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It was always my assumption that there would be more than enough humans in the galaxy willing to serve that the Empire could get away with an all-volunteer military, but stormtroopers are now conscripts too?
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I thought that was just the First Order stormtroopers.NecronLord wrote:Correct. Taken as children.
Howevere, the Zare Leonis story (eventually) takes place on another world, where Commandant Hux (the First Order guy's dad) gets promoted for his work and encourages all the same things.Tiriol wrote:About that Lothal stormtrooper cadet academy: we must remember that the people running the academy were incompetent (and executed for it).
Specialist Zahn - Navy just deployed the next-generation prototype of our top orbital strike weapon. She's a real beauty, let me tell you.
Specialist Zahn - I'm supposed to be overseeing test firing against hard targets in the area, but we're on indefinite standby until conditions improve.
Specialist Zahn - The Exchange is seriously entrenched out here, but they're protecting their strongholds with a wide-area signal jammer.
Specialist Zahn - It means our targeting systems are useless, even the handheld, close-up targeters.
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Specialist Zahn - You with me on this? You could be the first to debut this beauty's ten kiloton wrath.
I'm pretty sure that was just one gun. Though I could be wrong.Rhadamantus wrote:Wow. Then they're generating 4*10^13 watts. Still 3 times as much as modern humanity, but orders of magnitude less than ever a fighter.
Well yes. I was saying it was unimpressive by modern star wars standards, not compared to real life.Rhadamantus wrote:Wow. Then they're generating 4*10^13 watts. Still 3 times as much as modern humanity, but orders of magnitude less than ever a fighter.
This is a legends thread. The OP has said that the stats on the legends pages he's linking to are valid.The Romulan Republic wrote:I would point out that ICS numbers for Acclamators are no longer canon.
Amusingly, IIRC the Acclamator never fires a shot in either of the two films as far as I know...Esquire wrote:The ICS numbers, as far as I know, were arrived at by scaling down from film calculations; they ought to at least be in the right order of magnitude. Another vote for the Acclamator.
Clone Wars was almost entirely Venators for some reason. No idea why. Don't recall seeing many Acclamators, though I think there was one that transported the Zillo Beast.U.P. Cinnabar wrote:Didn't the Acclimator fire its guns in a Clone Wars episode?