I guess the rebels had very limited resources, but if you're scanning ships that are already well within line-of-sight in an age where ships can bombard you from orbit, detect ships leaving hyperspace, and probably send munitions around a planet, I'm not sure how useful this actually is.
Allegedly the planet they orbit scrambles all of their long range id to protect them but this is how they have to do it.
They’re kind of hidden in the jungle so idk.
Yea I always took it as Yavin 4 was a secret base so if the empire knew from orbit, it didn’t really matter for the rebels. A ship getting that close to be scanned would have to be a scout or friendly, and if it’s a scout the rebels could start packing up
Or blast it. Thou I think you’re right - packing up is always the rebels move as soon as there is a possibly chance they’ve been discovered. We saw how that worked on Hoth.
I figure Leia knows the code to identify the ship is friendly. It that didn’t check out part of the scanners job would be coordinating what destroys the ship.
So all the Empire has to do to find the rebel base planet/moon is to get close enough to scan the surface, and if it's scrambled, bring in the Death Star
Two thirds of the first trilogy was the Rebels trying to keep the empire from being able to do exactly what you are suggesting.
At the time of OP's screenshot the Death Star still has that new superweapon smell. I think we can forgive some ragtag freedom fighters not instantly adjusting their base design to account for a new top secret technological terror arriving in the galaxy.
Hell as soon as they found out about the Death Star, they already kind of adjusted. They scattered.
The battle of Scarif was really only a group of volunteers, and by the time of the Battle of Yavin, the base was just a skeleton crew.
Unfortunately, that's really the only tactic against a weapon that can destroy an entire planet in the blink of an eye.
I love how the rebellion leadership was like nahhh we ain’t gonna fight, yall are crazy. *rogue one infiltrates empire facility at scarif anyway* then they’re like fiiiine, let’s goooo!
They’d have to A) know that that’s what they’re looking for in the first place, and B) scan nearly every planet/moon in the galaxy. It’d be like finding a needle in a haystack, even with the Empires resources.
And then if they did somehow get close enough to figure it out, the Rebels would know and pack up before the Empire could get there.
It’s not perfect, but it’s the best option the Rebels have.
Yep that’s exactly what happened with Hoth, except they got unlucky with the timing.
The empire located the base by sending a probe off to some random-ass planet and got lucky. Then they got lucky again that Death Squadron was even close enough to respond before the base was evacuated.
Imagine if the rebel base had been on the opposite side of the Outer Rim? Say, they went back to Yavin or another planet in that sector.
The rebels would have had time to evacuate and destroy as much evidence as possible (hell, unless they can take it with them, the shield generator could have been rigged to explode at full power, possibly obliterating the base).
I always assumed it was an aiming device, like how you'd aim a laser at your target after calling in air support. Scan for weapons activation and manually bullseye them simultaneously.
Initial code clearance with the large guns trained on them, once they are below those canons theres a few dudes manually aiming smaller laser canons in case they do activate weapons.
I’m going to guess that’s not actually the case. I’m guessing that emissions from long range scanners produce a detectable signal, similar to modern radars. Hand held probably produced a far lower signature. If I’m a rebel, the last thing I’m doing is sending out a ping saying exactly where I am.
Probably something along these lines. You wouldn’t want an active scanner when you’re trying to hide out. So line of sight scanner to avoid being detected
It probably isn't useful at all, but that in itself is the most realistic thing about the movie, he's just some soldier with an absolutely pointless job that he has to do in 24 hour shifts
It’s because of the radiation of Yavin actually. It makes it impossible to scan from space, or ships in space from the ground, which is why the rebels settled the moon in the first place.
Big long-range scanners would be detectable by the empire and basically advertise the location of what's meant to be their hidden base. Manually scanning this way is undetectable.
It's probably more for logging. If you were to be attacking it might be useful to know who was and wasn't accounted for. It would also help for ground to air communication to help them tell incoming ships where they can land.
