Senator Chuchi Deserves All The Props - Tumblr Posts
As much as I love Plo... if we're being real... none of them really cared because no Jedi ever lobbied the Senate to have troopers become citizens of the Republic with rights & agency. This goes especially for all the Jedi sitting on the High Council who had influence with the Chancellor & were friends with more than a few Senators. But like that was just never brought up as an issue, that we know. We can headcanon some Jedi might've brought it up and were shot down or couldn't get the Senate to pass the law (this is my personal Plo HC) but we've never actually been given anything concrete to suggest that the Jedi advocated for it at any point.
What's more concerning is that when they find out the entire army has behavioral chips implanted, their only concern is whether or not they are likely to malfunction. Let that sink in. Shaak Ti isn't appalled that the trooper's dedication & obedience could come from implanted chips rather than training. She's concerned about the cause of the malfunction. And once Palpatine assures the Council that his doctors neutralized the cause, they don't care that troopers still have implants in their head... Palps is like "let's put this nasty business behind us" and not one of them has the guts to stand up and say: hang on... we didn't draw the line at a genetically modified army because we were caught in a shit storm at Geonosis, but having fought alongside these men for 2 years, we can't condone implanted behavioral blockers especially when we don't know for sure exactly what they do... and also while we're at it, give these men health insurance & a pension for force's sake.
Like that to me is just... why didn't they... Traviss had a point vode, and she was writing within canon at a time where chips didn’t even exist yet... with the chips it's almost impossible to claim the Jedi were earnest about seeing troopers truly as individuals and equals when they knew their agency was being stripped from them.
The first time we see Yoda, leader of the Council, in tcw, he’s explicitly affirming the individuality and importance of the clones. He then teaches them how to connect to the Force, the most sacred tenet of the religion he’s dedicated his life to.
The first time we see Plo Koon, a Jedi Master, in tcw, he clearly tells his clone troopers that they are not expendable to him, and then proceeds to do his absolute best to save as many clones as possible.
The first time we see Anakin in tcw he has his clones fly an unnecessary suicide mission because he wants the glory of killing Grievous. He doesn’t even stop when he hears them all dying—his Padawan, a 14-year-old, has to yell at him that no one else will survive what he’s doing before he changes his plan.
And people STILL say that Anakin is the Jedi who cared about the clones the most. Seriously?