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Tribute to Nien Nunb and other Star Wars Bit Parts
Nien Nunb writes "This Star Wars feature tries to give the little guys a leg up, like the aforementioned Nien Nunb, who only shows up for one action sequence, but he was copilot of the ship that destroyed the second Death Star. Star Wars is full of forgotten faces like his and you can see all their wretchedness here."
Just because someone is into technology doesn't make them into LOTR, SW, anime, natural science, patent law, digital music, Harry Potter, Columbine, Blizzard games, and the list goes on and on...
This 'observation' could be made in almost any Slashdot post.
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I never really thought about it until now, but Luke had nothing to do with the destruction of the Death Star and the defeat of the Empire in ROTJ!!! Han, Leia, and the rebel detachment took out the Shield protecting the Death Star and Lando (with Numb) and the other rebel pilots took out the Death Star. The emperor would have died anyway when the Death Star was destroyed! A depressing thought since Luke was the main hero. At least he turned Vader (who would have died with the Death Star as well). Guess he did do something after all...
How pathetic is this? Star Wars was a set of MOVIES. These people were EXTRAS. Yes, they did have interesting costumes, but that's it. Perhaps this article would be better entitled "Extras from star wars about whom the coolest fan fiction has been written", because that's all the various stories written after the trilogy are.