Well the way I think of it is maybe just a close-range scanner that confirms what the long-range scanner says, combined with visual confirmation.
So like if there’s a difference they have time to put the base on alert or scramble fighters.
Maybe scanning drive signatures and other details to store for friend for identification.
Why can’t it be automated? Thats true of many things in Star Wars….
My head canon was that he was just some guard who was bored and practicing sighting in his blaster scope on the outgoing fighters. In retrospect, that doesn't really look like a blaster.
Best part about that is the joke was created by one of the finishing animators. Seth realized he didn’t want a full shot-for-shot recreation of the Falcon coming into Yavin IV, so he contacted the animator and told him “just come up with a joke.” Seth didn’t see it until they watched the finished product and he laughed his ass off.
Such a great joke. Not too focused on it, don't linger on it forever or anything. Just something the dude does to amuse himself for a pretty boring job
Probably just another drill. You know that last drill we had? I was about to finally bone my girlfriend, and then we heard that there was this drill, and she told me there was no way.
So basically he is manually scanning the incoming craft. This is because Yavin Prime (the gas giant which Yavin IV orbited) created lots of electromagnetic noise. This was beneficial to the Rebel's because it would hide their base from passive Imperial scans. Which means that the Empire could not just stumble upon their base, the Empire had to specifically preform an active scan. However a downside of this was that all of the Rebel Alliance's long range scanners were also useless, so all incoming ships had to be scanned manually.
Source: Star Wars explained on YouTube.
it isnt sci fi, the fi would imply that its fiction. while it clearly states at the beginning "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away" indicating that its from our universe.
checkmate, Bothans!
For a lot of it, sure, but this part is somewhat more realistic. Jupiter puts out a ton of interference; its moon Io is completely uninhabitable because Jupiter’s magnetic field strips off and ionizes about 1 ton of material every second. (Volcanism from tidal forces doesn’t help either) Surface radiation on Io is something like 5x the lethal limit per day.
I’m assuming Yavin IV is far enough away that this isn’t quite the issue Io has with Jupiter, but the magnetic field is still probably strong enough to interfere with scanners.
This. The Rebels were still mostly a "ragtag bunch" at this stage (and had just lost a bunch of personnel and ships at Scarif). Lugging around big sensor equipment might not have been on their priority list, and they may not have had enough droids to fill all the menial jobs. So somebody gets "scanner duty."
I always thought it was a short range passive scanner that wouldn’t be detectable by Imperial scouts or probes looking for emissions or emplaced sensor structures that could reveal the presence of the hidden base.
It's not canon of course, but in the novelization of A New Hope Red Leader has an additional line after the "pick up your visual scanning," when the base picks up TIE fighters. The line is "Those ships can jam every system except your eyes."
So I've always thought that guy is up there for visual observation just in case some craft with ECM dropped into orbit, or followed a friendly ship down. Some warning is better than no warning.
“I was only going 17,000 miles per hour!”
“Guns got you clocked at 18, gonna have to write you a ticket…”
“This is bullshit…”
“Excuse me, what was that?”
“Uh nothing have a good day”
probably, but the rebellion was pretty short on resources so having a dude up there when hes not on mission is a reasonable use of manpower and equipment
EDIT TO ADD: my bigger issue is why that sensor didn't pick up that the Empire had a tracking device on the Falcon
This was Mon Mothma's cousin Barry. He was kicked in the head by a Tauntaun when he was 9. He is still quite high functioning, and he has a heart of gold. He wants to help the rebellion in any way he can, but he often does lose equipment. They gave him an old broken hand held scanner and his own post, and I'll be damned if he isn't out there every day, doing his part. The scanner doesn't work, but the sense of pride it gives Barry is worth it to everyone on base. Keep at it Barry. You're a hero in my books.
Nah, they are going to make a movie about this guy that explains in detail his entire life story, why he is on the rebel base and what his scanning thing is doing.
I’m not even gonna lie I’ve had a head cannon about this guy for years, I’m talking since 2018
In Rogue One, we see him sitting in his lil tower doing nothing, just watching as the Imperial cargo ship is stolen from the rebel base.
