• peopleproblems
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    41 month ago

    I believe it was canonized that Vader made improvements when it was required. Vader was still a technical genius and a pilot that no one rivaled.

    Take his right hand for instance - he was given the first prosthetic, that he replaced during the clone wars. One of his legs in a comic gets beat to all hell, and he rips off a jedi training droid leg to replace it, which works better and is far sturdier.

    But originally it was intended to be a hinderance. Anikin was a walking vergence in the force, simply by existing he made his connection to the force stronger. By sticking him in a much less technically advanced cyborg suit than what Grievous got, he could also just blast him with some lightning to weaken him physically again.

    • @phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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      51 month ago

      Yeah, I feel that its one of those things where people made up stuff to fit after the fact. If he was such a genius and had periods of independence as I believe its also canon that he did attempt a rebellion against Palpatine at least once then you’d expect that he could have fixed it up/improved it significantly in the years before Luke and Leia.

      • @PlasticExistence@lemmy.world
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        31 month ago

        That’s correct, and when Palpatine found out, he was actually delighted because it was a sign that Anakin had embraced the Dark Side

    • @SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world
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      11 month ago

      I believe he also treasured his times in his barochamber, and a new suit wouldn’t need it, so that was one of his reasons for not even wanting to get a new one himself.