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There's no army on Earth that suits their soldiers in white. But the Imperial Army's Stormtroopers, with their gleaming white suits, are not on Earth. Does that mean they can get away with it? What decisions could have possibly led to such a poor color choice for a military uniform meant to be exposed to the grit and grime of combat?
Image via TK409 Due to a leak at the Lucasfilm Archives, Core77 was able to obtain the script pages from a deleted scene in the original trilogy. In the following excerpt, we see that galactic industrial design consultant Cuke Skysketcher had some reservations about what would eventually make it into production.
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I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.
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Stormtrooper Uniform Design Meeting: The Emperor Vs. an Industrial Design Consultant
So that's why the storm troopers are so terrible at aimimg. And here I thought it was a training flaw, not a design flaw. In a galaxy far, far away human-centered design must not be a priority....
He he. Of course, if one spends most of one's time fighting in "Morning Frost"-colored spaceship corridors, that seems like an appropriate shade ...