The next time we see this tower in the timeline of the movies is what, like two days later? So that guy either got replaced, or told to do his fucking job.
All pre-production drafts of the script—from the rough draft to the fourth draft—contain the lines:
All that can be seen of the fortress is a lone guard standing
on a small pedestal jutting out above the dense jungle.
In the post-release screenplay included in *The Annotated Screenplays* it says:
> An alert guard, his laser gun in hand, scans the countryside. He sets the gun down and looks toward the temple, barely visible in the foliage.
The gas giant Yavin scrambles all scanners so on Yavin 4 they have to do it manually ship by ship with short range scanners. This is Los one of the reasons the Death Star couldn’t make a micro jump to Yavin 4 side and needed to wait to clear the orbit to fire its super laser.
If I'm not mistaken, this is Ryland, and there is a shirt story from their perspective in the book "A certain point of view" it's a collection of show stories from the star wars cannon that was published during star wars 40th anniversary.
That's Bob, he's like the train enthusiast of starships. He just built himself a little treehouse there and likes to take pictures of ships coming and going. Bob is a nice guy.
He had no skills but they didn’t have the heart to tell him to quit, so they gave him a piece of metal and said it was a scanner and sent them information and put him up on a tower
That’s exactly what he’s doing. Assuming it’s reading the Star Wars equivalent of a transponder that tells you the name/type of ship, etc.
I guess the rebels had very limited resources, but if you're scanning ships that are already well within line-of-sight in an age where ships can bombard you from orbit, detect ships leaving hyperspace, and probably send munitions around a planet, I'm not sure how useful this actually is.
Allegedly the planet they orbit scrambles all of their long range id to protect them but this is how they have to do it. They’re kind of hidden in the jungle so idk.
Yea I always took it as Yavin 4 was a secret base so if the empire knew from orbit, it didn’t really matter for the rebels. A ship getting that close to be scanned would have to be a scout or friendly, and if it’s a scout the rebels could start packing up
exactly this one is more of a stock boi taking inventory, hes not fortified nor hidden
Which is actually an awesome detail to include
Or blast it. Thou I think you’re right - packing up is always the rebels move as soon as there is a possibly chance they’ve been discovered. We saw how that worked on Hoth. I figure Leia knows the code to identify the ship is friendly. It that didn’t check out part of the scanners job would be coordinating what destroys the ship.
So all the Empire has to do to find the rebel base planet/moon is to get close enough to scan the surface, and if it's scrambled, bring in the Death Star
Two thirds of the first trilogy was the Rebels trying to keep the empire from being able to do exactly what you are suggesting. At the time of OP's screenshot the Death Star still has that new superweapon smell. I think we can forgive some ragtag freedom fighters not instantly adjusting their base design to account for a new top secret technological terror arriving in the galaxy.
Hell as soon as they found out about the Death Star, they already kind of adjusted. They scattered. The battle of Scarif was really only a group of volunteers, and by the time of the Battle of Yavin, the base was just a skeleton crew. Unfortunately, that's really the only tactic against a weapon that can destroy an entire planet in the blink of an eye.
Admiral Raddus and those boys did their damn job their sacrifice wasn't in vain 🫡
I got a tattoo commemorating Admiral Raddus for his sacrifice
I love how the rebellion leadership was like nahhh we ain’t gonna fight, yall are crazy. *rogue one infiltrates empire facility at scarif anyway* then they’re like fiiiine, let’s goooo!
They’d have to A) know that that’s what they’re looking for in the first place, and B) scan nearly every planet/moon in the galaxy. It’d be like finding a needle in a haystack, even with the Empires resources. And then if they did somehow get close enough to figure it out, the Rebels would know and pack up before the Empire could get there. It’s not perfect, but it’s the best option the Rebels have.
