Clone Wars in 1977

for some reason i thought the clone wars were where someone cloned a bunch of jedi and they fought some huge army

 

I know this is going to sound really stupid but years ago I thought that maybe the empire and the Jedi were fighting for control of the clones. The Jedi were just merely just protecting the clones and the clones were not directly involved with the war. But I also wondered what the clones were clones of and my conclusion that they were perhaps clones of the Jedi the rebellion were building to overtake the empire....boy was I wrong!

 

I again thought it was an open conflict involving the Jedi and an invading clone force that all looked like Boba Fetts. Well I guess I was sorta right about one thing...


I wanted to see a clonetrooper with a jet pack dammit!

 

Hmm, the Clone Wars... I pictured them as a Sith conquest for overthrowing the Republic. Since the Republic spawned over thousands of planets, the Sith required a powerful army, so they turned into clone soldiers, a combination of technology and of the Dark Side. The cloned soldiers donned the armor of the Mandalorians, a battle-hardened race, who saw this war as a means to return to former glory. So they gave their DNA and battle technology? What about the Jedi? Sith didn't clone themselves, since they thought of this as a degrading process. So they cloned captured Jedi Knights, and they brain washed the clones into attacking the Republic forces.



It may sound a bit "meh!" but that's my 2 cents.

 

Well, I had absolutely NO idea what the Clone Wars were.

 

Great topic.

I thought that the clone wars entailed a Jedi civil war between Jedi
and cloned Jedi working for the emperor.

But then again, this was after seeing ROTJ, I was only 1 in 1977.

 

I had assumed the Sith had cloned the Jedi; creating an evil Jedi army led by Vader that hunted the Jedi down and killed them all.

 

I imagined that they were like, "Iron Man". And there were thousands of them and they all carried missle launching/machine gun/sub-nuclear warhead/grenade launching people that had crew-cuts and had that reel of ammo around thier body's, you know like in Rambo (I think)...

 

I always imagined that the Clone Wars were a series of wars bewteen two factions who were struggling against each other for domination of the Galaxy ( Empire ). Both sides were equally treacherous. The series of wars waxed and waned across the galaxy, slowly ebbing both sides of their power. The Jedi were caught in the middle, the lone bright hope of the galaxy. Trying to right the wrongs by banding together a small force of beings who would become the Rebellion.

But not until a fourth power quietly waiting in the wings would take advantage of the war of attrition that The Clone Wars had turned into. I didn't know the rule that there are only two sith allowed at any one time. So I envisioned an army of Sith Knights that swept onto the weakened combatants. As their methods became more well known, the rebellion grew in popularity. Most of the Sith and Jedi died off, leaving a turned Jedi named Darth Vader to hunt down and exterminate the last of the Jedi.

Or something like that.

And the Emperor was Anakins Father. Hence the circles were made complete. A huge familial internal conflict wreaking havoc on the galaxy.

Your mileage may vary...

 

Great topic. I was 10 at the time, and admittedly didn't think about it overly much. Don't think I even knew what a clone was.

Like most others, I thought it was a straightforward struggle, with the Jedi on the side of the Republic against the Emporer, ho is trying to take over. After reading the novelization of ROTJ, and learning that Palpatine was a former Senator, I assumed the clone wars were a rebellion led by him. In any case, it seemed obvious that the Jedi were on the losing end.