Stormtroopers

With regards to all this fuss over Stormtroopers' accuracy: perhaps they
really are good shots, but the sight of Luke cavorting around with a
woman who was in actual fact his sister unnerved them rather a lot,
leading to a sudden downturn in their accuracy of aim.

As to how Vader (that's how it's spelled, incidentally) managed to
totally trounce all the other Jedi - has anyone read "Heir to the
Empire", "Dark Force Rising" and "The Last Command" (I forget the name
of the guy who wrote 'em), which follow on from the films? Here, we
meet little armadillo-like creatures called something like ysalimiri
(the SW experts will help me out here), who project fields around
themselves within which all the powers of the Force are useless (ie.
Jedis are just ordinary men again etc.). Furthermore, put a bunch of
ysalimiri together and their cumulative null-Force bubble expands
exponentially or something! This must be how the Jedi were defeated -
also, they were facing rather a huge number of cloned soldiers - with
that many Stormtroopers, one must occasionally have hit his target!

That's all I shall say on this particular subject. I have to go now
'cos that git who does the computer applications course is chucking me
out of the Stats Lab (the PC lab in the Queen's Annex), even though
there isn't a class timetabled for right now and I won't make a noise
anyway...

D.Chilard

P.S. Or maybe the Jedi were all extremely fat and slow - although,
judging from some comments, they would have to be larger than the broad
side of a barn...

Bear in mind that the books, have nothing to do with the original 9
scripts written by Lucas. The films are highly unlikely to follow
on from what is effectively, licensed fan fiction.
I would imagine that the Jedi are going to be fairly thinly spread,
with maybe one per planet or even system. As such all the that has
to be done, is to drop say, 3000 stormtroopers on his house (those suits
look quite heavy) in order to take him out. Or you could take the
Battlestar Galactica route: "Come to our peace conference, look we've
even gathered all our stormtroopers into one big net above the table, sit
down, sit down", "Smithers cut the rope".

Later,

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Adam Hattrell, Support, Cimio Ltd. adam@