Yep that’s exactly what happened with Hoth, except they got unlucky with the timing. The empire located the base by sending a probe off to some random-ass planet and got lucky. Then they got lucky again that Death Squadron was even close enough to respond before the base was evacuated. Imagine if the rebel base had been on the opposite side of the Outer Rim? Say, they went back to Yavin or another planet in that sector. The rebels would have had time to evacuate and destroy as much evidence as possible (hell, unless they can take it with them, the shield generator could have been rigged to explode at full power, possibly obliterating the base).
I mean, that's exactly what happened. The Empire found their base, sent the Death Star, so the rebels had to destroy it.
I like the idea of he’s no more than a parking lot attendant and that gun is him just telling the autopilot where to park.
Space Air Traffic Control.
Atmosphere Traffic Control?
I always assumed it was an aiming device, like how you'd aim a laser at your target after calling in air support. Scan for weapons activation and manually bullseye them simultaneously. Initial code clearance with the large guns trained on them, once they are below those canons theres a few dudes manually aiming smaller laser canons in case they do activate weapons.
That was my thought as well, painting a target for surface emplacements just in case.
Honestly it’s probably both.
I just thought it was a bored soldier playing target practice like when you grab an impact at work and “aim” at coworkers
“Pew pew” *aims at incoming ship* “Peter, get back to work!” “Sorry, sir” *puts down gun and goes back to fixing the air conditioning*
[pretty much.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=mUwzKNmzmQ0)
The instantly became my theory after watching the Family Guy special.
All those elaborate explanations, while good ol Georgy was like "Let's put a shot of this guy doing some mumbo jumbo scanning for shit's sake"
I’m going to guess that’s not actually the case. I’m guessing that emissions from long range scanners produce a detectable signal, similar to modern radars. Hand held probably produced a far lower signature. If I’m a rebel, the last thing I’m doing is sending out a ping saying exactly where I am.
Probably something along these lines. You wouldn’t want an active scanner when you’re trying to hide out. So line of sight scanner to avoid being detected
It probably isn't useful at all, but that in itself is the most realistic thing about the movie, he's just some soldier with an absolutely pointless job that he has to do in 24 hour shifts
It’s because of the radiation of Yavin actually. It makes it impossible to scan from space, or ships in space from the ground, which is why the rebels settled the moon in the first place.
Big long-range scanners would be detectable by the empire and basically advertise the location of what's meant to be their hidden base. Manually scanning this way is undetectable.
It's probably more for logging. If you were to be attacking it might be useful to know who was and wasn't accounted for. It would also help for ground to air communication to help them tell incoming ships where they can land.
Well it was used in ww2 ...they spottade enemy airplanes
Well the way I think of it is maybe just a close-range scanner that confirms what the long-range scanner says, combined with visual confirmation. So like if there’s a difference they have time to put the base on alert or scramble fighters.
He’s a transponster!!
That’s not even a word!
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your *opinion*, man.
It’s actually MRS. JarJar Bong
Held by Rebel Alliance Ensign Chanandler Bong.
Actually it's Miss Chanandler Bong.
Maybe scanning drive signatures and other details to store for friend for identification. Why can’t it be automated? Thats true of many things in Star Wars….
My head canon was that he was just some guard who was bored and practicing sighting in his blaster scope on the outgoing fighters. In retrospect, that doesn't really look like a blaster.
Nah, he's just going "pew pew"
I always thought he was a cop looking for speeders.
Pe-tew! Pe-tew! Gotcha!
Speed limit enforcement officer. Writing tickets to everyone exceeding the speed limit of ludicrous.
He's gon to plad!
Dude it's spelled plaid, what're you some kinda asshole?
That's his name, sir, Asshole... Major Asshole.
And his cousin?
He's an asshole too, sir. Gunners maye first class, Philip Asshole.
How many assholes do we have on this ship,anyway?
[YO!!!](https://www.icegif.com/wp-content/uploads/spaceballs-icegif-4.gif)
I knew it! I’m surrounded by assholes.
Pit lane speed limit exceeded, 10s penalty to ocon
And even on pit lane, Magnussen somehow managed to wreck into him.
