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From: slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner)
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Subject: Re: Empire Troops Uniforms
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Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 03:06:29 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 27 03:06:29 1985
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> He probably put Imperials in armor to suggest that the Empire is a
> depersonalized, mechanical force, whose troopers all look the same
> while the rebel troops all look different since you can see their
> faces.

To combine a few of the earlier ideas:  There has been a recent advance
in blaster technology (blasters are obviously relatively new, since
light sabers where in use 1 generation ago), and armor technology has
not kept up.  Military bureaucracy always takes forever to catch up
with reality, so troops are still required to wear armor even though
it's inefective.  The rebels, on the other hand, have no resources to
waste.  Since armor doesn't help against modern blasters, they don't
wear any.

It is just a useful coincidence that we can see the rebels faces
and the empire's lackys look like something out of a cheap toy
store :-).


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