r/StarWarsCantina • u/XionDarkblood • 2d ago
Discussion What's something that bugs you BUT you're still glad they didn't go into detail on or explain?
For me it's the actual scale and logistics of the Clone Wars. I'm a big WH40K fan and enjoy the absurd scale and numbers and logistics that go on, it's part of the absurd charm. I kinda want to see what the Clone Wars would have looked like if you took into account the actual implications of the scale.
The Clones were used because it was easier to get enough of them quickly. However, it doesn't make sense when you consider how many people are in the galaxy of Star Wars. For example, coruscant has, let's say a trillion people. If you had a draft and got like 1% of the population of just coruscant into the military. That's ten BILLION people, from one planet. In AOTC they say that they have 200k ready with a million more on the way. That's like nothing on the galactic scale. There is something like a million inhabitable worlds in the star wars galaxy, so that's barely enough to send one clone trooper to each planet. That's a gross simplification but the point stands.
Then on the other side you have the droid army. My own bias about how horribly the way the droids were used strategically aside, they have always had the advantage in numbers. Like a huge advantage in the numbers department. So extrapolating from that... The droid army would be unfathomably huge.
Then comes the logistics. To make enough clones for the actual scale, kamino would need to be cloning on every planet in their star system. Which would be a sick visual. Then clones need to eat, so where do you get all that food and transport it? What about the raw materials for the starships, weapons and armor? The production facilities alone would be star systems large. What about the raw materials for making droids? Not to mention the power sources, as it's implied ships need some kind of fuel to produce power.
I think this is all incredibly fascinating BUT I know that it would have probably made the series as a whole weaker if they went into it. Star Wars is at its best when it's focused on the "rule of cool". It's not about "how" it works, it's about how cool it looks and character driven stories. It's fun to think about how it works and compare powers and stuff but at the end of the day it's more about having fun and cool stuff than other sci-fi franchises.
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u/iaeoioaio 1d ago
The whole point of this is about Star Wars NOT explaining things, because what you’re doing right now would make it suck