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Han_Solo_Rocks Registered: Dec '04	Date Posted: 10/30/05 11:09am Subject: What if Star Wars had Transporter technology in its movies?
	I have always wondered if Transporter technology was used in the OT how it would have changed the storyline? For instance, in the beginning of ANH if Leia beamed R2 down to the surface of Tatooine would C3P0 have gone with him? How would the movies have changed as a result of them having transporter technology? What do we all think?
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Smuggler-of-Mos-Espa Registered: Jan '02	Date Posted: 10/30/05 11:25am Subject: RE: What if Star Wars had Transporter technology in its movies?
	Transporter technology? As is beaming people and objects from one place to another? Well, then Leia would've met up with Obi-Wan...Or she would be killed. I don't know, but I hate "what if" threads. -----signature----- Dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit. http://smuggler-of-mos-espa.deviantart.com/
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TwiLekJedi Title: Classic Trilogy Manager Registered: Jun '01	Date Posted: 10/30/05 12:13pm Subject: RE: What if Star Wars had Transporter technology in its movies?
	Ugh. Beaming is awful. It would be the most terrible thing to have in Star Wars. I hate it. I actually heard that there are 2 or 3 more or less obscure stories that kinda had teleporting (... or wait.... maybe that was time travel... the only thing worse than beaming). It's so simple, unexciting and cheap. If Star Wars had Beaming, I would barely like it. Ugh -----signature----- We do what we must Because we can For the good of all of us Except the ones who are dead
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mrfootball Registered: Mar '05	Date Posted: 10/30/05 12:35pm Subject: RE: What if Star Wars had Transporter technology in its movies?
	nerdiest. thread. ever. -----signature----- "On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being extremely extreme and 1 being not so extreme- that as a 9.5!!!" \|-o-\| (-o-) \|-o-\| "HAHA!!! CONE WARS!!! hahaa it says CONE WARS!!!"
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Kinobe Registered: Apr '03	Date Posted: 10/30/05 1:49pm Subject: RE: What if Star Wars had Transporter technology in its movies?
	Hmm, Luke does say in ANH 'teleport me off this rock', so I assume it does exist in some form in the Star Wars universe... -----signature----- A tiger? In Africa? http://www.last.fm/user/Alienspacer/ I keep my underwear up with a piece of elastic.
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Circle_Is_Complete Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 10/30/05 10:49pm Subject: RE: What if Star Wars had Transporter technology in its movies?
	Maybe Obi-Wan never died....He just teleported. -----signature----- Mrs. Bluth to Annyong: "Here is some money, go see a Star War" Obi-Wan to Palpatine "Sith are our speciality" New member of the Obi-Wan Kenobi fan club!
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TheCRZA Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 10/31/05 12:11am Subject: RE: What if Star Wars had Transporter technology in its movies?
	Hmm, Luke does say in ANH 'teleport me off this rock', so I assume it does exist in some form in the Star Wars universe... I always took this line as a deliberate shot at Wagon Train in space. -----signature----- "When I give food to the poor, I am a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, I am a communist." -Hélder Câmara
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Lars_Muul Registered: Oct '00	Date Posted: 10/31/05 1:11am Subject: RE: What if Star Wars had Transporter technology in its movies?
	He says "Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock". In other words, impossible things. If the Star Wars characters could teleport, Luke and Obi-Wan would've been on Alderaan when it blew. Much shorter saga! Hey, wait: That would mean that Leia would somehow get in contact with Yoda and become a Jedi! Leia is the other /LM
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Lurking_Around Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 10/31/05 1:43am Subject: RE: What if Star Wars had Transporter technology in its movies?
	Vader: Alert the transporter to prepare for my arrival. -----signature----- "Bealocwealm hafað fréone frecan forth onsended" (An evil death has set forth the noble warrior) --Eowyn (Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers) The Holy Stand-In of the Cult of the Blue Numbers After The Thread Titles
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Mos_Eisley Registered: May '04	Date Posted: 10/31/05 3:29am Subject: RE: What if Star Wars had Transporter technology in its movies?
	There probably would have been a massive lawsuit photon torpedo launched from Paramount and Gene Roddenberry. -----signature----- "Who's manning the Internet?!" -Stan Smith from American Dad at a Sci-Fi Convention
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Kinobe Registered: Apr '03	Date Posted: 10/31/05 6:28am Subject: RE: What if Star Wars had Transporter technology in its movies?
	Lars_Muul posted: He says "Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock". In other words, impossible things. Aah yeah, fair point. -----signature----- A tiger? In Africa? http://www.last.fm/user/Alienspacer/ I keep my underwear up with a piece of elastic.
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Lurking_Around Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 10/31/05 6:34am Subject: RE: What if Star Wars had Transporter technology in its movies?
	There probably would have been a massive lawsuit photon torpedo launched from Paramount and Gene Roddenberry. I don't think Star Trek can claim exclusive rights to "transporters", or any other stuff in Trek such as "shields", "phasers", etc. -----signature----- "Bealocwealm hafað fréone frecan forth onsended" (An evil death has set forth the noble warrior) --Eowyn (Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers) The Holy Stand-In of the Cult of the Blue Numbers After The Thread Titles
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skyysoblue Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 11/1/05 3:02pm Subject: RE: What if Star Wars had Transporter technology in its movies?
	To answer the actual question: The transporter beams would have been cut off by the shields of the ship (assuming the same Star Trek Shield/transporter dilemna) so nobody could have beamed down to the planet's surface. The real problem would have been that Luke would have been teleported up to the death star from the planet's surface, and thus not had available Vader's shuttle to escape with when the death star was on the verge of blowing up. (I doubt he would have found an empty transporter pad, he needed Vader's empty shuttle which nobody would dare touch to use to escape) so, if transporter technology exists, Luke ends up dead in the last movie.
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solo77 Registered: Aug '02	Date Posted: 11/1/05 5:04pm Subject: RE: What if Star Wars had Transporter technology in its movies?
	The movies would be crap, just like Trek! -----signature-----
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Smuggler-of-Mos-Espa Registered: Jan '02	Date Posted: 11/1/05 5:14pm Subject: RE: What if Star Wars had Transporter technology in its movies?
	Kinobe posted: Hmm, Luke does say in ANH 'teleport me off this rock', so I assume it does exist in some form in the Star Wars universe... True, but I doubt it's the kind of teleportion we're used to hearing about. I always assumed that line meant simply leaving the planet on a ship. -----signature----- Dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit. http://smuggler-of-mos-espa.deviantart.com/
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Golden_Eyes Registered: Oct '05	Date Posted: 11/1/05 5:58pm Subject: RE: What if Star Wars had Transporter technology in its movies?
	There won't be a "fly casual" but a lot of technobabble about "bypassing the shield".
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