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Re: Just a question
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lugnet.starwars
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Thu, 3 Jun 1999 18:21:54 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote:
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> On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 00:05:49 GMT, "John Bauman" <jtb86@ptdprolog.net> wrote:
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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 fluctuations, unusual planetary magnetic
> > fields,
> > and other special conditions; the Empire needed a vehicle which could be
> > used
> > on the terrain of many different worlds.
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> > The finished AT-AT walkers passed Imperial expectations. Almost
> > unstoppable
> > as a weapons platform,, they proved potent psychological weapons.
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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'.
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> Steve
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.
--
Paul Foster
http://reality.sgi.com/foster_stco/lego.html
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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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