The E-11 BlasTech rifle. It’s the standard rifle for Stormtroppers. But why is it called E-11? Is there an E-10? Or an E-9?
A look on the official Star Wars Wiki reveals that there is:
E-5 blaster rifle
E-9 is a spaceship
E-10 is a droid
E-11 is the standard Stormtrooper rifle
And that’s it. There is no other E-number names in Star Wars.
E-1
E-2
E-3
E-4
E-6
E-7
E-8
E-12
In fact there are no E-whatevers going up to E-100.
How do I know? I tried all the URLs. For instance on E-13 I tried http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/E-13. But nothing there. To test 100 URLs would be crazy, so I used a function in a Google spreadsheet to quickly tell me which E-numbers exist. The spreadsheet has 50 functions counting in consecutive order. Each function looked like this: =ImportXML(“http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/E-11”, “//li[@class=”toclevel-1 tocsection-2′]”)
Merging together:
1) an interest in Star Wars
2) an interest in number sequences
3) Google functions
is a beautiful thing.
If there are any letter/number combinations you’d like me to search for in the Star Wars universe, let me know via a comment on this blog, Twitter, Facebook, or Google Plus.
the only M-number in Star Wars is M-18. “Yuuzhan’tar is the Yuuzhan Vong homeworld and the capital of their Empire. Old Yuuzhan’tar was destroyed during the Cremlevian War, resulting in the moon M-18, later known as Zonama Sekot, taking off on its own. “
how about the “R2″s and the “C3″s.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
Good!