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Where is that image from?

Simon H.Johansen wrote:Where is that image from?

It's from the Star Wars Insider comic link I believe.

Yeah, nice that they're showing the connection to the OT... but still, can we please see some tracked vehicles in use by the clonetroopers?

The SPHA-T should've been treaded.

They have a repulsortank at least.

Illuminatus Primus wrote:The SPHA-T should've been treaded.

They have a repulsortank at least.

While I tend to agree that the SPHA-T should have used treads or some similar system, I find it entirely possible that treads have been largely eliminated from the SW universe due to the numerous advantages inherent in repulsorlift-technology. Obviously the SPHA-T should have used treads intead of legs, but I see a repulsorlift tank made with SW technology as being significantly better than tracked vehicles.

We also shouldn't dismiss the possibility that some walkers use legs merely for ground contact/stability and for grounding to penetrate shielding--with the true support and balancing maintained by repulsors.

Illuminatus Primus wrote:We also shouldn't dismiss the possibility that some walkers use legs merely for ground contact/stability and for grounding to penetrate shielding--with the true support and balancing maintained by repulsors.

I find that highly probable, though in the case of the SPHA-T it would be somewhat unusual, since the weapon had the ability to target and (it seemed) track flying targets, indicating it would appear to be designed to operate outside of theater shielding.

Master of Ossus wrote:

Illuminatus Primus wrote:We also shouldn't dismiss the possibility that some walkers use legs merely for ground contact/stability and for grounding to penetrate shielding--with the true support and balancing maintained by repulsors.

I find that highly probable, though in the case of the SPHA-T it would be somewhat unusual, since the weapon had the ability to target and (it seemed) track flying targets, indicating it would appear to be designed to operate outside of theater shielding.

Since combat airspeeders can operate under friendly theater shields, a combat vehicle designed to penetrate hostile theater shields should have at least some defense against those sorts of defenses.

Even the droid army that invaded Naboo had minimal close air support assets in the form of single-droid repulsorlift platforms. The twin blaster rifles or carbines that those platforms used would not likely have been terribly effective against the armor of something like an SPHA-T, but they could prevent the deployment of infantry and thus deprive an assault force of a major asset.

Crayz9000 wrote:Yeah, nice that they're showing the connection to the OT... but still, can we please see some tracked vehicles in use by the clonetroopers?

We might. The Nen-Carvon CAVw PX-10 Compact Assault Vehicle was supposedly made in the last days of the Old Republic.

The present is in the past now. Though this will dismiss most of the history behind the AT-AT.