6:57 "If Palpatine died, the Senate would've doubtlessly have caved to the Confederacy's demands." How could the Senate do that if the Senate just died?
I get the feeling the war would have ended fairly soon. Not because of Separatist overall victory, but because we know that there were peace talks, and it seemed they were serious and could have brought a fairly peaceful resolution. If not for the interference of Dooku/The Sith (sending droids to sabotage Coruscant), the war very well may have been resolved and the Separatists could have gone on their way without further conflict.
If there was no sith involved, there would have been no Grievous, and the CIS would have probably been a lot more... moral. And I can see such a war happening without sith if the Republic was too corrupt.
@@Marvelous_Gaming150 The "no Sith" part of this is a little vague. Are you saying Dooku would still be a Jedi, but Palpatine would just not be involved? Would Palpatine just be the Chancellor? I'd like some clarification.
A possible scenerio… as Padme fires on Dooku's ship when he's leaving Geonosis (after he "disarmed" Anakin and beat Obi-Wan) she hits something vital. Then when Dooku is coming in to dock at the hangar that Palpatine is waiting at the retro's fail to fire, and with no breaking thrusters his ship crashes at speed and _kills them both._ The narrative would be that Dooku kamikazed Palpatine, and Palpatine would die a martyr… mourned by the Republic, the Jedi, and even by Padme - who would blame herself for not shooting down Dooku when she had the chance and saving the good Senator Palpatine.
Such an event would cause the Republic to fall, Because then the CIS would be the puppets of no one, no one would be there to stop them from decimating the republic.
@@proxy1359 true BUT Palps was pulling strings on and hampering the Republic too. Keeping them doing things they shouldn't have done either. So that they stood NO chance of winning any sooner then intended. Which I guess woulda been almost as bad as them losing too fast
Also, remember this quote from Mace Windu: "If I had struck down Count Dooku on Geonosis when I had the chance -- if I had let Jango Fett slay me as I slew Dooku -- this war might have ended that day." If a scenario where Dooku kamikazed into Palps unknowingly and killed them both, then the war would've ended that very month, if not a little later. It took time for the Clone Wars to get into momentum and Dooku's death would mean that the CIS would start to break apart, as it slowly did in ROTS. Without Dooku, the Separatist Council argued among themselves (and Grievous, who is still an unknown player at this moment). Palpatine's death could lead to the Jedi investigating the Sith, while the Senate votes in a new leader. Without the Sith, I fully believe that the Republic and CIS would've come to terms in peace by the year's end to avoid any more bloodshed.
“It all made sense. I always knew that they were able to field more than they did, they were actually capable of fielding droids in larger numbers with better hardware. It’s what the numbers showed, given the data on their industrial capability. One of my fondest memories, although looking back at it now, it was ironic, given the way my brothers cheered when every battle droid in the droid army ground to a screeching halt that one day.” -CS/CT-8711-12 “Cheng”, Captain and Scout of the 442nd Siege Battalion
Y'all need to check the Auralnauts version of Star Wars if you're into sick beats by the Techno Union. They even got DJ Dooku to headline the Festival of Geonosis.
I'm just glad in Geetsly they recognize the CIS would've been a monstruos threat without the Senate pulling the strings. We all love the clones, but too many among us are as blind as the Jedi in this era regarding the clankas. You need a good couple to have a great tango
Itd help if the cis wasnt portrayed as joke in most media. Cant expect people to respect what the series doesn't. Same reason that stormtroopers will never be a true threat again
@@olliesloane151 Finally, someone says it. I'm tired of the "there would never be enough clones" argument. If need be, the Republic could produce their own battle droids as well.
@@calthekonqueror312 Dude I feel that. I play a lot of ArmA ( a military sim sandbox game) and I use a great starwars mod for it. I’m currently making a campaign I plan to upload onto the workshop about a pro republic PDF fighting against a separatists invasion. I wish we saw more organic armies in the clone wars media
The Confederacy would’ve overrun the Galactic Republic’s in the Second Year of the Clone War. Keep in mind that the Confederacy out numbered the Clones one thousand to one, and no matter how good the Clones were trained they were still too small to content against the Driod Army. The Confederacy has several advantages against the Republic early in the war, and no matter how many Jedi or Clones were sent to battles there still wouldn’t have enough to defend the Republic space, but the truth was that the Sith played both sides to its advantage in their revenge against the Jedi and Republic.
I think the Republic would have started drafting civilians once things started to go badly as a way to make the base of their army while using clones as shocktroopers.
The Republic is far too big for the CIS to overwhelm. They could field more troops initially but it wouldn't be long before the Republic starts raising up armies of trillions and the industrial output of a million systems in the form of warships.
If Dooku betrayed Palpatine when he got his separatist army I can see palpatine going 'empire' even faster by recruiting volunteers and hiring soldiers. Also he would have unleashed Tarkin to commence a terror campaign against Separatist Civilian worlds
How should Tarking do that? The republic can barely defend its core worlds against a full empowered CIS military, counter attacks on separatist core worlds would have been out of the question. Don't forget that the republic was almost completely demilitarized before the clone wars. Thats one reason why Palpatine staged this conflict in the first place - he wanted the Republic to be militarized in the first place and he knew this would take several years. But in this situation, the republic simply has no resources and no time to build up properly, even with additional volunteer forces.
@@LegioXXI While your right on the civilian front, as core world civilians wouldn’t even think about voulenteering, they definitely had the manpower and economic might to do so. Kuat drive yards during the clone wars was pumping out most of what the republic navy used while still filling their regular orders for space traders and PDFs.
Possibly, but a big part of Palpatine’s Plan was to take control of the banking sector, which -had Dooku done that first (which he probably could have, since all the corporate entities were very much on the Separatist side) would have greatly hampered the Republic from building an army from scratch, and that would have probably meant they would have nationalized planetary defense forces, which would have made those systems angry and would have spurned a different set of circumstances for the GAR.
*You missed two more important nerfs* that Siddious did. CIS special projects and superdroids, and leaking Intel about some suprise attacks. The CIS had some vastly superior Droids to the B1, that never got put into widespread production due to Dooku's control. And the B1 didn't get software upgrades that could have made it smarter. In fact Commando Droids were used as a fine tuning method to maintain the stalemate. GAR get too far ahead, increase Commando Droid production, CIS winning, cut it back. And then there were the prototypes that kept getting destroyed (along with the faculties and plans) because the Jedi were tipped off about them. A couple of them were war winners just by themselves… And the second nerf was there were a few times where CIS knockout blows were sabotaged by Siddious, most obviously being attacks on Kamino. That would have been it if they had succeeded, and then there was also the attack on the listening outpost on Rishi station, that would have also allowed the CIS to take out Kamino.
But it’s the same with the GAR really, palps also stopped a lot of new tech from being pressed into service. Like in legends where Anakin and Thrawn find the factory of clone armour that deactivated lightsabers and stopped all blaster fire, thus making the clone near impervious to CIS small arms.
Idk about that have you seen how many clone’s die through out the TCW show. Especially even in S7 only reason the republic get’s spared is because of anakin.
I’m more curious on what would happen after. Would the confederacy completely replace the republic with a more decentralized galaxy, would the core worlds have been subjugated and and seen as play things, would dookus corporatist ideas of incorporating the companies into the CIS government have been better at realing them in instead as opposed to back firing and giving them too much power? Would this create a better uh.. geopolitical stability for the galaxy as a whole? Would grevious allow these tycoons to keep there power now that he controlled most of the military? Would dooku have been a good peacetime leader? Or would the CIS seek a continues trade with the republic now thats its independent, similar to the US with Britain? Would each planet been given more autonomy or would the CIS just take away more rights because of its militarist corporate nature? Would dooku be the one to enforce a more permanent structure? Or was the separatist council just seen as a tool for him to win the war? Would dooku give up his emergency powers after the war? And if so who would become the new Chief of State? Would it be Mina Bonteri or someone more sinister?
