stormthebeaches wrote:
So Palpatine doesn't trust them to defy the Jedi, but he trusts them to KILL the Jedi?
How dishonest of you. We both know the Trade Federation leadership was terrified of meeting the Jedi in person but confident of the ability of their droids to murder them at a distance. Which is exactly what they did.
And no, the Jedi have not come to investigate anything. They have arrived as ambassadors, not investigators. And ambassadors have to be passive observes, if they don't then it defeats the whole purpose of ambassadors.
Yeah, because Jedi never investigate anything. Qui-Gon was suspicious about the proceedings right off that bat. There's this little thing called the Force that the Jedi are sensitive to.
And if the Jedi do investigate, what are they going to find out? That the Trade Federation is having its strings pulled by a mysterious figure? I don't recall the Trade Federation knowing who Sidious was at this point.
They called him Lord Sidious and called him a Sith Lord when they talked about him and Maul.
Besides, Palpatine's plan revolves around some kind of investigation being conducted into the matter. Since a Communication blockade is not sufficient evidence for an invasion, Palpatine must have been counting on some kind of investigation to discover the invasion.
The invasion hasn't happened yet genius. The Trade Federation are ready to throw in the towel the moment they learn that there are Jedi are on the way.
An invasion of a planet is enough of a crises as it is. You don't need to add two dead Jedi to that. Especially when those two Jedi are useful for telling the Senate about the invasion. You know, the thing that Palpy needs to humiliate the Chancellor.
Except they're not necessary and alive they're a problem because it take Qui-Gon about five minutes to realize something really wrong is going on.
And why is it so important for Palpy to be the only voice of Naboo? His whole plan revolves around the Naboo crises making the Chancellor look like a fool. Why does he need to be the only voice for Naboo?
So he can manipulate the crisis, dethrone Valorum, and accrue the power without the interference of the Queen or the rest of the Naboo government which might not undercut Valorum. You know, the whole point of the damn plan? Fortunately for Palpatine he's able to save the plan by manipulating Amidala into serving his plan.
The Trade Federation is a private company and its military forces are for what I assume are security related matters. Being that they are run by profit motivated individuals it is unlikely that the Trade Federation will have military surpluses lying around. Those ships that they used have to have come from somewhere and the area they came from will now be less defended as a result.
It has a private army and Senate representation. It's not a mere private company.
Also, we have no evidence that the droid army is using mass starvation or committing any atrocities (apart from putting people into concentration camps).
We have Amidala's communications home and the general douchebaggery of the Trade Federation.
This is a army of robots after all, and it is unlikely that they will be committing crimes like a human army would.
An robot army of robots programmed to obey their masters is more, not less likely to obey orders that are war crimes.
Besides, if there is a communication blockade these atrocities are not going to be found out any time soon. Finally, a private company using robot soldiers is very different from a nation using human soldiers. The private company won't have to deal with the political bullshit a nation would ("if we pull out now our soldiers will have died for nothing!"). Once the Trade Federation suspects that the invasion and occupation of Naboo is not worth it is very likely that they will just up and leave. The longer they stay the more likely this is to happen. Therefore Sidious would want the Senate to know about the invasion ASAP.
Bullshit. The atrocities will come out when its convenient for Palpatine. The longer the Trade Federation is there, the more they have invested in the operation and the harder and more costly it is to up and leave. More is at stake than just Naboo, the incident was sparked by larger matters of galactic trade and taxation. They're aim is not just to grab Naboo, but to shape Republic trade policy. They're playing for big stakes and they believe Sidious can deliver. And its in Sidious interest to push when he thinks he won't merely displace Valorum as ineffective, but when there's sufficient sympathy for Naboo to push him into office. And that takes time to build.
The plan succeeded despite his actions, not because of them. If the Trade Federation got their treaty Palpatine would find it a lot more difficult to become Chancellor.
Support that assertion. The treaty only helps the Trade Federation if the Senate legitimizes the invasion. This isn't going to happen as Palpatine's plan is to use the outrage over the invasion to propel himself into the Supreme Chancellor's office. Palpatine unleashes Maul to retrieve her, but in doing so only tars the Trade Federation in the eyes of the Jedi and Senate and helping set up Separatists and the Clone War.
As for the value of Jedi testimony, that's an irrelevant side issue over what evidence was considered more important in debates we never see. There's abundant evidence of a war an invasion any time someone chooses to investigate or Palpatine wants to drop it in the Senate's lap.