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So, why would the clonetroopers change their helmets? They seem to be pretty good in AotC.
The armors are identical, but the main difference is in the helmets. Given that AotC and ANH aren't that far apart, what would cause them to change the helmets?
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Yes you are talking a lot of years between AOTC and Star Wars, is the US army still wearing the same uniforms they wore during WWII or Korea? Of course things change,this is a republican army whereas during Star Wars it is an empirical amry, you can't wear the same helmets, surely.
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Of course, it does sort of look like the only thing they CHANGED are the helmets ...
... does anyone else not like the idea of Stormtroopers being clones? I'm sure its not like the Empire has trouble getting recruits ... we're talking tens of thousands of worlds under its rule.
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Well, it DOES explain the extremely poor marksmanship of the Stormtroopers in the original trilogy -- you can blame it on bad training during the growth process.
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I think it's been established that cloning was outlawed as a result of the Clone Wars, and that the Imperial military was made up of conscripted troops. (Remember Davin Felth???) Thus, the stormtroopers we know were not clones.
Jeff, there is no canon and non-canon in SW.
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Didn't cut and paste, but it is the same thing, because that's the truth of the matter. I didn't "canonize" anything, Lucas did. He's the one who set it up so that the EU is considered a part of the canon.
Trying to discount what's not in the movies for SW is the same thing as trying to include novels and such for Trek. Both are acts of disregard for what is the established observance of "canon" in both franchises.
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Well, I asked since the armor is identical, and the only thing changed is the helmet. I thought that those of you with the type of Star Wars knowledge only sore wrists can give you might hold the answer to the thing that prevents me from being fulfilled. Well, that question and that my children will not be Simon's.
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I didn't "canonize" anything, Lucas did. He's the one who set it up so that the EU is considered a part of the canon.
Except, of course, that AotC contradicts established "canon" on how Vader lost his arm...
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Why is that? He could have lost the mechanical arm at other points in time. In fact, that even stands to reason, as he didn't appear to have that same clunky one from AOTC in ANH, etc. So it would have been a mechanical arm that Palpatine took, and another that Luke cut off in Splinter of the Mind's Eye. I see no true contradiction here...
quote:So it would have been a mechanical arm that Palpatine took, and another that Luke cut off in Splinter of the Mind's Eye. I see no true contradiction here...
Bzzzzt. Wrong again.
I really don't see how he can lose the same hand three different times. There's a difference between losing your real hand and just lopping off a prosthetic.
And besides, if Vader lost the same hand three times, that'd be even worse than all those Weyoun clones that kept popping up in the DS9 seventh season.
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