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"As for the planets having their own defenses, the Empire wiped that out. How do you take over a country? Take away the right to bare arms, and enslave/execute everyone"


I dunno, the Mon Calamri seemed to have a sizable fleet. Alderaan also had a defense fleet, but it's only stated in sources outside the movies.

I think the problem is a lack of imagination on the part of the EU writers to see a galaxy that is bigger than just the Skywalkers or Solos and the few, backwoods planets shown in the OT.



Yes the original movie adaption to SW showed lightsabres that had basket hilts and very small but very powerful energy sources. This concept was carried over somewhat in Splinter of the Mind's Eye, but the energy source of Luke's sabre needed recharging every now and then. Of course that book also used the idea of the Kyber Crystal (sp) that enhanced force abilities, which first showed up in early drafts for SW. I guess George just can't let any of his "wonderful" ideas go to waste and had to use crystals in SW somewhere.

I guess it's just aestetics, I prefer lightsabres that are technological weapons that can be used by anyone, but Jedi use them better than anyone else. Sort of like when Luke used proton tordedoes to destroy the Death Star, he was able to fire the warheads better than anyone else because he used the Force. Unfortunately Luke never seemed to use the Force when he was shooting his blaster at Stormtroopers... Leia was a much better aim, as of course, was Han and even Chewie.


Anyway, another gripe I had over the years was the constant technological improvement seen in the EU. Even my favorite SW computer game TIE Fighter is guilty of this, with the arms race of ever faster, better, more heavily armed starfighters. It's as if the Empire forgot that they needed more than just a bunch a TIE fighters and bombers and only started cranking out assault gunboats, and advanced TIEs in direct response to the Rebel threat. With the PT and associated Clone Wars material showing a fairly diverse and balanced starfighter fleet you would think that the Empire would plan things better than hoping one starfighter type (ln) and a few variants (rc, gt, fc) of that type could fill all the defense roles of a galactic armed force for close to 20 years.

Don't get me wrong, I love the TIE avenger and defender, but they were totally broken in those games. Too bad they make TIE fighters and even interceptors obsolete in what looks like a quantum leap of technology in just a few years. Sure, let's take a fighter that is surely heavier than the standard TIE fighter and add a hyperdrive, warhead launchers and beam weapons and still somehow cram in deflector shields that are more protective than those of some capital ships and then give them a speed rating 50% greater than the next fastest starfighter. Right. But it was a great game, and still my favorite.