Would this abomination of a state, half ruled by scrupulous, greedy, profit-driven corporate entities, half by psychopathic warlord generals lording over a gigantic military with zero checks on it's power be a decent galactic government? Imagine the worst aspects of the Republic (don't forget that one of the biggest flaws of the Republic was the strong influence of corporate entities on politics), but 10 times as bad. The CIS stood for absolutely nothing beyond "we aren't the Republic", but that didn't actually mean they'd be any better. Without the Republic the CIS would fall apart, the military might seize power, see a civil war, a republican insurgency, who knows what else.
if the war wasnt rigged from the start there probably wouldnt have been one to begin with. the CIS would have been allowed to secede, no one would have attempted to kill padme, and no one would have been held captive at the arena on geonosis.
what makes you think the seperatists would have been allowed to secede? when has a political entity ever said 'yeah, it's fine, we don't want those taxes anyway'?
@@r31n0ut I'll tell you this much, last time a bunch of states tried to secede from a Union, it was because they didn't want to liberate their slaves, so the north had to do it for them.
I think in this scenario I think you need to assume that Dooku and Palpatine had a falling out and became enemies after the battle of Geonosis. Which means Dooku would go all out trying to actually kill Palpatine and end the failing Republic to replace it with something better.
It would be called the droid wars, as the Republic would likely start making its own droids after seeing the successes of the CIS. And seeing as the Republic has a lot more planets and materials it wouldn't be long before the tide started turning.
Super tactical doid core with durability of a B3 ultra battle droid, umbaran weaponry, reaction speed of a BX-series and shielding & rolling mode of a droideka. Would cost much, but almost certainly capable of taking down a jedi in 1v1 combat.
Palpatine leaking the safe route(s) through the deep core was so that Grievous could employ a *surprise* assault on Coruscant. In this scenario, even if they didn't have any way of getting those routes or a similar "in" in order to catch the Republic off-guard, the CIS would likely have had far more resources to throw at the planet and they would have been more willing to do so without regard to the collateral damage since they wouldn't be compromised by Palpatine's and Dooku's machinations.
There were multiple technologies/weapons created by the CIS during the war that would have led to an easy, quick and complete win for the CIS.... unfortunately Palpatine made sure the republic found out about them and destroyed them before they could be built or used
In the clone wars you see many senators wishing for peace as the war goes on. I think if the CIS when all out it would of been a 6 month to a 2 year war depending on how things when. If it was a quick war showing of the CIS might I think that the separatist would of tried to peacefully live beside the republic. If it was a drawm out war the separatist would make post ww1 Germany look like a utopia
I think the super tactical droids would of been implemented sooner since there would be more experienced CIS military leaders alive probably being a major pain in the ass in the long run
Sev’rance Tann and Merai are such underrated characters in my opinion, one was one of few honorable Separatist leaders and the other was an excellent strategist at the start of the Clone Wars.
Remember that Sheevie was also handicapping the clone army by spreading them out so far that they couldn't possibly have outnumbered even a small droid contingent.
Great video, but I have a question: are Dooku and Palpatine still there and still Sith but with no control of the confederacy, or are they gone completely? Because if Palpatine was still a Sith, I doubt Greivous could get anywhere near to capturing him during the Battle of Courisaunt.
There is one thing you mentioned that really peaked my interest: why the hell did grevious not bomb the temple? It seems like they have no actual defenses otherwise we might’ve seen them come online during kinghtfall, grevious could’ve got his Jedi kills to skyrocket!
The only way the way the Republic could stand a chance: Use a droid military as well I love the clones and they’re probably my favorite fictional characters but there simply wasn’t enough of them to win a galactic war
Gather a pretty sizable fleet than make a jump to that Rishi Maze , direct strike on Kamino . Or set up a deep space jamming network with all my destroyers
The republic in this case would more than likely turned to conscription rather than rely just on the clones, which i bet would have drastically improved their odds here
Not necessarily. Can you imagine the PR disaster? The Confederacy would have capitalized on that immediately. “Your world can either stay with the republic and lose its young men fighting the clone war, or join the confederacy and not get conscripted because we have a droid army.” That would have pushed even more worlds to join the CIS.
I think you are forgetting that it was the Sith that clouded the Jedi's vision of the droid manufacturing in the first place. Without that time, how could they have avoided early annihilation?
Well i think you kinda overstated the odds for confederacy - you said many times - sepies were handicapped by palpatine - but there were also numerous exmaples where paplpatine did exactly the same to republic forces - either by leaking the intel to sepies or by deliberately making bad strategy moves that resulted in failure - or at least severly increasing the chance for failure. Many times he also manipulated the jedi to act foolishly as well or by diverting them from one thing into another. Palpatine also protected many of sepies assets like banking clan or trade federation world/members/ senators despite them having connections to sepies - without that protection - the republic could that much easiert root them out - collapsing many flanks or projects from the sepies outright - by cutting them off from money or other support. I think the longer the war spanned - the more republic chances to win would grow. Sepies in order to win would have early on to use their might to stop republic warmachine from spinning up - because the moment it did so - they would be at disadvantage more and more as the war progressed. If anything the atrocities commited by grievous would cement the support against the cis forces - by proving that they cannot ignore that threat - aka if they are genocidal now - then they wont stop unless WE make them stop by grounding them to dust. Also keep in mind that Palpatine was also killing of many talented people on republic side - and that was smth you kinda neglected to point out too - this would translate into those ppl taking charge of armies as well - in the end it would result as jedi NOT being the minds behind the war - but rather advisors or combatants - but not masterminds since they would be outclassed very quickly by way more competent war/tactically oriented minds as well. And that would stop GAR from making foolish or silly tactical mistakes which were often made by jedi leaders. Palpatine pushed Jedi to be the leaders because he knew they were ill fitted to that task and that would both make them look weak or incompetent in the view of the public and on occasion it would also thin out their numbers in a "natural way". - Without palpatine to keep jedi in the leading role - they would be soon replaced by ppl who actually were good at "war".
There are a few more factors at play here I think. Firstly there was an episode of the clone wars where padmé almost negotiated peace with a friend in the separatists before she was ordered assassinated by Douku. The jedi's plans are mo longer being fed to Douku and so they would likely be a lot more successful. Other elements like the night mother and mandolorians might change things as well.
The night sisters fought only against the separatists when they've been attacked and anyway the night sisters were defiants against both sides. For the Mandalorians, I think you speak about the takeover executed by Darth Maul and his ambitions, because Satine's government was pacifist and Pre Viszla wasn't interested by other systems ; anyway the Death Watch and the return of dark maul would have taken place long after the separatist victory.
If the sith grand plan was never truly enacted the sheer number size and power of the CIS would be able to absolutely crush the republic (honesty the strongest militant group in all of Star wars)
Just wondering here, if the Republic would have had a draft to enlist citizens and create a mix of normal Republic soldiers in conjunction with the clones, would they had had a chance or were the numbers too much to overcome?
Command and control at higher levels would have been one hell of a problem. And you'd need more than tactical genius to maintain supply of these CIS forces as they stretched into the Deep Core. That would have been interesting as hell to read about.
Thing is CIS supply lines are much easier to maintain than the Republic, CIS fleet takes a planet all they need is one ship with enough droids to replete the lost. The republic have to think about a lot more than such as food, arms, and fuel. CIS would likely leave little behind when scorching a planet before moving on where The Republic would always leave behind troops in defence.
