Stravo wrote:Do Mandalorians all have armor similar to Jango's in terms of booby traps, flame throwers, etc or are the special weapons personalized by the wearer? I realize that GL elimiated the Mandalorians from the Clone Wars but in my fic they are a viable (if dying) faction.
They're still in there, just by the EU, including some rather old stories.
Stravo wrote:Is Grevious head of all the CIS militray and not Dooku? Is Dooku more of a political leader? Is it fair then to have Dooku defer to Grevious in terms of military actions and is Grevious in on the whole Sith shuffle between Dooku and Palpy (don't go too much into details just a quick summary of what he does know if anything)
Grevious has been refered to "the leader of the droid army" and the Commanding General. This could mean he is simply the star field commander of the CIS, as opposed to the actual Supreme Commander or War Minister or something. I favor this explanation. Given that many of the warships and troops and vehicles are each commissioned by a different faction of the Seperatists, I imagine that the High Command for the CIS is actually a committee or council representing the various factions in strategic decisions. Grevious was originally a small-scale field commander, and I doubt by context he is directing the entire strategy of the CIS war effort.
Dooku I doubt is the formal head of state either. I also doubt he has much of a formal position; we don't see him settling down to administrate some bureaucracy or portfolio, nor do we see him directing the war effort either tactically or strategically. He is the
de facto political head, though. His word is final in decisions for the Confederacy, military or administrative.
The CIS probably has a collegial head of state in the entire Seperatist Council.
Grevious does answer to Darth Sidious. Therefore he understands that they are Sith and whatnot. However, he does not know that Sidious is Palpatine, nor does he know his ultimate plans.
Stravo wrote:Is the Republic's Officer Corps primarily Jedi by that I mean upper level officers like Generals or Admirals or is there a fair mix?
The officer corps must be mostly secular officers due to the sheer scarcity of the Jedi, the scale of the operations they prefer to participate in (small hit-and-run, ambush, and surprise assaults with fast, effective forces), and the manner in which they lead (from the front, which ensures that they cannot really survey their entire command from comfort and security and places them at unreasonable risk). Not to mention there are simply too few of them. They number less than ten thousand, which even if they were all field marshals would probably be too few. No, there are both clone and secular officers, and they are the majority. The Jedi are formally directing the war effort though (Palpatine discusses completely cutting the Jedi out of the loop with secular officers in LoE).
Stravo wrote:What about the CIS officer corps?
Normal people, mostly. Even the largely droid warships in ROTS have organic crews according to ROTS ICS, so they require some organic officers and technicians and whatnot. I am playing with the idea that the CIS managed to steal some of the advanced cloning technology and are using it to turnout warships even quicker, but they lack the knowhow to grow them quickly without the insanity problems, and this is eventually abandoned. I would like something like that to explain why CAPT Pelleaon has memories of fighting against whacked out clones during the Clone Wars, when he fought for the Republic and in the Navy.
Stravo wrote:Who would you say is the strongest CIS faction interms of wealth and troops? The Trade Federation, Banking Guild, Techno Union?
Probably the Trade Federation.
Stravo wrote:Do we have any idea of Jedi casualties in the Clone Wars leading up to ROTS? I've been portaying it as fairly heavy especially among padawan and young knights? Does this jibe?
Yes. They started out at AOTC with maybe 9,000+. They are probably down to more like 5,000 or so by ROTS.
Stravo wrote:Is Dooku's homeworld under Republic Occupation? I thought I read that somehwere.
I think it might be, but I'm unsure.
Stravo wrote:Are the Clones still solely grown on Kamino a year into the Clone War? Can I safely ignore the 1.2 million figure and start throwing around millions of clones as cannon fodder? Are the casualties on the Republic side still being mostly carried by clones?
First of all, the 1.2 million seems to refer to the advance batch or some elite sect of them, depending on the implication of the source or such. In a matter of months, millions were available. By Shatterpoint, there was one clone for each planet, which gives millions to a few billion right there. By the time the new cylinders have been devised and Clone Commanders made, flash-memory equipment is in use and they can decant clones as adults, and possibly in a few weeks (Lando reflects in TTT that it was rumored the clonemasters found a way to circumvent the one year minimum safe growth limit). The number of clones by ROTS is probably in the trillions at least. The facilities on Kamino are doubtless expanded, and if Hero of Cartao is anything to go by, the Republic has been putting its nationalization and expropriation powers to use setting up secret facilities on the side on its own. Not to mention ROTS states that new generations of clones from new templates other than Jango are in development on other worlds other than Kamino.
Stravo wrote:And one final question - I've read some people state that the Jedi give Anakin special treatment because he is the Chosen One. Is that true in the sense that they really think he is. I got the impression in AOTC that they were still fairly skeptical about it. What do they expect of him then if it doesn't give away ROTS plot details.
They expect him to be the key. By post-AOTC, it is pretty certain he is, and I suspect that he wasn't too pushed over the disturbance surrounding his Tusken slaughter because of his "role."
She also knows that Anakin and Padame are having an affair. The Dialouge is pretty sweet, I can type it up for you, just let me know.
