At 04:14 PM 7/30/01, you wrote:
>On 30 Jul 2001, at 12:55, Darryl Shannon wrote:
>
> > >Of course, they use special, low speed photons in their laser
> > >weapons.
> >
> > Are you thinking of the Jedi's ability to parry blaster fire with
> > their lightsabers? Actually I don't think they are really able to do
> > this. They just use the force to know where the blaster fire *is going
> > to be* and move the lightsaber there *before* the blaster is fired.
> > So they don't have to move the lightsaber superluminally. Or so goes
> > my rationalization.
> >
> > Of course, it really isn't established that blasters are really
> > lazers.
> > I know that some ships use "turbolazers", whatever they are, but
> > blasters could be anything. Perhaps they are particle weapons, not
> > photon weapons. In that case they could fire at well below c. But if
> > blaster fire is less than c, the Enterprise has an even greater
> > advantage...it can simply *outrun* blaster fire.
>
>Blasters are sub-light particle burst weapons.
They aren't in Asimov's early work, so why should it be the case in
SW? Anyone have an official (i.e., from Lucas) or quasi-official (e.g.,
from a book or something set in the SW universe) statement as to how they work?
--Ronn! :)
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