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# Hahaha
Despite the viking, i've always wondered why they bothered with the Dewbacks to get anywhere on Tattooine; I mean they had AT-STs and other walkers that would appear to have mean much quicker, in the belly of the Star Destroyers above them

/I am a nerd
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 10 Apr 2009, 20:54, archived)
# Not good for sand travel
Giant geckos would have been better.
Loving your leopard pics btw.
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Fri 10 Apr 2009, 20:56, archived)
# Ah, I did wonder about the sand!
And cool, should be up there again on Monday with a film maker who I took pictures for for his website: www.adriancale.co.uk/ :)
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 10 Apr 2009, 20:59, archived)
# Awwwwwwwwwww :D
I love you people.
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Fri 10 Apr 2009, 21:01, archived)
# Could you imagine their accuracy with the added jig of the movement as well?
(Jeru War and Piss, Fri 10 Apr 2009, 20:56, archived)
# Could be sand gets into the mechanics
Plus sand is always shifting - maybe the balance systems couldn't adapt to such an unstable, fluidic surface like sand.
Plus, the air conditioning in those things is probably rubbish.
Plus, AT-STs are expensive. Think they'd waste the cash on a backwater planet like Tatooine?

Hovervehicles, though, like Luke's skimmer, would be useful.
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Fri 10 Apr 2009, 20:57, archived)
# Ah but your last point master Tribs
A Star Destroyer carry twenty AT-AT walkers, thirty AT-ST scout walkers, and 9,700 ground troops; there were at least two in orbit over Tattooine, plus they would have spared no expenses finding those droids
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 10 Apr 2009, 21:03, archived)
# The Star Destroyers were probably just passing through
after intercepting Leia's ship. Plus, those troopers shown on dewbacks might be the regular stationed troops who use dewbacks all the time so stick with the transport they know works. The outtakes might feature loads of walkers all over the planet slipping and sliding about in the sand.
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Fri 10 Apr 2009, 21:08, archived)
# A fair point
this would have caused the Empire considerable embarrassment if their machines of terror were prone to slipping over
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 10 Apr 2009, 21:09, archived)
# In an alternate universe
those gunners DID use that escape pod for target practice.
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Fri 10 Apr 2009, 21:11, archived)