Timeline for Why would a slug thrower be more effective against a lightsaber/Jedi than a blaster?
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| Jan 29, 2019 at 1:25 | comment | added | Paul | Also, there are steel jacketed bullets as well, they typically have a ring of softer metal to grip the rifling. | |
| Jan 28, 2019 at 23:59 | comment | added | JAB | @pleurocoelus Though that may be less of an issue with smoothbore ammunition, I believe. | |
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| Jan 17, 2018 at 7:51 | comment | added | pleurocoelus | A durasteel slug would be a bad idea since it would probably get stuck in the barrel. There's a reason real bullets are made of lead (usually jacketed with brass), not steel. Brass is harder than lead, but both are softer metals than steel. The metal of the projectile needs to be softer than the metal of the barrel. | |
| Mar 4, 2017 at 13:04 | comment | added | Darael | Even a vapourised slug is dangerous: we're talking about the same mass of metal, only now it's hot enough that it's turned to gas, and it retains its momentum. Say goodbye to your skin, Jedi. | |
| Nov 4, 2016 at 13:03 | comment | added | OrangeDog | The usual opponent of a Jedi does not have a lightsabre. | |
| Sep 10, 2015 at 7:17 | comment | added | Jakob | Conservation of energy. A slug is heavier and the forward momentum of the slug needs to be preserved in some way. It could for example displace the lightsaber on impact more than a "blast". | |
| May 22, 2015 at 23:00 | comment | added | Oldcat | If a slug is 'burned up', it doesn't go away like a soap bubble. The 'best' result is that it is melted, leaving a hot gob of molten metal to splash on the Jedi. Evaporating it just lets the hot metal spread wider. | |
| May 22, 2015 at 21:16 | comment | added | Jeff | As @ZanLynx pointed out, logistics are less of a concern in SW than they are in real life. Any sufficiently large ship will have a basic engineering shop, and one of those can turn out ammunition in mass quantities in relatively short time. Gunpowder is simple enough to make from common components and casings/metal are trivial to make for something that turns out starship parts. | |
| Jan 22, 2014 at 15:32 | comment | added | Matt | I'd add (but felt like it wasn't quite right to edit your answer) that while a blaster bolt is apparently either deflected or not, a projectile can be partially deflected or partially vaporized. A projectile that is partially deflected may produce shrapnel that could cause problems for a Jedi. Molten slag is usually unpleasant, even in small quantities. | |
| Sep 16, 2013 at 14:59 | comment | added | Jersey | @DampeS8N That's why you have auto-shotguns. | |
| Sep 13, 2013 at 19:09 | comment | added | DampeS8N | @Jersey Shotguns don't tend to work in reality like they do in games and movies. They do not fan out in close-cones, they only spread a few inches at 40 yards unless modified, and a modified shotgun is worthless at any range farther than a few yards. There just aren't enough projectiles in a shell to make game-style cones realistic, and the more you stuff into the shell, the weaker each one is. | |
| Sep 13, 2013 at 16:19 | comment | added | Jersey | yeah, I guess that in the SW universe, the shotgun hasn't been invented yet. Would work well against the Matrix Agents, too. But why bother with logic and sense? :) | |
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| Mar 30, 2012 at 16:17 | comment | added | Tacroy | @Xantec Yep IIRC the AI will do that to you on harder difficulties - that's why you're supposed to duel them. It's not that the flak gun is the best way to take them down, it's that the flak gun is the best way to take them down with a gun. | |
| Mar 30, 2012 at 16:14 | comment | added | Zan Lynx | I don't know if I believe logistics are a problem for the Star Wars universe. Their capital ships are kilometers long. That can carry a lot of bullets. | |
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| Mar 30, 2012 at 13:39 | comment | added | Xantec | @Tacroy I would expect a Force push could just sweep that wall to one side (granted, in a VG everyone plays by strict rules). | |
| Mar 26, 2012 at 23:30 | comment | added | Tacroy | In one of the Star Wars games (Jedi Outcast), you're explicitly told to use a flak gun against AI Jedi if you decide to wimp out and not duel them - it doesn't matter how fast they are, they can't stop a wall of bullets :) | |
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| Mar 25, 2012 at 16:05 | history | answered | DampeS8N | CC BY-SA 3.0 |