Original Star Wars Stormtroopers Are Way Scarier

With this taken into account, it’s no surprise that George Lucas, Ralph McQuarrie, and the rest of the team molding Star Wars stuck to what they knew best, giving stormtroopers and just about everyone else the power of the lightsaber. As we know, eventually the tide would shift, with the Jedi being the only characters in the galaxy lucky enough to carry a lightsaber into battle. As for the stormtroopers, they were given their blasters for better or for worse.