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From: pete@stc.UUCP (Peter Kendell)
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Subject: Re: Empire Troops Uniforms
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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 06:28:28 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 06:28:28 1985
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In article <308@sesame.UUCP> slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner) writes:
>
>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

        I don't think so.  The light sabre was the traditional weapon
        of a Jedi knight.  If you like, by using a weapon of limited
        range the Jedi knight can demonstrate his superiority by
        defeating better-armed enemies with an apparantly inferior
        weapon.  Think of martial arts adepts defeating armed
        attackers bare-handed.  The Force helps establish the
        mystique of the Jedi as well as providing practical help
        in battle.

        It's more likely that the blaster is the regular weapon of
        Imperial troops because it is very simple to use (just hit
        the trigger and wave it about like a sub-machinegun) and
        the Imperial soldiers, being expendible conscripts, aren't
        worth training properly.

        I wonder how much the Empire paid its suppliers for
        light bulbs (|+>  <smirk>) ?
-- 
        Peter Kendell <pete@stc.UUCP>

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