Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!feather From: feather@isi-vaxa Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Decline and fall of the StarWars Empire Message-ID: <3140@topaz.ARPA> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 11:59:26 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3140 Posted: Tue Aug 6 11:59:26 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Aug-85 00:17:07 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 13 From: Feather@ISIF The sad decline of the capabilities of the empire stormtroopers (contrast their effective capture of the ship containing Princess L. at the start of SW with their inability to overcome a bunch of dwarf teddy bears at the end of RotJ) must surely be due to the same ecological disaster that lead to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, namely lead plumbing (only here it was not only the leaders, but also the troops). Martin S. Feather