As I mentioned in an earlier blog, I play Star Wars Galaxies. Whoop-tee-do; so do a few hundred thousand other people! But anyway, there are a myriad of things to do in this game. And a hundred thousand players who never use the word "myriad", but I digress!

A good Rebel aligned player can always have fun with stormtroopers, especially the low level ones who hang around Mos Eisley. It's like a routine I have when I'm going off-planet. First I go visit the junk dealer to unload the loot I've taken off dead bodies.

(That's a topic for another blog!) Then as I leave the bazaar plaza, I draw my lightsaber and take a poke at the stormie guarding the place. And I do mean a poke! A single stab of the lightsaber, which almost always hits him in the gut, or if I'm lucky, a few inches lower.

He's usually only level 25-50, so one amazing flourish of so-cho-whatever, and he's history. Then there's one on the way to the spaceport, and one guarding the entrance to the spaceport. I also get to whack these same guys when I come back to Tatooine. It's a habit.

Hey, if I don't attack them, they'll chase me and shoot at me and I have to kill them anyway. Which is good for a chuckle, too. A stormtrooper with a death wish!

I can also walk up behind one and poke him in the butt with the lightsaber, and he'll jump. He'll attack, of course, but none of them stand a chance against a fully trained Jedi Knight.

There are exceptions, though. A level 90 stormie is tough, but not impossible. TWO level 90s are a real challenge, except you can always send one away with a Jedi Mind Clouding trick.

Yesterday, while decorating "Life Day" trees on Talus, a live-player stormtrooper came by and sneezed on me, covering me with snot. So I send him a message that said "Imperial Slime! LOL" and he called me "Rebel Scum" and told me the Empire really didn't lose to the Ewoks, that was just a nasty rumor! LMAO.

All in all, stormtroopers make great targets. And Imperial officers are even better!

Next time maybe I'll write about Gungans and their floppy ears!