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Star Wars: Rogue One
Neko_Ali:
The so-called 'Callsign-gate' is a lie! Red Five was an inside job!
Tova:
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--- Quote from: Tova on 17 Dec 2016, 19:29 --- (click to show/hide)* Including that line. You know the one.
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(click to show/hide)I've got a bad feeling... // Quiet!
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That's the one. :)
sitnspin:
I'm kind of new to the whole Star Wars thing. Up until last year I'd never seen a SW film. Is storm trooper armor supposed to have any protective property, because it doesn't seem to.
Neko_Ali:
It doesn't. It's just a uniform to turn the Empire's troops into well.. faceless stormtroopers. The old Clone Trooper armor, which was based on Mandalorian armor did have protective value. But that was a difference in value system. The Republic saw it's soldiers as valuable people, even if they were clones. They wanted them to keep fighting.
Stormtrooper armor is made cheaply and in mass amounts because to them their soldiers, at least the baseline soldiers, are insignificant numbers. That's why they don't have names, they have serial numbers. They are just cogs in the Imperial machine, ready to be ground up. Heck, they were beat by teddy bears with slings and spears in Return of the Jedi.
BenRG:
This wasn't just a case of equipment either. Stormtroopers and other Imperial fighting personnel were brainwashed during training to consider themselves as as interchangeable identical tools with no intrinsic value beyond their function and capable of being totally replaced in an instant without any significant loss of efficiency to the whole machine.
This was really typified in the Starfighter Legion. The TIE/ln TIE Fighter was cheap, low-spec and basically intended first and foremost for quick and easy manufacture and also (this is important) that it was possible to quickly and easily routinely return them to factory specifications at the end of every mission. Similarly, the pilots were practically programmed to consider themselves as interchangeable and quickly and easily replaceable. So you had interchangeable and identical fighters that could be flown by what were effectively 'plug in' interchangeable and identical organic CPUs. No individuality, no personality and no intrinsic value.
(click to show/hide)That's why Tarkin had no problem blowing up Skarrif Base (even with the battle over and a tactical justification that was iffy at best). There was nothing down there that the various factories, academies and indoctrination and training camps couldn't replace in a few days at most.
It's details like this that make me shake my head in horror at all the people who openly admit to admiring the Galactic Empire and consider them the good guys.
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