HI Hayden, No, that's not correct.
First, the Empire and the Republic aren't the same thing. The Republic, in this case the Old Republic, was a republic of planets governed by a senate and a chancellor for several thousand years. They were protected by the Jedi Knights who were peace officers and what we might think of as galactic police. In Attack of the Clones Chancellor Palpatine convinced the senate to give him absolute power so he could direct the war with the Separatests, which he secretly commanded as Darth Cidious, so he could take over the Republic. By the time the war was over instead of returning power to the senate Palpatine declared himself emperor and since the clones were directly under his soul command he held all of the military might and power to govern the galaxy. After Palpatine became emperor the Imperial senate was only there to manage day to day government, but they could not inact laws without Palpatine's personal approval. However, like all other hostile take overs the Empire was a military dictatorship. So the governments of the Republic and Empire were totally different. Second, the clones were genetically designed to obey the chancellor, in this case Palpatine, and were loyal to him personally rather than any specific government. Since the clones were loyal to Chancellor Palpatine personally rather than the Republic Senate, the Jedi Knights, etc he was able to direct the military in whiping out the Jedi with Order 66 and take soul control of the Republic forming the Empire. It was a military take over/dictatorship. Palpatine was just very clever how he went about it. Cheers! On 5/7/11, Hayden Presley <hdpres...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > Well...that's a bit confusing. The way I understood it they were programmed, > as such, to obey the Republic. COnsidering that the empire was the republic, > they had to obey. > > Best Regards, > Hayden --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
