Image Analysis: Ruusan lookout

“The statue that had occupied the platform off to his left had fallen hundreds of years before. The remains of it were scattered down the forward slope and pointed toward a skillfully sculpted hand. The palm was blackened where signal fires hand burned, beckoning travelers from many kilometers away. It must have been something to see.” Star Wars: Jedi Knight (William C. Dietz) 1998.

I’ve always liked this piece from the Jedi Knight novella. Actually, Dave Dorman’s photo-realistic paintings have always been very influential in terms of how I imagine the GFFA. This vignette just happens to be one of the few EU depictions of an isolated cell of commoners on the run from Imperial forces – and so is very useful for my purposes.
Here we see a familiar mishmash of gear that is very inspirational for those of us who portray fringe-y Rebel personas:
Observations:
-The figure on the left wears a bandana, collared long-sleeved shirt, and what appears to be a Rebel pilot’s flak vest and some leg-loop webbing. He carries an E-11.
-The upper figure (in addition to being silhouetted against the sky—bad example!) wears a short-sleeved T-shirt, a light backpack with sternum strap, and has a cylindrical thermal detonator or droid caller on his belt.
-Grif Grawley wears suspenders with a variety of pouches over his buckled long-sleeved jacket, a number of small cylinders over one shoulder (flares, shotgun shells, 40mm grenades, etc?), high boots, and carries electrobinoculars and a coil of rope hanging at his belt.

When we break the elements down like this, it becomes clear that the only items which are not drawn from Earth historical costumery and help ‘make’ the scene Star Wars are the blasters, Grif’s jacket (mysterious scifi-style buckles), the rebel flak vest, and the TD/droid caller. Otherwise, swap out the electrobinocs for binoculars and this could be a scene of everyday Earth partisans…operating somewhere with a tradition of massive humanoid statuary, that is.

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