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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5576599" data-attributes="member: 22424">I gave the examples to illustrate my "1st level is a matter of choice" argument. It should be obvious that Luke, Sam and Neo are on very different power scales.That said...Based on what evidence? That's just Biggs talking him up to Red Leader. It's highly unlikely that Biggs has the expertise to even make that assessment.Even if Luke is the best, we know absolutely nothing about his competition. It's entirely possible that "the best... in the outer rim" is like being "the best football team in Scotland" - sure, if you're stuck there then it's better to be best than nothing, but as soon as you move to a larger stage, you're liable to be shown up very badly.In fact, the only other outer rim pilot we ever see is Biggs himself, who doesn't exactly cover himself in glory.(Indeed, it's entirely likely that the only reason Red Leader doesn't mock Biggs' assessment is that he's desperate - he's going into a win-or-bust battle against a planet-killer battlestation, with a force of fewer than twenty pilots, including a rookie farmboy, a washout from the Imperial academy (Biggs), at least one pilot who wouldn't pass the physical (Porkins), and an assortment of other misfits. Wedge may be the only competent pilot he has. Oh, and half his force are in bombers that were current during the Clone Wars twenty years previous.)Alternately, immediately prior to this scene, Luke is easily ambushed by Sand People and beaten unconscious. Immediately after, he gets casually tossed aside by a thug who turns out to be nothing but a mook himself.That sure sounds like 1st level to me.Again, what do you base that assessment of Han on? If he himself is only 3rd level or so - one of several smugglers working for a crime boss in an obscure backwater - then suddenly Luke holding his own doesn't seem outrageous.</blockquote>

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