From: ears@not.com   
      
   I was looking at Wookieepedia and there was an image of the   
   Stormtroopers talking to Vader on the Death Star and Vader personally   
   ordering their deaths.   The image was from a Comic somewhere, I   
   personally can't read Comics which is why I rely on the net to fill me   
   in on those details.   From the timeline it is clear that Vader was on   
   the DS by the time this happened but I just can't see them calling   
   Lord Vader in another star system just to keep him up-to-date on a   
   small part of a very large operation.   
   I did re-read the Stormtrooper's tale (from Tales from the Mos Eisley   
   Cantina) and it just said that the trooper just ordered their deaths   
   on a whim.   It also seems pretty stupid to kill the only people who   
   might know who has the droids (their nephew) and to destroy a place he   
   would most likely have returned to in just a matter of time.   But no   
   one ever accused Stormtroopers of being intelligent or thinking ahead.   
   They would have no reason to believe (at the time) that Luke had met   
   an old Jedi that would attempt to take the droids off-planet, so   
   killing them and destroying the farm was stupid.   If Anakin was as   
   gone as he was supposed to be then Shmi's death would no longer hurt.   
   If it did then he probably would have ordered the death of every   
   Tusken on the planet but he never did, it would seem to no longer   
   matter.   I just can't see it.   
      
   What are your thoughts?   
      
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