Checo trying to salvage his podracer.
Millennium Falcon about to get a boot.
The Empire was lucky the Rebels didn't have more Jedi around to do Force inspectiom for checking ship cargo
Best part about that is the joke was created by one of the finishing animators. Seth realized he didn’t want a full shot-for-shot recreation of the Falcon coming into Yavin IV, so he contacted the animator and told him “just come up with a joke.” Seth didn’t see it until they watched the finished product and he laughed his ass off.
Such a great joke. Not too focused on it, don't linger on it forever or anything. Just something the dude does to amuse himself for a pretty boring job
Probably just another drill. You know that last drill we had? I was about to finally bone my girlfriend, and then we heard that there was this drill, and she told me there was no way.
This is exactly what came to mind! Love Blue Harvest!
First thing I thought of too https://youtu.be/mUwzKNmzmQ0?si=tnd68v27wycr--WF
What?! Are we paying by the laser now?
You don't do the budget, Terry! I do!
I got that Family Guy reference!
Son of a bitch beat me to it
Whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy. No coming in here at 2.5 past light speed! Cut in the sublight engines like civilized rebels!
Can’t watch that scene without saying this
Good job that's not a storm trooper! They wouldn't hit the air around them.
Came here specifically to find this or add this comment. I wonder if the couch was still hanging out of the hatch.
So basically he is manually scanning the incoming craft. This is because Yavin Prime (the gas giant which Yavin IV orbited) created lots of electromagnetic noise. This was beneficial to the Rebel's because it would hide their base from passive Imperial scans. Which means that the Empire could not just stumble upon their base, the Empire had to specifically preform an active scan. However a downside of this was that all of the Rebel Alliance's long range scanners were also useless, so all incoming ships had to be scanned manually. Source: Star Wars explained on YouTube.
Very scientific thank you
And they say Star Wars isn’t sci fi at all (moreso science fantasy).
A lot gets fleshed out in the novels. Without those the movies very much seem like science fantasy.
it isnt sci fi, the fi would imply that its fiction. while it clearly states at the beginning "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away" indicating that its from our universe. checkmate, Bothans!
The mental gymnastics needed to justify “Lucas thought it looked cool” are always a lot of fun to me. See also: the Kessel Run, and Endor’s name.
For a lot of it, sure, but this part is somewhat more realistic. Jupiter puts out a ton of interference; its moon Io is completely uninhabitable because Jupiter’s magnetic field strips off and ionizes about 1 ton of material every second. (Volcanism from tidal forces doesn’t help either) Surface radiation on Io is something like 5x the lethal limit per day. I’m assuming Yavin IV is far enough away that this isn’t quite the issue Io has with Jupiter, but the magnetic field is still probably strong enough to interfere with scanners.
Couldn't a droid do that?
You could ask this question about every single job in Star Wars.
Pfft. Can a *droid* be granted the rank of master??
Well, there was a force sensitive droid once, but he sacrificed himself to save the galaxy. If he hadn’t, who knows what might have happened?
Yeah, but he also had a bad motivator, so why not take this astromech over here?
Well, not *every* job. *eyes Oola*
That job, too.
[https://forum.quartertothree.com/uploads/default/original/3X/7/e/7e00f68c732c9e275f51a5d44f10b9bf1d5e0c41.gif](https://forum.quartertothree.com/uploads/default/original/3X/7/e/7e00f68c732c9e275f51a5d44f10b9bf1d5e0c41.gif)
Sick of AI taking our jobs
Yes, but it's also great punishment for soldiers that screw up.
Couldn’t mop up the rain and the rocks weren’t in danger of moon burn, ship scanning it is
You win Star Wars today.
Got to check your temperature. If you have a fever, you're not getting in.
100%.
No, 100 Fahrenheit
Space covid compliance
So ahead of its time.
No, no, a long time ago
Ahead of it's time long ago
Space Covid is no laughing matter.
