How do the blasters in Star Wars work? The blasters of Star Wars are powered by a compressed substance, Tibanna Gas, a substance that is found and mined in Cloud City.
Once the Tibanna Gas is compressed, it becomes energized and is expelled from the barrel of the blaster weapon in use towards its target. Blasters can be referred to as plasma weapons and laser weapons depending on the individual who is speaking, but it should be noted that the often interchanged names actually refer to different classes of blaster-style weapons.
If the blaster being examined in question is a plasma blaster, it is important to note that this blaster will function differently than your laser weapon would. Assuming that the weapon fires plasma bolts, it is going to rely upon a substance known as Tibanna Gas that is typically found in the location of Cloud City within Star Wars. Now, Tibanna Gas does is not fireable in its gaseous form. A certain chain of events has to occur for the gas to become weaponized and have the capability to be converted into ammunition that is suitable to be fired from the plasma weapon as a bolt towards the intended target.
If we look at it from the perspective of real-life gases, here is what needs to take place in order for it to be functional:.
Another factor to take into account, outside of the accuracy of the plasma-based blaster, is the amount of damage it would do if it actually hit its intended target. Plasma, as we pointed out, is unbelievably hot. A human is not going to take a hit from it and merely fall down. At the temperature of compressed plasma, it will surely disintegrate whatever it touches upon firing. This is if the plasma bolt would actually hit its target, of course.
To learn more about plasma and what it takes to actually create it, take a look at this article detailing the science regarding the subject. It is a great read and even explains some to the current real-life applications of this unusual gaseous substance.
Assuming that the blasters used in Star Wars are actually laser blasters, the physics behind using them is actually dramatically more simple and more plausible to be applied within our less technologically advanced modern time.
Actually, we are not too far from making laser-based weaponry a reality, either. We already use lasers in surgeries and science, so repurposing them for Star Wars purposes is not too far-fetched to believe.
However, the Imperial Army and Rebel Alliance are going to need to do some explaining as to why their aim is so horrible if they use laser weapons instead of plasma ones. This will increase the temperature of the light from this source.
This was a more expensive and more powerful type of blaster gas. Cyan was a low-powered version of the blue blaster bolt that was used by clone cadets in their training sessions against training droids. Wookieepedia Explore. Star Wars. Clone Wars Droids Ewoks. Administrators' noticeboard IRC Discord.
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Yes, there is some overlap in speeds for the space and ground shots. Well, there are a couple of far-away ground shots and a couple of close-up space shots like when they show R2 in the X-wing fighter with shots whizzing past. But it still seems clear that these ground and space shots are different. One other quick point: Why are there green blaster bolts in space, but for handheld weapons, they all fire red blaster bolts?
I am not sure if this shoots "blaster fire" or not, but I analyzed it anyway. If the Death Star has a diameter of km, then I can get a rough estimate for the speed of these things coming out as it destroys Alderaan which is a peaceful planet without weapons. Here is a plot of the stuff before it combines into one beam. The units here are in kilometers. Once the beams combine, I get a speed of 9.
You have no idea what I am talking about here? Here is a shot:. Here is the odd part: In the next shot, the beam is shown to travel toward Alderaan a peaceful planet. It takes about 0. If the speed of the shot is constant, this would make Alderaan a peaceful planet only km away from the Death Star.
I'm not sure how big Alderaan a peaceful planet is, but the space station is about km away from the surface of the Earth Don't worry, I am not completely delusional. I know that Star Wars is just a movie. I know that Han's blaster doesn't really shoot anything except maybe blanks. Human beings have to actually draw these blaster bolts on the screen. Humans tend to draw things consistently on the frame independent of the setting.
I should have done this the first time I went through these scenes, but let me make a plot of blaster speeds according to their angular speed on the screen. I will just assume the width of the video is 1 unit. Here is what I get. So, the artists in Star Wars are just humans making human mistakes. Yes, but is there any way to fix this? First, let me comment on the ground base's blaster shots.
The average for these things is just This is in the ballpark of a baseball pitch. This means two things:. Actually, it wouldn't be all too terribly difficult for any normal person to dodge one of these blaster bolts -- especially if it were fired from so far away. Maybe this explains why the Storm Troopers suck so bad and shooting.
Earlier in the film, Han Solo sends a squad of Stormtroopers running for cover by firing full-power blasts at the walls of a Mos Eisley docking bay. Later in the film, Stormtroopers fired at Chewbacca with the same blasters, leaving small burn marks in the same Cloud City walls.
Stun bolts appear as blue rings rather than laser bolts, and they incapacitate targets by overloading their nervous systems. The same power settings used with lethal blaster bolts appear to be applicable to stun as well. Low power stun bolts paralyze victims or render them unconscious for only a few minutes, as shown in Star Wars and The Clone Wars.
In both the canon Clone Wars TV series and the Legends-era Clone Wars video game, higher-powered stun bolts can render humanoids unconscious for hours. The highest stun settings, as shown in Star Wars: The Last Jedi , can blow a human across a room, potentially injuring them.
Depending on its power setting, sting bolts could cause mild discomfort, intense pain, or paralysis of a body part or the entire body. Sting is used for training purposes, with Luke learning how to deflect blaster bolts with his lightsaber in Star Wars by training with a remote droid. Clone Trooper trainees fought simulated battles with blasters set for sting in The Clone Wars.
Ezra Bridger trained in both blaster use and deflection by using sting bolts in Star Wars Rebels. In addition to making these soldiers highly resistant to physical attacks, slugthrowers, and shrapnel, these armors protect against blaster bolts by dispersing their heat, leaving the soldiers incapacitated at worst and completely unimpeded at best.
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