Phasers are better than light sabers in every possible way

[Rakehellion]

• Ranged
• Adjustable
• More powerful
• Use not restricted to an elite group of snobs

I could go on.

 

[Ichinisan]

Set lightsabres to "poke."

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Light sabers have the inherent problem of all edged weapons. It's funny how you see the Jedi deflecting shots like nothing. Just shoot them in two different places at the same time.

Yeah, it's only a movie

 

[ThinClient]

Light sabers have the inherent problem of all edged weapons. It's funny how you see the Jedi deflecting shots like nothing. Just shoot them in two different places at the same time.

Yeah, it's only a movie

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Jedi are fast enough to block 2 bolts with the saber.

The trick is to shoot THREE bolts not in a straight line.

Then again, they'd probably just use the force to know what you're thinking before you act it out and be prepared to dodge instead of deflect.

They think of everything

 

[Jeff7]

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Jedi are fast enough to block 2 bolts with the saber.

The trick is to shoot THREE bolts not in a straight line.

Then again, they'd probably just use the force to know what you're thinking before you act it out and be prepared to dodge instead of deflect.

They think of everything

Or shoot with a beam width setting that's wider than the blade of the lightsaber.

 

[Howard]

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Jedi are fast enough to block 2 bolts with the saber.

The trick is to shoot THREE bolts not in a straight line.

Then again, they'd probably just use the force to know what you're thinking before you act it out and be prepared to dodge instead of deflect.

They think of everything

Unless the firearm is rapid-fire, the third bolt would not reach the Jedi until after the second bolt was deflected. Thus, a rapid-fire weapon or two (or more) weapons would be necessary.

 

[fralexandr]

http://xkcd.com/1433/

 

[DAGTA]

Except for one way in which they are equal: neither is real

 

[SKORPI0]

Try doing this with a Phaser..

 

[Jeff7]

Try doing this with a Phaser..

I have a feeling he'd get pretty severe burns on his hands from having them so close to spattering orange-hot metal.

Seems it'd be safer to stand back and simply fire a sustained phaser blast at the wall. They can pack a hell of a punch when it's plot-convenient.

 

[SKORPI0]

Seems it'd be safer to stand back and simply fire a sustained phaser blast at the wall. They can pack a hell of a punch when it's plot-convenient.

It's gonna take while though.... ^_^

 

[Jeff7]

It's gonna take while though.... ^_^

Though in Chain of Command, a regular Type II was used to blast away several thousand pounds of rock lickety-split.

 

[Rakehellion]

Light sabers have the inherent problem of all edged weapons. It's funny how you see the Jedi deflecting shots like nothing. Just shoot them in two different places at the same time.

Yeah, it's only a movie

 

[Fritzo]

I just wonder why phaser beams are so slow. Someone once measured it out, and they move around 200mph in the TV show- sometimes slower.

 

[ThinClient]

Unless the firearm is rapid-fire, the third bolt would not reach the Jedi until after the second bolt was deflected. Thus, a rapid-fire weapon or two (or more) weapons would be necessary.

More than one shooter.

Bam, problem solved.

Cuz that's what I do.

I solve problems.

 

[Jeff7]

I just wonder why phaser beams are so slow. Someone once measured it out, and they move around 200mph in the TV show- sometimes slower.

The writers would have to be more creative than the budget allowed. :awe:


Or maybe they could use a stupid workaround for the problem: Maybe it would turn out to be like how humanity once forgot the recipe for cement, and some kind of bad thing happens in our history that causes us to lose the equations for making decent lenses, which they could use to explain why everyone has such horrible aim in the show.

Though that still wouldn't explain why they don't just always use a wide-beam setting.
Or why beam weapons 400 years in the future wouldn't come with scopes or vision systems with automatic aiming.
Or why you wouldn't just use the transporters to beam a threat into space as a puff of subatomic particles.

 

[ThinClient]

I have a feeling he'd get pretty severe burns on his hands from having them so close to spattering orange-hot metal.

Seems it'd be safer to stand back and simply fire a sustained phaser blast at the wall. They can pack a hell of a punch when it's plot-convenient.

Force Absorption.

You've never even played the video games, let alone red the books!



GET HIM, GUYS! *grabs pitch fork and torch*

 

[ThinClient]

I just wonder why phaser beams are so slow. Someone once measured it out, and they move around 200mph in the TV show- sometimes slower.

Maybe they're not really beams... like how "lasers" in star wars aren't really lasers. They're supercharged particles fired like a projectile.

Maybe the beams are some kind of similar ... not-beam... uh, beams.

Shrug.

 

[jagec]

More than one shooter.

Bam, problem solved.

Cuz that's what I do.

I solve problems.

Yeah, the Empire tried that a few times. Turns out that either Parkinson's is much more prevalent in galaxies far, far away, or they get IV coffee in those stormtrooper suits.

 

[ThinClient]

Yeah, the Empire tried that a few times. Turns out that either Parkinson's is much more prevalent in galaxies far, far away, or they get IV coffee in those stormtrooper suits.

That was due solely to the E-11. The weapon had to be produced so fast to account for troop numbers that the precision needed to make a quality weapon was ignored. There are plenty of sharp shooter troopers with alternative weapons. Even Holdout blasters, the tiny derringer-like weapons, are more accurate than the E-11 and they've got like 1/10th the length of barrel.

Sorry.

I'm a huge star wars nerd.

 

[Ruptga]

That was due solely to the E-11. The weapon had to be produced so fast to account for troop numbers that the precision needed to make a quality weapon was ignored. There are plenty of sharp shooter troopers with alternative weapons. Even Holdout blasters, the tiny derringer-like weapons, are more accurate than the E-11 and they've got like 1/10th the length of barrel.

Sorry.

I'm a huge star wars nerd.

Yeah, or they made pew pew fly everywhere in the movie because it just looks cool, then later when pressed for details they made up some stuff about mass production.

Buzz Killington, away!

 

[ThinClient]

Yeah, or they made pew pew fly everywhere in the movie because it just looks cool, then later when pressed for details they made up some stuff about mass production.

Buzz Killington, away!

WELL IT COULDN'T BE A MOVIE IF THE STORM TROOPERS SHOT HAN IN THE FACE IN DOCKING BAY 94, GOD DAMMIT.

 

[Newbian]

Too bad 99% of the time the phasers are set on pansy stun mode.

 

[Childs]

SG-1 reveals the true answer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjlCVW_ouL8

 

[mikeymikec]

Light sabers have the inherent problem of all edged weapons. It's funny how you see the Jedi deflecting shots like nothing. Just shoot them in two different places at the same time.

Force Speed, deflect both shots, then strike a cool pose.