Rhikter said:

Originally posted by Octorox:

"Okay, if the tech isn't more advanced than why can't Darth Vader climb up walls and fight with four lightsabers at once? Why can't the empire have an army of roly poly droids that can be stored in masses, deploy personal bubble shields and take out Jedi. Droids in the OT hobble or roll along. Droids in the PT can run around and attack people."

True, Vader can't do those things, but that's because both his and Grievous's bodies are based on two completely different production concepts. Vader's prosthetics are meant to emulate natural human motion as best as possible. It's not a matter of one it better than the other, because they are two different things that can't be lobbed into the same category together.

In regards to droids: following the birth of the Empire battle droids where deemed inferior in comparison to living breathing troops and thus abandoned. It's not that the Empire doesn't have the ability to utilize battle droids. They just chose not to. Not to mention the fact that you're comparing the likes of protocol, medical and repair droids to FREAKING BATTLE DROIDS.

Oh come on. If things could just form bubble shields around themselves why doesn't every unit have one? Why don't the stormtroopers have little transformer walkers they can deploy from cubes. OT technology is clunky and practical while PT tech is crazy science fiction stuff that doesn't seem like it could possibly be engineered.