Posted: July 20, 2000 at 12:33:29: by Gungnir
: How many trained stormtroopers were present in the hanger? We could surmise that there were at least 20 and probably closer to a hundred hanging out, cleaning their armor, and placing bets on how long it would take Vader to chop down the old dude in the funny brown robes.: And yet after the alert is unwittingly given out by Luke, not one of these guys could hit our fleeing heros, while Luke et. al. managed to down half a dozen, plant a pot shot in the blast door (and why does that cause doors to shut and lock??) and then take off without a scratch (except for Obi, of course . . . but was he really scratched??). : Now, I assume that the Empire trains these guys, and doesn't just pass out blasters and armor to any JarJar Binks that walks along! And thus, with some twenty blasters all pointed at Luke et. al. one would think that these trained soldiers would be able to at least wing someone. Chewbacca is the biggest target walking, and I don't recall his fur even being singed! : But perhaps I was just drunk when I watched the movies. ;) : -RR Maybe if you had been sober, you would have remembered the scene about 5 minutes later where a discussion between Tarkin and Vader reveals that they let the Falcon escape to lead them to the Rebel base. Obviously, the thing can't fly itself so I am guessing that the Stormtroopers (along with the TIE Fighter pilots) had been told to let them escape. However, I can find no real explanation for Stormtroopers in some kind of advanced body-armour being killed by an Ewok hitting them on the helmet with a stone. Any takers?
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