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Zeus posted...

Darth Vader's purge mostly continued *after* that initial purge, though.

...which we also don't get to see.

I sat through two and a half movies of dreck and the prequels didn't even have the decency to give me any sort of Darth Vader Jedi Killing payoff for it.

TheCyborgNinja posted...

And also, after the first Death Star blew up, they would obviously have things defended more securely, to the point a strike team would have difficulty accomplishing much of anything.

Star Wars is full of stuff like this, though. If you're expecting internally logical plots, you're watching the wrong franchise. The prequels are particularly bad for it, but the originals are far from free of it either. Here, I'll list one for each episode of the PT, which is far from an exhaustive list (minor spoilers for each film to follow):

-In Episode I, Qui-Gon picked the most obtuse and completely ridiculous way of getting off Tatooine when there were numerous other options available (like phoning back to Coruscant for a ride, or trading in their ship for a less-flashy one that actually has a working hyperdrive, or finding someone who wasn't immune to Qui-Gon's Jedi powers and mind-tricking them into swapping the Republic credits for the local currency [since Qui-Gon had already shown he was willing to do this to Watto, he should be fine with doing it to anyone else]). He literally makes a 9-year-old slave risk his life in a race that he's never successfully completed before, while betting multiple items that don't belong to him, and caps it off by standing in front of TV cameras with the winner of the race perched on his shoulders, despite his insistence that they have to keep a low profile to prevent the Trade Federation from finding them

-In Episode II, Jango Fett - supposedly the galaxy's most feared bounty hunter - receives a contract on the life of a galactic senator which, in theory, should be something that requires his personal attention. Instead, he sub-contracts to another assassin, who sub-sub-contracts to a droid (the assassin's role in this appears to have been nothing, save for walking five metres over to the droid and loading it up for the job). Between them, they pick the single assassination method that the Jedi could actually foil, bizarrely making the droid drop poisonous insects in Padme's room instead of just having the droid shoot her or blow itself up, either of which would have been undetectable by the Jedi until it was too late and would have been both faster and more reliable. When this fails, Obi-Wan makes the bizarre decision to jump on the droid's back, despite having no idea if it would just self-destruct now that its mission has been thwarted. However, he lucks out as, instead of just blowing up or carrying him off into the night, the droid takes him right back to its owner. Jango caps off this cascading chain of stupid by offing his underling using the only weapon in his arsenal that is highly traceable, which leads Obi-Wan directly to him and the planet his employer was attempting to hide from the Jedi (which ultimately culminates in a battle that gets a hair's breadth from scuppering Palpatine's entire plan).

Episode II/III: Thanks to Jango's aforementioned idiocy, Obi-Wan discovers that the records in the Jedi Temple have been tampered with. He heads off to Kamino and discovers a secret clone army, ordered years ago by someone impersonating a dead Jedi. Both of these point to someone with significant power working against the Jedi, likely from within the Republic itself. Yet incredibly, in the years afterwards that the Clone Wars raged, nobody in the Republic ever thought to maybe investigate this suspiciously convenient army or look into how they're being made and trained; if they did, they might have noticed that all of them have an anti-Jedi kill-order hard-coded into them from birth.
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