skyjedi2005 said:
I am sure that is another thing the EU explains and has different versions to confuse people.

I know that in Zahn's trilogy thrawn captures several republic cruisers to use against the new republic. But since that was pre phantom menace who knows?

Since then we read about the republic jedi vessel outbound flight.

Supposedly and i am relying on memory here did'nt the republic have a fleet of warships and no way to crew them because of years and years of piece and no wars, so they needed the clones? Or were the old fleets decomissioned and a whole new one built up by palpatine? I was under the impression at that point the republic had no military, and no protection except for the jedi.

I mean seriously if the republic was not a joke they would have had a capable military and political senate and would not need the jedi. Lucas basically made democracy look like a joke, and they need a theocracy like the jedi to run everything.

read the graphic novels for the clone wars. they had the imperial uniforms only a few months after the battle of geonosis