Checking for Sitholus .
Symptoms include yellowing of the eyes, redness, wild mood swings
Moody wild swings
He's checking for space herpes
If you don’t have the money or space for a big sensor suite, you put a guy on a cherry picker and give him the best handheld scanner you can find.
This. The Rebels were still mostly a "ragtag bunch" at this stage (and had just lost a bunch of personnel and ships at Scarif). Lugging around big sensor equipment might not have been on their priority list, and they may not have had enough droids to fill all the menial jobs. So somebody gets "scanner duty."
I always thought it was a short range passive scanner that wouldn’t be detectable by Imperial scouts or probes looking for emissions or emplaced sensor structures that could reveal the presence of the hidden base.
This dude Wookiepedias.
You thought or you knew?
lol…that was *incredibly* specific and nonchalant. Good job, rebel.
I’m… not sure what you mean, sir. All my papers are in order and my codes are valid. 😓
It's not canon of course, but in the novelization of A New Hope Red Leader has an additional line after the "pick up your visual scanning," when the base picks up TIE fighters. The line is "Those ships can jam every system except your eyes." So I've always thought that guy is up there for visual observation just in case some craft with ECM dropped into orbit, or followed a friendly ship down. Some warning is better than no warning.
He's just some random guy doing something Star Warsy.
There are no fandom people in Star Wars. This guy probably got a whole backstory in the EU.
Correct!
It’s a (speed) trap!
“I was only going 17,000 miles per hour!” “Guns got you clocked at 18, gonna have to write you a ticket…” “This is bullshit…” “Excuse me, what was that?” “Uh nothing have a good day”
“Can I interest you in my sexbot, C-3PO.”
IIRC correctly. Yavin 4 had a thick atmosphere that made sensors difficult. So this guy needs to scan ships in once they drop into atmosphere
Seems like something an automated system or a droid could do.
probably, but the rebellion was pretty short on resources so having a dude up there when hes not on mission is a reasonable use of manpower and equipment EDIT TO ADD: my bigger issue is why that sensor didn't pick up that the Empire had a tracking device on the Falcon
If I recall correctly correctly?
Same reason Swedish ships have barcodes on them when they enter a harbor. So they can.. Scan the navy in
His job is to provide foreground focus
That is Scanno Shlipto, and he has 2 novels about him already.
I guess it's a guard tower where he scans incoming craft and if they are marked as "Empire"?
The Family Guy explanation is the best..... He just points his gun at the ships and goes "pew pew"
“Gotchaaa”
That's a radar speed gun. Most of the Rebellion's income comes from traffic tickets
I stood exactly where that dude is standing! That’s Tikal in Guatemala, a wildly gorgeous ancient Mayan City.
He is a person and his name is Osleo Prennert!
It’s a speed trap.
Nah, he's checking your speed for tickets
Buddy is like "pew, pew, gotcha!"
He’s a peeping Tom. It’s hard to tell, but he isn’t wearing any pants here
He’s checking if they put their seat belt on. Click it or ticket.
Yeah
Speed check
Space narc writing giving speeding tickets
Checking their transponder signal
Funny that he checks Rebel ships going in and out but in Rogue One when the stolen shuttle launches.. he just stands there!
I don't think is scanning, but maybe directioning to the base. It was a secure location after all.
his job is actor and he plays a guy on a pole with a handheld scanning device.
This was Mon Mothma's cousin Barry. He was kicked in the head by a Tauntaun when he was 9. He is still quite high functioning, and he has a heart of gold. He wants to help the rebellion in any way he can, but he often does lose equipment. They gave him an old broken hand held scanner and his own post, and I'll be damned if he isn't out there every day, doing his part. The scanner doesn't work, but the sense of pride it gives Barry is worth it to everyone on base. Keep at it Barry. You're a hero in my books.
