>tfw issue orders to fire on a rebel starship, but order is

>>33971556
>delayed 3 hours because of 19km long ship
Why? Maybe they use some sort of fiber optic solution. That'd mean about 95 microseconds of delay.

>>33971608
they can literally communicate across star systems I dont know what OP is even on about

>>33971623
yeah that's weird the only way you could real time comm a different planet is quantum entanglement. but then the entire signal radio dishes and jamming would be pointless.

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>>33971608
They communicate internal orders via those mouse droids that drive around the floor at 6 mph

>>33971556
Wow, it's almost like Star Wars is space opera and not hard sci-fi, isn't it?

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>>33972444
The mouse droid are used as couriers that require secret code cylinders to read, they are not used in battle.

>>33972635
>that guy is so obviously computer animated in rogue one
It wasn't obvious to me in the theaters, but holy shit when I ran it on my ultra hd computer screen. His movements were just... un human. Then it became obvious when I looked.

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>>33971556
You're thinking of Spaceball 1

>>33973192
Nah, I really wish there was one desu

>>33972444
>>33972635

>mouse droids
What the hell? I always thought they were for guiding troops around in the fuck huge installations.

Thats 90% of where you see them, leading a pack of Stormtroopers.

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>be turbolaser gunner, forward battery section D-12

>awaiting orders from mouse droid

why do they keep using those things

>droid covered in scorch marks and organic goo

>send one of the support crew to investigate with all the supplies we could spare

>wish him luck on his 2 week journey, for the empire

>he comes back 5 days later completely naked, bleeding out, and covered in shit

>he looks into my eyes

"tell me what happened sergeant"

>he just says the trash compactor's creature got loose and there isn't anyone left

>dies

>flush his body out the airlock and continue manning our station for the emperor

>>33973651
>What the hell? I always thought they were for guiding troops around in the fuck huge installations.
>Thats 90% of where you see them, leading a pack of Stormtroopers.
t. a Private without a single command cylinder.

>>33973715
>Death Star was 160km wide
> 2 weeks

Man, training for storm troopers was shit if they can only do 11km a day.

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>>33972892
They should have just had the actor who played Scorpius in Farscape play him again, like they did in the end scene of Revenge of the Sith when he's looking out the window at the partially completed Death Star with Vader.

>>33972610
The world needs more hard sci-fi

>tfw no casaba howitzer carronade

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>>33971556
you rebel scum.

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>This wasn't the first post

I am very disappointed in you /k/

>>33971556
Star wars had the technology of instant communication. Before cell phones existed. 1977.

Also are we talking a Super Star Destroyer or just a regular one?

>>33974037
They still had phones just not mobile phones

>>33974178
Thanks for clarifying.
Darth Obvious. No fucking shit.

>>33974178
Do you mean commlinks?

>>33973175
>>33973192
It's the name of the ship in the movie you fuck.

>>33973962
Oh that's who played him? That's neat.

>>33972444
>>33972635
>>33973651
I always just assumed they were cleaning droids....

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>>33971556
For some reason turbolaser towers scared me when I was little

>>33972635
Is that what those things are? I spent half of rouge one wondering what everybody had stuck in their pockets.

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Star Wars thread?

>>33973976
>tfw no casaba howitzer ships of the line IN SPAAACE space opers
>inb4 Honor Harrington; it's shit

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>>33974533

>>33973906
It's not a straight-line path, unless you want to go up and down 160 km of stairs.

>>33973737
>sarge, we're lost
>follow the droid... and look like you have a purpose

>>33974842
>>33977118
these things are designed to withstand energy weapons, today's kinetic weapons(120mm cannon) would royally fuck these things up easily wouldn't they?

>>33974842
>Be the premiere war droid manufacturer in the galaxy.
>Design tank.
>Have your shitty cannon fodder droids pilot it instead of making it a droid.
Why were the genoshians so full retard?

>>33978917
Considering that a couple of logs can completely crush an ATST's turret, it's probably fair to say that a WW2 era army could stomp the empire on land.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbU0HSW3bak

>>33978917
yeah pretty much. also bullets would be more effective against lightsaber users than lasers especially since they can reflect them and they shoot faster than 30rpm

>>33979026
since they CAN'T deflect them i mean

>>33979026
>force push

>>33979024
Absolute nonsense. Energy shields also repel physical objects, not just plasma/lasers. Ships' shields are designed to protect them from micrometeors.

>>33979026
Are you seriously asking for -that- webm to be posted?

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Was rogue one the most /k/ Star Wars movie?

TFA is easily the least

>>33974533
>>33974842
>>33977118
Did one of these cross sections books even come out for TFA? i loved these as a a kid, but TFA had so few new vehicles

>>33974533
>Star Wars thread?
There's often some amazing starwars stuff on /hr/.
Problems is, /hr/ kindof sucks unless you have an actual UHD or 4k screen. A 2k is practically the minimum to begin to enjoy that board properly.

>>33972444
They're actually more of a navigation aid. Lord knows you'd need one for a ship that size.

>>33971644
Space opera, not hard scifi

>>33979341
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiEbl4kgaU4

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>>33979364
>Did one of these cross sections books even come out for TFA? i loved these as a a kid, but TFA had so few new vehicles
yes

>>33979341
I agree Rouge One is hands down the most /k/, but one of the prequels had to of been the least.

>>33979756
>cockpit positioned to maximize landing zone visibility
And also pilot vulnerability too
And I thought putting your star ship bridge on a fuck huge, easy to target tower was dumb

>>33974842
I always thought the AAT battle tank was the most practical and well designed military ground vehicle in the star wars universe. It just need to be a droid itself.

