Why Palpatine Encouraged the Creation of Ethno Corporations
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Today we take a look at the Ethno Corporations that sprung up in the years leading up to the Clone Wars. These companies were crucial in consolidating power in the galaxy, allowing for a centralization of most major industries when the Empire rose to power.
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Say Generation Tech, could you do a lore video on public opinion about the Clone Troopers? Star Wars fans like you and me may love them, but I get the feeling they were mostly unpopular to the galaxy.
For instance, the Separatists obviously don’t like them because they are the soldiers of their enemy, the Galactic Republic. Also Separatist propaganda would portray the clones as the weaponization of science. Meanwhile in the Galactic Republic, Clone Troopers became the poster boys of the Republic due to the Jedi not wanting to really interact with the populace. They like the Jedi were probably popular to the planets on the frontlines like Ryloth, but things weren’t so great on the home front.
As we know, Clone Troopers were quite expensive, and that’s without accounting for their gear, rations, or vehicles. An order for five million clones nearly bankrupted the Republic. No doubt folks not on the frontlines would grow to hate the clones as they became poorer and lost out on social services to fuel the war effort.
Apparently clones were celebrated for defeating the Separatists and wiping out the Jedi Order when they were accused of treason. They would serve as the inspiration for the Stormtroopers. However I suspect Imperials actually liked what the clones represented and not them as people. The clones went from protectors of democracy to enforcers of tyranny, just like their armor, ships, and vehicles. The clones returned to their uniformity and extreme obedience to order without the Jedi. They represented military mighty, a major value in the Empire.
The clones as people though fall below humans in the Empire’s social order. They weren’t both like regular people, they came from a planet beyond the Outer Rim, were raised by isolationist aliens, and were reminders of the Republic, a failed democracy in the eyes of Imperials. After the destruction of all cities on Kamino, the common citizen would probably compare clones to droids thanks to Palpatine’s endorsement of the Stormtroopers.
In the end it seems some people like Hera remembered the clones as heroes of the Republic, some like Jedi survivors remembered clones as tools of the Empire, and the rest either saw clones as lesser beings or forgot the clones as they died out.
Of course this is just my analysis on public opinion about the Clone Troopers. What’s yours Generation Tech?
If you look at it from Palpatine's point of view, there is another serious advantage of Ethno Corporations, particularly if it is made up of a group that makes up a small portion of the population, they make for easy scapegoats. Even before he became Emperor, Palpatine could point towards these groups to help promote an "us vs. them" mentality that would provide a bad guy he could blame long problems long after the war was over. Furthermore, if Palpatine wanted to nationalize their industries and assets, it would be far less controversial than if these groups had been dominated by humans. It's brilliant really, terrible, but brilliant.
Basically Jews and banking.
I've always thought that Palpatine's greatest asset weren't his lightsaber skills or force powers but his brain.
That's the funny thing. For all that Palpatine and Vader look down on others, it seems like they think everyone else is just stupid. They think less of anyone without the force, but most of the time they seem more frustrated that other people aren't as smart as they are than anything else. For the most part, Palpatine didn't really need the force to become emperor.
I think Ethnocorporations in Star Wars emerged very early on in the galaxy when races with specialized predispositions toward engineering (Sullustan) or banking (Muuns) or whatever specific area of expertise began to outcompete the more generic human-run firms. I am curious to see what conclusion you come to though.
i have a hard time believing the Muuns can out finance finance bros. its all just paperwork. i just dont see the special skill.
@@gabagool_and_psychiatry4856yes I agree that’s weird and there is no alternative reason for their character design and how they act… 😅
@@gabagool_and_psychiatry4856In Dark Plagueis it’s stated that they basically just have a brain based along the lines of financial mathematics. It probably helps that their entire culture and society is essentially based around banking and has been since the earliest days of the republic, if you want more of a nurture-based as opposed to natural-based explanation.
@@gabagool_and_psychiatry4856think of it like this: humans have a high endurance, higher then almost any other animal. Because of that endurance, we can do more laborious tasks. Now imagine that we were also more endurant than other alien species, that leaves us in a special position to do endurance related tasks better then other species, thus human mining companies become the best in the galaxy. Or think of it culturally, because Italy had such a strong art based culture prior to the renaissance, they became the center of art for much of the renaissance due to cultural expertise in the arts. Something like either of those is the reason for this.
Wait does that mean that
No
The muuns are
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I think the Muun came from Muunilinst. At least in legends, it did.
Muunilinst and Mygeeto were colonies and strongholds for the Muun’s but it’s been disclosed that Scipio is their homeworld.
