How the hell did you have a better Historiography education than my actual Academic Historiography course?

WW2 is a perfect example for the actual end of the war question, there were German forces sitting on some Norwegian islands that officially surrendered months after VE day.

The History of the Old Republic’s is long and complicated, and considering how different eras within the Old Republic was differnet from one another because of how Democracy charge the people of the Galaxy. One Era could be a era of exploration and discovery because the Senate put its effort into mapping the Galaxy, other could be an era of Xenophobia and Religious extremists because of the rise of a new religion swaying many the Galaxy, and that not even mentioning the numerous wars of the Sith and the gradual decline of the Galactic Republic authority.

Solid gold work Corey. As a history major I get way more excited than I should for videos like this. I’d love to see future videos breaking down the political nature of the Imperial era and the byzantine nature of its politics. And the role of orgs like the senate and COMPNOR in daily life

I saw Star Wars and historiography in the same sentence; I could not click this video fast enough

This is a work of sublime beauty that scratches an Itch in the back of my head for realpolitik to be present to a greater extent in Star wars. It's practically a graduate thesis, if places offered degrees for Star wars lore

Absolutely loving these political history videos

This may be a little too idealistic, but part of me is wondering if after the Invasion of Naboo, the Senate finally realized that they had to start fixing things. Maybe nobody thought about how Rim worlds have to wait so damn long for membership only to get few of the benefits, but at least people seemed to recognize the megacorporations had been given too much power. I mean, think about how easy and popular a war between these Rim Megacorporations and the Core Worlds would be. Since the megacorporations that formed the Separatist Council were run by and made up mostly of aliens, they could easily tell the rest of the galaxy they were fighting to overthrow the Republic’s humanocentric doctrine and ensuring non-humans never become subservient to humanity. And since the war would be limited to the Core Worlds, many of these alien worlds wouldn’t suffer unless they had to provide resources for the war effort. Of course after the Core Rim militaries, the Judicial Forces, and the Jedi Order are defeated, there wouldn’t be anyone left to stop the Megacorporations. They would of course make companies like Kuat and Blastech completely loyal to them, set up a power base in the Outer Rim since they seem to basically control at least half of it, and most worlds wouldn’t have a military strong enough to fight back. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the worst version of capitalism. Whatever ethics and laws of the Republic there were would be gone. And everything would revolve around money. All politicians would be part of this corporate government, and it’s not like they have to fake a democracy because they will have the biggest droid army and droid navy in history. Uprisings would easily be put down and the only hope would be if some corporate leaders had a change of heart and rallies together. Now sure, as Canon novels point out despite the shock and horror of the Trade Federation’s Invasion of Naboo, the Republic courts were unable to declare Nute Gunray guilty despite putting him on trial four times between 32 BBY and 28 BBY, not to mention he got to keep his job. Still, I like to think the reason the megacorporations formed the Separatist Council was because they became worried the Republic was going to take a hard anti-corporate stance. I mean, basically for megacorporations during the Clone Wars, you either joined the CIS to get richer or you got as damn close as you would with the Galactic Republic’s government like Kuat Drive Yards to remain relevant and valuable. And when the war ended, you either became a valuable asset to the Empire or got nationalized as punishment for your treachery.

I wish more channels would focus these kind of things for other fantastic universes

Great job Corey, love this history stuff. A lot of SW channels are just going over whatever is popular and I get it, gotta pay the bills, but your look into obscure and just unthought of lore is really appreciated

So glad to see an analysis of Galactic history that does not focus on the "great man" Jedi/Sith kind of history (and yes I know they weren't all "men") but on trade and colonialism as issues. Great stuff!!

It's a shame the early Republic era is so unexplored. I feel like having galaxy full of competing states would make for an interesting story.

Fantastic video, great work. I know I'm not the only one who loved the periodisation tangent. I'd personally love you to do some character deep dives. I know for many of the main characters there's hours and hours of history to discuss, so might be harder to do a break down of say, Obi wan and his life and times, but particularly with a lot of the New Republic chief of state options in TR, I'd love to know more about them. And if you wanted to commit to long form breakdowns of some major characters, that'd be awesome too!

I feel like the fall of megacrops and lingering imperial sympathies leads to the rise of popular individual senators. Now instead of the megacrops that happens to have KDY and SoroSuub as powerful influencers, the senators of Kuat and Sullust who represent those companies are now the influencers. Add on the influx of liberated Imperial Remnant worlds in the mid New Republic era during New Rebellion and there was a fear of Imperial sympathizers trying to assert control over the New Republic.

