Timeline for Why didn't the Rebels jump to hyperspace to escape at the Battle of Endor?
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| Oct 4, 2014 at 2:52 | comment | added | jbwharris | @jpmc26 I'll cite the Ewoks Wiki on this one. starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ewok "In the director's commentary for the 2004 re-release of Return of the Jedi, as well as the documentary Empire of Dreams, Lucas also cited the Viet Cong as being the primary inspiration for the Ewoks, particularly their defeat of the Galactic Empire." | |
| Oct 3, 2014 at 23:33 | comment | added | jpmc26 | @jamEs The Vietcong used gorilla warfare, not head on assaults... If that's true, Lucas obviously didn't know his history. And it's not like the Vietcong didn't even have guns. | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 20:23 | comment | added | Barafu Albino | It is just like a war between British armies and masai warriors. At first, masai did loose a lot. But then thier chieftains commanded them to ditch shields, useless against bullets, ditch thrown weapons and just charge headlong with knives and spears. They managed to drive British armies far back - soldiers were not prepared for close quarters melee in the bushes. | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 17:06 | comment | added | Daft | @ajp15243 ah! I didn't know that! Cheers | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 13:50 | comment | added | ajp15243 |
@Daft By the time of Episodes IV - VI, Stormtroopers are not genetically engineered clone soldiers ([...] the stormtrooper ranks would cease to be dominated by Fett's progeny after the Battle of Kamino in 12 BBY). They are enlisted from the population of the Empire (By the time the Galactic Civil War began in earnest, Jango Fett's clones were heavily supplanted by clones based on a variety of templates around 9 BBY, followed shortly after by enlisted Humans.). Source (see "Early history" and "The Galactic Civil War") But yeah, Ewoks...
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| Oct 2, 2014 at 12:36 | comment | added | jbwharris | Lucas was said to have taken inspiration for the Ewoks pluckiness from the Viet Cong, who fended off the much more technologically advanced US forces during the Vietnam War. | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 12:14 | comment | added | Daft | I like how a bunch of living teddy bears armed with sticks and stones do battle with genetically engineered killers equipped with head to toe body armour, laser rifles and imperial walkers. | |
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| Oct 1, 2014 at 20:34 | history | answered | jbwharris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |