Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard

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  1. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 7 months ago

    You’ll fit in well with all the rest.

  2. jml58

    jml58 said, 7 months ago

    Officer masterial.

  3. Edcole1961

    Edcole1961 said, 7 months ago

    Another important prerequisite is that you have to be able to be killed on only one shot. Why did they bother with the armor, anyway?

  4. Johanan Rakkav

    Johanan RakkavGenius_badge said, 7 months ago

    If you’re going to be a corpse, you might as well be an attractive-looking one.

    Besides, they used to be competent. As Clone Troopers in STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS, they could actually shoot well and needed the armor to (among other things) survive getting bitten by monsters. Obi-Wan Kenobi said of their heirs, “And these blast points: too precise for Sandpeople. Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise.”

    Then as-yet-untrained Luke Skywalker shows up with insanely lucky Han Solo on the Death Star, and after that none of the Stormtroopers can hit the broad side of a docking bay from inside…at least until the next movie. Go figure.

  5. William Tidler Jr.

    William Tidler Jr. said, 7 months ago

    Sounds like some people I used to work with.

  6. Richard

    Richard said, 7 months ago

    As opposed to “the alien job unfair”.

  7. Mac

    Mac said, 7 months ago

    The stromtroopers who took out the sandcrawler were seasoned field troops who had probably at least a dozen slow-moving Jawa sandcrawlers to their credit.

    The ones on the Death Star were green recruits who probably didn’t even get shooting practice time because, well, who expected them to ever have to shoot anybody?

  8. Mac

    Mac said, 7 months ago

    Yes, as a matter of fact I do need a life. Why do you ask?

  9. wndrwrthg

    wndrwrthgGenius_badge said, 7 months ago

    If I may my put forth theory on the accuracy of the Storm Troopers. Once Luke and Han were present, their subconscious control of the “Force” allowed them to increase their natural abilities and at the same time decrease or affect the troopers abilities.

  10. Setebos

    Setebos said, 7 months ago

    More to the point: have any of you ever put on one of those helmets and tried to sight through it? No wonder there were so many misses.

  11. pookid54

    pookid54Genius_badge said, 7 months ago

    Yep, he missed the barn and obliterated Monday’s strip

  12. Trebor39

    Trebor39 said, 7 months ago

    Ok, so whose the guy in the black body suit and helmet? Oh, and I like the cape.

  13. PaulAtreides

    PaulAtreides said, 7 months ago

    I say the originals are still the best.

  14. One Universe

    One Universe said, 7 months ago

    Having a life is overrated.

  15. BigChewie01

    BigChewie01 said, 7 months ago

    Per Star Wars Lore, the Death Star was in fact crewed by the hand picked best the Empire had to offer. Not units, mind you, but individual troopers. That meant there was NO unit cohesion (remember the thing was barely operational). It was made worse because the troops were assigned ALPHABETICALLY to diferent sectors of the station. So yes, every one of those idiots could have been named Bob in one section. And the troops were also startled that ANYBODY would ever need them in the first place. After all, attacking that battle station wouldn’t be an act of courage, it would be more like suicide :) Amazing how quickly elite troops can lose their edge. I personally thought this was much more apropriate to places like Comcast or Dell technical support…