I'd actually say that ethno-corporations would've still formed with or without Palpatine. It was one of the few ways nonhumans could achieve major power; nonhumans were subservient to humans in the Senate, and the core worlds were mostly ruled by humans or humanlike species, so the aliens had to make do with dominating something else, and they decided to dominate the corporations that were spreading into the Outer Rim.
The ending to the movie antz was more accurate. Step an ant Hill. I see workers fighting you with the soldiers.
And rebuilding the nest you'll see soldiers helping the workers
Hey gen tech, wanted to throw some love to ya man! Keep up the great work bro
In all fairness the Plagueis novel almost outright states the IGBC being what it is due to the highly insular nature of Muuns
It has been confirmed that the Corporate Alliance and the Commerce Guild did not get nationalize like the Techno Union and the Trade Federation. Why is this? Anyone else know why Palpatine leave these two corporations alone instead of absorbing them?
Well answering at least for Canon, my guess is those two corporations kept a low profile despite their leaders being on the Separatist Council. I mean, Canon media always concentrates on the Trade Federation, the Techno Union, and the Intergalactic Banking Clan. They always loudly claimed neutrality when they did things clearly immoral, illegal, or in favor of the CIS. Take the blockade of Pantora to get the moon to join the CIS or persuading Toydaria not to allow relief supplies to get to Ryloth, both done by the Trade Federation. Or the imprisonment and torture of Echo by the Techno Union. Or the corruption by the Intergalactic Banking Clan in favoring the CIS over the Republic when it came to loans. In the last case, that combined with the Separatist invasion of Scipio convinced the Senate to nationalize the Banking Clan.
I presume the Corporate Alliance and Commerce Guild did a better job of looking neutral or just limited themselves to supplying the CIS military and not doing anything overtly illegal. The Senate thus figured they were still responsible enough to run themselves. Probably not true given the character of anyone connected to the Separatist Council, but what could those two do against the Empire, which had already ensured Kuat and Sienar replaced the Separatist corporations as leaders of the business world? As for the case in Legends, no idea.
@@tristankawatsuma8962 The Banking Clan did survive in both Legends and Canon. But it is only because they are too important to the galactic economy. And in Legends, the Commerce Guild and the Corporate Alliance got absorbed into the Empire as well.
Something I can't understand is that, when Palpatine took over the banks, he technically had control of funds to the Confederacy and could basically deny credits to them. With that logic in mind, what excuse did Palpatine tell the Republic to justify not cutting funds to the Separatists? I mean, Palpatine isn’t exactly neutral from the Republic's perspective
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
The Republic is corrupt War. Senators are corrupt. They turn terrorist after a regime change. Instead of peace they choose insurgency. They choose chaos to order. Those plucky rebels are not fighting clones and droids. Example the United States 51 members of Congress and their spouses own between $2.3 and $5.8 million worth of stocks in companies that are among the top 30 defense contractors in the world (2020)
Imagine if the Foreign Office, for some weird reason, had instead chosen to promote… Zoroastrianism. Imagine if US foreign aid today was only for Zoroastrians; if applying to a US college took an essay about your Zoroastrian faith; if “democracy” anywhere in the world amounted to the rule of the local Zoroastrians... well, the local fire temple would start getting pretty popular.
What is in it for our domestic sponsors of global Zoroastrianism-as it were? Well, bureaucrats like to feel powerful too. To say the least. And nothing says “power” like having an entourage. If the taxpayer pays you to jet around the galaxy and maintain an entourage… the more mouths you feed on someone else’s dime, the better. Kings were always judged by how many warriors sat at their table; catering was never free.
The paradox of US foreign policy is that US foreign policy is best modeled as if it was made first, for the benefit of the US foreign-policy establishment; second, for the entertainment of the US media audience; third, for the benefit of foreigners; and fourth, for the benefit of Americans. Once we see that anything that benefits the establishment and delights the viewers will happen, a key has turned in a lock.
Example: Head of the U.S. State Department Blinken, a globalist brat / international , is childhood best friends with Rob Malley, Biden’s Iran policy czar, son of the literary tiers-mondiste Simon Malley, who was best friends with Yasser Arafat, and who in a stunning echo of Alger Hiss actually hired Iranian agents into the USG. Iran is the primary state sponsor of Hamas
In a unipolar world order, the central empire loves its “allies.” Or should. And you also love your dog. Or should. But… One way to see US foreign policy/ Jedi Order is as a dogfighting pit posing as a veterinary clinic. Dogs will sometimes get into it at the vet. But at the vet, the standard approach to a dogfight is to break them up. In any context in which break them up is not the standard approach to a dogfight-check your GPS. You may actually be in a dogfighting pit or a Geonosian execution arena
Like the Jedi, Americans keep getting addicted to the heroin of foreign policy. We have always been high on our own supply. For us, it is a mostly harmless vice. But for the rest of the world, American political opium is a deadly drug. The users love it-ask the Ukrainians. They will present you their deaths, amputations, etc, with the mad glee of a junkie displaying his sores and empty smile. And even the pit bulls love the pit.
