SPECULATION Snoke's Pretorian guards are sentinel battle droids

It think Snoke trusts no one.

I think his closest body guards are not humanoid beings at all.

But an advanced sentinel droids originating from ancient Predori technology, or something like that joint with the evolution of Palpatine's project of creation of sentinel droids.

I noted that all Pretorian guards are faceless.

Also, all guards have arms like a skeletal spines.

The reference of existance of such droids is from Aftermath :Life Debt, where, in an ancient crashed Predori ship (from ancient civilization ) heroes fight against strange droids.

Here is their description.Aftermath Life debt.





I have a feeling what we see is a tip of an iceberg of wast droid army used by Snoke mainly as a work force,those one been most advanced model used for his protection.



Such droids are also mentioned in the Aftermath Empire's end.
The sentinel droids were created as part of the Contigency plan by Emperor Palpatine. Most of them were merely messengers: they appeared, verified the identity of the message's recipient, gave commands, and left. The ones reserved for Gallius Rax, however, were much more independent and closer to actual sentience.They were also capable of piloting starships and of killing intruders when protecting secret assets.

 

One thing puzzles me the most.

Their unique arms armor layout, and all of tham have same arms layout .



Compared to classic armor made for humanoids this armor for arms has to many joints.
Humanoids have shoulder, elbow, and wrist joint, and the armor is designed to enable movement of those 3 joints respectively, so there are 3 joints in the amor.

Armor for the ams we see in Pretorian guard is designd to enable not just natural radius of movement but also unnatural radius of movement of the arms, like their arms can move in any direction, not just flexion in the elbow but also this armor could allow movement back side....in all directions.
Of course I can be wrong but that puzzles me.

On the other hand, difference in their helmets point to individuality.

It will be interesting to see them in the film.

 

My perspective:

You I believe are assuming they have normal joints.Since you are human(I am to do not worry)you assume they flex arms just in elbow. Certainly,even augmented by the fact there could be human actors in this suits for promo photos(some film scenes are maybe not, but CGI).
However look this gradual semi-circular flexion of the hand more closely.
Also,all Guards are different in almost all aspects except this arms,same arms like serrialy manufactured.

I have a feeling what we see is a tip of an iceberg of wast droid army used by Snoke as mainly as a work force,those one been most advanced model used for his protection.

 

Hi Mr Bones.

 

In this case you better do not look this Pretorian guard toy.

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Talking about joints and toys, I would like to see that Snoke actually sitts in the film,like this..

 

That is ok
I myself started to read SW books in search for clues about sequel trilogy.But I found great fun in reading also.
Books are great.I enjoyed Aftermath trilogy,and the last book in trilogy is just awsome,if they ever put Battle of Jakku descrubed in the book on the film it will be most epic battle in any SF film ever.