How would you disprove the 3 million number?

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How would you disprove the 3 million number?

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Say you're given the rights to write a book during the clone wars. How would you ruin the number or would you simply let bygones be bygones?

I would try to mention say 3.1 million clones that invaded a word. Just throw 3.1 million out there that way it doesn't upset the minimalists too much but at the same time ruins the 3 million number. A little light I know. But I don't think going into detail about how stupid a 3 million man army is would be a good idea.
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I completely ignore the idiotic number and procede to write my own numbers. With tens of millions of clones invading a single planet, millions of warships clashing across the galaxy, countless quintillions of soldiers on both sides, etc.
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There are more inhabited planets in the SW galaxy than that. The end.
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The Open Circle Fleet was split into five groups of a thousand ships each. 5000 Venator class SDs - at 7400 crew each + 2000 troops.

That comes to 47 million clones for just the forces under Obi-Wan. Thats the logical way.

Karen Traviss is a fucking retard. Thats the simple way.
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Deepcrush wrote:The Open Circle Fleet was split into five groups of a thousand ships each. 5000 Venator class SDs - at 7400 crew each + 2000 troops.

That comes to 47 million clones for just the forces under Obi-Wan. Thats the logical way.

Karen Traviss is a f***ing retard. Thats the simple way.
I mean like how would you write it in a book. Would you make a point to disprove her math or would you work it into the dialogue or how?
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I would just point out that the accountant (a Travissian) made a typo when he listed the clone army as being 3 million troops in his books, then have that race exterminated.
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Or just throw out an offhand comment about how some idiot journalist wrote a somewhat inaccurate article for a magazine about the GAR. Hell, it wouldn't be that difficult to turn the entire fiasco into an IU story.
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Can't we just shoot her?
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Deepcrush wrote:Can't we just shoot her?
That won't really fix the 3 million issue. It will serve as a warning to future writers though.
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Nutso wrote:
Deepcrush wrote:Can't we just shoot her?
That won't really fix the 3 million issue. It will serve as a warning to future writers though.
Fix what? :P
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:lol:
I wouldn't waste my time writing it in the first place. I'm not an effective fiction writer.
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Truth is that while she wrote it out. They could just reconn the whole thing.
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Deepcrush wrote:
Nutso wrote:
Deepcrush wrote:Can't we just shoot her?
That won't really fix the 3 million issue. It will serve as a warning to future writers though.
Fix what? :P
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Just ignore it.

Hell, if you really need to disprove it simply go with Seafort's suggestion.
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On a fun note, I just remembered that Saxton calculated that the average TradeFed Lucrehulk vessel could carry 200 million battledroids. Just point that out in a book, and the 3 million clones number becomes even more ridiculous. Unless you want to argue that the CIS couldn't fill a single ship with troops.
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