>>75090906The problem with the droids is that their AI and thus capacity to think or employ battle tactics was limited. That made them mediocre soldiers, which they compensated with numbers because they could be mass-produced to overwhelm any traditional force.
The CIS didn't have a large population to levy because it was largely a cabal of oligarchs whose control over planets was economical and political rather than cultural. But they had money and infrastructure, so they built an army instead.
This is a really blatant allegory and it's shocking they got away with it.The whole point of the rebellion is that the CIS were manipulated into a war they couldn't hope to win, to manufacture a pretense for the Republic to mobilize an army with personal loyal to the political leadership instead of the Jedi, which the regime could then weaponize against the Republic itself. The problem with Droids is that basically anybody can make them, and they follow whoever holds the controls, which makes a standing army vulnerable to being subverted. Clones are harder to produce and harder to subvert, which means it would be much more difficult for any resistance to challenge the would-be Empire's forces conventionally.
