“Lucas isn\u2019t exactly doing anything unprecedented \u2014 the Empire is basically a bunch of space Nazis, and Lucas parallels the Empire\u2019s rise in the prequels with the Nazi Party\u2019s rise in Germany. But for as stilted and affectless as the films can be, they\u2019re tapped into something raw and real about how often seemingly stable societies collapse into fascism, into revolution, into political upheaval.<\/p>\n I probably don\u2019t have to connect too many dots between what\u2019s happened in the US in the wake of 9\/11, the economic collapse of 2008, and the presidential election of 2016 before you can see that, yeah, the Star Wars prequels eerily illustrate how tyranny can rise when good men do nothing, because \u201cdo nothing\u201d too often means \u201cignore the people suffering right under your nose, because it implicates you in some way.\u201d I\u2019d stop short of calling the films some sort of communist or socialist manifesto, but Lucas, an old lefty, surely wouldn\u2019t mind a Marxist reading of them.<\/p>\n In 1999, at the tail end of the American Century, that sort of scenario felt like a far-off horror, a reminder of a past we had thankfully escaped. Twenty years later … well, whatever might bring balance to our world feels very far, far away indeed.” – Emily St. James, The Star Wars prequels are bad \u2014 and insightful about American politics<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n \nClass Wargames will be hosting a collective playing of Arty’s Clone Wars Game<\/em>.<\/p>\n Entrance free. Bring your own food & drink.<\/p>\n Friday 28th February<\/strong> Newspeak House<\/a> \nClass Wargames will be using Arty’s Clone Wars Game rules<\/a>. These rules are inspired by the World War 2 rules in Donald Featherstone’s War Games: battles and manoeuvres with model soldiers<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n \nClass Wargames will be playing with 6mm sci-fi figurines by Irregular Miniatures<\/a> and Brigade Models<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nNewspeak House scenario<\/a> for Arty’s Clone Wars game<\/p>\n Clone Army<\/b><\/p>\n Obi Wan Kenobi<\/a> Rebel Alliance<\/b><\/p>\n Savage Opress<\/a> Fighting in the Wars of the Outer Worlds “Lucas isn\u2019t exactly doing anything unprecedented \u2014 the Empire is basically a bunch of space Nazis, and Lucas parallels the Empire\u2019s rise in the prequels with the Nazi Party\u2019s rise in Germany. But for as stilted and affectless as the films can be, they\u2019re tapped into something raw and real about how often seemingly stable societies collapse into fascism, into revolution, into…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Clone_Wars_MR-1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5046"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5067,"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046\/revisions\/5067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
6.30pm-10.30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nAsajj Ventress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"