Hey Geetsly, there are two problems within your theories. Grevious was a construction/machination of Plapatine and Dooku as a way to make the entire galaxy tremble in fear to bring them to his side. And Ventress was only brought 'into the fold' because Dooku was looking for new, competing warriors and tech. If you remove all sith machinations and ambitions, you have two leaders/combative threats out of the picture. Ventress was only drawn to Dooku because she felt like she deserved to be sith, not just some dothimir witch or acolyte of one of the witch groups. Also the republic would have put out a proper call for building volunteer army over just relying on local Planetary defense forces and the clones. There was no such call to arms to out in canon. CIS numbers would still have been greater. But running both clone and non clone forces either together or in separate task forces. Manpower is ultimately not an issue for manning ships, fighters and boots on the ground. The fear of the separatist to Republic 'nationalists' would sign up in droves if allowed. Look at any war in reality. If a country is attacked, a large number of people enlist quickly. Think about the numbers of boots you'd get from Coruscant alone.
Without the Sith tho, most of the CIS wouldn't be a thing, not the minds, the corporate support or the infamous leaders would have been a thing, maybe a sort of rebellions here and there would have occurred, but those would have been crushed by economical pressure, political strategy or by the Republic reforming the Judicial Forces
I wonder if they didn’t memory wipe some of the droids? Would the mass killing of the droids eventually be seen as amoral? Due to there growth of intelligence and emotions. If it can think and feel its a living thing!
@@neofulcrum5013 tbey have in the past, infact a faction lead by HK-01 (predecessor to the legendary hk-47) started a revolution that almost took over the galaxy. (look up the great droid revolution on wookieepedia) just one of the reasons droids get frequent memory wipes 😉
I have an odd feeling that even if the CIS was allowed to go their own way (lets assume they are happy with that, and Roger Roger their way back home) and become their own thing(s) - There would have after been oceans of bad blood between the remaining Republic, and the new Confederacy, and likely it would have only been a matter of time until another conflict would have broken out. Especially as those mega-corporation tycoons would have become richer than ever, thus growing their appetite for greed/bravery for such a tactic of securing more wealth, as it worked once already. There also probably would have been a lot of smaller border skirmishes going on, as well as a long lasting even stronger culture of "us vs them" fostered for countless generations (especially revenge for General Grievouses little tour of the core during Durge's Lance would have been a big driving point for this), so when the next conflict would have arrived, it would have been even more destructive, as neither side would have been holding back in the slightest. Maybe a video on what the aftermath of a CIS victory would have looked like would make a fine addition to your channels viewers collection? You would be wise to consider such an idea, Geetsly's. - waves -hand- wing in a very small circle as if performing a mind trick -
I actually thing the CIS would have been less genocidal in the end. Alot of things were manipulated to happen for Palpatine to justify hyper militarization.
@@laukseler359 maybe there would have been. There have been civil wars in our current world without “with meddling” simply because large swaths of people lose faith in their governments.
If the CIS were not handicapped the war would have been over in a matter of months. Which would've been good depending on your point of view. From my point of view it would have.
Fascinating stuff. It also explains why Palpatine designed a military for the republic that while elite, was still too expensive and small to effectively combat the separatists on all fronts (partly due to it's late formation and slow growth). The clones too were supposed to be good enough to fight the separatists in those circumstances, but keep things desperate enough to keep people scared and ready for the empire, since their real purpose was just to kill the jedi and make way for the stormtrooper corps. Honestly, a CIS using it's full potential could have easily shattered the Republic in a short time, and if they wanted to (which non Smith controlled I doubt they would) probably could have controlled the galaxy more effectively than the Empire even. That wouldn't just be thanks to their droid numbers and functionality being ideal for occupation tactics, but because their fleet composition, tactics, and ground vehicles seemed far better suited to full warfare than the Empire, whose whole military was hamstrung by the shortsighted Tarkin doctrine
If no Palps/Dooku meddling: 1. Grievous wouldn't exist because he was a creation of Palps/Dooku 2. The Republic would have strategic advantages as well 3. Order 66 would not have happened 4. Jedi would not be "shrouded in the dark side" nearly as much Overall: It would be impossible to actually say one side would clearly win. I would lean towards the Republic overall, but a stalemate is just as likely. The CIS and Republic were BOTH hampered by the sith. The CIS benefited from many battles from intel given to them by palpatine.
Indeed, and the Republic would've fielded superweapons capable of negating the CIS military advantage. The Electro-Proton bomb for example would have been mass produced, rendering entire formations of droids to scrap as the CIS would've been unable to adequately defend against it. Likewise GAR Special Forces would've been let off the leash and would've devastated CIS droid quality control through incessant sabotage campaigns. The Republic was *always* better at gaining intel than anyone gave them credit for, especially in legends with the involvement of the Null ARCs. To say nothing of the fact that Sev'rance was also a Dark Acolyte and only entered CIS service because of Thrawn recommending her to Sidious, at least according to some historians post-scriptum. So cutting Grevious and Sev'rance out would cripple CIS military leadership, especially early-war. Unless the former is never subjected to cyborg reconstruction but joins regardless because of how the Republic treated his people, and even then he'd be hardly the Jedi-Killing death machine he was canonically, nor nearly as aggressive and cruel.
Plus Lotsa unique droids that were hyper lethal to jedi and clones. The type that coulda ended it anyway Like those droids with the metal tentacles that were force sensitive and killed jedi like crazy
Now I need a fanfic about the separatists taking over the galaxy. Seeing how the separatist "empire " would work and seeing how the rebels fought them would be very interesting!
My new head canon; The separatists were so OP and so correct in their ideas that the sith had to basically turn it into a toddler and even then the full-grown man of the Republic would have been strong-armed into peace negotiations if not for Sith Interference. And if some lousy chancellor came back and said “Well then how about that pesky Confederacy? Let’s bring them back into the fold.”, they would have been annihilated by the countless droid armies of the CIS. People say Quality is better than Quantity, but to quote Stalin, “Quantity has a Quality if it’s own.” And the CIS is an amazing example of that.
The alternate timeline I think about a lot is what if the mission to rescue Palpatine failed after Grievous escaped, and the ship crashed into Coruscant causing incalculable damage to the capital, and killing Sheev, Obiwan and Anakin. Grievous would take over from Dooku’s position and it’d be like in New Vegas when Lanius succeeds Caesar. Full war crime mode.
Did George Lucas once said something about the Separatists couldn't win even without Palpy messing things up for them? But then again... he has said a lot about Star Wars, like calling Jar Jar very important for Star Wars
Things not considered in this: Infighting. The CIS wasn’t a unionised front like the republic was; more like a group of people pressured by the strength of the republic to stand together. Often, people with alternative alliances. This would lead to Scisms forming and infighting within the factions of the CIS. Infighting of the Sith. It’s said in the video it wouldn’t have been an effect? How? The cycle of the Sith would still continue, and be equally an issue as it always has been. Shipbuilders: independent contractors looking to make money. Who’ll need more ships in a war, the winning side of the losing side? If the republic started losing, you can bet they’d be getting better ship supplies and designs, because they’d pay more for it, which leads to War profiteers; people who’s clients had an invested interest in keeping the war running, who side with the weaker fighter specifically to keep the war going, making odds more even.
I think the Separatists would overwhelm the Republic pretty quickly but likely fracture into civil war without the overwhelming external force of an intact Republic to keep them united.
Would grievous be a general for the CIS if they were just looking to be allowed to leave or allow other brutal tactics? I get we are leaving all persons in place pretty much but I just can’t see that as grievous and his atrocities by him and other separatist leaders were part of the sith plan
I feel like it would have been bad at first but the Republic would compensate with conscription plus a lot of Grievous’ tactical success was because of insider info. But the war would have been much worse and the Jedi probably wouldn’t last
it's always interesting to see somebody's view of how a war would be different if one side played it completely differently. Not taking into account the fact that if one side played it completely differently the other side would of course adjust their strategies and tactics based on what their opponents were doing. For the most part, people running wars aren't idiots and don't choose strategies that will clearly lose. It's interesting talking about how the separatists would overrun the republic in the early years of the war, and not take into account the fact that Palpatine is a sith Lord and would absolutely mobilize the republic with full conscription if necessary in order to rule the galaxy. Palpatine definitely had a little bit of the Joseph Stalin personality type and would see his subjects dead before he lost his empire. and with all these types of atrocities you are mentioning, it would be easy for him to frighten the rest of the republic into going along with his drastic actions. after all, if it's an extermination war and not independence at the separatists really want, then The republic can't give in or they will die.
