Timeline for Why were ray shield generators used in the interior hallways of combat spaceships?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:43 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 19, 2015 at 17:06 | vote | accept | Null♦ | ||
| Oct 17, 2015 at 19:57 | answer | added | Valorum | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 5, 2015 at 16:48 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | @Thaddeus most boardings in-universe seem to occur when either Vader/Anakin, or Lando, are involved. | |
| Sep 5, 2015 at 15:16 | comment | added | Remy Lebeau | @Null: In the ROTS novelization, the ray shield is projected as 2 separate walls surrounding the characters, instead of being a single dome as seen in the movie. And there is a ray shield in the floor preventing their lightsabers from cutting through to the next deck. So I agree that this is likely an anti-boarding technology. It is probably installed all over the place, since one can't predict where a boarding party would breach the ship. | |
| Sep 5, 2015 at 1:35 | comment | added | Null♦ | @Thaddeus My question considers the possibility that the shield generator could form different shapes, such as a "planar shield so that it forms a wall". But I can't think of evidence of that, or accommodating multiple targets, etc. The point of my question is whether any such evidence exists, otherwise we are all just speculating. | |
| Sep 5, 2015 at 1:32 | comment | added | Null♦ | @HarryJohnston That would be a good explanation, if you could find any evidence for it. If you find such evidence, please post it as an answer and I will happily accept it. | |
| Sep 4, 2015 at 22:17 | comment | added | Thaddeus Howze | Your question also speciously implies the ray shield could not be spread out to accommodate more than two targets. A good technology covers the area it needs to do the job an nothing more. It seems like a simple enough anti-boarding party technology. | |
| Sep 4, 2015 at 21:33 | comment | added | Harry Johnston | You're assuming that the ray shields need to be installed at a fixed location and cannot be projected at a distance. I'm not sure that's necessarily a sound assumption. It might be that a single ray shield generator can be used to capture individuals at any point inside the ship, as well as providing defense against outside attack - though presumably only one or the other at a time. | |
| Sep 4, 2015 at 21:00 | comment | added | Lexible | I'll take "Crappy Plot Devices" for $800, Alex! | |
| Sep 4, 2015 at 20:30 | history | asked | Null♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |