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What happened to the scanning crew?
Posted: 2004-04-23 04:50pm
by CaptainChewbacca
Hiding in the Milennium Falcon's hold, our brave heroes ambush a scanning crew and two storm troopers. They take their uniforms, and no one ever finds them.
So, are there dead bodies in the hold of the Falcon for the rest of the trip, or what? They had to go somewhere.
I can just imagine after the Yuuzhan Vong are defeated:
Han: Well, the galaxy is safe.
Leia: What's that smell? It's been there for a while now, and it bugs me.
Posted: 2004-04-23 04:55pm
by Sir Sirius
You ate them, can't you remember?
Posted: 2004-04-23 06:34pm
by Isolder74
more than likely they were jetisened as soon as opertunity allowed. So it is possible they are siting floating somewhere around the Yavin system
Posted: 2004-04-23 06:37pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
The Stormtroopers around the Falcon before they left the Death Star probably removed them.
Posted: 2004-04-23 06:54pm
by CaptainChewbacca
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:The Stormtroopers around the Falcon before they left the Death Star probably removed them.
They didn't know there was anyone unconscious aboard, did they? Right until the end no one knew what was going on.
And wookiees don't eat humanoids. That's something for filthy Trandoshans.
Posted: 2004-04-23 06:58pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
You don't seriously expect that Stormtroopers would stand guard around an open enemy starship without taking a look inside, do you?
Man, I'd hate to have you as my squad leader.
Posted: 2004-04-23 07:28pm
by CaptainChewbacca
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:You don't seriously expect that Stormtroopers would stand guard around an open enemy starship without taking a look inside, do you?
The Imperial military is a culture of fear. If someone told me to stand guard, I'd stand guard. Especially given how well Vader tolerates screw-ups.
And honestly, it wasn't that important at the time to the Empire.
Posted: 2004-04-23 07:37pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
I need to reset, but I'm going to say this before I go for a second:
First, you need to think more open-mindedly. Don't go all the way out of the box, mind you, but try a littke peek once and a while.
Second: Because of that, did you bother to think that MAYBE they were ordered to check the ship again before guarding it?
Seriously...
Posted: 2004-04-23 07:39pm
by CaptainChewbacca
Do you live in this forum?
Points taken.
Posted: 2004-04-23 07:53pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
No, I just know how far inside and outside of the box to think.
Posted: 2004-04-23 08:23pm
by Darth Raptor
But WHERE are the burn marks on that armor!!!???
Listen to the shots! It wasn't precise sniping! It's more like:
OMFG! Stormtroopers! Fire! Fire!
kpow! kpow! kpow! kpow!
And then they come out and it looks like the plasteel's even been polished! WTF!?
Posted: 2004-04-23 08:38pm
by Captain tycho
Lazy Raptor wrote:But WHERE are the burn marks on that armor!!!???
Listen to the shots! It wasn't precise sniping! It's more like:
OMFG! Stormtroopers! Fire! Fire!
kpow! kpow! kpow! kpow!
And then they come out and it looks like the plasteel's even been polished! WTF!?
It's possible they used stun, you know.
Posted: 2004-04-23 09:09pm
by Darth Raptor
Captain tycho wrote:It's possible they used stun, you know.
Possible, but not likely. There's only one instance of the stun setting used and it sounds very different from the full-power setting on that model. Also, what did they do? Bound and gag them and hide them under the floor? This little plot device already suffers from severe time constraints (fortunately, the time until the officers get pissed is indefinate). But there can't be almost an hour until they wonder where the sentries went.
Posted: 2004-04-23 09:18pm
by Burak Gazan
Lazy Raptor wrote:But WHERE are the burn marks on that armor!!!???
Listen to the shots! It wasn't precise sniping! It's more like:
OMFG! Stormtroopers! Fire! Fire!
kpow! kpow! kpow! kpow!
And then they come out and it looks like the plasteel's even been polished! WTF!?
Actually, it was more like kpow! ....slight pause....kpow!kpow!
I'm thinking neck or armpit/joints aiming for the body glove instead of armour
Posted: 2004-04-23 10:04pm
by Captain tycho
Lazy Raptor wrote:Captain tycho wrote:It's possible they used stun, you know.
Possible, but not likely. There's only one instance of the stun setting used and it sounds very different from the full-power setting on that model. Also, what did they do? Bound and gag them and hide them under the floor? This little plot device already suffers from severe time constraints (fortunately, the time until the officers get pissed is indefinate). But there can't be almost an hour until they wonder where the sentries went.
It's quite possible that it wasn't Luke and gang firing, but the stormies. The gang might've just pounced and beat them down, or Kenobi used the force to trip them up. As for what did they do with the bodies, who knows. Maybe they were dragged off the MF and placed in a crate in the docking bay off-camera.
(Though how they could do that without anyone seeing it is beyond me, unless Kenobi used the force to temporarily blind the officers in the over-looking control station, which seems unlikely.)
Posted: 2004-04-23 10:06pm
by PainRack
what about the lightsabre?
Posted: 2004-04-23 10:18pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
PainRack wrote:what about the lightsabre?
Lightsabres don't sound like a blaster.
Posted: 2004-04-23 10:35pm
by 18-Till-I-Die
Maybe no one was shot, they just knocked them out and put them in an airlock, then jetisoned them as soon as they hit space. That's what i'd do, to keep the armour unmarked and to save time.
Posted: 2004-04-23 10:36pm
by 18-Till-I-Die
Err, i forgot to say, maybe we herad the Stormtroopers shooting not Han and Luke.
Posted: 2004-04-23 10:40pm
by Burak Gazan
The blasterfire that was heard was NOT from a standard stormtrooper rifle, it sounded like Solo's sidearm alone doing the shooting.
Posted: 2004-04-23 10:57pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
It was Han's DL-44 that fired.
But it's also most likely that the stormtroopers removed them from the Falcon when they were standing guard before they left the Death Star.
That makes the most sense to me, considering how much time the Falcon is left alone by the heroes.
Posted: 2004-04-23 11:17pm
by 18-Till-I-Die
Well, now, wouldnt they report the finding of two naked bodies of their comrades. I mean, that'd be a major thing wouldnt it, since it meant someone was walking around in stormie armor. They execute people for owning it, IIRC, so i think they'd at least report someone stealing it.
Granted they couldnt know who stole it, but still to just not report it, to have no alert or anything...it seems a bit unusual.
Posted: 2004-04-23 11:23pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
My God, it's like watching an electric football game, and all the pieces are either falling over or getting stuck in the corners...
Not so far outside or inside the box, people.
Posted: 2004-04-23 11:27pm
by DPDarkPrimus
Okay, so it was Han's blaster firing? Chewie or someone distracted the Stormies while Han snuck up behind them and shot them in between their helmet and neck seal. He then shot them with the helmets off to make sure.
So they were killed, and it explains the shots AND the spotless armor!
Posted: 2004-04-23 11:29pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
And then other stormtroopers took care of the damn bodies while they were running around the Death Star.
There, problem fucking solved.