Why was this technology lost in the Star Wars universe? They were practically invincible..
Why was this technology lost in the Star Wars universe? They were practically invincible..
Why was this technology lost in the Star Wars universe? They were practically invincible..
That is some ugly cgi
they literally invented modern CGI / digital film for these movies homosexual, calm down
"Too expensive" or somesuch
That's bullshit. Everybody knows that if you scale up production you can get the unit cost way down.
Too expensive for what? Compared to having fleets of star destroyers that are like 10000 miles long? lol
It's a galaxy wide empire. They get their dough from taxing the entire galaxy. Claiming it's too expensive is total bullshit.
The star wars "galaxy" is tiny. It's like a couple dozen locations. Less complex than a small country.
imagine keeping the books for a fricking galaxy wide empire
Same reason we forgot how to build spaceships
Maybe it gives organics inside the bubble cancer
It was environmentally unfriendly
you can just reach inside and turn them off moron
like the droids just walked through the gungan dinosaur shields
Gungan shields seemed weirdly op in the star wars setting. Why weren't other groups using them?
Probably because it requires a massive phalanx on an open field to work and as soon as the generator goes, armor and air will tear their formation apart.
grungas used the plasma and shield tech from their planet core (the frickhuge lasers at the end of the movie) for their cities too, so it doesn't seem readily available on other planets due to it being a unique property for naboo
>Why weren't other groups using them?
They need the naboo plasma to work.
And naboo plasma likely is extremely expensive (Naboo's entire opulence and wealth is built upon the exports of this resource)
They use it because they're primitive tribesmen with gold weapons and armor essentially
Government regulations.
They're in Battlefront
The CIS was like a technocratic megacorporation, commercial entity. No holds barred tech, innovation, mass production, while still having the resources of entire planets in their corner.
The Republic and Empire were more like regulatory mega states more interested in power and the status quo than pushing the boundary with anything. They simply didn't feel the need to invest so aggressively in their foot soldiers.
Clones were more cost efficient and versatile
why couldn't the Jedi just force push these guys over? or have them levitate so they are facing the wrong direction and can't use their little legs?
I always wanted the lego technic set they made for these guys it looked fricking badass
It was far from invincible. The droideka shields seemed to need to be turned off in order for it to move.
>droids with blasters getting into melee combat with gungans
>all of them losing
That's star wars plot armor for you
Did you forget Ewoks?
Either this one didn't have a shield or Jar-Jar a lucky shot in before it deployed it.
>Jar-Jar a lucky shot in before it deployed it.
This.
look at that pathetic wrestling on the right lmfao
If you look to the immediate right of Jar Jar, in the background, you'll what looks like one gungan fighting another gungan. Then when the dinosaur thing passes a second time, one turns into a droid.
I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder.
Bruh moment
Deepest lore
That's nothing compared to the crowd in the podracing wide shots.
Post 'em
Holy shit Prince Xizor
what a stupid way to spell scissor.
and Chewbacca
Some battledroid just walks through an idle gungan in the top right then the gungan magically vanishes and the battledroid starts grappling another gungan
I remember watching it as a 14 years old teen on a VHS as my first Star Wars movie and thinking "those Star Wars kinda suck".
SOVL
That gungan soldier just chillin in the middle of the fight, enjoying the view of his friends fighting to death
Certified in the Black moment
TPM is pure unfiltered soul.
Giant shields stopped making practical sense once everybody realized how to actually fight in a massive galactic war.
All it does is give you a big fricking target to shoot at from space ships that are designed to penetrate capital ship shields made from generators the size of buildings. A tiny ass power generator strapped to the back of a dinosaur or even some mobile artillery wouldn't protect shit.
I appreciate TCW showing why fighting with exposed armies on massive sprawling fields is a moronic idea when even a single space ship could wipe out an entire army with ease.
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>I appreciate TCW showing why fighting with exposed armies on massive sprawling fields is a moronic idea when even a single space ship could wipe out an entire army with ease.
If they sent a single one of those naboo fighters to strafe the droids as they formed up it would have saved so many gungan lives, but no. Guess the Brian Blessed gungan was right, they were racist.
don't forget that the rebels used a giant massive shield to protect echo base
despite the empire having all the firepower in the galaxy to destroy the planet ten times over they still had to land at-ats to destroy the generator
You're right, giant shields would still have been used to protect large fortified areas that could house giant building sized generators like the one used at echo base. There is a reason that land skirmishes still happened in the clone wars after all.
The shield + ion cannon (which did a lot of the heavy lifting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH6Tjly_dK8 ) completely crippled what could have been a simple orbital bombardment.
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Theatre shields were always a thing since Empire and any decently funded planetary government would throw one up to protect cities, bases and continents. they're mentioned to be on geonosis, protecting the core ships
>copy pasted armies with copied animations walking in parade column squares like they are preparing for a speech
>tanks nearly touching the infantry in static lines
>only the republic carries mobile AA, which causes enemy aircraft to crash on friendly positions
this really sucks for a franchise with "wars" in the title. they used to put work into this
adulthood is realizing that JarJar was always kino
This scene was unironically hinting that he's secretly a Sith lord
Darth moronus
they had to cease production after the intergalactic trade federation implemented new emissions standards following the gungan methane release accident in 543 BBY
it looks like one of those meme gaming chairs
Shields? They're on every starship, droids? They're everywhere. The conceot of the wheel? Lost to the ages after the empire took over
what purpose would wheels serve in a galaxy that's composed mostly of remote, barren world's with no infrastructure or roads?
>a galaxy that's composed mostly of remote, barren world's with no infrastructure or roads
is this really the power of Palpatine's Galactic Empire?
