S-Guy wrote:No, just think realistically. In a realistic environment anyone can control anything. In many occasions factions have controlled their opponent's vehicles.
(if there were REALLY faction-controlled vehicles, where would pirates be? Pretty much 90% of pirate vehicles are stolen.)
---and TY2D2, thats pretty much every basic fighter in the star wars universe. Even GC didnt go THAT far with their factional vehicles. 
Um........... Come agian? That is such a load of bull crap it's not even funny! Tanks and APCs are one thing that it is vary uncommon to find enemies driveing around frendly tanks/APCs. Why? because each nation has their own control scheme for them!
The M1A2 SEP Abrams tanks all use a simple dual stickwheel set up.
On the other side of the world the latest Russian tank the T-90 uses a Dual Joystick set up.
Not to mention the avrage soldier is not fluent in all the different lables in different languages around the world you would not know what is what. Not everybody takes a french class, and when is the last time you heard about a person takeing a Arib class, or Russian class as a language?
German Tanks use Wheel set ups. It's also all labled in a different language! Now granted both the Empire and Reble factions speak basic, but if you recall in Reble Strike the guy who took over the AT-AT was trained on them as a gunner/pilot for them before he defected to the Alliance.
So he was yet agian a person that would be hard to come by when it came to people who were knalageable about Empire tech, and knew how to drive every vehicle in the Empires massive arsnal.
I doupt that Han Solo or Luke would have had an easy time working the At-ST like Chubacca did. There is a reason he knew how to control the AT-ST:
His home planet was inslaved by the Empire for many years. So he and his people took that time to steal stuff and learn how it all worked so they could use it agenst the Empire. But you never find that out in the movies. You all need to read the books more often.
Jedi can get away with driveing anything because part of their training is understanding how things are pout togather and the archives are constantly updated with new tech info, and instructions on how the latest weapons, and vehicles comeing off the factory lines across the universe work and how they can be controled in combat.
This was also a thing talked about in great detial in the books. When Luke took the AT-PTs from the Dreadknot fleet he also took with him a data pad that had all the tech info the Alliance would need to build them, and train their foot soldiers in how to use them in combat.
In short your statment is not only faulse but totaly wrong. You can't say a USMC Pilot who only trained on A10s/F18 Super Hornets would know how to fly a Russian SU39. Sure the stick would be easy to figure out, but the ejection seat, as well as the air breaks, and the all important radar controls would be alot harder especialy mid combat. IE it all has Russian military code on it, and is set up for Russian pilots not a guy from the US. He would never be able to locate the Ejection seat, or for that matter understand the radar controls, or even the handleing of the aircraft it's self.
In fact if he did take off the first thing that would happen is he would nose dive, and then crash into the ground due to the fact he never trained on the darn thing. Please don't think because it is done in movies, and video games that it is common in real life.
Long live the Empire!