X-Wings "shielding" in the Star Wars movies: It's plausible that at that point the Rebellion could only afford a cheaper X-Wing type that lacked shielding/other. Nagru
Are you saying the Rebels wouldn't use the best equipment they had to defend their most important base at Yavin? What about Endor? We see all types of Rebel Fighters succumbing to one or two hits even over Endor much later in the series. If shielding is present, it is *not* stronger than a TIE's.
How did the Ties fly through Hoth's asteroid field: They would lack ray shielding (blocks energy), but have proton shielding (blocks physical objects). Or, a TIE fighter is resilent enough to take some small hits, by very small rocks.
Having some kind of field to defend against physical impacts in the SW universe would be a no brainer. And it's all well and dandy to say that TIE's have them as well. What isn't so good is to say that Rebel Fighters have a much different/better system when they clearly don't.
If the TIE is resilient enough to withstand high-speed impacts from microparticles WITHOUT shielding of any kind, that ALSO flies right into the face of the EU minimalist idiocy.
3 million clones at peak trying to conquer and control a whole galaxy: Odd, but they would probably have used non-clones in the war as well. Or, that could be the number of clones at the beginning of the war, and more were added to the army over time.
Even 3 million at the start of the war is pretty conservative. And Travis wasn't just using that as the 'starting' number, she was actually trying to pass it off as the Clone Trooper peak numbers during the war. The sheer stupidity of this is mind numbing, you can't even control a large continent with 3 million soldiers. Much less a whole galaxy. Thankfully, Lucasfilm's policy on conflicting canon is simple. If it doesn't make sense in the context of the movies, ignore it. Their is no way the Republic could control any signifigant region of space with just a few million or even a few billion Clone Troopers. They'd need literally hundreds of billions at least. So Travesty's number can be thrown out. (Despite her continuous attempts to stop people from doing that.)
Revan is a wanked out character and RPG trash: I don't know why you would say that.
Because he's depicted as doing all sorts of wildly powerful things that just don't fit at all within the context of the universe. (Besides his/her legions of drooling fanboys.) Honestly, one of the biggest things that infuriates me about the EU is how they're always trying to outdo Lucas. "Well our guy can knock star destroyers out of the sky. Even though we never see anything like that happen in the movies even during instances the characters would be idiots not to use such abilities."
Besides; this is a fictional universe, based on a very old movie. I can take some oddities every once in a while.
So can I, but the EU has crossed the line repeatedly and just won't ****ing stop. You get around a corner, and what do you see? More ultra-wank comic book attention hungry nonsense.
Another thing that annoys me about the EU is how chronically unoriginal it is. Can you point out any stories in the EU that *don't* involve "Jedi this and force sensative that" or "must find Sith long johns of doom" or some such? I thought their was a Star Wars universe here. It doesn't have to revolve around the Jedi at every turn.
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