Could you do a video on what if the Republic also used droids? It doesnt make sense that the republic would ever have enough troops and ships to defend a significant enough part of their territory. It would be cool to explore how they might use droids to supplement their clone and Jedi forces.
I feel like the sith could still have been involved and a CIS victory could have still resulted in the rise of the empire. Still, good stuff. Thank You
If the war was strictly between the Republic and the CIS, I think they would have found a compromise. One of the major arcs in TCW was Sidious sabotaging peace talks because even though the military arm of the CIS wanted to push on, the rest of it's senators were all on board with making peace. Sidious had to constantly escalate the conflict to eventually justify his Empire, it's why Greivous was allowed to just run rampant. Without that involvement the "war" would have been short lived and nowhere as severe as it was. It'd probably be remembered as a heated conflict at best.
Being how MASTERLY A strategist Palps is. An being WAY better then Dooku at it... he'd use ALL OF that to PROBABLY unleash his full might in crushing the CIS. He'd have had all those contacts that played BOTH sides working against the Seps instead exclusively an he'd wanted the Commandos an secret agents doing what they're best at while trying to turn enemies into friends, make new ones, an pressing to get WAY more clone forces. An... surgical strikes... that's MORE a Republic Commando Jedi elite fighter thing.. the Confeds we usually saw launching mass attacks. Since they had dozens of regular troops for all they commandos.
So might be a stupid question but this assumes that the republic doesn't counter attack ever or preform srikes against core and industrious separatist worlds. you have stated why they "can't" attack their fleets but if they are hiding away they seem to fail to protect their own systems where their industry and power comes from. i'm not a star wars expert in any means but i'm guessing that the republic had as stated in the vid much more industrious power to keep up a fighting army and it would likely be spread much further out making single strikes less effective. so here is a bit of guess work since i don't know much. but i would guess that the CIS holds fewer planets making it easier for the republic to strike a few worlds to cut off the supply lines. if it's done it doesn't matter that the fleets are hiding they can't keep operating without supplies and trying to attack to get the planets back with drained supplies (fuel and such) would most likely lead to defeat. in short. i would guess the republic could choke the CIS out using orbital bombardments over industrious areas. I would guess that most of the CIS worlds/systems are know and definitely the productive ones since they were known before they broke free but you never know with the "outer-rim" being unknown ans stuff. i would just guess that using the tactics the CIS are using against the republic would be more effective against the CIS. though all in all idk :) edit: also if their worlds are so spread out how are they even efficiently supplying multiple fronts. also not speaking of droids they have enough of those. i'm more thinking fuel and general raw resources that might not be present on many of their owned worlds
I think if both sides were free of Sith hangstringing after Geonosis, the outcome wouldnt be as clear cut as the video things. I remember in one of the republic commando novels that portable emp grenades and gunship based larger munitions were just coming to tge front lines shortly before the battle of Courasant. Without Sith influance i think stuff like that would come out alot faster. Also the question becomes if the CIS could maintain all those extra droids for long, with tge extra transport and energy costs straining tge already haphazard supply lines.
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Would the C.I.S still have cortosis battle droids?
I would like to know how to spell the names of the generals you spoke of that died earlier in the war.
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6:57 "If Palpatine died, the Senate would've doubtlessly have caved to the Confederacy's demands."
How could the Senate do that if the Senate just died?
I’m so disappointed that this isn’t the top comment.
Exactly
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@@starlight0313 can it let me commit geocide on a galactic scale?
I get the feeling the war would have ended fairly soon. Not because of Separatist overall victory, but because we know that there were peace talks, and it seemed they were serious and could have brought a fairly peaceful resolution. If not for the interference of Dooku/The Sith (sending droids to sabotage Coruscant), the war very well may have been resolved and the Separatists could have gone on their way without further conflict.
yep
If there was no sith involved, there would have been no Grievous, and the CIS would have probably been a lot more... moral. And I can see such a war happening without sith if the Republic was too corrupt.
@@Marvelous_Gaming150 he probably would. In fact, it was mostly due to his money, that cis had army to begin with
@@Marvelous_Gaming150 But that doesn't mean that the peace talks wouldn't have gone through.
@@Marvelous_Gaming150 The "no Sith" part of this is a little vague. Are you saying Dooku would still be a Jedi, but Palpatine would just not be involved? Would Palpatine just be the Chancellor? I'd like some clarification.
A possible scenerio… as Padme fires on Dooku's ship when he's leaving Geonosis (after he "disarmed" Anakin and beat Obi-Wan) she hits something vital.
Then when Dooku is coming in to dock at the hangar that Palpatine is waiting at the retro's fail to fire, and with no breaking thrusters his ship crashes at speed and _kills them both._
The narrative would be that Dooku kamikazed Palpatine, and Palpatine would die a martyr… mourned by the Republic, the Jedi, and even by Padme - who would blame herself for not shooting down Dooku when she had the chance and saving the good Senator Palpatine.
Except... would it be possible to see that she ACTUALLY did
I love this.
Such an event would cause the Republic to fall, Because then the CIS would be the puppets of no one, no one would be there to stop them from decimating the republic.
@@proxy1359 true BUT Palps was pulling strings on and hampering the Republic too. Keeping them doing things they shouldn't have done either. So that they stood NO chance of winning any sooner then intended. Which I guess woulda been almost as bad as them losing too fast
Also, remember this quote from Mace Windu: "If I had struck down Count Dooku on Geonosis when I had the chance -- if I had let Jango Fett slay me as I slew Dooku -- this war might have ended that day."
If a scenario where Dooku kamikazed into Palps unknowingly and killed them both, then the war would've ended that very month, if not a little later. It took time for the Clone Wars to get into momentum and Dooku's death would mean that the CIS would start to break apart, as it slowly did in ROTS. Without Dooku, the Separatist Council argued among themselves (and Grievous, who is still an unknown player at this moment).
Palpatine's death could lead to the Jedi investigating the Sith, while the Senate votes in a new leader. Without the Sith, I fully believe that the Republic and CIS would've come to terms in peace by the year's end to avoid any more bloodshed.
Who is this, what’s your Geetsly’s operating number???
Uhh 👀
We're sending a team up to inspect things.
Roger Roger
Uum, no, no. There's no need for a team, we've got a huge reactor leak here. Very dangerous. Will take care of this.
Geetsly's *BORING CONVERSATION ANYWAY*
“The separatists bullied the Republic. Genocide was one of those tactics.” Ah yes my bullies also use mass genocide of planets to tease and get to me
That's Annoying
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Man, I hate it when that happens. You know how hard it is to get rid of blood stains and burnt paint off of your roof?
Yeah, I would hire someone to redo the paint, but oh wait, he was on one of those planets
@Brazillian Rhapsody both
2:09 knowing how the Umbarans fought, seeing one command a droid army just makes this 10x more badass.
Is it just me or did I randomly find him and can’t stop watching
Just you, been watching him for years
The channel is an addiction, a good one though!
I randomly found this channel when I watched a gaming channel troll starwars RP
Ah first week binge watching him? Been here for ages my guy welcome!
