According to the opening title crawl it was to settle a dispute over the taxation of....trade routes….

ohhhhh

makes sense, there are only 5 routes for thousands of planets and most of the systems are far away from them

>>211997831
Just fly like 10 light years to the left or something

I still don't get what the problem is.

>>211997850
Space pirates THOUGH

>>211997688 (OP)
Most wars are about trade routes

>>211997929
Damn the Republic is kinda shit if they can't police space pirates

>>211997893
think about the taxes Trump wanted to impose on Chinese products.

>>211997850
Doesn't the warp drive run on existing hyper space lanes or some shit?

>>211998083
Pod racers get in the way

>>211997688 (OP)
better than "somehow it's empire vs. rebels again and no we won't ever explain it".

>>211997831
>The ship that left Naboo heading for Coruscant ended up on Tatooine despite being in the opposite direction.

>>211997831
i know it's like, space as allegory and shit, but space would note have a silk road... that's not how it works at all.

>>211998116
TOS made no sense and only boomers defend it.
>the empire? Theyre just bad

>>211998217
yes they're bad. they're a theocratic dictatorship in which all power is vested in one man, a man who happens to be a space wizard who committed space wizard genocide.

>>211998083
>Doesn't the warp drive run on existing hyper space lanes or some shit?
I'm not a loresperg but that's what I always assumed. The established hyperspace lanes are akin to paved maintained highways and deviating from them rapidly increases your risk of warp crashing into a warp tree or warp boulder.

>>211998187
I don't see why not. Cargo ships have limited fuel, and the routes are designed to traverse the most important planets as quickly and efficiently as possible to reach the capital planet on time. These routes also need protection against space pirates, and that requires a specific, planned path.

>>211997688 (OP)
Why do people take this goofy shit seriously?

>>211997831
yeah well, okay

>>211998280
They were literally voted into power. They worked to end slavery and kept the people protected from a radical religious zealot

>>211998075
I would sooner die than not be able to buy cheap chink crap

>sir!
>they've gone up the ventilation shaft!

>>211998388
Because everyone has seen it. If I make a Suicide Kings thread, I get maybe two responses and no internet friend simulator. Here, I can talk to a dozen different guys about two dozen different things. Its why everyone watched that Tiger netflix show back during the government lockdowns.

>>211998331
no, the silk road was a network of people, it wasn't traversed by one person, ever. that would be ludicrous just like travelling across an entire galaxy is ludicrous, even with hyperspace demolishing the speed of light barrier.
indeed, with hyperspace it's more likely most trade would be planet-to-planet and sort of structured like freight shipping is on planet earth. each transit has a cost, the goal is to effectively sort things among couriers so everything getst to its destination as fast as possible. an entire galaxy of hundreds if not thousands or tens of thousands of worlds relying on a handful of trade routes makes no sense. there would be trade EVERYWHERE.
trade is just what happens when two people decide to cooperate on leveraging their comparative advantages.
the silk road was primarily concerned with luxury imports from the east into countries with no production of their own. when the secrets of silk escaped china, the silk trade collapsed. same thing with plaster, another chinese trade secret. they knew when the KNOWLEDGE got out, there monopoly would end.

>>211998075
is that why these speak like asians?

>>211998536
george lucas was lowkey based with his boomer orientalism.

>>211998524
Only a few, like the Trade Federation, had the money to own huge fleets of cargo ships. The taxes imposed by the Republic were likely intended to combat this monopoly.

>>211998664
yeah that doesn't make any sense. truckers own their rigs, the company owns the lines and puts them on the job but their equipment is their responsibility. no reason to expect a similar system would not hold, in a galaxy where space travel is common and routine, private ownership of craft is already established.
the trade federation just wanted to choke competition. the taxes were a way of doing that. they relied on droid labor to keep costs down; the taxes were ruinous for smaller firms.

>>211998184
They picked a planet that was within their range and that they knew there wouldn't be Trade Federation goons on.

>>211998524
And simply put, the Trade Federation was the group of people with the knowledge of the hyperspace routes.
Similar the Venetians, they had the ships, the automatons to load and unload cargo, the had the knowledge of the ports and their trading needs, they had the ports and warehouses. They were the groups of different people that were the trade routes.

Space has little terrain to stop shipping, but that is the least important aspect of it.

>>211998795
Feds are giant shipping company like Maersk

Do you agree?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKm4ueVuxpY

The entire prequel series is
>galactic politics
>trade routes/supply lines
>taxes/tarrifs/corruption
>cloning
>propaganda
>jews selling kids into pod-slavery
>human/technology integration (the "next level of evolution")
Overall, the prequels sucked ass, and that shit is for fags

>>211997688 (OP)
i forgot what the deal was. the republic wanted to tax the trade union? weren't they already doing this? did the republic not have a system of tariffs before this event? and why the fuck are the jedi getting involved in naked political disputes? i thought they were supposed to mediate matters of enormous import, not bean counter squabbles.

>>211997831
what happens here

>>211999139
they trade sea pee there

>>211997831
Old George is taking a piss

>>211997831
>unknown regions has multiple known locations
uhmm