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FreudianSlippers posted:To save money it's massively understaffed. Compare to Imperial Star Destroyers which per canon have 37,000 crew.
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How else do you suggest you get the power for a laser cannon if not tens of thousands of people on bikes? How do you thing the turret turns? Five thousand people pushing around a big capstan.
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Jul 17, 2023 18:00
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OwlFancier posted:How else do you suggest you get the power for a laser cannon if not tens of thousands of people on bikes? No wonder they track too slow to shoot snubfighters.
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Jul 17, 2023 18:04
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I figured Star Destroyers have boarding parties so the crew numbers are inflated. Also their turbo lasers are all manned units so there's that.
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Jul 17, 2023 18:07
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OwlFancier posted:How else do you suggest you get the power for a laser cannon if not tens of thousands of people on bikes? Makes sense to me. The Empire relies on droid labor for many tasks, so they know droids are unreliable little shits. The more automated systems you put in your ship, the closer it gets to becoming a giant droid.
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Jul 17, 2023 18:15
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Android Apocalypse posted:I figured Star Destroyers have boarding parties so the crew numbers are inflated. I mean yeah think of that scene when you see a hangar full of storm troopers lined up - those aren't starship crew, why would they be wearing blaster armor
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Jul 17, 2023 18:39
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What are they boarding? How many MC-80s are there kicking about? Sounds to me like palpatine is just pork barrelling the navy.
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Jul 17, 2023 18:41
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OwlFancier posted:What are they boarding? How many MC-80s are there kicking about? Sounds to me like palpatine is just pork barrelling the navy. No troop ships attacked Hoth. That ground force and attendant walkers were all organic forces within each star destroyer. Oh god I'm nerding out. Yeah each SD is a MIC contractors wet dream.
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Jul 17, 2023 18:45
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Maybe it's a jobs program. The ship doesn't need 37,000 people. The empire doesn't need 37,000 soldiers on that ship. What the Empire needs is for every young man who isn't gainfully employed to be recruited into the military to keep him out of trouble. In a deleted scene Luke and Biggs worry about being drafted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9z5Ths7WSU&t=88s
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Jul 17, 2023 18:51
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drat, Lando wore that outfit so much better.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:drat, Lando wore that outfit so much better. It's not really fair to compare anybody else to Lando in terms of style.
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Jul 17, 2023 20:43
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Gort posted:She can still loving write, though. She just doesn't, 99.99% of the time. For no good reason I can think of. adult illiteracy is not mockworthy, be ashamed of your words and deeds
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Byzantine posted:It's not really fair to compare anybody else to Lando in terms of style. Then he shouldn't have tried. Even his mustache sucks.
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Jul 17, 2023 20:50
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Troll They are flying around a huge troll in helicopters and the bells are working. For no reason the guy says they need to get closer and then the troll fucks them up for being within reach. It was already dropped to a knee covering it's head.
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Jul 18, 2023 04:09
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While sci-fi numbers are always lol, Star Destroyers are basically battleships plus carriers, designed to be mobile force projection and carry things like AT-ATs and TIE squadrons. Having basically a mobile garrison of troops makes sense, not to mention support and service crew for them.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:While sci-fi numbers are always lol, Star Destroyers are basically battleships plus carriers, designed to be mobile force projection and carry things like AT-ATs and TIE squadrons. Having basically a mobile garrison of troops makes sense, not to mention support and service crew for them. The part in return of the Jedi with the 8 million tie fighters is how every space battle scene should actually look based on the numbers given
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Jul 18, 2023 06:21
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Star Destroyers' complement was written by a dude really active on Star Wars vs Star Trek forums, and he inflated the numbers so he could argue that Star Wars would beat Star Trek.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I paid money to see the movie in a theater with broken ac. according to tvtropes, the ending actually made the actress who played the female scientist stop acting entirely. Species was similar but at least that movie didn't end with such a bad note. Yeah the rat poo poo went nowhere and could have and should have been cut, but Sil was cool and everything in the movie was pretty cool. I remember seeing it in theaters and cracking up when the empath saw a bedroom full of blood splatter and goes, "Something bad happened here." In terms of AI and ships, I am always reminded of Transformers Prime, a rather underrated transformers cartoon, where the Decepticon warship becomes sentient; it takes no poo poo from Megatron and pretty much knocks all the Cons unconscious so it can do what it wants without being yelled at, or beaten, or threatened. I imagine a sentient ship stocked with Stormtroopers would do something similar.
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Jul 20, 2023 02:15
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Cowslips Warren posted:
I think there was a star wars expanded universe story where IG-88 or some other assassin droid thing figured he needed to be the baddest droid in the universe, so he comes up with a plan to sneak onto the death star and upload himself to its hardware. He succeeds, too, right before Luke blows it to hell.
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Jul 20, 2023 03:03
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Yea, that was IG88. He was feeling smug as hell about it too. Not for long though 
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Jul 20, 2023 03:49
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Not to be confused with the other IG88s, who all got beaten by Boba Fett in various ways because apparently the old EU Boba Fett was the Star Wars Batman.
