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Like many of us, Galactic Racer has me all inspired and stuff. Reading books on racing and how to draw cars. Having fun with some tutorials I found. Stoked.

Wookieepedia says that about the Patrol Troopers :

"As the Empire reinforced its hold on planets across the galaxy, local defense forces were being supplemented and eventually completely replaced by stormtroopers."

Which is...false?

We see Patrol Troopers on Corellia by 13BBY and even after that, local defense forces continue to be used sporadically in the Empire (best exemple being on Morlana One/Ferrix or even Bespin).

And even when these local forces needed Imperial reinforcement it was by the Imperial Army and some Stormtroopers but never Patrol Troopers.

We also see them in Jedi Survivor in the streets of Coruscant which is a role I may get more even tho I don't understand what they would do that a regular Stormtrooper or the Coruscant Police couldn't.

Any Intel or even head canon that could make that clearer?

It's something that I cannot grasp.

Andor, Solo and even the EU showed us that, apparently, the majority of the Empire ground forces were composed of the Imperial Army and that the Stormtroopers were the shock trooper.

So why do we see them on unimportant or even backwater planets?

Why would the Empire send these shock troops to patrol the streets of Mos Eisley, Lothal or Kijimi when the Army would be enough?

The Imperial Army should be portrayed more often OR should not exist because there may be too much Stormtroopers in the movies to justify their existence.

What do you think?

Since Obi-Wan used Qui-Gon's lightsaber for a time after his death and likely had some attachment to it, it seems likely he would have held on to it and even made sure to grab it from the temple when he and Yoda returned there in ROTS, anticipating someone's need to build a new saber eventually. It seems like a good legacy to carry on.

It measures approximately 5 feet long and 3 feet wide.

With sculpting, painting and a lot of patience.

A few months ago, I stumbled across this official artwork of Mace Windu wearing Kyle Katarn’s outfit. The artwork was created for the Star Wars Miniatures game back in 2009. There’s a miniature of Mace wearing the same outfit (Mace Windu Miniature) along with the art being prominently featured on the box art (Masters of The Force Box) for the expansion "Masters of The Force." At first, I assumed maybe Mace wore it in the comics as that feels like a thing they'd do back then. But, after asking around online, nobody seemed to know where it came from or why Mace was wearing Kyle's outfit in the first place.

So I started digging. I searched online and found a few posts mentioning the artwork, but nothing that actually explained why he was wearing the outfit. Eventually, I tracked down the original artist, Terese Nielsen, and found her website where she has her art posted. She’s primarily known for her work on Magic The Gathering, so her website is mostly dedicated to her MTG artwork. I searched through it trying to find something related to Star Wars, but there wasn't much

So, I decided to email Terese herself to see if she could shed some light on the artwork. A few months went by, and I never heard anything back. Eventually, I figured I probably wasn't going to get an answer and kinda just let this thought drift off.

That is, until now.

I recently decided to email her again, hoping I might finally get some sort of answer. And, surprisingly, within a few hours, I received a response. It wasn't directly from Terese, but rather from her assistant, and they had this to say about the artwork:

Hi Monty,

Terese’s assistant here. After going through the old reference files supplied for the Mace Windu piece Terese and I can verify that what was supplied was indeed Kyle Katarn. While It would be best not to share any of the confidential reference sheets, this specific image was featured prominently on it alongside some (mid-development?) screenshots of Katarn from the Dark Forces game (Kyle Katarn Reference Image).

While we don’t truly know the why of it, they often did multiple figurines of the same character for the SW’s minis so they seemed to like to mix it up. They did a similar thing with Grevious, having Terese depict him in multiple costumes and forms, or as a different example having Terese put Princess Leia in a Jedi outfit. Fans seemed to mostly be stoked on these alternate depictions but others just seemed to be confused by it.

The art description sent to Terese back in 2009 only has this to say on the subject:

ART DESCRIPTION: Please note the change in costume for Mace. He will be wearing brown pants and light color shirt.

Thanks for the kind words and we hope this sates your curiosity at least a little bit. Wishing you the best, Cheers!

So there we have it! It seems "Star Wars" back in the day wanted to mix it up a bit for this game and had Terese draw some art of Mace Windu wearing Kyle Katarn's outfit for fun! Thank you to Terese and her assistant for answering my question. I can sleep better at night knowing my miniature on my shelf has an answer for why he was made. Linked below will be to Terese's website where you can find all her amazing art. Go give it a look!

May The Force Be With You All!

Terese Nielsen's Website: https://tnielsen.com/

Of all anakin and padme scenes, this one made me understand their love and chemistry the most when ironically they werent even in the same room yet seemed so connected to each other. It really looks like they are silently looking through each other's feelings for each other through the force

Especially given that he had no way of knowing 3P0 had anywhere safe to land!

I'm glad that he grew on him though... although I'm sure 3P0 getting regular memory wipes while R2 didn't probably proved annoying, what with having a technically perpetually amnesiatic sidekick.