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 wrote:Has anyone seen the ion cannon that was on the new Animated series?
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The one group of Y-wings was able to avoid it, save 1 or 2.Mikey wrote: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.
That ion cannon while having the same effect as the one seen in Empire looked and fired totaly different.
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Which is pretty logical if you think about it. Nobody thinks that phaser rifles actually have rifling in the barrels.Rochey wrote: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.
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They don't? Then how do they stabilize the flight of the phase-bullets?
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Nice.
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