What do these guys do?
guard the emperor
>>220614995Guard the emperor against people that arent the literal grandmaster of the entire jedi order
they actually do stuff in the comics, or appear to at times
>>220614995Procure and prepare sex slaves
Goon while he naps
>>220614995Excuse to hire some well-connected rich kid who studied art.
I always wondered about these niggas who got 3 seconds of screentime.
>>220614995Have sex
>>220614995I don't know because I'm not a beta male incel manbabby
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>>220615418I don't even remember these niggas, did Jorj edit them out at some point?
>>220615418vestigial advisors who (act like they) serve the same role as in the republic days I guessI'm just making shit up
>>220615546they're briefly seen in the emperor's chamber at one point, at least in version I saw.
>>220614995They are trained body guards. They go through tough training and selection process. I think there's a comic story focused on two of them. They didn't do diddly squat in the movies except get choked out by Yoda. If it was some random dude who walked in they'd probably electrocute them.
>>220615418They were apparently a group of sith who were using the emperor as their political puppet before the script changed
>>220615418Once the Emperor died, they took over the administration of the Empire for a short while.
>>220615457>>220615483ok, commie kikes
>>220615021Isn’t the Emperor more capable of dealing with an attack than anyone else in the Empire? Who is this threat that the Emperor couldn’t deal with, that these red dudes with sticks could?
>>220614995Get one-shotted by Yoda
>>220615665>They didn't do diddly squat in the movies except get choked out by Yoda.There’s a deleted scene from Jedi when the guards prepare to fight Vader if necessary, but I don’t think there’s any implication he would lose to them. It feels more like they’re just that loyal they’d die for the Emperor.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCqgF0dKftgWhich raises the question. What are actually they for? Anyone who gets close enough to seriously threaten Palpatine has to be pretty powerful, and will just toss these fools aside. Do they have an unexpected anti Jedi trick, or are they just there for the aesthetic?
Guys?
>>220616094See, these make sense. Palpatine could keep them around for the purpose of sexual favours.
>>220616002Average joes/assassins. No one outside the emperors inner circle and a handful of surviving jedi(who are constantly hunted) know the emperor is a supremely powerful and evil magical wizard swordsman
>>220616088Probably just aethetics but if you want to train to head canon something you could say it's because the emperor wanted people to think he was just some old man who needed guards so that they would trust him more or something
>>220615418Sheev’s goth broskies. Imagine spending evenings listening to darkwave with them – it must be so chill.
They go fwoosh fwoosh and pew pew harder than the regular baddies. They don't kill protagonists though
>>220614995sell merchandise, indirectly
>>220614995on paper protect the emperor, in reality just there to give the illusion palpatine is just some old dude and not an evil space wizard
>>220614995They are rebels. They rebel.
>>220614995Space pool sharks, the emperor keeps them near for when he needs to hustle a wanker.
>>220614995Read Pic related.
>>220615013Its like Gaddafi's guard, the provide him with both sexual pleasure and protection
>>220615457This is what /TV/ tells themselves
>>220614995Job.
>>220615342Kek
>>220615909>they noticed>shut it down
>>220614995point at you with a stick
>>220614995That's the Anal Avengers
>>220615342I didn't expect this
>>220614995They're Sheevs backup dancers whenever he gets challenged to a dance off
>>220615418They're the people ACTUALLY running the Empire, while Palpatine is getting off on how evil he is and commissioning superweapons
>>220614995They look fabulous in red
>>220617868that's actually vader choking him
>>220614995The Empire is based on the catholic churchThe emperor is the popeThe red guys are the swiss guards>>220615418These are the cardinals
>>220617339holy shit the nostalgia. I think I still have these in a box somewhere.
>>220616708Why bother with the illusion? He has no significant rivals left. Yoda and Obi wan are buck broken and would lose in a 2v2 against him and Vader. The emperor could start zapping whoever he wanted and citizens would have to deal with it.
>>220614995They fix air conditioner vents.
>>220617440 Underpaid, overqualified hallway NPCs whose entire resume is “stood there menacingly.”Imagine training your whole life, mastering space-halberd combat, surviving political purges, only to spend 12-hour shifts pointing at doors and occasionally getting force-pushed into a wall. Absolute dream job.
>>220621744>Could this day get ANY worse!?
>>220617359Yeah checks out. They're also useless as shit.
>>220617897No one does.
>>220614995aura farm
>>220616110Imagine shooting lightning out of your dick haha.
>>220616088They are there for the theatre of it. Like the other anon explained, but i also imagine in other ways.
