Quote Originally Posted by Del Murder View Post
Ok, I guess I understand the explanation for the droid destroyers. If they have shields and can transform into a ball they are probably expensive to make. But one of those is still better than 50 battle droids, since even the Gungans can handle those. I also didn't know the Trade Federation bought all their droids. I thought they made them. Though I guess it doesn't make sense that a trade guild would have a ton of droid factories.
The B1's, the main ones from EP. I, were cheap and shoddily made so they bought up a ton of them. When the Confederacy absorbed the Trade Federation leaders the droid army became a lot more varied 'cause someone else was paying for them, like those big ass walking spheres.

Here's my next question and it has to do with Palpatine's appearance. Did the force lightning reflected by Mace really make Palpatine look that way or was that a trick to convince Anakin? I felt like that was the Emperor's true face coming out, warped and twisted by the dark side, and he was somehow using the force (or prosthetics) to maintain his human appearance all these years. Especially since Luke, Yoda, and Anakin have all been zapped by force lightning and their appearances didn't change.
I think that's what Lucas was going for. There may be a better explanation than it was a trick, but it's never really been explained in detail. Wookieepedia just says "Windu used his lightsaber to reflect it back at the Sith Lord, which he used to reveal his true form", which can be interpreted a few different ways. He did kind of accept his "deformity" and tried to use it to his advantage though, like when he convinced the Senate to dissolve into the Galactic Empire he blamed the Jedi for trying to kill him, using his form as proof, and take over after ending the war.

My own personal thoughts on it is that when the lightning was reflected back at him it was his own energy, so it had some worse than negative reactions. He wasn't really very old so I don't think he was using any tricks to disguise himself, I think it was just a revelation of how twisted and evil he really was. It also burned him pretty bad, if you look at his thumb and forefinger on hos right hand they're charred black.