the AT-AT is an iconic, imposing design which is completely impractical and unfit for purpose and it's obvious from the moment you see it what the glowing weak spots are
which makes it a great representation of the military technology of an overextended, declining empire with a rigid hierarchical structure
"why did the Empire built a second Death Star with the same vulnerability as the first one?"
because the guy who ordered it can crush your trachea with his mind
yeah once that interview came out where he was like "no dipshit they aren't the French Resistance, the rebels are the Viet Cong" the weirdness of the design of the war machines becomes clear.
Vehicles wherein your bullets bounce off of, but nature, inertia, and hubris can easily be brought down by a smaller, much less equipped force.
Itās also extremely in line with classic fascist incompetence. Decades of propaganda about ānazi war machinesā has obscured the fact that the nazis were in fact morons, who burned millions of dollars on useless boondoggles, because design decisions were made by political fiat instead of sound engineering.
Any resemblance this might have to the American military industrial complex I leave as an exercise for the readerā¦
Itās wild because this is directly the text of Empireā¦ how can folks see Vader do this repeatedly and not put together that the decision making in that organization is flawed at best.
