In older galactic wars, when lightsabers are prevalent on both fronts, it was the norm for militaries, private security forces, bounty hunters and other adventurers alike to arm themselves with weapons and armour protected by a cortosis weave. So cortosis is not exactly rare, since it can be used in mass manufacturing by the war industry and is accessible to common use by private individuals too.  Since the Separatists are preparing for war with the Republic and its Jedi guardians, and the Sith plan to use the Clone Wars to help wither the Jedi down by attrition, why aren't lightsaber resistant troops more prevalent? I would expect super battle droids or at least more elite droids like destroyers, commandos, magnaguards etc to be so.
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The Storm Troopers are the main case here, they get killed easily by blasters and even the Ewok arrows go straight through their 'armour'.   The AT-ST and AT-AT use armour to repel blasters of different strengths so they don't pass through all materials. I understand though that the armour used on these is likely much heavier.   From the prequel trilogy we also have the , which have a shield when not moving. Does anyone other than these droids use this technology?   You may use any of the Scrapped EU, Current EU and the normal U to answer.
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This is a question that always bugged me: Why did they (the Sith, actually) choose to use Jango Fett as the single template for the entire clone army?  OK, in the EU it is explained that there was a kind of casting procedure initiated by Lord Tyrannus which yielded Jango as an extremely talented fighter (). I'm sure he had certain qualities, but isn't it quite a risk to base an army of millions of men on one single individual?  I think there were real practical alternatives: Obviously, the Kaminoans were quite a high-tech people. It should have been easy for them to create a clone that combines the strength of different individuals, maybe even of different species, or even create a new species of uber-soldiers. And there would be some quite good reasons to do so:  First of all, Jango is a Mandalorian, and as such sort of human, and even though humans have some good battle qualities (agile, versatile), there also are some downsides (fragile, no single "super-power"). It would have been a good idea to combine the DNA of at least multiple indiviuals, or even of multiple species. Or why not clone a jedi? Imagine an army of 1'000 Mace Windus. At least, they could have used different species for special tasks which need e.g. special stealth / resistance ability. Finally, it is quite a risk to base that army on such a small gene pool. It would be easy for the Separatists to come up with a virus that would just kill them all. They would also better have taken a DNA donor that is already dead so they at least knew its life expectancy.  Is there any canonical explanation for this?
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When stormtroopers get into fire fights with the rebels, I noticed that a few are killed after a single shot to the chest. Is their armor not really armor or are the rebels guns just that powerful? In some of the books in Legends, it seems they can take more of a beating but in the original movies they can't seem to take as much. Do some stormtroopers have different grades of armor?
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Just seen a picture of Vader Force-choking a trooper. And then I started wondering: what if they had cloned a Sith (or a Jedi). Would the clones have the Force? Specifically, would they have the same Force as the original?
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I am reading the book Darth Plagueis, and when an assassination attempt is made on him by use of a nuclear bomb, the book states that nuclear weapons are scarcely available.   I searched briefly but found nothing on this and wondered if an explanation is available. Why would nuclear weapons be rare in a universe with such advanced technology across the board?
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I watched the film 'The Rise of Skywalker' in cinema. Our heroes spent most the film searching for a super secret planet. It turns out the only way to reach the planet is with the help of a extremely rare special navigation device.  When they arrive, the planet itself is uninhabited except for one lonely man. However in orbit is a huge fleet (the biggest ever seen?) of hundreds/thousands of new star destroyers, all with new super powerful weapons and crewed for combat. This is a surprise to the goodies.  How did the baddies build so many ships in secret and in isolation to the galactic economy? Did they import the raw materials? Where did the crews come from?
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From  question about gunpowder in the Star Wars universe it is  that the shot from a  slug thrower is not completely deflectable by a lightsaber. This seems to be listed as an advantage (over blasters) against lightsabers and Jedi.     For example, during the days of the Galactic Republic, mercenaries fearing an intervention by Jedi Knights used rapid-fire slugthrowers that were impossible to completely deflect, unlike blaster bolts.   This doesn't make much sense though. A slug, while maybe not as deflectable should be just as ineffective against a lightsaber as a blaster shot is, due to the nature of a . That is, a blade made of plasma should simply vaporize the slug, should the slug manage to penetrate the containment field.     The weapon consisted of a blade of pure plasma emitted from the hilt and suspended in a force containment field. The field contained the immense heat of the plasma, protecting the wielder, and allowed the blade to keep its shape.   While a slug would seem to be more accurate than a blaster bolt (at least when used by a skilled marksman), I can't imagine that the slug would be faster than a bolt. Or if it is faster I wouldn't imagine it would be so fast that a Jedi would be unable to react with enough speed to block it, either with their saber or with the force. So what is the implied advantage of a slug thrower, versus a blaster, when used against a Jedi?
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In The Force Awakens, Kylo Ren makes it very clear that he wants .     That lightsaber belongs to me!   My question is, why did he want it?  It belonged to two people, Luke, who he considered an enemy, and Anakin, who unlike Vader, .  Vader did briefly use the lightsaber, but would Kylo even know that?  Why would Kylo want the lightsaber of two men he didn't respect?
