Metropolis Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 WiFi is less secure. Especially when you're about to be boarded by Emperials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filthy Jawa Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 I'll buy all of that. Even if it's not perfect, it's good enough for me. Maybe Vader was having too much fun killing guys to notice the handoff. Let's remember it's Star Wars; we have bigger gungans to fry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Information technology is not modern in the Star Wars universe. Maybe the Star Wars galaxy's civilizations got distracted by hyperspace physics research and superweapon engineering, and missed out on the simple applications of electromagnetic induction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyrian Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 If an astromech droid can plug into every console he comes across like some kind of robot rapist with no problem, they can chuck a LAN cable through a docking port. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Data storage in Star Wars is whack. Dooku snagged the plans on his iPod touch. The Empire stored it on a brick hard drive, and they wifi'd it to some floppies that Leia plugged into R2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Even in reality, tape drives are better for archival purposes, so at least the big brick hard drive made sense for that scenario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamonAtila Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 What about the whole,hold your fire, theres no life readng on that escape pod? Do they not have the technology to read f any droids/plans are on there?! that's always bugged me. Is that not like the number one way people transmit data? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filthy Jawa Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 That's been kind of a flaw in Star Wars storytelling since then. The implication from that and other parts of ANH is that no one would ever suspect droids would be capable of such a thing. Like they are just meant to be simple robots who carry out simple tasks and menial chores. But then that is completely undermined by everything that came later. They could have kept the idea going that R2 (and C3PO, by association) were completely exceptional as droids venturing out on their own and making decisions and navigating the world of living beings, but they went and made that commonplace so now it makes no sense that there wouldn't have been any suspicion of that when the escape pod blasts off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filthy Jawa Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 The thing that always bugged ME about that is, well, are laser blasts a scarce commodity? Why wouldn't you just blast it for fun? Lasers going everywhere, oh but not that one, no, hold your fire! Don't want to waste that laser blast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Revisionist fix-- when The Empire takes a ship they hack the control systems and jettison all escape pods so no one gets away. R2 just needed to get there early knowing it would happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Was just an inept officer, the Empire seems to have plenty of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Revisionist fix-- when The Empire takes a ship they hack the control systems and jettison all escape pods so no one gets away. R2 just needed to get there early knowing it would happen.Sounds like an old EU concept - slaving a ship to another's control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANA-kin Skywalker Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Wi-fi download capability, floppy disk storage space...these things you are discussing are all way too fine-of-a-point. When it comes to technology, military tactics, etc. you just have to accept whatever if you are going to enjoy Star Wars. Even in the original trilogy, and especially when it came to the death star plans. Board the ship and accept surrender if possible, because we are looking for the plans and we want them alive for information. Okay. So far, so good. If the escape pods have life forms, blow them all up; nobody gets out alive. But what if it had the plans on it? Because we definitely WILL find the plans on the ship and not on those pods they just launched. Huh? If the escape pod has no life forms, don't blow it up. Yeah...but not because we are looking for the plans, but because why even bother. The pod definately could NOT have droids on it. Don't even chase it down. Send a detachment to retreive the plans from the escape pod that you neglected to chase down earlier. It's not like there's any real emergency and the death star isn't actually in any danger at all. That's because it's sooooooo big. That's what she said. Bring Patrick, the luckiest stormtrooper ever, along on the detachment party. If by chance there is a tiny, droid-identifying piece of hardware within a 5000-foot radius (that definately would NOT be immediately swallowed up by the first gust of wind) he will find it; thus proving with absolute certainty that it came from the escape pod that we didn't even think could've had droids on it in the first place. The empire deserved to get blowed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamonAtila Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 not to mention scope the whole planet for an unknown droid. not like there are Jawas hauling megatons of them everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyrian Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Bring Patrick, the luckiest stormtrooper ever, along on the detachment party. If by chance there is a tiny, droid-identifying piece of hardware within a 5000-foot radius (that definately would NOT be immediately swallowed up by the first gust of wind) he will find it; thus proving with absolute certainty that it came from the escape pod that we didn't even think could've had droids on it in the first place.You mean Davin Felth? Or what used to be Davin Felth anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANA-kin Skywalker Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 I just googled Davin Felth because I had no idea who that is. They actually gave the LOOK SIR DROIDS stormtrooper not only a name, but an entire backstory, and character arc, and some kind of subplot involving Colonel Veers. Jesus Christ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Krawlie Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 We NEEDED to know his story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacen123 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Why wouldn't they give a backstory to the most (only?) successful stormtrooper in the entire OT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyrian Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Why wouldn't they give a backstory to the most (only?) successful stormtrooper in the entire OT?Well there was that one that shot Leia on Endor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Why wouldn't they give a backstory to the most (only?) successful stormtrooper in the entire OT?Well there was that one that shot Leia on Endor Does it still count if he were aiming at Han? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacen123 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 He just didn't think that Leia belonged in the armed forces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filthy Jawa Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 He didn't mean any 'arm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryn Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 I'll be that guy. I don't like it. I'll... Fifth? Sixth? that. Like a lot of SW, it wows at first, then starts to fray at the edges after repeated viewing and actually thinking about what happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamonAtila Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 I'll be that guy. I don't like it.I'll... Fifth? Sixth? that. Like a lot of SW, it wows at first, then starts to fray at the edges after repeated viewing and actually thinking about what happened. And sometimes it does the complete opposite, like the summer of 14 when i watched ANH and realized its simultaneously the simplest and the most ground-breaking of the whole saga. And it was the first. i mean a whole planet was blown up! Cmon. How much more futuristic can you get than that? The best they did since then was blowing up 5 PLANETS. WOW. Even the Vader outfit was ground-breaking. EDT: Star Trek couldn't do any better. SW exploded a planet, they imploded one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Darth Hunter Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 Why wouldn't they give a backstory to the most (only?) successful stormtrooper in the entire OT? Well there was that one that shot Leia on EndorThe one who shot R2 before Leia was hit in the arm was more successful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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