War on Two Fronts ~ From A Seppie POV

"A War on Two Fronts" episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars started out with this fortune cookie:

It started with the usual characters

Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, Anakin Skywalker and Captain Rex

Captain Rex had a new uniform. Somewhat a precursor to the Imperial Uniform. But more rogue-rebel like.

***SPOILERS***

The quartet had gone to Onderon to assist the rebels fighting the Separatist Droid Army.

We are introduced to two new characters who are brother and sister - Saw Gerrera and Steela Gerrera:

Saw Gerrera

Steela Gerrera

And another character - Lux Bonteri from "A Friend In Need" in Season 4

Lux Bonteri

Together, these three formed the leadership of the rebels on Onderon. Some seems rather inept by the Jedi and Captain Rex. But for the rebels, they behaved like they did not really want assistance.

From A Separatist POV

In the very beginning, the Jedi Council disputed if they should train an insurgency to take over a legitimately established government. Obi-Wan Kenobi said that if the Jedi train them, they would be training terrorists. Anakin Skywalker disagreed. He thought their resources were so stretched out that having the Jedi fight for them would only make it harder for the other planets. Yoda agreed with Anakin. So off to Onderon they go.

The Separatists offer many valuable assets to governments that join them: Protection, Sovereignty and Freedom from the Core Planets.

Having being-to-being combat is taxing which the Republic has chosen to do. Droids are viable option for beings that are unable or unwilling to fight. Being as the creators of droids should not have to sully themselves in slogging fighting. What the Jedi did was promote terrorism toward an established government and risking the lives of the Onderonians.

From a Separatist Point of View - The Jedi put the lives of the Onderonian Rebels at risk in fighting Droid Technology. 

From the Seppie POV: TCW Epi 4.14 - A Friend In Need

The new "Star Wars: Clone Wars" episode entitled, "A Friend In Need" premiered today.

Here is the show on Master Toons:



The pre-moral to the story was:

Friendship shows us who we really are.

Without going into too much spoiler detail, Padawan Ahsoka Tano runs to save Lux Bonteri, the son of the late Separatist Senator of Raxus, Mina Bonteri. There is an underlying romance, but it is never fully pursued.

There are negotiations to find diplomatic means to end the war between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

The leaders on the Separatist side had really never been seen in any major Episodes. Moreover, they are dressed similarly and gray; whereas the leaders of the Galactic Republic were "colorful" and "vibrant" and well known. Padme Amidala and Bail Organa and Mon Mothma...

The Duchess of Mandalore oversaw the meeting because the "rational" Mandalorians were neutral in the Galaxy!

When Lux Bonteri interrupted and declared Count Dooku as a murder, it was the Separatists that removed him from the negotiations. While be pulled away, Lux Bonteri screams, "Count Dooku is deceiving you!"

Aside from a Star Wars fan wondering, the "does he know about what is going on in the Galaxy" we are left with this let us gloss over it. And sure, would the Separatists want to keep this kind of "does Lux Bonteri know of the Sith plot to takeover the Galaxy and kill all Jedi"?

Obviously, Dooku who met him in holographic image wanted Lux Bonteri dead. But, what was more intriguing that Lux has gotten sly after his mother was assassinated... He intended to sell that information to the notorious Mandalorian Death Watch:




Now aside that the story arc of the Death Watch or the 'Ade Kyr'stad appears awesome during this episode, it seems and it would be nice to learn more about them, glean what scraps that are available, Death Watch were really fighting for survival, rather than the ugly terrorists that they were portrayed as.

Death Watch was brutal because they were angry for what the Separatists and the Jedi did to them. They were getting it from all different ends.

Courtesy of DoDeathWatch.com

Count Dooku dicked Death Watch and they wanted revenge. Did Count Dooku or Darth Tyrannus have more Sith control over the Separatist movement than that of Darth Sidious' Republic? How?

And from a Separatist point of view, was Count Dooku as a Sith Leader any worse that Chancellor Palpatine?

The oddest thing was Death Watch "tortured" droids. They used them for target practice. But the "empathy" as displayed for these droids seemed misplaced as they are programmed and can be rebuild. It could be an interesting concept that Death Watch knew a lot more than what has been lead to believe. The amount of resources at their fingertips was impoverished and they acted out brutally with pillaging the nearby towns.

Pre Vizsla exclaimed to Lux Bonteri after uncovering Ahsoka Tano Jedi ties, "The Jedi are no different than Count Dooku and you played a part! It is no different! It’s justice!"

Death Watch wanted justice to how they were ostracized by all sides around them and acted out poorly.

The big question is did Death Watch suspect Sith involvement in this war, and is that why they were ostracized from everyone?