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voodoopuuduu
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4/28 3:33pm
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RE: Burning homestead?
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Hmm, what if by some happy coincidence it really was the Sandpeople ? They do carry on raids when the human numbers are low, and Luke was over at Obi-Wans place. And when the stormtroopers got to the Lars homestead, they saw what Luke saw and left ? 
After all, it was the only place in the trilogy where bodies were burnt, which is primitive by nature and not characteristic of stormtroopers, who used blasters.
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_Sublime_Skywalker_
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rumsmuggler posted:
It's from Vader: The Ultimate Guide.
Not a comic as far as I know.
Where can I find this book? Is it that one that was included in the redemption Anakin Skywalker figurine in 97?
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rumsmuggler
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_Sublime_Skywalker_ posted:
rumsmuggler posted:
It's from Vader: The Ultimate Guide.
Not a comic as far as I know.
Where can I find this book? Is it that one that was included in the redemption Anakin Skywalker figurine in 97?
Most book stores, as far as I know.
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anakinhasamullet
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So are we all in agreement then that it really was the Sand People that torched the homestead and not the Empire? Maybe a few survivors from Anakin's little temper tantrum finally followed him back home. Took a while but it's kind of hard to walk with no legs!!!
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Vortigern99
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No, of course not. Imperial Stormtroopers torched the Lars home searching for the droids. Your explanation is imaginative, but that simply is not what happened!
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voodoopuuduu
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But after four trials in the Imperial Supreme Court, it would be shown that the Sandpeople did it. 
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Obironsolo
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The interesting idea mentioned above is not that the Sandpeople actually burned down the Lars homestead, but that the reason the Stormtroopers burned it down, a la the Sandcrawler, was so that Luke and Ben "were meant to think they did".
Not an Earth-shattering idea, but in 31 years, I had never thought of it. Nice call, young Padawan.
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Chico_Jedi
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rumsmuggler posted:
It's from Vader: The Ultimate Guide.
Not a comic as far as I know.
Cool. I just thought it could be a comic because of the style of the art.
I don't really understand why would the Empire, responsible for so many artrocities through time, want to hide their actions on a small, insignificant planet such as Tattooine, by pretending they were Sandpeople.
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voodoopuuduu
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was so that Luke and Ben "were meant to think they did".
I cant believe the stormtroopers did it to just hide it from Luke or Obi-Wan.
Which leads to the question of why didnt they just use their blasters like normal ? After all, blasters seemed to be the most common gun in the GFFA, so it cant be assumed the Stormtroopers blasted them. And if it was found that it was done by the stormtroopers, whats the big deal ? The Empire intended to rule by fear. Why go to the trouble of making it look like the Sandpeople did it ?
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Vortigern99
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I suppose it's a thin line to walk, between openly using violence to cause fear in the populace, and to hide despicable acts from the populace in order to keep them from inciting revolution. To speculate further, perhaps the Empire (as personified by Vader in this instance, since he probably gave the order) did not want any more local boys joining the Rebellion in response to these obvious human rights violations.
Like I said, it's a thin line to walk, and here the Empire appears to have opted for hiding their misdeeds to keep the ranks of the Rebels from swelling.
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rumsmuggler
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voodoopuuduu posted:
was so that Luke and Ben "were meant to think they did".
I cant believe the stormtroopers did it to just hide it from Luke or Obi-Wan.
I think that were doing it to hide their actions from whoever happened to swing by, not Luke and Obi Wan in particular. Anyone that knows the tactics of the Tuskens should be able tell the difference from a real Tusken attack and from one that tried to make it look like a Tusken attack.
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voodoopuuduu
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So what was the point of the whole exercise ? Since the Empire wanted to rule by fear anyway, why did they go to all that trouble ?
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SaberSlash
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Torching the place is about keeping order. Obiwan recognized that it was stormtroopers that destroyed the jawas transport though it was made to look like sandpeople (the tracks) The Empire is trying to maintain control of the Galaxy. The last thing it wants to do is stir up another local population with Anti-Empire feelings; thus the the attempt at a coverup of their operations.
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Vortigern99 posted:
I suppose it's a thin line to walk, between openly using violence to cause fear in the populace, and to hide despicable acts from the populace in order to keep them from inciting revolution. To speculate further, perhaps the Empire (as personified by Vader in this instance, since he probably gave the order) did not want any more local boys joining the Rebellion in response to these obvious human rights violations.
Like I said, it's a thin line to walk, and here the Empire appears to have opted for hiding their misdeeds to keep the ranks of the Rebels from swelling.
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Darky5K
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4/30 11:51pm
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SaberSlash posted:
Torching the place is about keeping order. Obiwan recognized that it was stormtroopers that destroyed the jawas transport though it was made to look like sandpeople (the tracks) The Empire is trying to maintain control of the Galaxy. The last thing it wants to do is stir up another local population with Anti-Empire feelings; thus the the attempt at a coverup of their operations.
Well, they failed at that, Tatooine had a high anti-Imperial sentiment.
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