If anyone is going to argue numbers keep in mind that George was a spectacular failure in that department. In the original Star Wars novelization it was stated that Jedi numbered only in the 10's of thousands in a galaxy with billions of planets. George vastly deflated the numbers that are necessary to have a logical universe that contains 10's of trillions of living beings. If anything, the numbers of Jedi should be in the millions in the PT and whittled down to the thousands. That is if you want to go with the statement that the Jedi stood as the protectors of the peace and dispensers of justice. A few hundred thousand Jedi will not be sufficient to do it.
Yeah, Lucas, like far too many fantasy/sci-fi writers has little understanding of scale and numbers, or how they would impact worldbuidling.
In the second episode, when the clones are being introduced those aliens that made them mention that this grand army of the Republic is made up of a measly 1 million clones. Some have interpreted that the units mentioned are actually armies, but it's never fully clarified.
Also, the movies never really explain how the Republic plans to win a war against an opponent that can literally drown them in droids. I remember some autist crunching numbers and coming to the realization that a single, average planet could produce trillions of droids in a single year.
Then, as you say, the size and population of the galaxy is just too massive to easily conceptualize. Even 40k, as insane as it is, never claims that the Imperium has more than 3 million habitable planets, and even that propels the human population into the trillions, with billions of active soldiers on a million different battlefields.
Yet when wars do happen in Star Wars they tend to look like fairly tame affairs - you won't see anything like the casuality rates of LOGH or 40k.
The Empire controls the interstellar communications system and maintains a strict policy on what is broadcast. If it's Jedi then it will be played as they are traitors with the valiant Inquisitors and Imperial troops bringing them to justice.
And what has that to do with people forgetting Jedi, especially if the Empire is busy telling everyone on their equivalent of television that Jedi are traitors?
The point is that it makes little sense that people have forgotten about the Jedi in a mere 20 years, especially since many recall both the Republic and the Clone Wars.
The Separatists weren't fighting in between the PT/OT. You know why? They were all droids. The entire war was designed that the Separatists would end up losing which is shown in the OT. This is why droids are so hated in the OT is due to the Clone Wars. Once the war ended, the droids were shut down and the Separatists rejoined the Republic/Empire.
No, this is pretty much confirmed, even as recently as in Rebels. There were many Separatist holdouts, hidden bases, rogue fleets and even whole systems that kept the fight going after the Republic was toppled. While the mainstay of the Separatists were droids, there were plenty of planets that deployed living troops.
If you haven't read a book or comic or even played a game in the EU then it doesn't exist in your canon. Your canon is what you have personally experienced.
Except plenty of EU stories reference each other, or are direct sequels to them. As far as the EU is concerned the Thrawn trilogy is pretty much canon, since it's basically the foundation upon which the rest of the EU rests upon.
If you disagree with this then I feel sorry for you in being a mindless consumer drone to the Disknee Empire.
I don't think you quite grasp what I said. Movies and Clone Wars/Rebels is canon, anything that directly contradicts them is not, everything else is treated as canon by Lucas Arts, the writers, the fans etc. unless specified otherwise.
