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The Boy Has No Patients
date posted: Apr 12, 2007 9:14 PM
As you know our blockade is per-fectly legal 2
The reason i cut my blog short was because i had limited time on the computer. So i sadly concluded half the blog and was detained. Anyway i was saying:

Truly most people are on the side of good. But sometimes you have to stand up for bad! How could Darth Maul stand there and let Obi-Wan destroy him? Why did the first Death Star have a weakness? There are good answers (no pun intended) and I am asking only to show that evil must sometimes make mistakes. So my question is: the fact that Sidious removed the blockade, was that a tactical blunder? Or as Stooge said , was this done because the Federation already controlled the planet? < about that i doubt it. What would happen if another army were to [land and] destroy Sidious's forces? (as it happens thats what was to come) If you were Sidious would you take that chance? (thats rhetorical by the way) Besides where did the fleet go? ?:| why leave such a loophole in his plan when Sidious had so much going for him? I think Goerge Lucas has repeatedly shown his brilliant plans to be that the evil side always has a huge advantage and that there is always a weakness which good exploits.

Well? Let's hear your thoughts!!

Yôda

The Dark Moose
Moose Poodoo
date Posted: Apr 12, 2007 10:48 PM
Why would he not want the Queen to land?

This is the person that Sidious dispatched Maul to find, that Gunray and Dolfine were terrified to have lost in the first place. Remember, they needed her to legalize their occupation, to legitimize their control of the planet, and by doing so capitulate Naboo's position further in the Senate. They needed her to sign the treaty, and she escaped. Everyone begged her not to return, because it would be walking right back into the hands of the enemy.
The Dark Moose
Moose Poodoo
date Posted: Apr 12, 2007 10:50 PM
So why would he not want the Queen to land? Why would he block her return? There's no logical problem with this, it was always built into the story - she returned, and they allowed her to return because they wanted to capture her alive.

Easier to do that on the ground. They were not afraid of one little exiled queen and her Jedi pals, they had an army and they controlled the surface of the planet. They just underestimated the queen's creative plan to capture the viceroy instead.

It was really the Queen who took a terrible chance. In fact, Qui Gon and Obi-Wan even pointed this out to her.
The Dark Moose
Moose Poodoo
date Posted: Apr 12, 2007 10:54 PM
From The Phantom Menace:

Qui-Gon: "A well-conceived plan. However, there's great risk. The weapons on
your fighters may not penetrate the shields on the control ship."

Obi-Wan: "And there's an even bigger danger. If the Vicroy escapes, Your
Highness, he will return with another droid army."

Queen: "That is why we must not fail to get to the Viceroy. Everything
depends on it."

The odds were very much against her, and in the favor of Sidious.
The Dark Moose
Moose Poodoo
date Posted: Apr 12, 2007 11:00 PM
This is all in response to the original question in your earlier blog entry:

Why? Why? Why did Darth Sidious (via Nute Gunray) remove the blockade and indirectly cause Queen Amidala to land?

To answer the broader question you pose here - why did he remove the blockade of ships around Naboo? He didn't. The blockade was defeated by the Queen's plan.

And after his blockade was defeated, Sidious went to the next stage of his plan.

Remember, the goal was never to gain a single planet. It was to start a war, a trumped up war that would garner him control of the entire galaxy. Naboo was just a part of his plan, and the beauty of it is - it didn't matter if it failed or succeeded. It would still eventually start a war.
  Dr. Yôda
The Boy Has No Patients
date Posted: Apr 13, 2007 6:48 AM
Thank you Dark Moose.

That really cleared things up!! :)

  darth maul517
Darth Jedi Maul Secura
date Posted: Apr 13, 2007 7:34 AM
Well, I have little to add. Dark Moose pretty much summed it up. Nice blog by the way.
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