I searched “battle droid” on yourube and randomly binge watched all of this guy's videos on the clone wars
“It all made sense. I always knew that they were able to field more than they did, they were actually capable of fielding droids in larger numbers with better hardware. It’s what the numbers showed, given the data on their industrial capability. One of my fondest memories, although looking back at it now, it was ironic, given the way my brothers cheered when every battle droid in the droid army ground to a screeching halt that one day.”
-CS/CT-8711-12 “Cheng”, Captain and Scout of the 442nd Siege Battalion
He’s back
Geetsly's glad you’re a fan
Comrade red what if they had B2 commanders
I don't really think B2 commanders would matter, they just have to be good tactician
ComradeKenobi I think that it might help the B2 battle droids be more efficient in combat if they had at least one additional rank
The Confederacy lost because they couldn't utilize the über SWICK BĒ🅰️TZ of DJ Tambor and the Techno Union.
Legend has it the original death star had a massive bluetooth speaker instead of a superlaser, and would blast planets with the sickest of beats
@@marsar1775 if they wouldn't be in space such a Giant speaker would be very powerful
Y'all need to check the Auralnauts version of Star Wars if you're into sick beats by the Techno Union. They even got DJ Dooku to headline the Festival of Geonosis.
NOISE MARINES
@@comradekenobi6908 THIS SILENCE OFFENDS SLANNESH!
Fellow defective clone, the Kaminoans are onto you. Be cautious, you might become chow.
They haven’t noticed it yet. Shhh
@@geetslys Brothers we found some deviants............ BLAST THEM
The Pig they may be of use to us
What about clone Jedi ? Asking for a friend .
@@BI-11y_TheStormTrooper Men inform the chancellor about this one.
You know, considering how many times I've heard of Operations Durge's Lance, I'd love to see a full video on it by the great Geetsly.
I second that!
Definitely recommend the other clone wars series if you haven’t seen it
He did it. "Heads rolled for this absolute slaughter of a battle" it was a map battle thing it was from 4 months ago
Hope they make a video about awesome names of Star Wars operations, and maybe even one with the lackluster names, even if the operations worked well.
I like your voice, Mr.Temporary Geetsly’s. If I’m not wrong, you are the normal Geetsly’s brother?
Yes it is
Cool!
literally sounds like alternate reality geetsly but if it was slightly off
@@bradykenny5485 a lot of brothers are like that. My brother and I are
Dathidenogla and his brother r the same way
I'm just glad in Geetsly they recognize the CIS would've been a monstruos threat without the Senate pulling the strings.
We all love the clones, but too many among us are as blind as the Jedi in this era regarding the clankas. You need a good couple to have a great tango
The vast majority of the pro Republic forces in the war would have been regular people, not Clone Troopers.
Itd help if the cis wasnt portrayed as joke in most media. Cant expect people to respect what the series doesn't. Same reason that stormtroopers will never be a true threat again
unlike some people *cough* eckhart *cough*
@@olliesloane151 Finally, someone says it. I'm tired of the "there would never be enough clones" argument. If need be, the Republic could produce their own battle droids as well.
@@calthekonqueror312 Dude I feel that. I play a lot of ArmA ( a military sim sandbox game) and I use a great starwars mod for it. I’m currently making a campaign I plan to upload onto the workshop about a pro republic PDF fighting against a separatists invasion. I wish we saw more organic armies in the clone wars media
The Confederacy would’ve overrun the Galactic Republic’s in the Second Year of the Clone War. Keep in mind that the Confederacy out numbered the Clones one thousand to one, and no matter how good the Clones were trained they were still too small to content against the Driod Army. The Confederacy has several advantages against the Republic early in the war, and no matter how many Jedi or Clones were sent to battles there still wouldn’t have enough to defend the Republic space, but the truth was that the Sith played both sides to its advantage in their revenge against the Jedi and Republic.
You forget where the real war was fought and it was fought in space between fleets and not between armies
They also could have and probably should have used normal troops and/or battle droids.
@@nobleman9393 well the CIS still out numbered them in terms of fleets having four times as more then the republic
I think the Republic would have started drafting civilians once things started to go badly as a way to make the base of their army while using clones as shocktroopers.
The Republic is far too big for the CIS to overwhelm. They could field more troops initially but it wouldn't be long before the Republic starts raising up armies of trillions and the industrial output of a million systems in the form of warships.
If Dooku betrayed Palpatine when he got his separatist army I can see palpatine going 'empire' even faster by recruiting volunteers and hiring soldiers. Also he would have unleashed Tarkin to commence a terror campaign against Separatist Civilian worlds
How should Tarking do that? The republic can barely defend its core worlds against a full empowered CIS military, counter attacks on separatist core worlds would have been out of the question. Don't forget that the republic was almost completely demilitarized before the clone wars. Thats one reason why Palpatine staged this conflict in the first place - he wanted the Republic to be militarized in the first place and he knew this would take several years. But in this situation, the republic simply has no resources and no time to build up properly, even with additional volunteer forces.
@@LegioXXI While your right on the civilian front, as core world civilians wouldn’t even think about voulenteering, they definitely had the manpower and economic might to do so. Kuat drive yards during the clone wars was pumping out most of what the republic navy used while still filling their regular orders for space traders and PDFs.
Possibly, but a big part of Palpatine’s
Plan was to take control of the banking sector, which -had Dooku done that first (which he probably could have, since all the corporate entities were very much on the Separatist side) would have greatly hampered the Republic from building an army from scratch, and that would have probably meant they would have nationalized planetary defense forces, which would have made those systems angry and would have spurned a different set of circumstances for the GAR.
@@LegioXXI it would be a do little class raid. A single venator 3 alcamatlrs and a few picket ships.
*You missed two more important nerfs* that Siddious did.
CIS special projects and superdroids, and leaking Intel about some suprise attacks.
The CIS had some vastly superior Droids to the B1, that never got put into widespread production due to Dooku's control. And the B1 didn't get software upgrades that could have made it smarter.
In fact Commando Droids were used as a fine tuning method to maintain the stalemate. GAR get too far ahead, increase Commando Droid production, CIS winning, cut it back.
And then there were the prototypes that kept getting destroyed (along with the faculties and plans) because the Jedi were tipped off about them.
A couple of them were war winners just by themselves…
And the second nerf was there were a few times where CIS knockout blows were sabotaged by Siddious, most obviously being attacks on Kamino.
That would have been it if they had succeeded, and then there was also the attack on the listening outpost on Rishi station, that would have also allowed the CIS to take out Kamino.
Cortosis B2
Ah yes, the negotiator
But it’s the same with the GAR really, palps also stopped a lot of new tech from being pressed into service. Like in legends where Anakin and Thrawn find the factory of clone armour that deactivated lightsabers and stopped all blaster fire, thus making the clone near impervious to CIS small arms.
Nah fam. Plot armor failed them. The republic got most of the plot armor.
Plot armor hoarders..
Idk about that have you seen how many clone’s die through out the TCW show. Especially even in S7 only reason the republic get’s spared is because of anakin.
@@jamesxsmoke3558 clones are expendable. They're just fodder.
@@Hinokassaudifan1 not to me!
@@Hinokassaudifan1 WHAT DID YOU SAY?!
I’m more curious on what would happen after. Would the confederacy completely replace the republic with a more decentralized galaxy, would the core worlds have been subjugated and and seen as play things, would dookus corporatist ideas of incorporating the companies into the CIS government have been better at realing them in instead as opposed to back firing and giving them too much power? Would this create a better uh.. geopolitical stability for the galaxy as a whole? Would grevious allow these tycoons to keep there power now that he controlled most of the military? Would dooku have been a good peacetime leader? Or would the CIS seek a continues trade with the republic now thats its independent, similar to the US with Britain? Would each planet been given more autonomy or would the CIS just take away more rights because of its militarist corporate nature? Would dooku be the one to enforce a more permanent structure? Or was the separatist council just seen as a tool for him to win the war? Would dooku give up his emergency powers after the war? And if so who would become the new Chief of State? Would it be Mina Bonteri or someone more sinister?
