Star Wars Ion Weapons

[Mikey]

Has anyone seen the ion cannon that was on the new Animated series?

The one on Greivous' flagship? Interesting idea, but it seems too slow to charge - and it should never be able to hit a fighter. Fighters - even though in the show were shown to stay in a tight formation and fly right into the "bolt" from the cannon - should be easily able to break formation and avoid the realtively slow-moving bolt.

[m52nickerson]

The one on Greivous' flagship? Interesting idea, but it seems too slow to charge - and it should never be able to hit a fighter. Fighters - even though in the show were shown to stay in a tight formation and fly right into the "bolt" from the cannon - should be easily able to break formation and avoid the realtively slow-moving bolt.

The one group of Y-wings was able to avoid it, save 1 or 2.

That ion cannon while having the same effect as the one seen in Empire looked and fired totaly different.

[SteveK]

To be honest, we really don't know where the laser bit came from. I like the explaination that they used to use laser-based weapons, and just kept the name as they moved on. We do the same in real-life all the time.
The only thing we really know about them is that they (or at least the damaging portion of them) clearly aren't actual lasers.

Which is pretty logical if you think about it. Nobody thinks that phaser rifles actually have rifling in the barrels.

[Mikey]

They don't? Then how do they stabilize the flight of the phase-bullets?

[stitch626]

Nice.

[Mark]

:::goes to chalkboard:::

Point for Mikey.