A good example of complicated history is the Jedi-Sith war, which would last for 7,000 years and still never ended.

Corey I absolutely love this kind of content and your channel as a whole, please keep it up!

This was a great video! 17,000 years isn't necessarily too long to be a period of history, given the galactic scale

Also love love love the historical basis for this discussion. Keep it up!

Rewatching this much later, still holds up. I can't praise it enough

That was a lot covered in 20 minutes, good job.

Great video. I imagine that, given the story, that a massive galactic polity is not realistic at all, and smaller entities would make more sense. But, by the power of the writers, it has held together.

loveing these deeper dives and history videos!

I love seeing when people discuss the history of the Republic before the birth of the Sith Order, it's such an interesting era of the Star Wars universe because there clearly had to be some pretty important stuff going on back then and yet we know so very little about it.

Fantastic video! Love this channel. Hope you do some canon stuff someday

How many times did you accidentally spell Alsakan as Alaskan?

Your intro was incredibly gripping! I'm taking a college history course so I really like the historical essay format of this video.

A really interesting topic! Thanks for the video :)

Great video Corey, loved the five minute tangent intro 🤣

A fantastic video! Love you pointing out all the historic theory!

Yeah, even as a clone trooper fan, I got to feel sorry for CIS citizens. They are stuck between a democracy that ignores them and makes them pay taxes despite not helping to develop their worlds or even provide basic protection against pirates and criminals. On the other side though, they have the megacorporations who want more power and money than what the Republic has given them. Basically, a government that cares far too little for you and a government that cares way too much for you for the wrong reasons. Status Quo vs something just as bad or worse. And on top of that, the Galactic Empire arrives and basically takes the worst qualities of both factions: the exploitation of the CIS and the Core World/humanocentric bias of the Republic.

Another superb video. This is my favorite type of video you've been putting out. Thank you for grounding the fiction in real analogs and analysis. Taking the universe seriously is the most enriching way to approach broad fictional set pieces like star wars.

Phenomenal video. Bravo, Corey!

"Humans muck things up" in a nutshell, this. For that, I guess I'll say I'm sorry for my species' eccentricities and... "incorrections."

Hmm, reminds me of how the likes of the Spanish Civil War, the Ethiopian-Italian War, the Sino-Japanese War, and even WW1, the Franco-Prussian War, and the Crimean War influenced WW2 and beyond. Addendum: You know, the "Long Clone Wars" can technically still continue on up to the Galactic Triumvirate era.

Still one of my fave videos from you!

Brilliant video and analysis!

This sort of nonsense makes me miss my polisci program. Thank you, keep it up!

The obvious question, from a Doylist perspective, is: are these examples of similar forces breeding conflict down the ages, or is it just that authors are cribbing from each others notes? And what's the practical difference between the two?

Got a bit of whiplash watching this. I never expected to hear Braudel mentioned in a Star Wars EU video

Would it still be called the clone wars though? The themes of the conflict stretch back 17,000 years, but the technology in question, cloning, was not prevalent in that conflict. To me the greater clone wars would take place from 30ishBBY to well into the vong War. We have - the naboo conflict, battle of galidran, and the bando gora uprising leading to the secret order of a kaminoan clone army of Jango fett, former mandalore, by high ranking jedis Count dooku of sereno and Sifo Dyas. - the start of the separatist war in 17bby in which the clone army was discovered and deployed at geonosis - the conflicts of the next 3 years involving the clone army of the republic and the separatists own attempts at cloning -the introduction of spaarti clones in the battle of coruscant, which was to the kaminoan clones as the crossbow was to the longbow in mideval england - the clone rebellion leading to a reduction in the use of clones, although the core legion of the empire would be made up of clones for the rest of the empires reign - the experiments into force sensitive cloning, involving rebellion founder Galen Marek, Jorus Cybaoth, and X2. - the resurgence of cloning led by Thrawn and in a small part Isard, in which both armies as well as replacements of themselves or other important imperials were created -the destruction of kholm following the formation of the imperial remnant - thrawns creation of clone rebel cells and soldiers for his empire of the hand would lead into the vong war

I'd love to know what game/mod the ship battles are from. Big fan of the Innexpugnable I saw in there 🙂

You have any videos on dark empire?

Haha only a couple years 🤣

Ngl, George Lucas comes across as kind of a big political history nerd, so I think he’d enjoy a video like this

Bro took 4 minutes of thd video to explain earth periodisation 5 times over 😩

If the first yes

So, how the world is now is because of how the world was in the past? Cory, I'm sure that's what's called critical race theory. And this video is now illegal in 22 US states.

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