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Brian-Snook — Vintage Style McQuarrie Rebels Poster 2 Comparison
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#2 in my Photoshop re-imagining of a classic Ralph McQuarrie Star Wars poster with a Rebels twist series. (comparison with original)Related content
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I love the fact that some of Star Wars Rebels is based on Ralph McQuarrie designs. Why let go ideas go to waste.
My little head canon ideas? The Storm Trooper models that were scrapped? Use those for small temporary squads of specialized Imperial Clone Troopers. Like you know shortly after the end of revenge of Sith, the Empire still cloned, but after some clone rebellions started cloning from different people before switching over to recruiting humans (and occasionally making a shit ton of cheap clones to be on the safe side)? Well, if they had some of these mid quality clone storm troopers that were diverse, experimental, and quickly fased out, there could be a specialized squad of 2nd gen clone troopers.
Like I said, it wouldn't make up the core of the Imperial military. It would be just mid models of the early empire that served a purpose in certain areas and then died off or were fased out (kind of like those Combat Pilot Driver storm troopers, the ones in green, who seemed to be mainly on Lothal and/or phased out for the Biker Scout Troopers).
that way, it stays closer to Star Wars lore, but had a nod to Ralph McQuarrie. The Cannon is that most of the Storm Troopers are based on Cannon, but in that in between trilogy area, that's when the Empire was experimenting with different quality and specialization clones before finding it's stride. That would explain why they don't show up much in the original trilogy, yet were arguably higher quality troopers for certain situations, which is why First Order Storm Troopers might look similar.
It could also explain the quality vs quantity difference.
After Sith, in early days of Empire, the Empire still needed higher quality clones to take down Jedi and more powerful aliens (key example, Wookies). As the Imperial Clone troopers finished off enslaving or genociding most of the aliens with fighting ability (after the seps had softened them up a bit), most of the galaxy was unarmed, impoverished, and depressed. So from then on they just needed to maintain instead of conquer. And that's why the empire go slack and went quantity over quality near the end.
To explain why there were not many battle droids left, asides from Canon saying they auctioned them off to corporations in submission to the empire and kept many in reserve, from what I hear the Empire funded small controlled opposition cells of "separatists" to cause rebellions on anti Imperial worlds. While the planet was fighting off the remnant separatists, with people dying and them exhausting their ammunition, the Empire could come in and "liberate" (conquer) said world, who were too tired from fighting seps and probably more sympathetic to the empire, not knowing their role in this.
that way the droids get used to enhance the empire, and get destroyed, while the empire claims innocence.
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