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| | | What I think is even more strange, is why do they model high tech armored vehicles after bipeds and quadripeds? They have spacecraft that can take off vertically, hover, and travel at light speed yet they have Imperial Walkers? Little furry, (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: Just a question —Joey Feland
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| | | | | (...) I always wondered what the Star Wars universe had against the wheel. Other than Artoo, I can't remember any vehicals that use wheels. Joey (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | Re: Just a question —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) I think that was a style decision: droids have wheels, nothing else does. Except the Jawa Sandcrawler, which *needed* the tank treads to look right. Steve (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: Just a question —Terry Keller
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| | | | | (...) Fear and intimidation. An AT-AT would have a great psychological impact. -- Terry K -- (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | Re: Just a question —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | (...) That's the explanation I've heard too. However, I'm less inclined than Lucas and Co. to allow that Snowspeeder cables and vines can bring down AT-ATs or AT-STs respectively. The logs, on the other hand, are part of guerilla warfare--and (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Just a question —Shaun Sullivan
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| | | | | | The most plausible explanations I've heard sit much more comfortably with me than pure psychological impact. For one thing, consider how heavily armored these AT-AT vehicles are - according to all of the source material I've run across, nothing (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Just a question —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | (...) In the first part of the movie, Qui-Gon and Jar Jar are 'run over' by a repulsor-lift. So repulsorlifts *can't* work by pushing against the ground (at least, they must have enough smarts to prevent main characters from being crushed). But that (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Just a question —Mike Faunce
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| | | | | | | | | Maybe the repulsor-lifts don't cover the entire bottom of the craft, but are located on the outboard edges (where wheels would typically be located) for stability. A cargo carrying vehicle would want to maximize cargo space and putting the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Just a question —Scott Edward Sanburn
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| | | | | | | | | I have the Episode 1 Cross sections (I picked both books at Sam's Club for 9.98 Each!), it does have repulsor lifts, but it has "Kuat Premion Mk. II" power generators to power it. It has a maximum height of 4 meters, and the lifts exhaust gases are (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Just a question —Richard Dee
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| | | | | | | | On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 16:16:35 GMT, Steve Bliss uttered the following profundities... (...) Just like tanks in any WWII movie you watch, they have just enough space where the main characters *can't* get crushed. (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Just a question —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | (...) Interesting...but aren't the MTTs also repulsorlift? LFB. (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: Just a question —John Bauman
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| | | | From the Essential Guide to Vehicles and vessels: Walkers were designed to fill the need for a nonrepulsorlift heavy assault vehicle for armored platoons.While the emipre had countless repulsorlift vehicles, drive systems could be foiled by gravity (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: Just a question —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | (...) Yeah, as long as the opponents don't have any spare rope laying around. Or wrecking balls to crush the 'armor plate'. Steve (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | Re: Just a question —Paul Foster
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| | | | | | (...) There is a really good short story in the book "Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina" about training a driver for AT-AT's and how to destroy them. (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: Just a question —Richard Dee
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| | | | On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 00:05:49 GMT, John Bauman uttered the following profundities... (...) The irony of this discussion about repulsor lift vehicles.... The inventor of the hovercraft just died.... (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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