But those who qualified for entry to the Praetorian guards were able to wear it without complaint, and it had little to no impact on their fighting abilities. This magnetic shield inflicted pain on the user and protected them from energy weapons. Embedded with mag-coils, their armor generated a localized magnetic field strong enough to deflect blaster fire and all but a direct thrust from a lightsaber, making them a real challenge for Rey and Kylo Ren to defeat in combat. Unlike the Imperial Royal Guard, whose uniform was designed to look largely ceremonial (thereby lulling potential opponents into a false sense of security) the Praetorian Guard’s armor struck a balance between formal and combat ready. Seated in shadow, the tall, slender form loomed over the other two men. Tall and gaunt, he was humanoid but not human. Seated on the raised platform that was the focus of the chamber was the blue-tinted holo of Supreme Leader Snoke. Though these could as easily have been adopted alongside the name as passed down from their Kitel Phard predecessors. According to the Alan Dean Forsers TFA novelization (Chapter X), he was tall. Certainly they practiced some of the same martial arts and combat techniques used by the original Atrisian Praetorian Guard. It’s unclear if these groups are all iterations of the same order, surviving the loss of their previous masters by seeking out another, or if subsequent empires merely borrowed their name and aesthetic for propaganda purposes. Then, as Snoke rose to take control of the First Order, he instituted them as his personal body guards, renamed once again as the Elite Praetorian Guard. Serving the long gone Atrisian Emperors who once ruled that system, they reappeared after Palpatine’s death to guard the Shadow Council, this time under the name the Imperial Praetorian Guards. The Praetorian Guards, named after the soldiers who guarded the Emperors of ancient Rome, originated in the Star wars universe on the planet of Kitel Phard. Buy LEGO Star Wars Dark Side Lot 2: Supreme Leader Snoke, Darth Maul and Emperor Palpatine from Walmart Canada.
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