Maxwell

I was reading the Fall of Númenor for the first time the other day. I reached the section that spoke about the natural life of Númenor, particularly the fauna of the island, and I found the most amazing fact: Númenor had bears that didn't attack the people, instead they were friendly and loved to dance for the Númenoreans. Their slow and clumsy movements seemed funny to men, but they never laughed at them, because their laugh upset and scared the bears.

There are two factors that I believe affected the decline in quality of the stormtroopers.

1) I believe that the first stormtroopers were actually elite soldiers, trained by clone commandoes, and other experienced clone war veterans, but as time passed those soldiers began to die due the rise of rebel activities. The death of experienced soldiers, which could lead and train the newer recruits, caused a direct decline in the quality of the stormtroopers' training. It's also worth mentioning the decommissioning of clone troopers, another good source for good instructors. The empire clearly valued clone troopers as instructors, as it's shown in rebels, when they capture Rex and offer him to train stormtroopers, to which he declines, as I imagine most other clones did after being so mistreated by the empire.

In lotr all the names of characters, regions and kingdoms have a meaning and story. There are whole essays on the meaning of the names of characters like Galadriel and Celeborn. In unfinished tales there's a section that discusses the name of the river Gwathló and why it was named like that; Gwath means darkness or shadow, as the river was once covered by tall trees that casted their shadow over its waters, and ló means swamp or marshland, as the Numenoreans who explored the river reached Swanfleet, a marshland from which the river originated. Later the Numenoreans used the forests around the river for timber and deforested the whole region, making the name of the river be outdated due the change on the landscape. And you have to consider that this river had next to zero importance whatsoever, but it still had a whole backstory.

¿Why is regaining health so easy? ¿why I'm I not death after a single burst of bullets? ¿I'm not forced to turn every light source on a three kilometer radius?

One day the lights go out. Gunshots can be heard, a battle is happening in the prison. The rebels are raiding the place to liberate the unlawfully imprisoned people inside. Dedra can't move. She's on fetal position, shaking on a corner while everyone runs away. A rebel soldier picks her and leaves her on the transport where they are taking the prisoners.

They drop her and many others in some backwater planet in the outer rim, where the empire can't find them.