Why did the Separatists not adopt a campaign of glassing Republic worlds until the Senate granted them independence...

Why did the Separatists not adopt a campaign of glassing Republic worlds until the Senate granted them independence? Why would they ever land ground forces on a Republic world like Kashyyyk? Of course the obvious answer is that Sheev was manipulating both sides, but there's a certain point where people like Grievous would realize that Sidious was interfering with the war effort.

Because its a show for babies

Answer: Sheev was manipulating both sides

Grievous was quite obviously retarded. If he didn't see anything wrong with assembling all of the separatist leaders in one place, he probably wouldn't realize anything at all.

But there's a limit to how much you can manipulate one side before they realize they're being manipulated.

what do mean "glassing"? you do know those big balls in the middle of donuts and just giant fucking transports right? literally all of their military might was shitty zergling droids and some tanks and starfighter droids. once they landed they did do things like mass starvation and such though. you got to remember that technology is getting better as star wars progresses so superweapons werent even a thing. the galaxy was literally comfy for 1000 years and the republic didnt even have an army until sheev ordered it

It's hard to glass planets in starwars, look at the battle Hoth were a ramshackle band of rebels erected an impervious planetary shield with minimal resources. Even relatively primitive races like Gungans have access to shield technology.

>It's hard to glass planets in starwars,
Its actually not. A single star destroyer has the capability to slag a planet from orbit assuming there are no planetary shields.

"Einstein was right. Next World War will be fought with rocks."
Strap a rock to a droid, drop it onto the surface. Planet= gone. Drop a few anvils from a fucking airlock!

Brianna Wu pls go

I'm just using "glassing" as a colloquialism for destroying a planet from orbit, which capital ships in the Star Wars EU can do.

An FTL drive, anti gravity device or even just one of those exhaust cones on the star destroyers would easily output orders of magnitude more power than a nuclear weapon.

Grevious knew about Sidious' plans.

What was the Law in Niven's books where a races destructive potential is proportionate to their propulsion system?

wow did they really make prequel pre-death stars now is nothing sacred

Most planets have planetary shields. That's part of the reason why the Death Star exists.

The kzinti lesson

>do this to small asteroid
>aim at planet
>???

Thrawn put cloaking devices on asteroids and mined the space lanes around coruscant.
But the weapons they have at their disposal are greater than the effect you'd get from a simple mass driver.

Rock moving at 99% of the speed of light is not a simple mass driver, user. And judging by how easy it's to move star destroyers around, a mere rock will get that fast in a very short time.

It'll be like armageddon but without the chance to send people to deflect it.

Not just that; you could accelerate it up to relativistic speeds on one end of the galaxy, ftl jump to target location and jump away yourself to decelerate in safety. A thousand small ftl capable ships with a bunch of rocks at their disposal could damn near wipe the galaxy clean in half an hour.

Then why did they need the Death Star?

Because holywood writers are retarded.

Power level creep and need for story climax.

Blow up the whole planet

No he didn't. Only Dooku and Mas Amedda knew Sidious and Palpatine were the same person

Why when it literally accomplishes the same thing as just destroying the surface.

Also, why are chemical/biological weapons not a thing in Star Wars? Those seem like they would be a huge advantage for an army composed almost entirely of droids.

That's asking too much of a kid's story and nobody will watch it anyway.

Very Cool.

Death Star could blow up a planet without needing to disable shields or deal with defence lasers (Hoth shows how powerful even a couple of lasers are at destroying Star Destroyer ships). Alderan had loads of such emplacements and shields and shit. Death Star fucked it over.

Given enough time, resources, bombs and so on, you could glass a country right now with conventional bombs. It'd just take fucking ages to do it. A single Star Destroyer COULD do it but it'd take time and if it's defended (with shields and defensive lasers) then it's not possible. In which case you need to land troops to remove those in order to glass it... in which case you might as well capture it and use it as a base of operation. If you're going to glass something anyway, you might as well use the Death Star.

tl;dr Death Star was for shit they couldn't glass or capture without significant losses in either ships, manpower or materiel. The materiel and manpower needed to run the Death Star was an investment worth making as the whole point is that it'd be invincible when fully operational (and it isn't at any point in the OT).

Wow.

I understood that reference

Yeah Grevious didn't know but realized the war was pointless he even outright says it a couple times in the clone wars show

>You expect me to win this war with these usless droids and shit plan
>Dooku: I expect you to follow orders
>You expect me to lose

Grevious just wanted revenge but he knew the war was pointless the entire time

Thrawn was decades later.

You mean a Starcrash

What's the point of a nuke when you can use a thousand moabs?

It would have been a badass story if Grievous led a coup and then actually tried to win the war

but the moab came way after the nuke
it's not the other way around

A weapon you chucklefucks didn't know of until Trump told you it did. The FOAB has been around for a decade and is x4 more powerful than a FOAB. But no, you fucks keep talking like you know shit. The USA is using MOAB's as they don't have a long shelf-life left. They've moved onto Thermobayric shit now.

