Timeline for Why are there only human males at the Battle of Yavin?
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| Sep 17, 2023 at 14:52 | comment | added | tbrookside | One thing to consider for the alien part of the question is that the craft design requires a humanoid pilot within a specific height and mass range, and with hands and fingers. So some species simply wouldn't be practical as pilots for the equipment available. | |
| Sep 17, 2023 at 11:19 | comment | added | Aaargh Zombies | In-universe, having human males would be realistic, humans are the most common species in the star wars galaxy and males make up the bulk of combatants in any war. If anything the later additions of female pilots is the unrealistic part. About 99,999% of all combat pilots in the world are male, even in countries like Israel where women are allowed to serve as front line combat pilots its very unusual. Women served as bomber crews in Russia during WWII, but they were the exception rather than the rule. | |
| Sep 17, 2023 at 4:07 | history | edited | Giacomo1968 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 4, 2023 at 17:01 | comment | added | Ben Murphy | Maybe all the alien female pilots died at the battle of Scarif? After all, they had an X-Wing available for a farm boy who’d never flown before. | |
| Sep 4, 2023 at 10:48 | comment | added | Kris | Real world explanation: probably just passive mid-to-late 70's casting prejudice. Put out a call to Equity for extras to play "Generals" and "Fighter Pilots", and they'd go through the rolodex and send you a bunch of older and younger male actors respectively. Sending in women for the call probably didn't even occur to them at the time. | |
| Aug 30, 2023 at 18:44 | comment | added | Eike Pierstorff | @ThePopMachine I am an alien (in all countries but one anyway) so forgive my lapse in language (alas I am German, I guess it would be funnier if I was French). | |
| Aug 30, 2023 at 17:44 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | @EikePierstorff: Pilot rooster? I thought we established there weren't alien pilots? | |
| Aug 30, 2023 at 15:26 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | Casting, and special effects costs :D | |
| Aug 30, 2023 at 13:40 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Aug 30, 2023 at 7:14 | comment | added | Eike Pierstorff | The rebellion was open to all races, but they might not have been evenly distributed across all rebel bases. Had the death star approached Mon Cala, the pilot rooster might have looked different. | |
| Aug 30, 2023 at 6:58 | comment | added | JK. | Hera was a member of the Rebellion: starwarsrebels.fandom.com/wiki/Hera_Syndulla | |
| Aug 30, 2023 at 6:12 | answer | added | Valorum | timeline score: 13 | |
| Aug 30, 2023 at 5:44 | history | edited | LogicDictates | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Aug 30, 2023 at 5:40 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Aug 30, 2023 at 5:40 | history | asked | John | CC BY-SA 4.0 |