This is “kick the dog until it bites” (perhaps the core weapon of US foreign policy) Poland at the start of WWII-we baited our own dog into a fight, always an easy enough trick, then watched as it got ground into inevitable meat. Good doggie! Slava Ukraini! Similarly, if you feed your dog a hotdog with a treble-hooked Rapala lure inside, he wanted to eat that frank.
By 1914, English diplomacy had stacked up the tinderbox that burned down the Victorian world-a theory of grand strategy whose factual basis was mostly made of abstract worries about projections of German industrial capacity and so on. Maybe they were right and we all would have been wearing spiked helmets. But in any case, in 1914, the Foreign Office plainly wanted a war-and they plainly did everything they could to get one-and they plainly got one. Which they won.
And while, thanks to the debts they rang up, Britain proper lost her unipolar supremacy, and the center of the Anglo-American order moved to Washington after 1918, the traditions and standards of Anglo-American diplomacy have remained intact, though of course changing, until the present day. We speak and we think in the language of the Anglo-American tradition. But look around we are being order 66'd. There will be nothing recognizable as Western civilization in 50 years Just like after 30 years of governance by Secretary Blinken and his ilk, there is not much of the old South Africa recognizable.
From the early days of the 19th-century international arbitration movement, the thrust of this tradition has been to abandon the natural law of nations, a system of multipolar peer-to-peer standards, and replace it with a positive law of power. This positive law is enforced by “alliances” of the unipolar Anglo-American power and its loyal client states.
In 1914, for example, Germany was presented with a diplomatic choice: either go to war to preserve her sovereignty-or accept that the dispute between Austria and Serbia (the Serbian regime being plainly guilty of complicity in the murder of the Austrian heir to the throne) would be judged by England, a la Secretary Blinken, through her preferred method of “international arbitration.” Austria was a client of Germany. Serbia (then spelled “Servia”-“plucky Serbia” was literally rebranded during the war, because “Servia” seemed too “servile”) was a client of Russia, which was a client of France, which was a client of England. To accept that you must be judged by your enemies is to surrender to your enemies.
TSA doesnt bother Alan but will bother Mando and all his weapons.
All I can think of is the East India Trading Company which was a crown chartered corporation with the purpose of expanding labor and produce in British colonies.
The best example for SW is Czerka from Old Republic legends content. I say this bc it’s one of the few human supremacy corporations. Czerka was diverse with weapons, vehicles, slavery (cough), resource exploitation, WMD’s and this might’ve allowed it to keep everything in the species and thus espionage-proof and able to get more involved in Sith and Republic operations where possible. The only difference is the EITC wasn’t known for shipbuilding or land based transportation. I’m not sure how Czerka was started, got powerful and stayed loyal to its dominant Sith employers for so long though.
Excellent break down Allan, love your channel. Psst, I hear the Dolphins and Orcas have teamed up and are muscling in on Space X and Apple...
Generation tech is really getting hit hard by the algorithm
It’s really interesting how they updated how the credits were backed. Originally I thought the Muuns were always the guarantor of the credit since their colonies of Muunulist and Mygeeto had huge reserves of minerals and precious metals to back the currency.
I wondered if the huts were a species's or a family. But maybe their population was so small could say both
Imagine a civilian in your body and insulin or glucogon as money with expiration dates
Last video you changed a major detail. It wasn't like finding your boyfriend ar home . It was like. Being after your boyfriend's mother's funeral. And he tells you he killed the gang who killed his mommy
Love your videos allen. Thank u
With the human-centric drive of The Empire, being able to make other species look bad may diminish them as a whole, creating (more) prejudices which become reasons to push them down and take their lunch money.
You using antz footage confused the shit outta me, had me like: "tf did i miss this star wars footage😂😭"
Hey Alan just wanna say I love your content could you please do a video on how the cis would have faired against the empire as you always say if palpatine wasn’t pulling the strings the republic would’ve lost to the cis during the clone wars.