I agree. I actually don't get why anyone likes the Clone Wars the way they are, they are retarded as fuck. When they mentioned the Clone Wars in the original trilogy, even if I was a kid when I saw them I thought the clone wars were an actually way more interesting event than "dude lmao stormtroopers shooting robots and palpatine controls both sides"

>it's hard to glass planets in star wars because of seemingly cheap but effective shield technology
>wrong actually because assuming there's no shields it's easy

Because the Seperatists saw themselves as legitimate and they just wanted independance granted to them

if they went around glassing planets the Republic would fight them to the very end rather then negotiate peace

By the time of Revenge of the Sith, its implied that many senators are calling for peace and the war to end. That's why Palpatine speeds up his plans to end the war on his terms. He wanted the Republic to control all the galaxy when he was put in charge

Easier to explode a planet with 1 doomsday weapon than using a fleet of SD's, running the risk of losing them due to the people being glassed fighting back.

I always saw it as The Republic fighting off an aggressive horde of clones.

Because the Separatists actually valued life, they created the Droid army as a way to reduce casualties and the faction consciously occupied planets opposed to simply exterminating them.

Meanwhile the republic created an entire "race" of clones just to be slaughtered.
"Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb"
And the republic were the bad guys in the conflict, especially when you go into the reason why the separatists formed.

Apparently not in these movies. Each side was as dumb as a bag of hammers.

So the Separatists were unironically /ourguys/?

Not in the new canon. Thrawn was active a year before this.

>Be marginalized alien races who are annoyed at Human dominance
>Try and gain power through economics and trade only to be BTFO'd by the senate.
>Decide to form a Military to revolt
>Decide to not be SJW bastards and allow Human worlds to join you as equals even though you're fighting against Humans because you recognize that they're not a single unified entity
>Create a massive army
>Prepare for a shock and awe sneak attack to quickly shatter the republic defenses with minimal casualties
>Oh shit clones
>Oh shit Jedi
>Oh shit the Senate just fucked off,
>Oh shit, the Republic is committing genocide against our members (Geonosian)
>Loose the war
>republic then oppress alien races, using the war as justification for control
>Empire is formed

/ourguys/ indeed

I loved these guys, they were so useless and hapless you almost ended up rooting for them

They really fucking killed their vibe in the later movies by giving them personalities and quirks. Fucking dropped.

they still have a better track record than Stormtroopers

this really bothered me in the cartoon, watching these goofy guys getting slaughtered was kinda unsettling

Because these movies are poorly written and everyone in them are retarded

>be separatist
>join because you legitimately believe in the Confederacy, decentralized power, stronger local and planetary governments
>build massive non sentient droid army to fight for you, only organics in the separatist military are volunteers
>corrupt republic just uses slave army
>with the skilled leadership of leaders like Dooku and Grievous you're winning the war
>only reason it doesn't end sooner is because of op space Gestapo jedi who inexplicably fight for the Republic which tolerates slavery
>find out the news: coruscant is besieged, Palpatine captured, and victory within reach after 3 long years
>Looking forward to returning to your family and the-
>all of a sudden within 24 hours
>Dooku dead
>Grievous dead
>High Command dead
>droids deactivated, separatists stabbed in the back
>confederacy btfo
>sheev is now emperor
>your planet enslaved and your people genocided by the empire
>tfw

Back to GoT faggot.

>the confederacy will never win
>the galaxy will never enter a glorious age of political equality between planets, where even the wars are peaceful because only droids are used for fighting
>people will unironically say the republic were good guys despite breeding human being solely to put into the meat grinder of galactic warfare, alongside the fact that it all turned into the worst dictatorship known to the galaxy

>19 years later
>horribly disfigured from when the empire gassed your planet
>hear about alderaan being btfo on the holonews
>fucking cucks deserved it
>empire has some new super weapon, the "Death Star"
>All of a sudden, some group calling themselves the "Alliance" destroys the death star
>systems start rising up, declaring war on the empire
>after so many years, the Separatist ideals are revitalized, embraced by the whole galaxy. Your time has come
>join up, offer your prodigious military experience from the clone wars to the alliance
>become their most skilled commander. Disregarded because of blatant racism and mon calamari supremacy in the alliance but whatever, you suck it up
>the alliance is victorious, destroys the second death star at endor
>vader and sheev dead
>Now you can truly create the type of-
>within 24 hours
>New Republic declared
>Senate reinstated
>Jedi Order re-founded by some fuckboi named luke
>"never forget muh order 66" blasted in the media 24/7
>Just gave everything you had for a cause you thought you believed in, turns out to just be more toydarian tricks and propoganda
>back to where you were 25 years ago
>"FUCK IT"
>"FUCK THE JEDI"
>"FUCK THE NEW REPUBLIC"
>"FUCK THIS GAY GALAXY"
>dedicate yourself to mastering the dark side through sheer willpower
>under the guise of restoring the empire, start manipulating politicians. They go along with it because sjw new republic fags are retarded at running the galaxy
>all a ruse to establish a true government in the vein of the old confederacy over the entire galaxy
>"They want superweapons? I'll show them a superweapon"
>tfw you're snoke