOTOR?
First off you have Sidious in AOTC saying that the Republic only existed for a thousand years. Well. There was something called the "Ruusan Reformation" dated 1,000 years before the Battle of Yavin. They made that the year zero of the Republics timeline.
Actualy they didn't change much in the government system BUT the Jedi Order underwent some adjustment:
- the Jedi abandoned their battle armours (replacing it with the known robes)
- they renounced all military titles (for example "Lord")
- they placed their forces under the supervision of the Supreme Chancellor
- they began training children from infancy on
- they centralized the training of the younglings on Coruscant.
And their was no full scale war from the Battle of Ruusan (and Ruusan Reformation) to the Clone Wars meaning the Republic as it existed in TPM times had never faced a full scale war.
Survived yes. But it got reformed after all. So it's not the "same" Republic any longer that was formed 25,000 years BBY.
Actualy there are four:
Old Republic: 25,000 BBY -> 1,000 BBY
Reformed Republic: 1,000 BBY -> 19 BBY (replaced by the Galactic Empire)
New Republic: 4 years after the battle of Yavin - 27 ABY
Galatic Federation of Free Alliances (GFFA): 27 ABY - now (capital planet: Denon)
The movies state both things:
1,000 years (from Palpatine) and 1,000 generations (being 25,000 years).
You're simply wrong.
It makes sense if you just read the EU sources what you - obviously - did not do.
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Sidious says that the Republic is a 1000 years old- 1000 seems to be a magic number in the PT- meaning there must have been a reformation at some point. EU calls it the Ruusan Reformation, and it works out.
Like Ush said, using the example of France, reformations happen to government.