10. "RE: Future Imperfect: 20th Anniversary Celebration"
In response to message #8
It just struck me that there are parallels between Gotterdamerung and the plot Lucas used to explain the elimination of the Jedi. Like the WDF, the Jedi were a compact but powerful peacekeeping force in the galaxy. It could be argued that Palpatine poked at/exploited the Jedi mind set to commit them to spreading their forces thin fighting the separatists like Largo manipulated the Wedge Rat core group. Slight variation in that he actually turned Akakin to the dark side to get him to murder children while Largo used a copy of Gryphon to do so. Then once the play was in motion the clone troops, which vastly outnumbered the Jedi, wiped them out in a surprise attack the same way the Genom fleets ambushed the SDF-17 and other WDF ships.
I wonder if Lucas is a secret UF fan or if he just got his plot ideas from searching Usenet archives.