IIRC they were completely exterminated. The subplot in Rebels about the characters saving the Geonosian Queen egg, i.e. the last piece of their whole species after the Empire killed them all, ended up getting invalidated in a comic that revealed that the queen born from the egg was sterile and can't reproduce.
It's kinda fucked up that you think geonosians cant design technology because they look like bugs
I'm very late to the party on this, but Attack of the Clones was on and I had to squint so hard at this scene because I couldn't believe what I was watching. Somehow this scene crawled back from the abyss of my memory and was out on full display on my living room TV.
You mean to tell me these walking-talking cicadas DESIGNED AN INTERSTELLAR SPACE WEAPON?
For what? Why them? Why is this movie so bad? Among the many baffling moves in Episode 2, this has to be up there right?
The Geonosians just designed it.
It's been a while since I read it but the canon prequel novel to Rogue One, Catalyst, goes in depth about how he was an expert on kyber crystal tech that they wanted to use for the weapon part of the Death Star. That's why he was initially brought on the project.
Why in the actual fuck were 3PO and R2-D2 there every fucking step of the way? Why is there a scene of Chewbacca letting Yoda ride on his back?
The Geonosians did build most of it. All the stuff going on between the Empire, the Geonosians, and Galen Erso is detailed in the book Catalyst, which is canon.
So the blueprints from the prequels just had a section labeled "giant laser here" and he was brought on board to figure out how to build that sucker? Sounds about right.
Blueprints don't show you how to run things. Otherwise, the PRC would have passed everyone technologically a couple of decades ago.
Yeah, the technological capability is there. I'm talking about a jump in motivation. Like why go from building armies to destroying planets over a secessionist movement?
Neat. I'll have to give it a rewatch.
No, he had them build it, and when they didn't know how to finish things he got Galen and killed their race off.
it was probably some shopping around for a buyer. being the military industrial complex the Geonosians are, selling shit is what they do, so selling a giant wmd to a warring faction isn't too out of line. it's like Boeing or Northrop Gruman selling NATO a new weapon they invented while NATO is at war with the Russians
