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DarkBuster22904 posted...

I love ragging on TLJ, but this I'll go to bat for.

Regime changes after s Civil war are a hell of a thing, even for small countries. It takes a hell of a lot of political and military weight to bring everything together. And the Empire/Republic was huge. Coruscant's population alone is in the trillions (no joke), and there are millions of inhabited planets.

The New Republic didn't have the empire's infrastructure. They didn't have the military might. They didn't have the numbers. And even if they did, again, MILLIONS of planets to bring to heel. This while trying to maintain that they are not a military dictatorship like the Empire was.

Even if child slavery was the tip top of their priority list, and they had specialized task forces dedicated to squashing it out, it's unrealistic to expect them to have it totally crushed. It's a hell of a big thing they're dealing with. It's easy to forget the sheer scale of the Star Wars universe sometimes, with how much story takes place on like 5 planets.

The real question is, in episode 7, why is it some small, scrappy resistance fighting the First Order and not the Grand Army of the New Republic.

Keep in mind that they have space travel though, what can take us 100's or thousands of years doesn't necessarily have to take them that long, "space-bullshit" to the rescue! But most importantly it was an unnecessary plot that was thrown in for the sake of it.
It also wasn't in some backwater planet that nobody has heard of, apparently both the "good guys" and the bad guys made plenty of deals there. I'm fine with the deals being made but nobody noticing shit? I mean the kids had to have had parents at some point. Same thing goes for the children being abducted and brainwashed to join the first order. We probably didn't see the full scope of their infantry but that is a massive amount of "missing" kids, even if we assume that only 10% of them were taken as children.