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Jul 20, 2023 04:02
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Cowslips Warren posted:according to tvtropes, the ending actually made the actress who played the female scientist stop acting entirely. Looking at her Wikipedia it sounds like she was already pivoting into directing so I think maybe Tvtropes might not be super accurate
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Randalor posted:Not to be confused with the other IG88s, who all got beaten by Boba Fett in various ways because apparently the old EU Boba Fett was the Star Wars Batman. Or the one that you clown on as Dash Rendar in Shadows.
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They weren't exactly top of the line. Hell, one gets taken out in the first episode of Mando.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:While sci-fi numbers are always lol, Star Destroyers are basically battleships plus carriers, designed to be mobile force projection and carry things like AT-ATs and TIE squadrons. Having basically a mobile garrison of troops makes sense, not to mention support and service crew for them. Like any weapon made by fascists, they're about intimidation first, utility second. A distant second*. Having a kilometre long ship park itself right over a capital city with not only thousands of troops, but thousands of bureaucrats ready to audit your planet's finances while blockading the entire world and the whole shebang run by officers only interested in backstabbing each other to move up the ranks even if it means they burn your world to the ground would be pretty terrifying. But, yes, sci-fi numbers never make sense. Distance, speed, people, writers give no shits and know even less. * viz: AT-ATs
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Having a kilometre long ship park itself right over a capital city with not only thousands of troops, but thousands of bureaucrats ready to audit your planet's finances I wish we could rewind back to the first movie to find out the Sith were just space chartered accountants. "Commander, you failed to provide appropriate receipts for your expense account for the last time." <force choke noises>
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Arrath posted:Or the one that you clown on as Dash Rendar in Shadows. i was gonna say how do you forget Dash Rendar! but i think Fett also clowns on that same IG unit in the Shadows of the Empire pop-up book before it gets to Dash.
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christmas boots posted:Looking at her Wikipedia it sounds like she was already pivoting into directing so I think maybe Tvtropes might not be super accurate She got married and had three kids at that time as well. I wouldn't be surprised if Sarah Polley quitting acting also had something to do with her turning 30 and still being best known for The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, which she made when she was eight.
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Cowslips Warren posted:In terms of AI and ships, I am always reminded of Transformers Prime, a rather underrated transformers cartoon, where the Decepticon warship becomes sentient; it takes no poo poo from Megatron and pretty much knocks all the Cons unconscious so it can do what it wants without being yelled at, or beaten, or threatened. I imagine a sentient ship stocked with Stormtroopers would do something similar. I'm picturing the AI sparing the maintenance crew just because they were nice to it. Also funny thing is while it's not pointed out in the show, the loosely related Fall Of Cybertron game gives a ready reason why the Nemesis can so easily turn sentient and brutal: it used to be Trypticon, forcibly reformatted and mode-locked.
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Man, Transformers is like when you start to wonder why Goofy gets to wear pants and talks while Pluto is just a normal dog, or how Huey, Dewey and Louie can feed regular ducks in the park. Like, what would they order in a Chinese restaurant?
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If we're descended from ducks then why are there still ducks? Checkmate, atheists
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Arrath posted:Or the one that you clown on as Dash Rendar in Shadows. Hell, I was just referring to IG-88's story where he uploads himself into the Death Star. 4 IG-88s, 3 get punked by Boba Fett, and the last completes his goal just to get vaporized.
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Not the first to wonder, won't be the last. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpCGIvKNO30
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Grendels Dad posted:Man, Transformers is like when you start to wonder why Goofy gets to wear pants and talks while Pluto is just a normal dog, or how Huey, Dewey and Louie can feed regular ducks in the park. Like, what would they order in a Chinese restaurant? Wonton soup?
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Actually, they're not allowed in the local Chinese restaurant any longer since they were caught spying on other customers in the restrooms. They refuse to serve peeking ducks.
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Cowslips Warren posted:In terms of AI and ships, I am always reminded of Transformers Prime, a rather underrated transformers cartoon, where the Decepticon warship becomes sentient; it takes no poo poo from Megatron and pretty much knocks all the Cons unconscious so it can do what it wants without being yelled at, or beaten, or threatened. I imagine a sentient ship stocked with Stormtroopers would do something similar.
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Jedit posted:I wouldn't be surprised if Sarah Polley quitting acting also had something to do with her turning 30 and still being best known for The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, which she made when she was eight. The actress from Dawn of the Dead and Go? I'm learning some poo poo today.
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https://twitter.com/XDProtag/status/1672448583746957314 https://twitter.com/theRealCappyM/status/1671722206722764800 This kicks rear end. It's just not fair that Judge Dredd is the one character that can maintain wearing a mask all the time but everyone else is desperate to take theirs off like its a hydraulic press. I'm just waiting for someone in a Marvel movie to get sniped mid helmet-free banter scene.
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RareAcumen posted:https://twitter.com/XDProtag/status/1672448583746957314 Watch Starship Troopers for exactly this (and also the whole movie whips rear end.
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What does it mean when something is a "a hurricane moment ever"?
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