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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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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There's a whole EU plot about how the whole "Walker" concept just fundamentally isn't a very good idea
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But the Imperial bureaucracy gets really excited and committed to the idea of an all-purpose vehicle you can use anywhere
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Anything that appeals to their sense of all-purpose one-size-fits-all mass production they'll buy
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Hence the pointed use of "AT" for "all terrain" in the vehicle names
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
There's a Tale about how one AT-AT pilot demonstrates the whole weakness to being tripped and he gets punished with demotion to stormtrooper
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He ends up being the guy who intentionally lets Luke and Ben go in the cantina in ANH
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