Naboo had tons of right ideas, they were unjustly invaded by the Trade Federation who were claiming they were provoked by “Republic Expansionism” and were seeking to “de-Sithify” the planet, only to be obliterated by poorly-equipped but well-motivated Gungan professional soldiers and Naboo’s own military, launching clumsy and mutually unsupportive armour and infantry thrusts across open ground, and getting bogged down in street fighting in Theed, rather than using their mobile forces to bypass and encircle the capital. Don’t even get me started on their inability to organize a counter battery to deal with fucking catapult artillery mounted on giant hippos, or failing to achieve air superiority against an air force that consisted of a few dozen N-1s and an 8 year old with mommy issues. Naboo fought well but the Trade Federation was a paper tiger.

Yet as soon as that conflict ended, everyone just forgot about it and started pretending the Confederacy of Independent Systems was a peer adversary for the Republic, despite the Trade Federation’s embarrassment on Naboo, in a few months it will be back to the old “Grand Army of the Republic ads show that clones all have one father, look how manly this battle droid factory is, AATs and Vulture droids are simple and battle-tested, the Techno Union’s starships TERRIFY Republic admirals, the ARC-170 is a multirole compromise boondoggle, look how maneuverable the new Tri Fighter is, it did Gunray’s Cobra at an airshow, they are just keeping the production numbers a secret, they just sent in cannon fodder at Theed, they haven’t sent in the supers, the DC-15 is inferior to the simple, reliable E-5, “negative, blaster is fine, roger roger huhuhuhuh”, etc etc”

I fucking hope the CIS ends up fighting the Republic and puts an end to this “rugged, battle hardened” bantha shit once and for all, they are not a peer adversary