Why don't people fighing Jedi make a blaster that shoots three beams in a triangle pattern?

[Kyteland]

If everyone else gets to ask their "knitpick the fictional movie" questions, then I'm going to ask mine.

In star wars you always see guy-with-blaster vs. Jedi, and the Jedi just deflects the bolts back at him and kills him. You'd think that somebody would figure out that one beam at a time won't work. But three beams forming a triangle would. The lightsaber can only block beams along its length. If you shoot three beams then they could only deflect two of themy.

Granted those two would be going right back at the shooter, but at least the Jedi would be hit too.

 

[neutralizer]

You can always step out of the way with your awesome Jedi sense.

 

[nageov3t]

they're not to big into tech... I mean, their doctors couldn't even keep whatshername alive because she "lost the will to live."

and in the hundreds of years between the Knights of the Old Republic games and episode 1, there appears to have been no technological improvements whatsoever.

 

[DainBramaged]

Soro-Suub was working on one in one of the books.

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Soro-Suub was working on one in one of the books.

Working on one? Can't you just take three blasters and tie them together with a string? The only tricky part is the trigger, which can't be hard to rig.

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Originally posted by: loki8481
they're not to big into tech... I mean, their doctors couldn't even keep whatshername alive because she "lost the will to live."

and in the hundreds of years between the Knights of the Old Republic games and episode 1, there appears to have been no technological improvements whatsoever.

Thousands of years. Four thousand.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Most people wouldn't want to carry an extra "triangle gun" for the one time in their life they meet up with a Jedi in battle. Jedi are supposedly rare compared to cannon fodder -- uh, common soldiers.

The "triangle gun" would be much less effective against armor and shields than a single-beam gun with the same power output.

Plus as neutralizer said the Jedi would just twist out of the way of the third beam / pulse.

 

[se7en]

the force is far two powerful for a blaster with a triangular fire pattern to work. Now it is a good idea but why chance only a tri pattern when if we can make a lightsaber.. hell lets make a fully auto hexagon firing pattern rifle. 6 rounds at a time.. yeah some of them will be coming back but if you are fighting a jedi to start with you have got to know death is a very real possibility.

 

[BlueWeasel]

:laugh: at some of the responses in this thread.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: se7en
the force is far two powerful for a blaster with a triangular fire pattern to work. Now it is a good idea but why chance only a tri pattern when if we can make a lightsaber.. hell lets make a fully auto hexagon firing pattern rifle. 6 rounds at a time.. yeah some of them will be coming back but if you are fighting a jedi to start with you have got to know death is a very real possibility.

If you split up the beams enough they will be so weak even average Jedi can just deflect them with force powers (like Vader did to a full-strength beam in ESB)

 

[se7en]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

Originally posted by: se7en
the force is far two powerful for a blaster with a triangular fire pattern to work. Now it is a good idea but why chance only a tri pattern when if we can make a lightsaber.. hell lets make a fully auto hexagon firing pattern rifle. 6 rounds at a time.. yeah some of them will be coming back but if you are fighting a jedi to start with you have got to know death is a very real possibility.

If you split up the beams enough they will be so weak even average Jedi can just deflect them with force powers (like Vader did to a full-strength beam in ESB)

hmm.. .. ok what about a light saber crossbow? Shooting light saber bolt's?

 

[BRObedoza]

because it's a movie

 

[Rudee]

Better yet, just use a flame thrower. You can't block fire with a light saber.

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

Originally posted by: se7en
the force is far two powerful for a blaster with a triangular fire pattern to work. Now it is a good idea but why chance only a tri pattern when if we can make a lightsaber.. hell lets make a fully auto hexagon firing pattern rifle. 6 rounds at a time.. yeah some of them will be coming back but if you are fighting a jedi to start with you have got to know death is a very real possibility.

If you split up the beams enough they will be so weak even average Jedi can just deflect them with force powers (like Vader did to a full-strength beam in ESB)

Which is why you never fire rockets at a Jedi (learned that the hard way in Jedi Academy)

 

[exilera]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Most people wouldn't want to carry an extra "triangle gun" for the one time in their life they meet up with a Jedi in battle. Jedi are supposedly rare compared to cannon fodder -- uh, common soldiers.

