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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8793288" data-attributes="member: 4937">I think the real reason here is they don't expect the audience to think about this much and don't want to slow the episode down even more.  But if you had to, you could argue that at this point in the war the Empire is simply lax on security.  They don't think anyone can hurt them.   I don't think the Empire was ever as lax and unparanoid as your explanation, because the Imperial Army had just fought the clone wars within the lifetime and careers of most of the Imperial officers, but it is plausible I guess that they simply are as Andor says unable to imagine anyone getting to them.  And sure, I'd buy the whole 'local shepherds' disguise thing more if they brought sheep with them and were really careful not to bring into line of sight anything with a power cell and like modern soldiers did there best to not be visible on a ridge line.  If my PC's scouted an Imperial facility with all their gear available for a sensor sweep, the security would be going, "Sir, I'm reading multiple concentrated power sources on the north ridge.  Could possibly be weapons." and there would be a recon team going out to the base perimeter to do an inspection.  Basically, I don't want a situation where I feel the good guys are only winning because the bad guys are stupid.  They've done a good job making complex bad guys and avoiding the "Cobra Commander" after school cartoon villains we've been seeing from Disney so so much who are just completely incompetent at everything to the point of being comic relief.  And I'd like it to stay with the tone they are setting.</blockquote>

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