I was looking through old Star Wars comics to see what might be interesting, and the classic Empire Strikes back adaption includes some bonus concept art in the back.
I really love the AT-ST design that ended up in the movie, but this sleeker more rounded version looks neat too. It looks faster and more agile, to me it looks like a single seater instead of the AT-ST double seater.
There’s also some kind of sketch of an AT-AT walk cycle.
I’m not going to go back and check, but as I recall the AT-ATs only ever moved one leg at a time in the film, I guess they couldn’t get two to work
They have a natural elephant-like walk cycle, but they do move slowly which might give the appearance of one leg at a time if you aren’t looking too closely.
Wait wait wait!
Is that concept art suggesting that the AT-ST is the main vehicle and the four-legged version is an AT-ST with a trailer hitched to it?
No, unfortunately I’m pretty sure the comic I got this from just squeezed in some unrelated concept art onto the page. I’ve found what looks like a scan of the original sketch that doesn’t have that box. The original sketch also isn’t shaded, so I figure the comic do a little bit of adjusting for their presentation.
Looks an awful lot like an AT-PT
I thought that at first too! Then I went and actually looked at an AT-PT again. Aside from the vague shape of the vision slit area/cockpit windows, the AT-PT doesn’t really take anything from this concept. That thing is a refrigerator on legs. The concept AT-ST really looks elegant and graceful.
True, but the AT-DP on the other hand is basically just this concept redone.
Yes, that’s exactly it, right down to how the feet socket into the legs. I haven’t kept up deeply with Disney produced canon. This looks like it showed up in the Rebels cartoon a few times? I know that show has used other old concept art and reintroduced it.
That’s exactly what that is. We can honestly thank Filoni and Favreau for bringing somewhat obscure Star Wars lore and concepts to the new canon.
In Andor they specifically mention the Rakatan Empire from before the Old Republic.