The "triangle gun" would be much less effective against armor and shields than a single-beam gun with the same power output.

Plus as neutralizer said the Jedi would just twist out of the way of the third beam / pulse.

What kinda freak would try to rationalize an obvious parody post?

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

Originally posted by: se7en
the force is far two powerful for a blaster with a triangular fire pattern to work. Now it is a good idea but why chance only a tri pattern when if we can make a lightsaber.. hell lets make a fully auto hexagon firing pattern rifle. 6 rounds at a time.. yeah some of them will be coming back but if you are fighting a jedi to start with you have got to know death is a very real possibility.

If you split up the beams enough they will be so weak even average Jedi can just deflect them with force powers (like Vader did to a full-strength beam in ESB)

All of Vader's limbs are made of machine parts. It either had sheilding, or it took damage and he just had it replaced later. I don't think the force had anything to do with it, unless he used the force to put his hand there. If it had hit him in the chest he would have died.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: exilera

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Most people wouldn't want to carry an extra "triangle gun" for the one time in their life they meet up with a Jedi in battle. Jedi are supposedly rare compared to cannon fodder -- uh, common soldiers.

The "triangle gun" would be much less effective against armor and shields than a single-beam gun with the same power output.

Plus as neutralizer said the Jedi would just twist out of the way of the third beam / pulse.

What kinda freak would try to rationalize an obvious parody post?

Someone taking a break from work

All of Vader's limbs are made of machine parts. It either had sheilding, or it took damage and he just had it replaced later. I don't think the force had anything to do with it, unless he used the force to put his hand there. If it had hit him in the chest he would have died.

Hmm, that's possible. Though force powers can lift a multi-ton starfighter and cast or block lightning, so Vader may have just used his hand as a focus for his powers and it took no damage.


Oh well, enough neffing, back to the code mines ....

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: Kyteland
If everyone else gets to ask their "knitpick the fictional movie" questions, then I'm going to ask mine.

In star wars you always see guy-with-blaster vs. Jedi, and the Jedi just deflects the bolts back at him and kills him. You'd think that somebody would figure out that one beam at a time won't work. But three beams forming a triangle would. The lightsaber can only block beams along its length. If you shoot three beams then they could only deflect two of themy.

Granted those two would be going right back at the shooter, but at least the Jedi would be hit too.

Because that would make too much sense. :roll:

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: Kyteland
If everyone else gets to ask their "knitpick the fictional movie" questions, then I'm going to ask mine.

In star wars you always see guy-with-blaster vs. Jedi, and the Jedi just deflects the bolts back at him and kills him. You'd think that somebody would figure out that one beam at a time won't work. But three beams forming a triangle would. The lightsaber can only block beams along its length. If you shoot three beams then they could only deflect two of themy.

Granted those two would be going right back at the shooter, but at least the Jedi would be hit too.

Because that would make too much sense. :roll:

Exactly.

 

[backinsac]

The Jedi would counter by using a triangle shaped light saber. Duh.

 

[RadioHead84]

Originally posted by: Rudee
Better yet, just use a flame thrower. You can't block fire with a light saber.

yeah but they can use the force to stop it. IE the clone wars animations.


Speaking of whcih. Some of that stuff in that series is weird. Like in the movies that jedi have a hard time taking on hundreds of droids at once and eventually get corned. But in the animations Samuel Jackson takes on like 1000 of them and uses the force to pwn them all. ALso yoda is able to smash entire ships together. Now..I undestand its an animation so its cool to make things blow up and do things that are really no tpossible but I appreciate how the starwars series is pretty consistant the entire way through. this kinda isnt that way.

 

[computeerrgghh]

Why don't they make homing lasers that will detect any impending lightsaber deflection and automatically blow up and kill everyone on the darn planet?

 

[Baked]

Just use portable blaster canons, should fvck up the Jedis real good.

 

[ISAslot]

rail gun + jedi = goo with a lightsaber

 

[PingSpike]

If you've ever played the PC Game Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight the Imperial repeater secondary fire does exactly what you suggest, it fires 3 bolts in a spread pattern. It works quite well against a lightsaber, although one of the bolts does come flying back in your face as usual.