Like i said tho, the Empire's bad equipment isn't unrealistic. Just really bad. Because IRL?
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i remember reading the Empire deliberately didn't rly care about its equipment quality bc it had literally unlimited manpower
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so it didn't matter if they sent dudes out in, say, $1000 deathtraps bc they'd always have more bodies to replace them
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Which matches Cold War era Soviet Bloc strategy, which was oldCanon. nuCanon seems to be that the Empire is bad at engineering
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Well it was always canon that part of the theme was the Empire being seriously corrupt and filled with self serving factions
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Like Lucas did really want to give the impression the Clone Wars were a technological highwater mark on both sides
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
A lot of the technical genius of the galaxy was destroyed with the CIS
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And on the flip side a lot of the Republic side's best and brightest didn't survive the transition to Empire or defected to the Rebels
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Remember the actual idea for the Death Star was the CIS ace in the hole and the Empire stole it
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I mean one theory for the stormtroopers becoming low-quality troops is the Imperials wanting that to happen
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
They're very wary of any "elite" institutions - remember their country's founding myth is the betrayal of the Jedi
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So they actually want a system that depends on huge amounts of resources and bureaucracy
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