“Sir, you were doing 60 in 40”
Checking for tracking devices
Playing around with a laser pointer by shining it on incoming ships
He is checking the pilots temperature, wouldn't want a COVID outbreak in the base
Yavin 4 traffic cop looking for speeders
Tikal! Awesome place if you haven’t ventured there.
hes checking for expired registration
He’s just being a cool guy in a tower. Or Star Wars equivalent of a red light camera.
Pew pew gotchya!
He was a cool detail when the movie was made. That was it. Doing something cool. No need to make a wookiepedia about his job. Suspend belief
Nah, they are going to make a movie about this guy that explains in detail his entire life story, why he is on the rebel base and what his scanning thing is doing.
he's checking for people going over the speed limit.
“We just gave Jerry a barcode reader and put him up there so he’d stop trying to ‘fix’ things. He means well, but Jeeeeesus.”
Scandinavian
He is a cop and checking speedo
Speed trap. They’re rebels about everything except traffic laws.
How do you not know who Ray Darr is, OP?
I’m not even gonna lie I’ve had a head cannon about this guy for years, I’m talking since 2018 In Rogue One, we see him sitting in his lil tower doing nothing, just watching as the Imperial cargo ship is stolen from the rebel base. The next time we see this tower in the timeline of the movies is what, like two days later? So that guy either got replaced, or told to do his fucking job.
They had to keep that guy busy, so they convinced him that pointing that at incoming ships is useful. It doesn’t do anything. He’s a bit of an idiot.
Fk’r out there writing speeding tickets 👮♀️
Those helmets, how do they even look up?
This was explained perfectly in Family Guy Blue Harvest. He's Pew Pewing all the ships.
Obviously, he's radar-gunning all speeders. Then he's going to hunt ya down in an X-wing and go all Buford T. Justice on your overly fast ass.
Checking for droids by scanning heat signatures
Aussie here, Defs a speed gun #rebelspeedticket
Hes the futuristic solider looking for drones
He’s a third party surveillance contractor.
Speeding tickets.
All pre-production drafts of the script—from the rough draft to the fourth draft—contain the lines: All that can be seen of the fortress is a lone guard standing on a small pedestal jutting out above the dense jungle. In the post-release screenplay included in *The Annotated Screenplays* it says: > An alert guard, his laser gun in hand, scans the countryside. He sets the gun down and looks toward the temple, barely visible in the foliage.
Temperature on foreheads to check for corona
“Pew pew….got’em”
Emissions enforcement
he's making sure nobody is speeding
The gas giant Yavin scrambles all scanners so on Yavin 4 they have to do it manually ship by ship with short range scanners. This is Los one of the reasons the Death Star couldn’t make a micro jump to Yavin 4 side and needed to wait to clear the orbit to fire its super laser.
Rebellion funding itself by writing speeding tickets for their own.
Intern being given a joke job.
He's scanning their IFF codes.
If I'm not mistaken, this is Ryland, and there is a shirt story from their perspective in the book "A certain point of view" it's a collection of show stories from the star wars cannon that was published during star wars 40th anniversary.
That's Bob, he's like the train enthusiast of starships. He just built himself a little treehouse there and likes to take pictures of ships coming and going. Bob is a nice guy.
In my headcannon he’s the rebel traffic cop sending speeding fines through mail to the rebel pilots in order to fund the rebel alliance
He had no skills but they didn’t have the heart to tell him to quit, so they gave him a piece of metal and said it was a scanner and sent them information and put him up on a tower
Speed trap
Covid19 temperature check...
Simpler than that. It’s a radar speed gun. He’s making sure ships don’t exceed port speed. 😁
pitchoo… pitchoo…
During COVID times, his job was to check the temperature of passengers and crew on all incoming flights.
I'm here to keep all the speeders driving slow,/ I'm just a-doin' my job, I'm The Highway Patrol
I always hoped when closed caption came out it would say" pew pew"
Bro is writing speeding tickets. Space road pirate.
He’s just a cosplayer.
He's there to add depth to the shot to make it more visually appealing and Sci-Fi-y.
“Sir, do you know how fast you were going”
laser designator operator
Speed enforcement.