- ROBERTO jh
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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Have you even ever READ stardestroyer.net?
The guy has some calculations of the weapon power based from scenes of the movie.
You also are basically saying the tech manuals released for the movies are bull-blam!-.
What I basically mean is "Oh, the EU description of a turbolaser is bull."
"However, we can use the EU descriptions of various weapons."
If you want to limit what is used, both sides must get the same treatment. Since the games are hard canon, then that means plasma weapons are rather weak.
In the end, we'll be again, going round and round flinging stuff at each other and getting nothing constructive done. That's why the last 2 o 3 topics about this subject have failed.
I'm assuming those calculations were on how a Venator "glasses" a CIS Cdroid ship in Ep III? Yeah, I'll give you that at a high megaton --maybe--. Or the same ones as the EP V terraton calculation right?
Two things wong there. First off, the only reason people buy that calculation is because of the complex numbers involved; they just assume its correct. When its not.
I believe the asteroid that got hit was 20 meters estimated right? According to the SD.net calculator, vaporizing that asteroid only requires 56 kilotons of energy, not a terraton.
Or howabout this. In EP 1 a Droid Control ship destroys a droid on top of the Royal cruiser. Destroys. Not vaporizes. It gets blown to pieces, but not turned to smoke and dust. If the weapons were truly in the gigatonnage range, there should have been nothing left of that droid at all.
Same thing can be said for R2-D2 when he gets shot by Vader's TIE-Advanced in Ep IV, a megatonnage weapon supposedly. He basically dies, yes, but he's perfectly reparable.
So you say: well, durasteel is 300,000X stronger then steel, and droids must be made of durasteel. Incorrect.
R2 gets shot again, by a pistol in EP VI, this time almost dying (obviously starfighters are stronger then pistols) but becoming severely weakened, destroying some of his functions and incapacitating his ability to move.
That same pistol shoots Leia in the arm. She only gets a burn hole, but is still strong enough to quickly get up and kill two stormtroopers that flanked them. She even states "its not bad."
And then a plethora of other reasons I don't have time to list.