A 'derailing' Star Wars gag returns.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT For better or worse, a popular joke about the Star Wars franchise is once again canonized, this time in a Return of the Jedi tie-in anthology book. While the Star Wars franchise has no shortage of humor in its various films and TV shows, recent properties in the current Star Wars canon have made a habit of employing meta-humor, acknowledging real-world criticisms of the franchise and making them canonical parts of the universe.
Star Wars viewers have noted for decades that the Empire appears to have an aversion to guard rails in hazardous areas, such as the first Death Star’s tractor beam terminal and the superlaser firing tubes of both Death Star battle stations in A New Hope and Return of the Jedi. Family Guy, notably, joked about the lack of safety measures in its first Star Wars parody episode, Blue Harvest.
Star Wars Reveals Just How Many Stormtroopers Die Because There Aren't Guardrails The guard rail joke returns in the short story “Twenty and Out” by Lamar Giles. The story stars three Imperial Naval gunners aboard the Death Star II during the events of Return of the Jedi who, in one notable conversation, discuss the most common causes of death in the Imperial military.
Why The Empire Didn't Care About Stormtrooper Deaths Out-of-universe, the notable lack of guard rails was likely a simple aesthetic choice in most cases, and a means of creating tension for Obi-Wan Kenobi in A New Hope. In-universe, the Empire often treats its own military personnel as expendable, valuing overwhelming numbers of quality, much like the Separatists during the Clone Wars .
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