Not the kind of sensor tripping I’d suspected we’d see, but this is actually a pretty good joke by Jim.

I’m actually a little surprised that it took this long for the guard post (droid post?) to respond to the train attack. I’m more surprised that there are actually guard-bots responding at all. The majority of the droids seen after the Trade Federation died are the smaller repair or translation type, but even the one in Episode V that looks like these was mentioned as an Imperial Probe droid.

Shooting all of them sounds like a much better idea than just one. Unless Val’s blaster is too weak to single shot them. Then focusing one droid down at a time would be a much better idea. Firing wildly and trying to get them all would make for an okay distraction, but could be just as likely to split the guard-bot group up and have half of them continue towards the train while the other half takes out Val first.