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Broke: Stormtroopers have bad aim
Bespoke: The Stormtroopers missed on purpose in A New Hope cause the Empire put a tracker on the Falcon and this allowed them to track the Rebels down to their secret base.

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in reply to Jcrabapple πŸ’™

@jcrabapple I've said this before to people and they're like "Wait, that...actually makes sense."

Apparently, in the tie-in YA novel Lost Stars, it's made canon that Tarkin also told the tie fighters following the Falcon to only go so far and then to turn back to make them think they got away cleanly. Some of them did not follow the orders, which is why they got shot down.

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