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Hyperspace travel is a norm in Star Wars universe. Even small ships have that capability and without this capability galactic-scale economy isn't possible.  My educated estimates say that at any point of time at least billions of ships are in hyperspace across the galaxy. Now, talk about economic hubs like Coruscant during Clone Wars Era. The number of ships arriving here should be enormous. Millions in an hour? If one person small ship can have warping capability, then the number can exceed even billions in a peak hour. You can go shopping on a neighbor planet five times a day or you can live on a cheap planet even if you have a job on Coruscant (there are public transport cabs featured in Rebels TV show in case you aren't rich enough to have own ship).  Now, the famous quote:     "Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova, and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?"   That's fine. Calculations prevent you from hitting a star, supernova or planet which are already on map, but how does a ship avoid hitting another ship? Provided that number of ships arriving near a planet is that much high, the probability of two ships jumping to the same co-ordinate can't be zero. In fact, the probability should be very very high.  Is there a central body which controls the traffic by coordinating the hyperspace calculations of different ships? This seems unlikely because everyone seems to go anywhere they want while maintaining the destination privacy (there are countless examples). Or, is there really a traffic control body and those who travel privately actually gamble? Is there any other protocol if not traffic control body?  Has the canon ever addressed it? What about Legends?
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Since my early childhood I've been wondering about the answer to one question about Star Wars:   Why, when fighting with lightsabers, do they use them to parry attacks rather than turning the lightsaber off momentarily?   It seems like they would be able to use this to unbalance their opponent (who is expecting to make contact) then re-activate their lightsaber when their opponent's head is above the handle.
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How is it that, per       As for Obi-Wan, he forgot all about R2-D2 and C-3PO after spending three whole movies with them    I know people might say "well, would you remember a toaster you had 20 years ago" but really these robots have a personality, and C-3PO is probably fairly unique having been hand-built by Anakin.  How many people do remember cars, computers, TVs, and so on they used and interacted with throughout their life, or even closer, pets and work animals?  I'd say most.  So, other than OB-1 being a clone, what possible in-universe reason could be given for him totally not showing any sign of remembering these droids?  (It's a teensy bit easier to believe that Darth Vader doesn't show recognition of them given him being possessed by the dark side and being so busy terrorizing the galaxy and all)
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The Jedi can control objects with the mystical power called the Force without touching them.  In the movies you can see, that the Jedi or Sith are moving objects really fast and really well controlled from one place to another.  Now I'm wondering, why did Jedi or a Sith never use the Force to fight with a lightsaber, or with more lightsabers, or even to control other weapons like a laser gun without touching them? I imagine a Jedi or a Sith with 4 lightsabers around, all of them are floating in the air, controlled by him and the Force. Would this even be possible? What is the force really able to do?       Or, as mentioned in *Kid Dynamo", why don't they just yank the   supports out in a building and let that crush the people inside (or at   least force them to devote a lot of effort to keep from dying)?   Admittedly, Dooku did use something like that when he forced Yoda to   divert his attention to the pillar.
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Luke apparantly has four hands. There are the two he was born with, a mechanical one he was fitted with at the end of The Empire Strikes Back...    ...AND...       the one we see him fitted with in The Force Awakens, both during Rey's force flashback and at the end.  This one looks a lot like the one Anakin was fitted with in Attack of the Clones.     Whatever happened to the third hand?  I know it got a bit damaged in Retrun of the Jedi, but it certainly      looked more natural than the fourth one!  Why not replace the damaged third with another just like it?
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As was seen in Star Wars A New Hope the Millennium Falcon has dorsal and ventral laser cannons. During the Battle of Endor I can not recall ever seeing these weapons used, even though they probably would have been very helpful (such as when being chased by TIE fighters through the superstructure of the Death Star 2).    Was there some legitimate reason for why these guns were not used?
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During the     attack on Starkiller Base,   Mon Calamari cruisers, Star Destroyers and all the other capital ships were conspicuously absent. In fact, the only spaceships I saw in that scene were X-wings and TIE fighters.  I understand that the Resistance is underfunded, but are they really so poor they can't afford a corvette or something? Or at least a few Y-wing bombers to     take out the oscillator?   For a major military installation,     Starkiller Base seems very poorly defended as well. Is the Finalizer the only star destroyer the First Order has left? If the Order can turn an entire planet into a weapons platform, they must be able to crank out something better than TIE fighters.   TFA fighters are significantly improved over their OT equivalents, but the lack of bomber cover, capital ships or light cruisers are highly unusual.  Does the novelization/other sources clarify this?
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I can't seem to find a satisfactory answer to this anywhere on the web. While  poses a related question, I don't think it sufficiently answers mine...  During the opening chapters of Jedi Search, Luke addresses the new Senate on the need to find new Jedi talent, or Force sensitive individuals. During this proposal, he cites that the most fruitful leads of Jedi potential are in the descendants of Jedi Knights: as Force sensitivity is hereditary. The book even discusses the notion that Leia should be comparatively well attuned to the Force, due to her being the child of Anakin Skywalker.  I understand that the concept of the Jedi as a totally celibate and monastic order was something that was retconned into the lore after Episode II: Attack of the Clones, and that there are examples of entire nuclear Jedi families exist (such as Andur Sunrider and Plo Koon)...  But if Force-manipulative ability is passed down genetically (as a potentially mutative property of their genetic makeup), why would the Jedi order be so numerous if they practice Chastity?  Even if procreation is not expressly forbidden (as in the pre-retcon Expanded Universe): why would Jedi need special permission to produce more Jedi potential children?  How are more Jedi created, if not through procreation? Has their profusion been deliberately retarded, and if so why? is there another explanation for their (pre-empirical) plenitude?
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I haven't seen it in movies &amp; TV shows (And, no luck regarding novels as I haven't read any). But, in many Star Wars video games, I experience disturbance while using force in some tech environment. Is there any canonical explanation of it? I don't consider video games under canon..