Imperium of Man vs Star Wars(clone wars era)

[NecronLord]

Of course, the hilarious thing about this scenario, is that one of the few legitimate advantages of the Imperium - the Officio Assassinorum - might backfire hilariously, if they were to say, send a Venunum to kill Palpatine and Dooku, the Republic and Seperatist Senates would be able to actually end the war (especially with a mutual enemy) it's a plot element in a couple of Clone Wars episodes that the sith have to actively sabotage the democratic efforts on both sides to come to a peaceful settlement.

Though perhaps the best the IoM can hope for is that Dooku would defect to them. They're right up his street, after all.

[PainRack]

I'm........ not so confident that the Clone Wars era Star Wars is able to take on an IOM invasion.

Give it a Crusade force like the Sabbat Crusade, or even the Jericho Crusade and that means you have multiple battleships and Grand cruisers, each which will require a Star Dreadnought to roughly parallel and these are relatively rare. The existence of one Invincible Hand was sufficient to wreak havoc on the Republic, even with the slower transit time of warp drive, you're talking about having multiple such Invincibles in any battle.


Furthermore, the CIS and the Republic has been tearing apart at each other, Palpatine might agree for a truce to coordinate both actions but one must imagine the façade can't hold under that kinda stress. For all the talk about rapid Republic reinforcements, we do see just how fast their reinforcement capabilities are. A month or so for a significant ground force. Kashyaak took weeks, Praestilyn, the Grand Army of the Republic is overstretched in facing the CIS and they would have to reorient to face the IOM.


The Empire, sure, but in the midst of an galactic civil war with an undermilitarised Republic against an opportunistic secessionist state?

[NecronLord]

I'm........ not so confident that the Clone Wars era Star Wars is able to take on an IOM invasion.

Give it a Crusade force like the Sabbat Crusade, or even the Jericho Crusade and that means you have multiple battleships and Grand cruisers, each which will require a Star Dreadnought to roughly parallel and these are relatively rare. The existence of one Invincible Hand was sufficient to wreak havoc on the Republic, even with the slower transit time of warp drive, you're talking about having multiple such Invincibles in any battle.

You mean Malevolence right?

Furthermore, the CIS and the Republic has been tearing apart at each other, Palpatine might agree for a truce to coordinate both actions but one must imagine the façade can't hold under that kinda stress. For all the talk about rapid Republic reinforcements, we do see just how fast their reinforcement capabilities are. A month or so for a significant ground force. Kashyaak took weeks, Praestilyn, the Grand Army of the Republic is overstretched in facing the CIS and they would have to reorient to face the IOM.

Of course it can hold. They have a common enemy.

The Empire, sure, but in the midst of an galactic civil war with an undermilitarised Republic against an opportunistic secessionist state?

A war Palpatine can order halted the moment he feels threatened.

Saying the Confederacy would fight on is clearly silly. You are forgetting that it took them ten minutes to shut down the actual confederacy in the actual films. While the EU gives some splinter groups that survived, they are nothing, in the galactic scale.

At worst it takes ten minutes for Dooku to murder the seperatist council - or Darth Sidious to do it himself - and shut down the CIS. At best, and more likely, they'll do what they're told.