The roman empire but with light sabers

Alec Rusten
10/28/18

In the extremely popular sci-fi series, star wars, the entire timelines  of all six movies follow and are inspired by the events that occurred in ancient Rome. I'm going to focus on the senate in starwars seen in the sixth movie released, Starwars Episode III, Revenge of the Sith. In the first hour of this movie there is a scene where there are multiple different senators, all from different planets or races that are debating who the next chancellor should be, all the senators were at a power struggle and wanted to be the next chancellor, and the current chancellor had corrupt plans for the future. In Ancient Rome there weren't exactly representatives from different races or planets, but there was a power struggle and the republic was slowly falling apart at the seams. This is when Augustus Caesar deemed himself emperor and turned Rome into an empire, thus fixing many problems that a republic couldn't handle. In starwars the Chancellor did the same thing, being a little more sinister and corrupt while executing this order, but swiftly turned the Republic trade federation into a galactic empire.