Batman wrote:Or we could always go with something that happens all to often in the real world: The people in charge of deciding wether or not to buy that ludicrous helmet are paid by and/or related to the people owning the company making them.
Well, as someone pointed out, an Imperial officer aboard the Eclipse had the largest hat he'd seen in the Star Wars universe- maybe big hats are traditions aboard super weapon platforms, a tradition dating back to when the Republic was young and assembled really big scary shit on the ground and needed to keep the sun off their backs? Maybe to carry stuff?
Or maybe it costs the empire 99 cents to stamp out helmets like that and rather than bothering to go for the complex, they went with durable, simple and cheap.
Anyway, I still say it would be silly and awesome if all sorts of critical burn injury patients in the SWverse end up wearing Vader-like attire since Vader's armor was just badassed version of... well, the SW-equivalent of wheelchairs. For horrible burn victims.
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Samuel wrote:Well, as someone pointed out, an Imperial officer aboard the Eclipse had the largest hat he'd seen in the Star Wars universe- maybe big hats are traditions aboard super weapon platforms, a tradition dating back to when the Republic was young and assembled really big scary shit on the ground and needed to keep the sun off their backs? Maybe to carry stuff?
Or maybe it costs the empire 99 cents to stamp out helmets like that and rather than bothering to go for the complex, they went with durable, simple and cheap.
It's quite simple. The Empire has a space shortage and rather than storing them, some clever guy discovered that it would be more efficient to let the troopers wear their woks as helmets.
"Nippon ichi, bitches! Boing-boing." Mai smote the demonic fires of heck...
It's interesting to note that only naval troopers wear those enormous helmets. The bizarre clam-with-a-massive-underbite helmets on the Death Star gunners is an interesting design too.
Army troopers wear open-face helmets, but they're not all that ridiculous. In fact, they actually make sense, at least from a "shrapnel is bad and I want to keep it out of my neck and head" perspective.
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