Would this abomination of a state, half ruled by scrupulous, greedy, profit-driven corporate entities, half by psychopathic warlord generals lording over a gigantic military with zero checks on it's power be a decent galactic government? Imagine the worst aspects of the Republic (don't forget that one of the biggest flaws of the Republic was the strong influence of corporate entities on politics), but 10 times as bad. The CIS stood for absolutely nothing beyond "we aren't the Republic", but that didn't actually mean they'd be any better. Without the Republic the CIS would fall apart, the military might seize power, see a civil war, a republican insurgency, who knows what else.
if the war wasnt rigged from the start there probably wouldnt have been one to begin with.
the CIS would have been allowed to secede, no one would have attempted to kill padme, and no one would have been held captive at the arena on geonosis.
That's a good point. The whole plot of Attack of the Clones was Palpatine trying to spark a conflict, and Padme trying to stop it.
From where the separatists were standing it must have seen like a 9 karat run of bad luck. But the truth is the game was rigged from the start.
what makes you think the seperatists would have been allowed to secede? when has a political entity ever said 'yeah, it's fine, we don't want those taxes anyway'?
@@r31n0ut I'll tell you this much, last time a bunch of states tried to secede from a Union, it was because they didn't want to liberate their slaves, so the north had to do it for them.
I think in this scenario I think you need to assume that Dooku and Palpatine had a falling out and became enemies after the battle of Geonosis.
Which means Dooku would go all out trying to actually kill Palpatine and end the failing Republic to replace it with something better.
Using a different voice to disguise your identity… just like Siddious did.
Is this *Darth Geetsly?*
They forgot to use me on a regular basis. That being said, the Republic also forgot regularly, but they had Kenobi to remind them.
Do me a favor and upload that specific clip please. Why? Cause I think it would be funny.
I have the higher ground because I can fly
@@blackhawkuh-6026 You may be higher, but you don't have ground.
@@thehighground7732 you may have ground but you don’t have helicopter
"the separatists would have blasted the jedi temple"
malgus: hey, I've heard this one
Can you imagine, advanced droids? If this war kept going.
It would be called the droid wars, as the Republic would likely start making its own droids after seeing the successes of the CIS.
And seeing as the Republic has a lot more planets and materials it wouldn't be long before the tide started turning.
@@olliesloane151 well, image CIS and the rebel alliance with advanced droids.
Super tactical doid core with durability of a B3 ultra battle droid, umbaran weaponry, reaction speed of a BX-series and shielding & rolling mode of a droideka. Would cost much, but almost certainly capable of taking down a jedi in 1v1 combat.
How would grevous have gotten to coroscant without palpatines routes through the core?
They should've jumped to Mustafar the second Palpatine was inside a shuttle
Spies? If a could clone could defect, then anyone can.
Palpatine leaking the safe route(s) through the deep core was so that Grievous could employ a *surprise* assault on Coruscant. In this scenario, even if they didn't have any way of getting those routes or a similar "in" in order to catch the Republic off-guard, the CIS would likely have had far more resources to throw at the planet and they would have been more willing to do so without regard to the collateral damage since they wouldn't be compromised by Palpatine's and Dooku's machinations.
Kashyyyk has several hidden hyperspace routes, which is part of why the CIS sieged the planet.
You never fail me on these clone wars vids man keep it coming🤧
Always will! Thanks for enjoying the content
There were multiple technologies/weapons created by the CIS during the war that would have led to an easy, quick and complete win for the CIS.... unfortunately Palpatine made sure the republic found out about them and destroyed them before they could be built or used
In the clone wars you see many senators wishing for peace as the war goes on. I think if the CIS when all out it would of been a 6 month to a 2 year war depending on how things when. If it was a quick war showing of the CIS might I think that the separatist would of tried to peacefully live beside the republic. If it was a drawm out war the separatist would make post ww1 Germany look like a utopia
I think the super tactical droids would of been implemented sooner since there would be more experienced CIS military leaders alive probably being a major pain in the ass in the long run
Would love a vidéo breakdown on ”unknown” CIS officers... I never heard of this Lady Chiss before...
It’s so nice to have a Star Wars youtuber who doesn’t constantly dump on the cis
Sev’rance Tann and Merai are such underrated characters in my opinion, one was one of few honorable Separatist leaders and the other was an excellent strategist at the start of the Clone Wars.
this is what happens when one sides gains a monopoly on plot armor..... we need to break up these monopolies and seize the memes of production
Remember that Sheevie was also handicapping the clone army by spreading them out so far that they couldn't possibly have outnumbered even a small droid contingent.
Great video, but I have a question: are Dooku and Palpatine still there and still Sith but with no control of the confederacy, or are they gone completely? Because if Palpatine was still a Sith, I doubt Greivous could get anywhere near to capturing him during the Battle of Courisaunt.
lol fah real palpatine would've slaughtered grevious
There is one thing you mentioned that really peaked my interest: why the hell did grevious not bomb the temple? It seems like they have no actual defenses otherwise we might’ve seen them come online during kinghtfall, grevious could’ve got his Jedi kills to skyrocket!
Palpatines orders.
The only way the way the Republic could stand a chance: Use a droid military as well
I love the clones and they’re probably my favorite fictional characters but there simply wasn’t enough of them to win a galactic war
6:55 but how could the Senate cave if he was already dead?
Gather a pretty sizable fleet than make a jump to that Rishi Maze , direct strike on Kamino . Or set up a deep space jamming network with all my destroyers
what i found odd what how no one on either side really put the pieces together about he war being staged.
The republic in this case would more than likely turned to conscription rather than rely just on the clones, which i bet would have drastically improved their odds here
Not necessarily. Can you imagine the PR disaster? The Confederacy would have capitalized on that immediately. “Your world can either stay with the republic and lose its young men fighting the clone war, or join the confederacy and not get conscripted because we have a droid army.”
That would have pushed even more worlds to join the CIS.
or at least build a droid army themselves
@@juliantheapostate3779 They join the CIS and over time that world would see the droids as soulless occupiers.
That's basically a USA in Vietnam sitaution.
If they'd unleashed Grievous, Sev'Rance Tann, Trench, and Merei the CIS would have burned their way all the way to Coruscant.
Always love listening to you're videos while I'm doing something else. Very relaxing
“sithy” lmao
Let’s just face it, without sith interference, there wouldn’t have been a kamino to produce the clones a day into open war.
I think you are forgetting that it was the Sith that clouded the Jedi's vision of the droid manufacturing in the first place. Without that time, how could they have avoided early annihilation?
Geetsly your clone is very impressive you must be very proud
Well i think you kinda overstated the odds for confederacy - you said many times - sepies were handicapped by palpatine - but there were also numerous exmaples where paplpatine did exactly the same to republic forces - either by leaking the intel to sepies or by deliberately making bad strategy moves that resulted in failure - or at least severly increasing the chance for failure. Many times he also manipulated the jedi to act foolishly as well or by diverting them from one thing into another. Palpatine also protected many of sepies assets like banking clan or trade federation world/members/ senators despite them having connections to sepies - without that protection - the republic could that much easiert root them out - collapsing many flanks or projects from the sepies outright - by cutting them off from money or other support. I think the longer the war spanned - the more republic chances to win would grow. Sepies in order to win would have early on to use their might to stop republic warmachine from spinning up - because the moment it did so - they would be at disadvantage more and more as the war progressed. If anything the atrocities commited by grievous would cement the support against the cis forces - by proving that they cannot ignore that threat - aka if they are genocidal now - then they wont stop unless WE make them stop by grounding them to dust. Also keep in mind that Palpatine was also killing of many talented people on republic side - and that was smth you kinda neglected to point out too - this would translate into those ppl taking charge of armies as well - in the end it would result as jedi NOT being the minds behind the war - but rather advisors or combatants - but not masterminds since they would be outclassed very quickly by way more competent war/tactically oriented minds as well. And that would stop GAR from making foolish or silly tactical mistakes which were often made by jedi leaders. Palpatine pushed Jedi to be the leaders because he knew they were ill fitted to that task and that would both make them look weak or incompetent in the view of the public and on occasion it would also thin out their numbers in a "natural way". - Without palpatine to keep jedi in the leading role - they would be soon replaced by ppl who actually were good at "war".