Honestly it would depend on how far you remove palatine's strings since without him the war might not have started when it did, I believe the state of the Star wars galaxy meant that a civil war was inevitable unless major changes were made but the sith plan sped that up by years if not decades or centuries and if the Republic had time to watch a rebellion grow naturally rather than be created by a conspiracy to commit a coup the Republic might have faired alright
@@mrwubbs7265 Yeah, Palpatine sabotaged the CIS, but he also organized it, and without him pulling the strings and making face promises there's a chance some of the major CIS manufacturers would've stayed on the republic's side. Though we could specify, "What if Palpatine just had a freaking heart attack or got eaten by a Zillo Beast or got blown up when he fell from orbit in half a ship or had his treachery discovered in a way that did not persuade the CIS to give up (perhaps even hardening their resolve in response to the obvious corruption of the republic.)
@@RorikH exactly my point, there's so many variables that predicting how, when, or if it happens depends on when and how palpatine dies or loses power
@@mrwubbs7265 Especially since he neither died nor lost power even when he died.
I'd really like to see a limited run series with a young Sidious and Plageius.
BTW, Allan, what about that spider guy who faced Anakin against the invisible ship? I've never seen another creature from that species.
You mean Admiral Trench? His species is a Harch, which are genetic cousins to Aqualish (the same species as the creature in the cantina whose arm was cut off by Old Ben in A New Hope)
@@midniteraptor1474 Yes, exactly! That's his name! 😊
A couple other points, it made it easy for the Empire to say see aliens are evil and can't be trusted and to give the emperor the excuse to conquer such worlds. On top of that it would weaken any prominent power that could challenge the empire.
I kinda wonder how Earth would rank in terms of Star Wars economy
This made me think of antagonist General James Ironwood from RWBY
Would you be able to do an episode or point me at an episode on what Jabba the Hut did between the end of the clone wars and the beginning of Return of the Jedi?
SW has always loved the planet of hats trope. This is just the same thing. Though it is fun to come up with in-universe excuses
Methane is a colorless, odorless gas. The smell is added to alert persons to its presence. It's the hydrogen sulfied in facts that smells.
I love your channel. Keep up the good Star Wars analysis.
So, the lesson to be learned from the IGBC is that central banks shouldn't operate like normal banks. Or that we should move to decentralized currencies.
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This is the only way the manner in which different corporations function makes sense to me, because it's through the lens of something I'm actually interested in: Star Wars.
Now I'm looking at my own worldbuilding and the societies that use money figuring out how they would function. Especially when only a small handful of them don't use money anymore.
I wonder what happened to the Nemoidians after the war? After the fall of the Empire? Pretty sure it's a Germany after WW1 at best. The stereotyping of the Nemoidians reminds me about the Yellow Peril or the Jewish Conspiracy and how it played negatively on those people.
The Nemoidians started passing themselves off as Duros in order to survive after the Clone Wars.
very strange
I also work for a multination corp but it seems only a special group of people keep reaching the highest spots. they look like me but they are not like me. nepotism at its finest.
Good video
This is why we need to put humanity first.
I pray you mean favouring ethical considerations over profits rather than humans should be the dominant species instead
@@GeneralAeon Humanity First is one of Allen's standard jokes. Or at least it was at some point. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Interesting.
Sothey wouldnt help any rebellion and cater to the speciest
Do you know that birds name that flew by? Was it Mike?
11:24 BIRB
Does the Star Wars planets have movies and tv shows?
How a government wouldn't do all problems and wirse then corporations.
Fun fact, methane actually has no smell, and is at best a minor component of human farts.
It’s a shame that Neimoidians, Muuns, Skakoans, etc. are heavily underutilized in Disney Star Wars.
Day 250 PLEASE DO MORE TACTICS VIDEOS AND STRUCTURES LIKE THE CIS NAVY STRUCTURE AND RANKS
In human. By comparison. I wonder if their might be related to humans
This probably also helped make some anti alien sentiment with the corporations increasing the liking of humans taking jobs
Extreme close up.. WAHHHHH
Checks and balances
of course the most prevalent enthocorps were run and operated primarily or entirely by humans...
1 species you mean like humans
OOF!
What's wrong Alan? You don't believe in Adam Smith's Invisible Hand concept?
But GenTech, is that illegal?
All apart the struggle of Races. Race and ethnicity comes before everything in the Star Wars universe and our own world. Race comes before Religion, Ideology, abstract politics. You’re seeing this in the Russia VS Ukraine and Israel VS Palestine.
I disagree. Maybe today, but race isn't a concrete concept. Ukrainians aren't necessarily ethnic Ukrainians, and Israelites aren't necessarily ethnically Israeli. Race isn't the same as species
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empire is human made
The ones who owned the Empire on banks.
Human representation
First. :)
Third
Why the government shouldn't have any control on businesses besides a limit of regulations
Did you watch a different video or something?
Won major problem with government health care is the government can pick and shows who get health care . Snd that influence voting demographics the
I am sorry you are just repeating anti trust nonsense propaganda
Interesting timing for such a video. LOL