You can blame dropping a moon on Chewbacca's head for that. https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-expanded-universe-story-that-lead-to-lucasfilm-re-w-1822092518 (View Post)

Consider the TIE vs. Millenium Falcon scene in ANH. The Falcon is shown as slow and less maneuverable than the TIEs (unlike subsequent movies, where the Falcon is as agile as a starfighter), its defe… (View Post)

The bombers were based on WWII bombers, like the B-24. And, yeah, WWII bombers were slow, and quite vulnerable without extended range fighter cover. During 1942-43, before extended range fighters wer… (View Post)

There is also a Barbarian warrior kit introduced the Complete Fighter's Handbook (published the year before the Barbarian Handbook). So, in 2nd Edition PnP rules, there were both, a Barbarian kit and… (View Post)

Both Luke and Anakin have a similar "instant competence" as Rey. Luke is a farmboy, he's flown the equivalent of a cropduster on the farm (his T-16). Yet, at the end of A New Hope, he's jum… (View Post)