Star Wars Fan Spots Incredible Detail In Stormtrooper Weapons

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A particularly observant Star Wars fan picked out a fascinating little Easter egg in the weaponry used by the Galactic Empire's stormtroopers and their predecessors, the Galactic Republic's clone troopers. Both share a detail that's flown right under the radar of countless fans for years now.

The Star Wars universe is nothing without its callbacks. Thanks to its love of telling stories in any order it darn well pleases, some callbacks end up as call forwards. Those words may be a traumatic flashback for '90s kids who figured out cell phone trickery to bypass their 56k modem's commandeering of their landlines. But in this context, the term often resulted in oddly familiar-looking pieces of tech across the various eras of the Star Wars franchise. It's also where one fan's discovery comes into play.

That's right, this is another story of paragraphs about a Reddit post. But don't worry, it's pretty cool, especially for those with a reliably consistent Star Wars hyperfixation. Reddit user K3psu recently posted on the official Star Wars subreddit pointing out a stormtrooper weapon detail hiding in plain sight. It turns out that the Imperial enforcers' weapon of choice, the E-11 blaster rifle, was almost entirely repurposed in the design of the DC-15 rifle used by the clone army of the Republic.

This discovery caught several other fans off-guard, as they'd been pretty intimately familiar with both weapons through their relatively wide use in the Star Wars franchise. Some of the more seasoned in the fandom might recognize the E-11 from its heavy use in the Dark Forces video games for PC and other platforms. Meanwhile, the DC-15 might strike a chord with those who spent their days getting blasted off the Bespin platforms by wrist