Star Wars-gasm

[Imran Siddiqui]

In KOTOR, Sith Lords could be spirits too.

I think this also came into play with some of the EU novels (which I never read, so I may be wrong on this) where the Emperor had a number of clones his spirit could return to.

[Sava]

which series has the worst system of government?

Star Trek or Star Wars?

[Hauldren Collider]

Clearly star wars.

[Proteus_MST]

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and speaking of Anakin being a spirit... putting Hayden whatshisface in at the end of RotJ officially makes it part of the prequels, imo

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Not if you´re lucky enough to possess DVDs with the SW IV-VI - Trilogy from the time before SW III came out

which series has the worst system of government?

Star Trek or Star Wars?

Poverty and Slavery seem to have been totally eliminated in the region governed by the United Federation of Planets ... so I guess the answer can only be "Star Wars"

[Sava]

do ships in Star Wars' universe actually just travel at the speed of light?

if so, that must be a small ass galaxy if Han Solo can make it to the "other side of the galaxy by now" in the time they were hanging out on the side of the star destroyer

if not, why call it "light speed"? I'll accept the use of "hyperspace"... however, the terms were used interchangeably.

[Sava]

Not if you´re lucky enough to possess DVDs with the SW IV-VI - Trilogy from the time before SW III came out

yeah, I have the original theatrical releases around here somewhere

aside from fixing the orange smudge beneath the speeder on tatooine and upgrading some of the space combat in Ep4, the newer releases are ****

the worst, imo, is the explosion ring that is now part of the death star explosions

Poverty and Slavery seem to have been totally eliminated in the region governed by the United Federation of Planets ... so I guess the answer can only be "Star Wars"

we actually have very little insight into how the government of the federation functions

how does the president get elected? is it a straight up democracy? do votes on earth count more than votes on mars or vulcan?

also, in the star trek universe, has anyone ever remarked about how the "Vulcans" share their name with an ancient earth god?

[Imran Siddiqui]

You people are ruining the Wars-gasm.

It's like people walking in while you are wacking it and criticizing your porn choices or technique

[Sava]

It's like people walking in while you are wacking it and criticizing your porn choices or technique

If it will improve the experience, I welcome such input

if not, then I don't care... people are free to be wrong

[Elok]

The Ewok uprising made one wonder why Stormtroopers wear their armor at all.
After all it didn´t even protect them from the arrows shot by the Ewok archers or the stones hurled by the Ewok slingers
(which makes you suspect that the protection value of stormtrooper armor must be close to zero ... only protecting them from things like sunburns (when combing a desert for fugitive droids) and maybe from punches in a canteen brawl)

(ignoring the prequels here obviously)

Let's start by turning your question on its head. The stormtrooper armor could conceivably have any number of uses: it could be a simple harness for comm and biomonitor equipment, function as a space/hazmat suit, or merely be intended as an intimidating uniform. We could explain it away however. But never mind that; seeing as it's so flimsy, and nobody has personal forcefields or anything, why does everyone bother with blasters?

They don't (apparently) offer any enhanced functionality over firearms, aside from the rarely-used stun setting. A pistol is presumptively much cheaper and easier to manufacture, and less likely to break down, than a blaster. More baffling still, the Jedi have superhuman reflexes, but negate half that advantage by restricting themselves to a melee weapon. A Jedi armed with an Uzi could probably fire off a ten-round burst and have each bullet hit a separate stormtrooper in the heart (or disarm him, if they don't want to follow the Dark Side).

And why are there stormtroopers, or TIE fighters, anyway? Droids are apparently pretty common and affordable--you can buy a functioning one off a desert scavenger on a craphole like Tattooine--and cannon fodder don't even need to be that bright. But any robot would be more durable, have faster reflexes, and require less support than humans who need to eat and breathe all the time. Throw in landspeeder-style repulsors and a rudimentary shield, and five of them could burn through Leia's ship at the start of ANH quite easily. Yet we see no combat droids in the original trilogy, apart from IG-88 and 4-LOM in the background of ESB.

I guess what I'm saying is, you're unfairly singling out one little nonsensical aspect of a great and multi-colored tapestry of nonsense. SW is a pastiche of popular 1950s film cliches. The Ewoks and rebels beat the stormtroopers because we like the thought of Indians teaming up with Cowboys to beat the hell out of Nazis. The Nazis have armor to make them faceless, like cockroaches, and OK to step on. The Indians are teddy bears to make it easier to feel paternalistic towards them and make the Nazis look bad.

Now knock it off with that "logic" bull****.

[spambot]

You're assuming they invented firearms at some point in the past

[Sava]

Why don't they just make stormtrooper armor out of the metal used in the death star garbage disposal door? Hell, why not build a big ship out of that?

[Thoth]

Why don't they just make stormtrooper armor out of the metal used in the death star garbage disposal door? Hell, why not build a big ship out of that?

because the galaxy's teddy bear overlords won't permit it.

[Sava]

Into the garbage suit flyboy.

And how did Luke get completely submerged in knee deep water by that creature? How did that thing get in there? Wouldn't something like that be in there because the death star builders put it there? And if there was some creature that performed some sort of task in the death star garbage crusher things or sewers or something, wouldn't it be widely known and used in other structures? So it shouldn't be unknown to them. But they get in there and nobody seems to worry about some sort of tentacle creature being there.

[DinoDoc]

But they get in there and nobody seems to worry about some sort of tentacle creature being there.

Japanese influence.

[DinoDoc]

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