Would Earth Join the Republic?

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2004-10-05 09:13pm

The Storm Commandos were supposed to be extreme badass.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-10-05 09:16pm

Alyeska wrote:Everything I've read about special forces in Star Wars shows them to be not quite up to what we today see as special forces. I wonder if Earth could be used as a training ground for elite special opperations units of the Republic (and later the Empire likely).

I've seen some pretty nice commando operations from the Rebel side of things in some of the books. The assassination of General Dlarit, for example.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2004-10-05 09:27pm

Praxis wrote:
Alyeska wrote:Everything I've read about special forces in Star Wars shows them to be not quite up to what we today see as special forces. I wonder if Earth could be used as a training ground for elite special opperations units of the Republic (and later the Empire likely).
I've seen some pretty nice commando operations from the Rebel side of things in some of the books. The assassination of General Dlarit, for example.

Conducted by former Imperial Navy soldiers.

There have been some examples, but for the most part the special forces described in the books aren't so special.

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2004-10-06 12:40am

Just a handy analogy:

Naboo is Switzerland. Earth is a little stone-age Polynesian island.

Butterbean569 · Post by **Butterbean569** » 2004-10-06 01:02am

GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote:Just a handy analogy:

Naboo is Switzerland. Earth is a little stone-age Polynesian island.

Thousands of American and Japanese soldiers died for seemingly worthless islands in the Pacific. Like I said, if we're on the fringe, they'd love to have a presence out here. Location Location Location!

DSD Obi-Wan · Post by **DSD Obi-Wan** » 2004-10-06 10:36pm

I'll have to agree with some of you, Earth will be a source of cheap labor. Weather we end up as slaves or big corporations move in and set up shop. I also think most or all of our military might will taken for us for there is more to see then this little rock in space. But a couple thing that will happen. There will be very little military presence here. The only people that we fight is ourselves, but there will be a lot of recruiters and maybe a training post. And a seat in the Senate, ya right, maybe if we were really good maybe in 500 YEARS we could get a small voice. If thats will ever happed.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-10-06 11:19pm

Good idea. "Build a military outpost and take a bunch of our workers, in exchange for one one light freighter with hyperdrive so we can start shamelessly copying the technology". Might work, IF they can manage to copy it

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2004-10-07 10:26am

DSD Obi-Wan wrote:I'll have to agree with some of you, Earth will be a source of cheap labor.

Rigel was entirley correct about us "I think Earth will be famous as a source of cheap manual labor"

Guardsman Bass · Post by **Guardsman Bass** » 2004-10-11 11:29pm

We could lend the moon and other planets out for strip-mining or, in the moon's case, as a potential military outpost or base. Alternatively, we may get some funding from the Galactic museum, as they would be most curious about a planet with primitive humans with a fossil record describing human evolution on that planet.

Lt. Dan · Post by **Lt. Dan** » 2004-10-11 11:47pm

Guardsman Bass wrote:We could lend the moon and other planets out for strip-mining or, in the moon's case, as a potential military outpost or base. Alternatively, we may get some funding from the Galactic museum, as they would be most curious about a planet with primitive humans with a fossil record describing human evolution on that planet.

I don't see how we could lend things we don't own. If we lived in the SW galaxy, then they probably land/explore the other planets before we do.

Guardsman Bass · Post by **Guardsman Bass** » 2004-10-11 11:52pm

Lt. Dan wrote:
Guardsman Bass wrote:We could lend the moon and other planets out for strip-mining or, in the moon's case, as a potential military outpost or base. Alternatively, we may get some funding from the Galactic museum, as they would be most curious about a planet with primitive humans with a fossil record describing human evolution on that planet.
I don't see how we could lend things we don't own. If we lived in the SW galaxy, then they probably land/explore the other planets before we do.

But we HAVE landed on the moon, and it would be easy to issue a claim for it. Of course, SW corporate interests might just IGNORE the claim, but maybe they won't- this is the Galactic Republic in its early days, before it effectively rotted away.

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2004-10-12 12:48am

I figure they'd set up a military outpost and some factories to take advantage of our cheap labor, then begin the slow process of bringing us up to a semi-respectable tech level, if only to make us a bit more useful to them.

Pulse · Post by **Pulse** » 2004-10-12 06:38am

I wonder what the Empire would make of that moon of Saturn that looks like the DS?

Guardsman Bass · Post by **Guardsman Bass** » 2004-10-12 01:56pm

Pulse wrote:I wonder what the Empire would make of that moon of Saturn that looks like the DS?

Attach a hyperdrive engine to it and fly it to disobedient systems. The systems promptly shit themselves and surrender to the might of the "Death Star."