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For day 15 we have a Republic Gunship or Low Altitude Assault Transport used during the Clone Wars. Which always sounded a lot cooler than they ended up being.
The Low Altitude Assault Transport (LAAT), also known as the LAAT-series gunship nicknamed “Larties” by some clones, was a gunship series used by the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. The series was produced by Rothana Heavy Engineering. [SOURCE]
As of today we are into single digits in the countdown. I know – this year’s countdown seems to be taking a while. Maybe that is because I need to do some Christmas shopping. Or – maybe it is because every day we’re getting a technical lesson in Star Wars.
We are now on Day 14 of the Star Wars Lego Advent Calendar and we get a Mouse Droid of MSE Droid.
MSE-series was a popular line of MSE “Mouse” droids. These droids were usually programmed with a single function that varied per assignment. Once they were set on the task, they would do nothing else. [SOURCE]
This seems like a small gift but we have done pretty well so far. Only 10 days away from Santa – time to start behaving.
At first glance you may think this is just R2-D2′s darker cousin but in reality it is R2-Q5 which surprisingly enough was in the originally trilogy and with no surprise at all have a long back story. No he is not an evil R2 – if he was that would just make him cooler.
R2-Q5 was an R2-series astromech droid produced by Industrial Automaton. R2-Q5 had black coverings highlighted by bronze access panels. R2-Q5 was a well-equipped droid, with tools for repairing starships and special, hidden spy devices. He was also one of the few beings aware of IG-88A’s infiltration of the Death Star. [SOURCE]
IG-88A’s infiltration of the Death Star??? I have no idea. I always thought IG-88 was a lame attempt at seeing Tin Man looking action figures.
We are officially halfway through the countdown to Christmas and we have another great gift from the calendar – this is a snowspeeder or technically an Incom T-47 airspeeder. If you thought I was kidding when I said EVERYTHING has a back story you are wrong.
The Incom T-47 airspeeder was an airspeeder that became famous during the Galactic Civil War for its military use by the Alliance to Restore the Republic. [SOURCE]
Speaking of a back story – I have no idea what is going on behind the snowspeeder. None.
We haven’t had anything from the Star Wars prequels in a while so maybe this Battle Droid Pilot isn’t the end of the world. Honestly – the concept of a robot army is pretty awesome if it is more Terminator and less slapstick which is what these guys were in several places. I know the point was to demonstrate the need for a “clone” army or slightly better technology but it was kinda lame. Robots should be cold emotionless warriors not thinking machines and definitely not feeling machines. (See my issues with Transformers movie.)
The OOM pilot battle droid was a OOM-series battle droid in the Trade Federation Droid Army and, later, the Separatist Droid Army for the purpose of piloting vehicles of various kinds.
So not a bad pick for day 11 but not a great one either. We are under the two week mark before Santa gets here. It is almost time to start shopping.