I always felt like there was a gap in this portion with regards to my understanding. The galactic republic is billions of citizens and thousands of worlds but no one can form an army to defend it without the clones? I mean, Naboo had Star fighters, other worlds have defense forces, but no one can raise an army without the clones? It seems like the republic citizens were ambivalent to the defense of the republic and just shirked responsibility to the senate who only had the Jedi to lean on. It was “someone else’s problem”. So maybe the Jedi could have said “fix yo own shit” but it would have shown the shakiness of the republic and without the republic, the Jedi were just a small magical sect of individuals who did not have the numbers to be statistically relevant in the galaxy.
I always felt like there was a gap in this portion with regards to my understanding. The galactic republic is billions of citizens and thousands of worlds but no one can form an army to defend it without the clones? I mean, Naboo had Star fighters, other worlds have defense forces, but no one can raise an army without the clones? It seems like the republic citizens were ambivalent to the defense of the republic and just shirked responsibility to the senate who only had the Jedi to lean on. It was “someone else’s problem”. So maybe the Jedi could have said “fix yo own shit” but it would have shown the shakiness of the republic and without the republic, the Jedi were just a small magical sect of individuals who did not have the numbers to be statistically relevant in the galaxy.