There are a few more factors at play here I think.
Firstly there was an episode of the clone wars where padmé almost negotiated peace with a friend in the separatists before she was ordered assassinated by Douku.
The jedi's plans are mo longer being fed to Douku and so they would likely be a lot more successful.
Other elements like the night mother and mandolorians might change things as well.
The night sisters fought only against the separatists when they've been attacked and anyway the night sisters were defiants against both sides. For the Mandalorians, I think you speak about the takeover executed by Darth Maul and his ambitions, because Satine's government was pacifist and Pre Viszla wasn't interested by other systems ; anyway the Death Watch and the return of dark maul would have taken place long after the separatist victory.
Coruscant burning and filled with the corpses of its denizens... now that's a blessed sight to be beholden upon.
If the sith grand plan was never truly enacted the sheer number size and power of the CIS would be able to absolutely crush the republic (honesty the strongest militant group in all of Star wars)
Just wondering here, if the Republic would have had a draft to enlist citizens and create a mix of normal Republic soldiers in conjunction with the clones, would they had had a chance or were the numbers too much to overcome?
Command and control at higher levels would have been one hell of a problem. And you'd need more than tactical genius to maintain supply of these CIS forces as they stretched into the Deep Core. That would have been interesting as hell to read about.
Thing is CIS supply lines are much easier to maintain than the Republic, CIS fleet takes a planet all they need is one ship with enough droids to replete the lost. The republic have to think about a lot more than such as food, arms, and fuel. CIS would likely leave little behind when scorching a planet before moving on where The Republic would always leave behind troops in defence.
We need to see more of the 327th Star corps
Yes my favorite legion, they need a plethora of lore very soon. I love them
They tried to kill trench twice but he lived both times
Hey Geetsly, there are two problems within your theories. Grevious was a construction/machination of Plapatine and Dooku as a way to make the entire galaxy tremble in fear to bring them to his side. And Ventress was only brought 'into the fold' because Dooku was looking for new, competing warriors and tech. If you remove all sith machinations and ambitions, you have two leaders/combative threats out of the picture. Ventress was only drawn to Dooku because she felt like she deserved to be sith, not just some dothimir witch or acolyte of one of the witch groups. Also the republic would have put out a proper call for building volunteer army over just relying on local Planetary defense forces and the clones. There was no such call to arms to out in canon. CIS numbers would still have been greater. But running both clone and non clone forces either together or in separate task forces. Manpower is ultimately not an issue for manning ships, fighters and boots on the ground. The fear of the separatist to Republic 'nationalists' would sign up in droves if allowed. Look at any war in reality. If a country is attacked, a large number of people enlist quickly. Think about the numbers of boots you'd get from Coruscant alone.
The CIS was a group of freedom fighters and mindless bots
Without the Sith tho, most of the CIS wouldn't be a thing, not the minds, the corporate support or the infamous leaders would have been a thing, maybe a sort of rebellions here and there would have occurred, but those would have been crushed by economical pressure, political strategy or by the Republic reforming the Judicial Forces
I wonder if they didn’t memory wipe some of the droids? Would the mass killing of the droids eventually be seen as amoral? Due to there growth of intelligence and emotions.
If it can think and feel its a living thing!
No doubt the droids would revolt at some point.
@@neofulcrum5013 tbey have in the past, infact a faction lead by HK-01 (predecessor to the legendary hk-47) started a revolution that almost took over the galaxy. (look up the great droid revolution on wookieepedia)
just one of the reasons droids get frequent memory wipes 😉
Droids were getting emotions and clones were making their own culture. A rebellion would've been inevitable.
I have an odd feeling that even if the CIS was allowed to go their own way (lets assume they are happy with that, and Roger Roger their way back home) and become their own thing(s) - There would have after been oceans of bad blood between the remaining Republic, and the new Confederacy, and likely it would have only been a matter of time until another conflict would have broken out. Especially as those mega-corporation tycoons would have become richer than ever, thus growing their appetite for greed/bravery for such a tactic of securing more wealth, as it worked once already.
There also probably would have been a lot of smaller border skirmishes going on, as well as a long lasting even stronger culture of "us vs them" fostered for countless generations (especially revenge for General Grievouses little tour of the core during Durge's Lance would have been a big driving point for this), so when the next conflict would have arrived, it would have been even more destructive, as neither side would have been holding back in the slightest.
Maybe a video on what the aftermath of a CIS victory would have looked like would make a fine addition to your channels viewers collection? You would be wise to consider such an idea, Geetsly's. - waves -hand- wing in a very small circle as if performing a mind trick -
I support this idea for a follow up video
It would basically be the Great Galactic War and the following Cold War all over again.
Good video Geetsly's. Keep it up
*Hears Geetslys brother in this video
"Good.... good brother geetsly good... join your brother"
6:46 I'm surprised none of the CIS leaders ordered that in the actual timeline.
I'm kinda glad you changed the tone of your voice. It makes your admittedly great videos way more enjoyable.
I actually thing the CIS would have been less genocidal in the end. Alot of things were manipulated to happen for Palpatine to justify hyper militarization.
Also without sith meddling, the republic would have no clone army.
Without sith meddling, there would have been no war in the first place
@@laukseler359 maybe there would have been. There have been civil wars in our current world without “with meddling” simply because large swaths of people lose faith in their governments.
The idea of an unshackled CIS is awesome
4:48 How does "off planet energy transport" work?
Are the ships hauling giant batteries?
Okay but like this CIS vs The empire but replace the storm troopers with the jedi and a much larger clone army
Grievous: "looks like you need the Humbarine treatment. O H H A N Z"
If the CIS were not handicapped the war would have been over in a matter of months. Which would've been good depending on your point of view. From my point of view it would have.
Fascinating stuff. It also explains why Palpatine designed a military for the republic that while elite, was still too expensive and small to effectively combat the separatists on all fronts (partly due to it's late formation and slow growth). The clones too were supposed to be good enough to fight the separatists in those circumstances, but keep things desperate enough to keep people scared and ready for the empire, since their real purpose was just to kill the jedi and make way for the stormtrooper corps. Honestly, a CIS using it's full potential could have easily shattered the Republic in a short time, and if they wanted to (which non Smith controlled I doubt they would) probably could have controlled the galaxy more effectively than the Empire even. That wouldn't just be thanks to their droid numbers and functionality being ideal for occupation tactics, but because their fleet composition, tactics, and ground vehicles seemed far better suited to full warfare than the Empire, whose whole military was hamstrung by the shortsighted Tarkin doctrine
If no Palps/Dooku meddling:
1. Grievous wouldn't exist because he was a creation of Palps/Dooku
2. The Republic would have strategic advantages as well
3. Order 66 would not have happened
4. Jedi would not be "shrouded in the dark side" nearly as much
Overall: It would be impossible to actually say one side would clearly win. I would lean towards the Republic overall, but a stalemate is just as likely. The CIS and Republic were BOTH hampered by the sith. The CIS benefited from many battles from intel given to them by palpatine.
Indeed, and the Republic would've fielded superweapons capable of negating the CIS military advantage.
The Electro-Proton bomb for example would have been mass produced, rendering entire formations of droids to scrap as the CIS would've been unable to adequately defend against it.
