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Re: MOC: Dewback
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lugnet.starwars
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Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:46:52 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Allister McLaren wrote:
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And were the Dewbacks local or did they bring their own? It would seem
unlikely that the All Powerfull Empire would have to scrounge up local
transport,
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Well, for a possible in-story explanation, if they didn’t have a regular
garrison there (and it’s implied that they didn’t), they might have had the same
trouble adjusting their speeders and such to desert conditions as the Rebels did
adjusting theirs to the extreme cold temperatures. Since time was of utmost
importance, if they didn’t have their own means of transportation, they would
have had to acquire indigenous means of getting around.
The simple explanation is that ANH predates both TESB and ROTJ, so maybe Lucas
hadn’t considered the idea of ground-based assault craft yet when he okayed the
Dewbacks, and cutting them completely for the SE release seemed a bit too
revisionist, even for him.
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but on the other hand a Star Destroyer doesn’t seem to be an ideal
environment for the care and feeding of such beasts.
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The likelihood that they’d have to care for and feed them without ever having a
chance to use them doesn’t seem particularly efficient, in a society that
already has means of getting around without such beasts.
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) I'm going to get my nerd on for a second (hey, I just got back from Comic-Con, so I've got SW on the brain!)... Playing Star Wars Galaxies, there are two benefits of the Dewbacks versus speeders: 1. Hostile creatures can't flat out and quickly (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| (...) Seems to me the indigenous form of transportation was speeders. I didn't see Luke, or anyone other than stormtroopers for that matter, driving a dewback around. If I was a stormtrooper I'd have commandeered something a bit more comfortable and (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| (...) My understanding is that Tatooine was a little backwater that the Empire had allowed the local organized crimelords (the Hutts) to run. I'm sure they didn't have any reason to garrison troops there. I mean, it's not like the rebels would do (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC: Dewback
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| (...) And were the Dewbacks local or did they bring their own? It would seem unlikely that the All Powerfull Empire would have to scrounge up local transport, but on the other hand a Star Destroyer doesn't seem to be an ideal environment for the (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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