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Why was Luke allowed to go with Han Solo's Stike team on Endor?
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sith_rising
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Jan '04
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2/5 4:36pm
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RE: Why was Luke allowed to go with Han Solo's Stike team on Endor?
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During the PT, they're soldiers fighting a war, so they're more "military minded". By the time of the OT, they're more like policemen, strutting around, knocking on doors, questioning the locals, keeping the peace in cantinas, throwing their stuff around, etc. Kind of like how cops wear blue, because they're not there to hide, but to be seen. They break out the cammies when doing SWAT activities, and Stormies can assume the military role when needed (Hoth, for instance).
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DarthNidLoc
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2/5 5:12pm
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Plus by the OT not all stormtroopers are Jango clones so and the Imperial officer corps is pretty pathetic outside of Pellaon, thrawn, veers, and Piett. Two of whom, Pellaon and Thrawn are not highest level canon and thus subject to Lucas deciding they don't exist if he wants to.
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TwiLekJedi
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2/7 5:40am
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RE: Why was Luke allowed to go with Han Solo's Stike team on Endor?
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actually, during the PT the clones were the Grand Army of the Republic. They were 3 million (uh oh  ) highly valuable soldiers for a government headed by someone who wanted to keep up appearances - giving the army that apparently fought for Freedom and Democracy the extra percent of security provided by camouflage makes all kinds of sense.
Imperial Stormtroopers are cannon fodder. They would have worn neon green on Hoth if the paint wasn't so expensive.
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Darth_Davi
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2/7 8:46am
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TwiLekJedi posted:
actually, during the PT the clones were the Grand Army of the Republic. They were 3 million (uh oh ) highly valuable soldiers for a government headed by someone who wanted to keep up appearances - giving the army that apparently fought for Freedom and Democracy the extra percent of security provided by camouflage makes all kinds of sense.
Imperial Stormtroopers are cannon fodder. They would have worn neon green on Hoth if the paint wasn't so expensive.
In most cases, yes. I would agree that Stormtroopers being used to occupy Imperial worlds were by and large expendable cannon fodder. However, the bunker on Endor had a clear strategic value to the Empire, and should have rated the best Stormtroopers/Scout Troopers in the Imperial service to defend. The bunker housed the shield generator that was protecting the Death Star, hardly something trivial. Then there is the fact that at the time, they knew that Palpatine was going to be on board the Death Star, making it an even bigger target. The bunker should have rated the cream of the crop. The Stormtroopers had no need to be impressive to the Ewoks, no need to flaunt anything...but, they did have a need to protect their Emperor, and on a forest moon, where you are tasked with protecting the shield generator that prevents the rebels from attacking your Emperor, I don't think asking for camouflage would be too much. In fact, given such a high profile target, a strategic blunder like keeping the troopers in white should have cost the Officer in charge his rank, or had Vader been around, possibly his life. Either way, the Stormtroopers wearing white on Endor was incredibly stupid.
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TwiLekJedi
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2/7 10:03am
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Where's the need for camouflage when guarding a "secret bunker" the location of which was given away? There was "an entire legion" to deal with a small unit of Rebel commandos.
And even this late in the war, the Empire still believed the mere presence of stormtroopers is (almost) enough to deter any threat. It even worked because twice the Rebel Heroes hesitated at the mere sight of 2 to 4 Scout Troopers (the patrol and the bunker guards). And after the speeder bike chase a trooper in shiny white armor... gave off precision shots with a blaster from concealment. During which his equally shiny buddy could sneak up on Leia.
The only thing that made the troopers vulnerable was the unexpected assistance of the Ewoks - and by then camouflage wouldn't have helped either.
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xx_Anakin_xx
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2/7 10:33am
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Wasn't Luke planning to get busted on Endor? Isn't that why he went along?
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