Likewise GAR Special Forces would've been let off the leash and would've devastated CIS droid quality control through incessant sabotage campaigns. The Republic was *always* better at gaining intel than anyone gave them credit for, especially in legends with the involvement of the Null ARCs.
To say nothing of the fact that Sev'rance was also a Dark Acolyte and only entered CIS service because of Thrawn recommending her to Sidious, at least according to some historians post-scriptum.
So cutting Grevious and Sev'rance out would cripple CIS military leadership, especially early-war. Unless the former is never subjected to cyborg reconstruction but joins regardless because of how the Republic treated his people, and even then he'd be hardly the Jedi-Killing death machine he was canonically, nor nearly as aggressive and cruel.
Plus
Lotsa unique droids that were hyper lethal to jedi and clones. The type that coulda ended it anyway
Like those droids with the metal tentacles that were force sensitive and killed jedi like crazy
Aww ya skipped the attention Sargent on deck part of the intro .
The Rebellion's father. Change my mind
If this is gestslys brother just wanted to say you did great and you did it as good as normal
Now I need a fanfic about the separatists taking over the galaxy. Seeing how the separatist "empire " would work and seeing how the rebels fought them would be very interesting!
My new head canon; The separatists were so OP and so correct in their ideas that the sith had to basically turn it into a toddler and even then the full-grown man of the Republic would have been strong-armed into peace negotiations if not for Sith Interference.
And if some lousy chancellor came back and said “Well then how about that pesky Confederacy? Let’s bring them back into the fold.”, they would have been annihilated by the countless droid armies of the CIS.
People say Quality is better than Quantity, but to quote Stalin, “Quantity has a Quality if it’s own.” And the CIS is an amazing example of that.
I feel like these types of UA-camrs were the type we paid in school to do our essays
The alternate timeline I think about a lot is what if the mission to rescue Palpatine failed after Grievous escaped, and the ship crashed into Coruscant causing incalculable damage to the capital, and killing Sheev, Obiwan and Anakin. Grievous would take over from Dooku’s position and it’d be like in New Vegas when Lanius succeeds Caesar. Full war crime mode.
Did George Lucas once said something about the Separatists couldn't win even without Palpy messing things up for them? But then again... he has said a lot about Star Wars, like calling Jar Jar very important for Star Wars
Things not considered in this:
Infighting. The CIS wasn’t a unionised front like the republic was; more like a group of people pressured by the strength of the republic to stand together. Often, people with alternative alliances. This would lead to Scisms forming and infighting within the factions of the CIS.
Infighting of the Sith.
It’s said in the video it wouldn’t have been an effect? How? The cycle of the Sith would still continue, and be equally an issue as it always has been.
Shipbuilders: independent contractors looking to make money. Who’ll need more ships in a war, the winning side of the losing side? If the republic started losing, you can bet they’d be getting better ship supplies and designs, because they’d pay more for it, which leads to
War profiteers; people who’s clients had an invested interest in keeping the war running, who side with the weaker fighter specifically to keep the war going, making odds more even.
I think the Separatists would overwhelm the Republic pretty quickly but likely fracture into civil war without the overwhelming external force of an intact Republic to keep them united.
Im genuinely surprised to see somebody mentioned SevRance Tahn
When are you gonna do the next history of the republic? Are you gonna finish the series?
Every word in this vid was beautiful, long live the separatists alliance
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Would grievous be a general for the CIS if they were just looking to be allowed to leave or allow other brutal tactics? I get we are leaving all persons in place pretty much but I just can’t see that as grievous and his atrocities by him and other separatist leaders were part of the sith plan
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I know this is a weird question, but are you from Canada?
I feel like it would have been bad at first but the Republic would compensate with conscription plus a lot of Grievous’ tactical success was because of insider info. But the war would have been much worse and the Jedi probably wouldn’t last
it's always interesting to see somebody's view of how a war would be different if one side played it completely differently. Not taking into account the fact that if one side played it completely differently the other side would of course adjust their strategies and tactics based on what their opponents were doing. For the most part, people running wars aren't idiots and don't choose strategies that will clearly lose. It's interesting talking about how the separatists would overrun the republic in the early years of the war, and not take into account the fact that Palpatine is a sith Lord and would absolutely mobilize the republic with full conscription if necessary in order to rule the galaxy. Palpatine definitely had a little bit of the Joseph Stalin personality type and would see his subjects dead before he lost his empire. and with all these types of atrocities you are mentioning, it would be easy for him to frighten the rest of the republic into going along with his drastic actions. after all, if it's an extermination war and not independence at the separatists really want, then The republic can't give in or they will die.
Could you do a video on what if the Republic also used droids?
It doesnt make sense that the republic would ever have enough troops and ships to defend a significant enough part of their territory.
It would be cool to explore how they might use droids to supplement their clone and Jedi forces.
Don’t forget that without the sith plot there is no grievous, at least not a sith-trained cyborg grievous.
The great war of attrition to end all wars
I feel like the sith could still have been involved and a CIS victory could have still resulted in the rise of the empire.
Still, good stuff.
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If the war was strictly between the Republic and the CIS, I think they would have found a compromise. One of the major arcs in TCW was Sidious sabotaging peace talks because even though the military arm of the CIS wanted to push on, the rest of it's senators were all on board with making peace. Sidious had to constantly escalate the conflict to eventually justify his Empire, it's why Greivous was allowed to just run rampant. Without that involvement the "war" would have been short lived and nowhere as severe as it was. It'd probably be remembered as a heated conflict at best.
Being how MASTERLY A strategist Palps is. An being WAY better then Dooku at it... he'd use ALL OF that to PROBABLY unleash his full might in crushing the CIS. He'd have had all those contacts that played BOTH sides working against the Seps instead exclusively an he'd wanted the Commandos an secret agents doing what they're best at while trying to turn enemies into friends, make new ones, an pressing to get WAY more clone forces.
An... surgical strikes... that's MORE a Republic Commando Jedi elite fighter thing.. the Confeds we usually saw launching mass attacks. Since they had dozens of regular troops for all they commandos.
So might be a stupid question but this assumes that the republic doesn't counter attack ever or preform srikes against core and industrious separatist worlds. you have stated why they "can't" attack their fleets but if they are hiding away they seem to fail to protect their own systems where their industry and power comes from. i'm not a star wars expert in any means but i'm guessing that the republic had as stated in the vid much more industrious power to keep up a fighting army and it would likely be spread much further out making single strikes less effective.
so here is a bit of guess work since i don't know much. but i would guess that the CIS holds fewer planets making it easier for the republic to strike a few worlds to cut off the supply lines. if it's done it doesn't matter that the fleets are hiding they can't keep operating without supplies and trying to attack to get the planets back with drained supplies (fuel and such) would most likely lead to defeat.
in short. i would guess the republic could choke the CIS out using orbital bombardments over industrious areas.
I would guess that most of the CIS worlds/systems are know and definitely the productive ones since they were known before they broke free but you never know with the "outer-rim" being unknown ans stuff.
i would just guess that using the tactics the CIS are using against the republic would be more effective against the CIS.
though all in all idk :)
edit: also if their worlds are so spread out how are they even efficiently supplying multiple fronts.
also not speaking of droids they have enough of those. i'm more thinking fuel and general raw resources that might not be present on many of their owned worlds
I think if both sides were free of Sith hangstringing after Geonosis, the outcome wouldnt be as clear cut as the video things. I remember in one of the republic commando novels that portable emp grenades and gunship based larger munitions were just coming to tge front lines shortly before the battle of Courasant. Without Sith influance i think stuff like that would come out alot faster. Also the question becomes if the CIS could maintain all those extra droids for long, with tge extra transport and energy costs straining tge already haphazard supply lines.