>the majority of planets have no water or atmosphere
>THANKS PALPATINE
I get around in my truck just fine, but it's not one of those homosexual hybrids from Coruscant.
> a galaxy that's composed mostly of remote, barren world's with no infrastructure or roads
What the hell are you talking about? The Star Wars galaxy has literally thousands of inhabited worlds. Every pod in the Senate represents a different world.
You think they would all prefer using wheeled, slow, moronic vehicles instead of some sort of speeder?
I didn't say anything about that. I'm the anon you were arguing with. I'm pointing out that the Star Wars galaxy is full of life and inhabited planets.
>thousands
Quadrillions actually
SW Battles Power Rankings
1. Hoth
2. Geonosis
3. Endor
4. Naboo
5. Kashyyk
Endor was the worst, shit taste.
1. Space battle at the beginning of Ep3
Star Wars takes place in the past, everyone seems to forget it's not a future scifi
The preamble is set in universe. It someone in the extreme future telling a story about the far future.
this.
the original idea of starwars was that it was going to be told from the perspective of some kind of storyteller race, observers.
Did these things ever get defeated in any encounter? I remember the white droids were easy feeder, but whenever these ones got rolled out, the Jedi ran the frick away
Jar Jar killed one in the big battle.
Oh shit, you're right. Figures it would go up against Meme Jar and instantly die from getting shot in the leg
They have deflector shields on the the Falcon and Star Destroyers in the OT. It's probably too expensive to put them on individual soldiers. The REAL bullshit is that the Jedi don't just use to Force to frick up these buttholes from the inside.
They'd have to sit there and concentrate under fire. Yoda nearly passes out trying to throw some rocks in an empty room
Not really. It wouldn't take anything more than this.
well this and TCW do show Jedi using the force to kill droidekas so you got your wish
>loses to stairs
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I mean 'lost' technology or tech that is unique to one faction is commonplace in Star Wars - we don't see advanced droids in ST, clones are only a Geonosis thing etc. Besides this is not that unrealistic. We have 'lost' the technology of landing people on the moon.
The Soviet Unions collapse reduced Russian tech level by decades. If someone would nuke Taiwan, we wouldn't know how to make the most advanced chips.
The clones are explainable. They're just too expensive. It's cheaper to use regular grunts.
Also nobody has the tech but the people the empire has genocided so its not just a question of money.
Besides imo it makes zero sense in universe. You have a literal galaxy-spanning autocratic government, how come you can't afford things?
The Death Star must've cost like 1000x as much as the clones did
Tech know how disappeared or was too expensive politically to keep around.
The empire values power and standardization
There are other planets with clone tech, its just that the Kamino facilities had the best one. Your points still stand tho
We haven't lost the technology to land on the moon. There's just no point. There's nothing worth doing there that a drone can't do. And several countries have landed multiple drones there this year. It's far more expensive and risky to put people on-board, they get almost nothing for a successful trip, but tons of shit and grief if they die.
>We haven't lost the technology to land on the moon.
We unironically have and the diversity hire “scientists” are too stupid to go into space anymore so the US pays China and Russia to go up if any of that shit is even real anymore.
We kind of did. Yes the knowledge is out there, but it's decentralized, misunderstood. We lost the technological continuity that peaked with us making it to the moon and back, "and back" being the greatest feat in somehow getting human beings back to Earth.
If you asked NASA right now to do it again they could not. The army of brilliant autistic men who had learned from other brilliant autistic men and furthered their work, is gone. It's replaced with a hodgepodge of merely capable fill-in bodies doing make work .
It's kind of like Roman art, which peaked at a point, and then started to tangibly regress, the continuity is lost even if the knowledge is recorded somewhere.
Good post but watch out for reddit spacing in the future, I’ll let you off with a warning as a first time offender.
We've never been to the moon.
There’s film of the rocket blasting off into the blue yonder where did it go? Why not just go to the moon if you’re gonna fly all the way up there in the first place?
It was empty, the "rockets" are just fancy balloons.
battle droids where banned by empire after Order 66
because of the rule of cool. Theres no consistency in star wars
Star Wars has a thing where if you go back to the past, technology is more advanced than the movies. Like this artificial planet built around a star.
same thing with the alien franchise.
No? Tech is more advanced in Aliens than in Alien. Those are the only canon movies.
>Prometheus
>Covenant
both made by scott, therefore are canon.
the only excuse you can come up with is that alien and aliens are using the lowest cost tech, while prometheus and covenant had the better funded equipment.
or you could just say ridley is a hack and ignore everything after 2 or 3 (your preference) because its boring irredeemable shit
That was built by an advanced ancient civilization and sci-fi is full of those, love that trope.
I got this dude as a Lego set and can't wait to build him.
>Why was this technology lost in the Star Wars universe?
It wasn't.
Just look at the TIE spacecraft vs the Rebel spacecraft in Episode IV.
It is a difference in philosophy. The Galactic Empire is all about ruthless efficiency in feeding the dark side of the force.
TIE fighters don't have shields
That's exactly my point.
There's no point
In canon it's explained that tech went forward and they have portable weapons that disrupt their shield.
The real lore answer is anti droid hostility after the Clone Wars. Even as early as Ep 4, we can see there is widespread distrust of droids in the Empire. Of course theyre not going to use droids publicly. Having an entire human military is a powerful propaganda tool.
>Having an entire human military is a powerful propaganda tool.
Why not have the officers be human, while keeping the Stormtroppers clones?
All the drones were better than the stormtroopers and I'll fight anybody that disagree with me
man why did they take the wars out of star wars