The ARC Trooper that Called an Orbital Bombardment Down on Himself - The Great Cestus Deception

[@BennyLlama39]

Once again, we find that the moral of the story isn't "Don't play both sides", it's "Don't *get caught* playing both sides". 😀

[@brokenbridge6316]

How true

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

R.i.p. jangotat and eels. And as qui-gon jinn said "Whenever you gamble my friend, eventually you’ll lose."

[@isaackim7675]

It would’ve been awesome to have an ARC Trooper game that can compare to the Clone Commandos

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

Well ARCs work solo so you’d be doing an entire lone wolf style game. So you go from a squad based fps to more of a metal gear or splinter cell style of game. However, you could have it based off the Null ARCs who actually worked together as well as separate to pull of joint strike missions. That would be pretty cool. Could rotate between the different ARCs to pull off specific objectives or see how a mission unfolds from different points of view, where 3 or 4 different events occur simultaneously. Like the team go into a droid factory and 1 one ARC dismantles the factory proper, 1 hits the starship port so no one can get away, and the third is assassinates there separatist in charge or factory chief

[@jordancooke8538]

Would be cool to see it in a similar vein to battlefields war stories like dropping into different battles with different endings to these mini campaigns

[@matluc_productions4031]

Even tho it’s before the Clone Wars, the closest we got to that was Star Wars Bounty Hunter. Considering the ARCs were trained to fight just like Jango Fett, we can pretty much imagine what it was like thru the game. I’m rather disappointed Lucasarts never really saw the brilliance of Republic Commando. We could’ve gotten similar games with the Null ARCs or even the regular Clone troopers. What could’ve been. Smh.

[@alexhudson277]

I feel they missed a lot of opportunities there. They coul easily have done an ARC trooper game, where you could either work mostly solo, or as a team. Give that ARCs had leeway and the authority to do basically whatever was needed. Maybe have you do a lot of high value assassinations and scouting.

[@matluc_productions4031]

@@alexhudson277 so true. Slim chance they’ll do it now tho given Disney’s disastrous handling of the franchise rn.

[@baldrian22]

what an amazing arc trooper. unrawls a massive plot, gets a planet back into the republic, saves countless lifes and stop a devestating sepratist plot

[@romancapulus5577]

They tried to do a “Pro Gamer Move” But ended up getting caught in 4K

[@merafirewing6591]

One heck of a way to go. And in the end, both the Republic and CIS were duped by those "droids" which really weren't droids.

[@LiamMaher4955]

This deserves a movie in itself

[@theghoulishgay8943]

I am amazed by how massive the balls of the families are to try and scam both sides to this extent

[@brokenbridge6316]

The operation might've been convoluted. But this story was great to listen too.

[@CarlosM.FernandezRivera-ez6vr]

Nice.

[@blackore64]

That one time when Republic rained down the fire of Class War from the Orbit.

[@allidoisme321]

Staging a false kidnapping doesn't sound like something 2 Jedi Masters should do smh

[@TheLiamster]

In the clone wars, Anakin posed as a slave owner so I’d say it’s plausible

[@Tyrone-v2r]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[@Tyrone-v2r]

​@@TheLiamsterit's absolutely plausible, that's why the OP said something it doesn't sound like something they SHOULD do. Anakin and Obi-Wan along with many other Jedi committed war crimes during the Clone Wars and hundreds of thousands (conservative estimate and depending on cannon or EU) of civilians were killed when the rebel alliance took out the Death Stars. So it's definitely plausible but still something that they shouldn't have done. The Death Stars are exceptions to a whole lot of rules because they couldn't have possibly evacuated the civilians onboard before destroying the bases. That's like trying to evacuate Washington DC without letting the US Federal Government catch you in the act. It's like the trolley dilemma on an interstellar scale.

[@mill2712]

8:20 Maybe it would have been better to just let them continue and let the seps deal with that nonsense. I mean it would suck for the eels but if the separatist were investing in droids that don't actually work, that could help. Oligarchs man. They definitely know how to screw over a military industrial complex.

[@goldeagle6431]

The Senate can survive ANY bombardment.

[@michellerahe4853]

The star wars documentary commentator.

[@juangabrielcabardo21]

Why am i studying the history and tactics of the Clone Wars like it’s the Roman Empire

[@zexalbrony4799]

3:15-3:18: Okay, I guess I wasn't the first one to have someone kill Republic forces with a person who uses tentacles as weapons in my fanfics, these JK Droids were, but at my character actually worked and did the job well, while these things couldn't because the five families were trying to scam both sides. Also, nice to see and hear about a mission/battle where the Republic did good for people, and unlike the Battle of Khorn where they also did good, no future evil Imperial took credit for the operations.

[@CrystalTikal]

I remember reading this book, checked it out from the public library.

[@slicerneons3300]

Vode An, my Pod Brothers.

[@lerneanlion]

While playing both sides is legal, tricking both sides is anything but legal.

[@ryanmann1416]

This would be good for a Star Wars short movie

[@greatazuredragon]

Great episode.

[@indianajones4321]

I love EU clone wars stories

[@deathtrooper9003]

Is it me or do the Jedi come off as particularly ruthless in this story?

[@ZoeMalDoran]

Ah yes. That was a fun book :)

[@coloneloper]

Are you The front?! Like the war history guy?!

[@Soboba.Fett69]

Those brave brave geonosian comrades.

[@lucjanssen3567]

there are more intresting shit in the book like the time jangatad knocked up a local or the flirthing obi-one did with the queen of the locals

[@jonpreston3933]

@Geetsly's can i convert your videos into mp3 files so i can listen to them while at work?

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Not as surprisingly good as The Courtship Princess Leia in my opinion, but it sure felt more important compared to The Truce at Bakura. Will still deem the novel as essential.

[@Captainrexofthe501st1]

Anybody else read the thumbnail as rogue one

[@normanbarud]

I love Star Wars theory but he lacks geetslys depth sometimes, he hasn’t read the cestos deception 😮 So good though

[@fidgeysrii4888]

u da 🐐

[@andersonjulioborsatto1253]

👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@themissingpeace7956]

There’s a Russian soldier who died in Syria after calling an air strike on his position after he was surrounded by ISIS fighters. True story.

[@DarthVages]

👍

[@darkhorse3535]

Why use an AI generated clone trooper?