Favorite Droid:Gonk, you know, the box that has those two legs and makes that weird "gonk" noise. Its just a useful thing, a fusion powerplant with legs

Favorite ship:World-Eaters, self-replicating machines, possiblythe most dangerous long term threat, but they all got smashed...

Favorite Weapon: Blasters...I know, sounds stupid but they are so far ahead of us, its not funny, the whole basic starwars weapon system. And, its missnamed, Turbolasers? no, no lasers anywhere. the whole thing is governed on plasma generation and delivery, thats why you can see them travel across the screen, as opposed to the luminal speeds of lazers, this also explains why they all dont go blind from the radiation emited from a laser of that strength.

Favorite Concept: Vibro-Knifes...come on, the whole concept is cool, make something ocilate incredable fast in such a small area of movement, probably the first space age technology we will see, except, if its vibrating really fast, wont you get a gyroscope effect? Trying to swing it would wrench your shoulder out.

I think about this stuff to much

Actually, you're kinda wrong about the laser issue. Sure the hand-held weapons are Blaster Pistols, rifles, etc. But Capital Ships (Star Destroyers, World Devestators (:P), etc), use more powerful wepons called Turbolasers. The laser you are thinking of is in modern technology. In Star Wars they use much different devices in their weapons, so yes, they are in fact Turbolasers. Not trying to get on anyones case, just being informative.

While I'm at it..does anyone play X-wing Vs Tie Fighter? Its an older game, but its an awesome game, real fun.

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First of all, the cant be true lasers. You can see them fly across the screen. Real lasers dont do that, they trave at luminal speeds, so fast it seems instantanious. This means that no one, force or not could possible have the reflex to block them.

Second of all. Lasers capable of doing that much damage to anything that quickly would burn out your retina from radiation refracted from the air itself. This would render anyone without the proper eye protection blind, makes for a very uninteresting story.

Thirdly. Blasters and Turbolasers act on the same principal. Turbolasers much bigger systems ie. a 9mm as compared to a battleship cannon capable of sending a station wagon well over the horizon.

In support of my theory:

Plasma does not pose any optical risk(I know, i worked with plasma reaction tubes over the summer, theyre really cool looking). It dosent travel at luminal speeds, its more like it goes as fast as vou throw it. This explains why you have to lead your target, if you had a laser, it just hits what its pointing at, no lag time.
Also, the plasma would actually do what the blasters are doing in the movie. they would burn through things instantly(if you got shot in the shoulder though, it would burn off most of you). Plasma creation would also explain why there are no fireing ports on the X-Wings Cannons(you can collapse the electrons with an AM radio pulse).

And that stun thing. Could just be a high voltage pulse caried along an ionized trail of a laser beam, a real high tech tazer

also, dont read to much into this, im just trying to explain something unexplainable, its sort of fun...

And Tie Fighter was the best DOS game ever

I don't think you understand the concept of... fiction.

Not fiction. Inspiration

And that last post of mine was off-topic, my apologies

good while your explaining the un explainable, why do you hear that trademark tie fighter sound, i remember the age old saying....in space no one can hear you scream. i would assume that includes tie fighters, also, why would you hear lasers firing, or explosions for that matter ;)

The Sci-Fi Movies dont make sense very often, but who cares, they are awsome none the less

May the force be with you :)

I'd mention some of the innard workings of blasters and turbolasers...but a friend is borrowing my resourse book..and won't give it back! But I do know that all laser based weapons the Star Wars universe operate off of Tibana Gas which is found in Bespin (Empire Strikes Back). And that would dis-prove and sort of real life explanation for their laser weapons. Personally, I don't try (keyword is try...) to get into the inner workings, I just like the series.

Alright, Im sorry i went off topic.

What i need is some meaningful indivdual to make a post ontopic to reedeem myself