>>220614995Looking cool or as younglings call it "aura farm"
>>220617339something about this always struck me as "fake star wars"it was the very first thing I felt that used a few vague Star Wars aesthetics and references like a Buffalo Bill skinsuit and then went off on some wild and crazy shit that was totally at odds with what felt like "real" Star Wars to meKyle Katarn didn't have this problem, those games felt Star Warsthe Boba Fett books and Thrawn didn't have this problem, those felt Star WarsRepublic Commando, Bounty Hunter, Clone Wars, Ewoks, stormtrooper comics, Mara Jade...all that shit felt right, but Crimson Empire felt like I was reading some Aliens vs Predator weyland-yutani shit
cool looking motherfuckern
>>220617339>readno, I'm okay.
>>220614995Aura farm
>>220616002Do you think the Emperor wants to personally deal with every person who wants to kill him? Plus it never hurts to have backup
>>220615418>I always wondered about these niggas who got 3 seconds of screentime.They're the main antagonists in the series I'm writing about a cute Imperial detective who accidentally finds out the Empire is run by Dark Side adherents.
>>220624678No you aren't.
>>220624792U mad bro?
>>220624816Yes, I hate liars.
>>220624916
>>220625013
>>220615418Allegory for the people (jews) who actually run the world behind the scenes.
>>220614995Escort Glup Shitto around the galaxy
>>220624574Because Crimson Empire was pro-Imperial with late 90s Dark Horse DNA. It's one of the few instances where the protagonist is an Imperial and doesn't defect, his loyalty is to Palpatine until the very end even if he's fighting Imperial forces.
Basically the Praetorian Guard of the Star Wars Galatic Empire
>>220614995I don't even know but when I saw the figure in 1983 before RotJ came out, I lost my goddamn mind over it.
>>220625971I still have mine. They should go back to using actual cloth for these.
>>220615546Nah they're in every version. Mon Mothma has an Old Ladies version of them.
>>220614995Bodyguards. Saw them in action toward the end of Rebels cartoon on Thrawn's star destroyer. Then toward the end of Mando s3, Moff Gideon has some kill off the huge Mandalorian. Then of course everyone's favorite fight scene in The Last Jedi.
>>220617339It's got pictures; you shouldn't have to read words.
>>220618860Yeah, that's who they're pointing their sticks at.
The come in blue, too.
>>220617339First Crimson Empire book was kino. Revenge tale at it's finest. Should be read after the Dark Empire comics for more impact.
>>220626459the senate guards look much better. and we see they have long rifles, so you're not left wondering wtf do their weapons even do
>>220614995They are the Knights who say meh
>>220614995they red
who wins?
>>220624574This. Tbf a lot of pre-PT media that wasn't made by Lucasfilm was barely SW. Like the Vong or Dark EmpireIt's after the PT that people got the memo and we got the MMP and kino shit like Plagueis and Death Star>>220625784It being pro Imperial doesn't mean shit. Battlefront II Pandemic was pro Imperial and felt SW.
>>220625784It's not that it's pro-imperial, i read tons of Imperial comics that felt Star Wars, it's that Crimson Empire seems barely connected to the Star Wars universe as a whole, like I said it feels like it's in an entirely different franchise with a few tie fighters and stormtroopers dropped here and there to pretend that it's still Star Wars when it may as well be Warhammer 40K or Dune or The Twilight Zone for all I know
>>220614995I only now realised where did bioware take inspiration from for their mandalorian design. now it's even more stupid, not only it looks dysfunctional, now it also has this weird connection that makes zero sense.
>>220626173Please stop posting.
>>220621787Kek
>>220627079these guys are so fucking cool.
>>220614995farm aura unc
>>220615418SPACE JEWS Not even joking. They were in the orginal first draft that Lucas wrote but Steven Spielberg made him take it out
>>220614995They are the enforcers of truth
>>220621109That doesn't create as much of a Legendary image. Because you aren't just cultivating the image of the Emperor, but of the Empire itself.
>>220621109Sheev has probably read some Sith history and he knows that whenever any historical Sith Lord got carried away and went wild with showing off their power, things went south for them.
>>220616002>Who is this threat that the Emperor couldn’t deal with, that these red dudes with sticks could?https://youtube.com/watch?v=cEAQ6bvAEkI
>>220614995women ruined star wars.
>>220627079magnaguards fight Jedi and looked cool, royal guards just looked cool
>>220626459>dude what if we had roman centurion but in space>oh....my checking science
