Re: Stormtroopers

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 19:22:15 -0500 Richard and Emily Bell
<rlbell@sympatico.ca> writes:
> Not being a fighter pilot, I am not an expert, but I suspect that  the
> only way that Luke could be screened by his fellow pilots would be if
> the imperials did not have enough fighters to crush the screen and 
send
> fighters hurtling past it to Luke, which brings about the odd 
conclusion
> that the imperials never outnumbered the rebels by any real margin, 
at
> any point in the combat.  This is corroborated by the rebel radio
> chatter which implies that they were not all engaged at all times.

Well, as an aside, according to the Star Wars Death Star Technical
Companion (for whatever that's worth), most TIEs didn't launch because
Tarkin said no; only Vader and his personal, elite, squadron launched.

'Course, that may just be WEG's way of explaining why there weren't more
fighters either.

Best,