Darths & Droids

By setting a filter to how big the motion has to be. Easy tech — it's already in use — a bog-standard homeowner-level motion detector currently won't trigger for blowing snow or dust or leaves. It isn't made to that fine of a sensitivity.

This reminds me of that old Police Quest bit of immediately flattening you with a car if you don't look both ways when crossing a street.

Because unless Wampa's have completely different physiology (and they look very Mammal :P) they must create warmth in order to support their metabolism. This warmth will radiate outward. Fun Fact: Fur is not to create warmth but to prevent body heat leaving the body.

And among the cold snow, even the small heat radiation going through the fur would be noted.

Thermal or motion sensors also won't work if they're not looking in the direction the wampa is coming from.

Neither do eyeballs.

It's a large, snow-adapted predator. It's supposed to be hard to detect prior to attacking. Which is not to say that technology at the level of that in the Star Wars universe shouldn't be able to do so, but as noted it has to be operating and looking in the proper direction.

edited 13th Aug '13 11:17:36 AM by Fighteer

I never realized before how much that critter looks like Abominable from Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

This all assumes your equipment is in good functional order and not sabotaged by a spy.

A SPAH IS SAPPIN' MAH BINOCULARS

A creature with a significantly thick coat of fur will at least be hard to detect on infrared; the temperature gradient across the fur layer will be such that the outside is near the temperature of the snow. It'd still probably be findable with a detailed IR scan, but that's precisely what he doesn't have time for.

He's become very good at it.

edited 15th Aug '13 7:26:24 AM by TotemicHero

Rather astonishing for Jim to have matured into a quality roleplayer.

Episode 924

So, was General Rieekan really the Waldorf Salad Guy?

Yep.

Episode 925

So the mole in the Rebels' midst is still a thing that's happening.

Or still a thing that they think is happening.

Well, Leia would be too obvious I suppose. As would Han. Luke, mayhaps?

If there is a mole and it turns out to be Sally of all people, I don't think I'd be able to stop smiling.

edited 20th Aug '13 1:05:03 PM by KnownUnknown

I've got money on there being no Mole, and Vader is just force-mind reading his children's minds.

The mole is a shape-shifting Boba Fett.

Because the GM just loves taking the players' mistakes and making them the catalysts of major disasters.

Episode IX-II-VI

Interesting way to note how the actors could actually ACT in Empire.

The acting in Episode V was vastly improved from IV, mainly because it was upgraded from a pure heroic fantasy action film to a character-driven drama... and because Lucas didn't write the script.

I do like how they changed the Well, Excuse Me, Princess! relationship between Han and Leia into one where they're arguing about Luke being a paranoid conspiracy theorist.

Han has the perfect expression for sarcasm in the last panel.

Han has the perfect expression for ANYTHING at this point. XP

Harrison Ford can see the future, knew that the Star Wars movies would be subjected to a screencap comic, and thus threw in as many awesome faces into the movies as he could.

Harrison Ford's face is just awesome.