Is anyone suprised by this? There are two definate schools of thought in the EU. One is from the Zahn school of thought, where major battles are fought by dozens of warships involving thousands of troops. There are many examples of this from both the EU and particualrly the movies. The Battle of Endor, the single most important battle in the movies involved less than a hundred ships. Perhaps even less than 50. Hardly cominsurate with the thousands of ships readily available according to the second school of thought.
The second school emphasizes the size of the SW galaxy. It focusses on hundreds of ships, millions of troops, emphasizing how vast this galactic society is.
Unfortunately it is my opinion that GL is of the first school of thought. Mind you in ANH only one Stardestroyer is pursuing the Tantive IV. Surely if we have thousands of SD spread across the galaxy we could have roused more than 1 to chase down the Tantive IV right? Surely the Deathstar would have had an escort protecting it. That recently bothered me when I though more about it, why was the prize battlestation of the EMpire left on tis own, wiothout at least a few stardestroyers as escort. After all what were a handful of stardestroyers for the Empire?
I suggest that GL has NO CONCEPT of the actual scale of his galaxy. He has no idea what sort of military would be needed to police it or even war in it.
Millions of troops in GL's mind are more than enough. A legion of your best troops are more than enough to protect a bunker from a determined rebellion. It takes an entire starfleet of thousands of SD's to find a handful of rebel ships in ROTJ. The fleet assembled with the simgular purpose of extinguishing the rebellion is composed of at most 20 ships (novelization) or 6 if you only accept screen eveidence.
So for the EU faithful out there I think that GL is not on the same page as the rest of you. (Which also means I have to start scaling back some of these battles in the Twilight War
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