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Oh, right; the thing about the looking like a normal freighter would screw with the enemy's raiding plans, as it would be hard(er) to tell when a given group of ships were mostly transports or not.

I believe so. However, they're built for use especially for Mon Cals.

the Mon Cal's have an exclusive military Contract with the Republic.
And the maintenance problems? only occured durring the rebellion when they tried to refit the cruisers for Alien(non Mon Cal) crewmen.

Not really.
I mean, the space battle was eh, not too long...and the ground battle actually seemed quite short.



Also, I was thinking...these militaries, like for the Republic and the Federation, they must be absolutely enormous, to be conquering worlds and maintaining garrisons upon their worlds.
They've got to number tens of millions, huh? So...by that scale, Chidee would have several hundred thousand to several millions of droids.

1) The TF did retrofit its freighters. Remember TPM and the droid control ship? That's a freighter... In fact the CIS had very few non-freighter warships. The thing is they usually had more ships, and droid crews, so losses were not as impacting...

2) a freighter converted for battleship duty may sound like a killer solution, but you must remember that cruisers are built specifically for battle, meaning you wouldn't waste the space that you have, and while having shields and a bitchload of missles sounds good, it really has nothing on something whose systems are designed specifically for the power regulation.

3) Also, the MC crusiers that you're thinking of are around the Battle of endor Time. By the time the MC-90 series (and anythign past it) came out, it was strictly warship design, but they had originality. That, and the reason why MC warships are so good is mostly because of their shielding more than their guns. Their shields are so hard to penetrate that most ships expire from the effort...

yes. i think tens of millions is generous too.

keep in mind that the CIS and Republic were beginning and consolidating military buildup during the clone wars, almost starting from scratch. also remember, clones were made on kamino.. how many do you realistically expect them to produce in a few facilities?

plus, each planet had its own defense force. i mean, considering what they considered Naboo's defenses (tiny, negligable, etc) larger planets must have had their own defense forces.

the clones were just an army, with no attatchments to any planets (debatably except for kamino), beside the planetary defense forces. so the GAR, all forces counted, must have been much more than 3 million.

now, at the peak of the empire, the empire had some 20 years to build up troops, without much opposition on military spending for propoganda and actual materiel. the rebels were always small, but once the republic came to power, it theoretically gained the planetary defense forces, almost like under america's articles of the confederation, where states could volunteer their militias. it also created its own army, based largely from those idealogically willing (considering morale, not hard to get). still, that results in much smaller forces than those of the empire.

Imperius has a handful of imps and a leftover army of droids. not necessarily many. it's feasable that, planetary defense forces aside, they have armies/navies similar in strength.

So, umm ... who's side is this deep insanity fellow on, anyway? eek

Ah, I seem to have missed that. sweatdrop