From the book Shatterpoint, Mace realizes that Count Dooku was the shatterpoint of the CIS, but after the start of the war and the months into it, that shatterpoint disappeared. Mace also knows that the Republic could have killed Dooku by bombing Geonosis arena?
My question:
Should Mace Windu have bombed the Geonosis arena and perhaps prevented a devastating war?
Remember: Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Padme were all in that arena. We know from Qui-Gon Jinn that Anakin is the Chosen One.
What would be the consequences of the Chosen One not fulfilling his prophecy?
Please give me your input. And vote in the poll.
p.s: I also put this thread in the EU forum by accident. So I am putting it here as well.
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the more correct point would be that jedi would not kill tens of thousands of sentient beings for any purpose other then defense against a direct attack. they would be no better than the empire if they did.
i think he meant when there was ONLY padme, anakin, and obi-wan before the 200 jedi arrived. THe threadmaster wanted MAce to sacrifice the three just to stop the war.
Hell yeah they should've bombed. Anakin, Padme, and Obi-Wan would have understood their sacrafice. The Geonosians, traitors, would have been killed, the droid foundaries wiped out (a lot of them, in anycase), Dooku killed without the possible loss of any Jedi, the Sepratists vanquished. Hello? Two Jedi and a Senator or the entire Jedi Order, the Republic, and thousands of civilians? Well, the Republic would have been gone anyway, but you get my meaning.
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name one instance where there killed someone who was not directly attacking them. even when a jedi IS being attacked directly, they will opt to spare the attacker's life if possible. this is proven over and over.
I doubt it. At the time it seemed that their was nothing to bomb the arena with. Don't forget that at the time the clone army came a bunch of Jedi were in the arena.
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Yeah, that was what Mace describes in the book (one of the few pieces of EU that I actually read), was that the Jedi considered it because of Kenobi's message about the droid armies, the Trade Federation's alliance with Dooku, and the Viceroy's attempts on Amidala's life.
When they showed up, they knew all 3 of them were there (could sense them in the Force) and the book makes it seem as though it was considered an option to bomb the arena, for like a split second before what we saw in the film.
And of course they shouldn't, for all of the reasons already stated.
But the question is did they know when the Clone Army would arrive at Geonosis? If they never came the CIS wouldn't have been gathered at the Arena because Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Padmé would have been killed sooner and thus bombing the arena would have been pointless. Dooku would have been back underground.
Bombing of Geonosis
Aug 17th, 2006 12:59 PM
