Miscellaneous Star Wars Thread

{Why I Ask}
My underlying motive for bringing this up is that—whether this is the case or not—I’m thinking about tweaking the causes and factions of TTL’s Clone Wars quite a bit for my ‘A Galaxy Divergent’ TL. The Republic and Separatists would still serve as the two main factions doing most of the fighting, but they’d probably be a bit different in that they represent two irreconcilable ways of running the Galaxy.

Majorly concentrated in the densely populated, historically powerful Core Worlds, Colonies and Inner Rim—with a Mid Rim that’s being fought over with the Separatists—the Galactic Republic would represent a liberal, cosmopolitan civilization whose most prominent worlds (i.e. Coruscant and the like) have a hold over galactic media, pop culture, technology hubs, and economic importance that has been slipping within the last few centuries as other regions of the Galaxy have been catching up to them. As such, core-ward denizens would be characterized as an elitist, ivory-tower bunch with a centralized government that endlessly taxes, regulates, and underserves the rest of galactic society, which feels that its economic parity and say in galactic politics is being sabotaged by a Senate and Supreme Chancellor in bed with neoliberal crony capitalism and detached elites who sneer at the supposed “bumpkins” and “backwards way of life” that characterizes the greater Galaxy.

On the other hand, the Separatists—formally known as the Union of Confederate Systems (or UCS) ITTL—would have holdings in a divided Mid-Rim, but an iron grip on the Expansion Region, Outer Rim and Wild Space, as well as efforts to expand their territories and support in the Unknown Regions. Because of this, they’d control most of the Galaxy in terms of sheer territory (I’ll have to devise some way of ensuring that their resource base stacks up against the Republic’s own due to star-system density and whatnot), with an equally vast population marked by rugged individualism and Wild West-style libertarianism. Though historically behind the galactic center in terms of cultural, political and economic significance, Separatist areas will have nonetheless become exceedingly wealthy, developed and highly competitive during recent centuries due to laissez-faire economics and a business-friendly political climate. This stands in stark contrast to the corporate cronyism of the Republican Core, which by now has an obvious tendency to tax and regulate those outside of its purview in order to maintain its long-time advantages. Predictably, the Separatists have become sick and tired of Coruscant’s corrupt meddling to the point where they form a government of their own and secede, bringing their unending, privately owned droid armies and star fleets to bear in the resulting war.

To offer an oversimplified analogy, basically imagine a second civil war between America’s Democratic States (the Galactic Republic) and its Republican ones (the UCS), and that very roughly approximates the clashing political philosophies and territorial extents of the big two factions in TTL’s Clone Wars. If anyone has thoughts on my idea that they want to share, I’d like to read them.