Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!Susser.pasa From: Susser.pasa@Xerox.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Empire Troops Uniforms (#349) Message-ID: <3540@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 16:15:47 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3540 Posted: Thu Sep 5 16:15:47 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 6-Sep-85 05:51:47 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 28 From: Josh Susser Alastair Milne writes: I think the idea behind the armour is possibly more psychological than physical: confront the enemy with battalions of human (probably) killing machines, with a faintly insectlike appearance about the face...The Empire appears to enjoy this strategy of giving machines menacing, disturbing appearances which are of no real mechanical advantage to the machines themselves...Those cockpits looked as if they had great compound eyes on each side of them. Remember - these are films we are dealing with! You are right about the "menacing, disturbing appearances" being used for psychological reasons, but these were created by George Lucas for the benefit of the audience, not by the Empire for the troopers' foes. Storm troopers probably fought insectoid creatures with compound eyes as often as they fought mammalian sentients. In fact, quite a few troopers were probably insectoid themselves. Here's a tangential question for you all: In a galaxy with such a diverse population of sentients, why were most of the Imperials and Rebels human, while non-humans were mostly scum and villainy? And as a story teller, how could Lucas justify this? -- Josh Susser "I'm making this up as I go along!"