>>63870655
>Republic ARC-170 fighter designers, 18 BBY (colorized)

>>63871196
at least post the superior Ju-88 if you're going to wehragoon

>>63874896
the CIS enslaved not just its clones but also its civilians however

>>63875129
>When hopping planets is practically a commuting distance, there's a lot less pressure to develop marginal worlds or to exploit every last corner of them.
that's part of the problem with TPM, which is otherwise a pretty alright movie: Coruscant to Tatooine is half a week away
just because they have a busted hyperdrive, they can't catch a fucking space taxi or whatever to get to Coruscant. or say trade in the Queen's ship for a junker with a working hyperdrive.
the Tatooine subplot of TPM is like travelling from Seattle to New York and suddenly being forced to gamble in a casino in Idaho for a radiator and a local slaveboy

>>63876201
Palpatine was afraid of the Rebels using his own tools against him, so one of the first things he did was to wipe out the CIS droid armies and the Kaminoan cloners

>>63877974
>Imperial WaPo headline: Alliance To Restore The Republic Recruits Deeply Problematic CIS "Azov Legions" In Its Rebellion Against Pupitin