Tarsus Valorum Saved The Republic But Doomed The Galactic Senate - Star Wars Legends #Shorts

In a long run he doomed the Republic But I also see that he did do something that would require at the time but there are better ways than disassembling the whole Republic as we've seen in the new Republic and even the galactic alliance and it's predecessor you can have a strong military presence and still have plants that have their independence so there's a good way to balance it and he took the first steps in doing that but never followed through because he left avoid word corrupt senators could fall in greedy corporations and too much Greed could funnel in this week point

Do we have a source on the art used here?

Strong resemblance to Willem Dafoe actor who plays Green Goblin. Yeah the senate was screwed

Had Palpatine held UNLIMITED POWEEEER in the senate,the result would be same or worse and possibly sooner.
That being said,there is no guarantee he would come to power in that case or indeed being born.

so more democracy is bad?

Just another reason why Dooku's change of allegiance made sense.

I want supreme chancellor Vallorom as a minifigure

Giving power to individual planets? Based as hell, sucks they didn’t get the ships they would need to protect themselves though 🙁

To be fair though most of the republics problems were already there since the old republic. It was only when the Russen Reformation happened that it became worse.

It sounds like he did what was necessary to slow the death of the republic.
No government is eternal, and eventually everything will end.
He revitalized the government and allowed the breathing room for local governments to take care of their citizens actual needs which in turn kept them happy enough to not leave the republic itself. That is a victory.

No Republic in all human history (discounting city-states along the lines of Venice and the sort) has lasted even half the time that the Rusaan Reformation Republic lasted. If it takes that long for a system to fall apart, it's a pretty damn good system. I mean, if you look at all the governments that exist today, we don't even have one older than 450 years (and if we go back to the city state rule, none are much more than 300 years old). So yeah, 1,000 relatively peaceful years is pretty good

Too much power for either sides breeds corruption

Republic or Empire , what's your desire. Freed from desire is purifier.

But the galactic republic DID last a thousand years under the Ruusan reformations. Which is a long time to hold onto control of the whole galaxy. I think that neutering the central government allowed the republic to be pluralistic enough to last that long. It didn’t matter that no one trusted the central government because the central government didn’t do anything. It had to be purposefully manipulated by a Sith Lord to collapse.

The Ruusan Reformation and it’s consequences have been a disaster for the galaxy.

I think this man meant well. But the road to tragedy is often paved with the best of intentions.

The thing about desperate measures by those who lack the imagination and the foresight to realize the future repercussions from such actions, they end up being the catalyst for the plans of those with ill and evil intentions.

Wasn't the chancellor before Palpatine also named Valorum?

Democracy is the tyranny of the majority

Damn 2 different chancellor Valorums over a 1000 years apart that ended up ushering the age of the Sith in each time with the downfall of the Republic each time as well.

Valorum: bad cause he didn't do a dictatorship

Palpatine: bad cause he did a dictatorship

Wow, I’m glad this is only science fiction 😂

really poetic how the first and the last chancellor(before Palpatine) of the galactic republic were from the same family.
I know he wasn’t the first of the republic as a whole but he was the first in the age of the galactic republic when the republic was the only power in the galaxy

Always happy to learn more about Star Wars Legends

If one idea u make can hold a literal galaxy together for 10000 years while literal magic men try to destroy it, then the idea is really good. Even more so when u don't even live long enough to make sure. Sure some part of it was bad but other parts drove the sith plan to a really long time.

There wasnt much else the chancellor could've done to be fair. By this time the Jedi had been in charge for centuries and many were Lord protectors of chosen systems. Even if the military was disarmed the Jedi would've still maintained significant power over these worlds.
By delegating this power to the senators it did cause gridlock, but allowed the jedi to transition into peacekeepers, which was a role far better suited to the Order.
The complete disillusion of the Galaxy Military is ridiculous though, sure the sith were "extinct" but betwen the Hutts, pirate gangs, mandalorians, and slavers such as the Zygerians the notion of transitioning to planetary defense forces was hopelessly naive.
In conclusion short term it was a great decision but long term it played right into the Sith's hands.

I think the ruusan reformations got a few things right but most of these reforms would Doom the Republic in the long run

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