I mean this thing is extremely well armored and has excellent armor distribution, has a metric shit ton of firepower to take care of most ground based threats, and the main gun is mounted very high off the ground giving it excellent theoretical depression and elevation. The main problem would be the launch hatches being located at the frontal bottom rim of the tank, which means they really can't be used on any terrain that isn't dead flat and the main gun turret is tucked way to far back of the vehicle, forcing the main gun to rest on a slight indentation formed by the main crew hull and preventing it from depressing to any meaning degree.

I mean yeah this thing as design defects but if the trade federation wasn't so pants on head retarded, they'd get rid of all the droids have built in droid AI piloting/commanding and firing the guns which saves and reduces hull space and size. Allow the main gun to take advantage of its good angle of depression. Mount a single multipurpose launch tube on a hull embedded traversal turret where the front hatch is, move the torpedo ammunition into the vacant crew compartment and design the exit ramp as blowoff panels that vents any explosive pressures downwards to the ground. if a direct hit cooks off the live ammunition inside.preventing the explosive damage or cookoff from destroying the repulsors, power generators and main turret.

And have all the droid AI be planted in the main turret's control console with enough room for a person to manually operate and command the vehicle if need be.

Shit I think I redesigned this into a Star Wars M3 Lee.

>>33979341
it was supposed to be way more hardcore

>>33979299
Depends on the type of shielding. Ray shields absorb/deflect energy-based weaponry, particle shields deflect/block kinetic impact. It's practically necessity for spacecraft to have at least rudimentary particle shields even if they aren't combat-oriented for things like micrometeors and space debris as you mentioned.

However, I'd be inclined to believe that ground combat vehicles relied more on straight armor over shields, and if they would have any they would be ray shields since, as mentioned, the bulk of weaponry is energy-based, also the fact that most combat vehicles will likely be in close proximity to other troops or vehicles, meaning at best they'd have to worry about getting too close to an invisible barrier, at worst it may be an invisible barrier that could harm them.

>>33979316
What .webm?

>>33974503
They are effectively USB drive security keys...You know R2D2's dick that plugs into computers? That's basically the pit end that Imperial officers use to manually plug into secured computers and turn it back and forth like a safe combination.

>>33974842
Why is that one droid spooning the driver?

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>>33980153
>Mount a single multipurpose launch tube on a hull embedded traversal turret where the front hatch is, move the torpedo ammunition into the vacant crew compartment and design the exit ramp as blowoff panels that vents any explosive pressures downwards to the ground. if a direct hit cooks off the live ammunition inside.preventing the explosive damage or cookoff from destroying the repulsors, power generators and main turret.

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>>33974533
>>33974842
>>33977118
>tfw the guy who did these drawings is doing a whole bunch for Halo

I'm so fucking excited.

>>33981324
always thought they were space pens

>>33979024
I suppose if the droid control ship was knocked out, as it was during the Battle of Naboo, then they could theoretically send actual soldiers to man the tanks if time allowed.

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>>33977118
>left- and right-side gunners compete over droid kill-scores
epic.

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>>33974533
Yes.

>>33980149

yeah what the fuck...

Why wouldn't you make that a giant high-tech 360 degree camera array thing and put the fucking pilot under it with some VR shit ?...

I don't understand..

>>33979756
>>33980149
>>33981700
It's supposed to be a Higgins boat LCM in space.

>>33972444
holy shit how could you be this dumb the mouse droids are only for transporting non-important messages, like this one here that says you're a fucking retard. thank you mouse droid, return to sender "lmao"

>>33981677
God I fucking hate her

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>>33971608
>Tfw the empire uses pneumatic tube system

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>>33981492

>>33981732
>"Clear the ramp!"
>squad of Stormtroopers gets torn apart by space mg42s upon landing

>>33979341
I APPLAUDED IT FOR BEING DIFFERENT

AT-STs AT-STs AT-STs

STAR DESTROYERS

I'M GONNA CUUUUUUUUUUUUUM

>>33981758
She's actually bearable in later seasons. By season 5 she's actually really well done.

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>>33973192
You suck!

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>>33979341
>It ain't Sheev starts playing.

Someone post the Devastator shock-jump webm.

>>33981732
But if the Higgins pilot gets shot and killed the boat doesn't plummet into the ground killing the troops its carrying in a fiery explosion

>>33981867
that is an M60, like straight up completely unmistakably an M60

God I love R1

>>33981867
>Star wars Vietnam
>Completely forget how to fight giant walking dogs by Hoth
>Star Wars didn't treat it's vets right and forgot the old ways

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>>33981492
It better be in the same hand-drawn and painted style

>>33982046
I do want the same style for the static images, but imagine a "game" like world of guns, where you could explode the ship and view all the components.

>>33981867
>GPMG equivalent takes down AT-AT leg, unaided, with <50 shots 3 years BEFORE battle of Hoth
>Fixed position, dedicated anti-vehicle turret doesn't make a scratch at said battle 3 years later

I know that the turrets used at Hoth were dated but damn...

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>tfw your captain doesn't use the vastness of space to not crash into another ship.

>>33981867
>>33982044
>>33982092
Those are AT-ACTs, not AT-ATs. AT-ACTs are larger cargo transports with only a fraction of the armor.

>>33982107
I get the rationalization I guess, but logically it still seems a little fucky to me
>Thin legs already means it would be very noticeable if armor was added/removed there, whereas ACT legs in vid look very similar to standard assault transport legs
>cost and cross-compatibility of having whole separate assembly for leg mechanisms vs. just sharing between models and changing armor on chassis/head

>>33982149
Well the AT-ATs job isn't on get troops past walls and emplacements
The legs on the frontline models would obviously be more heavily armored than the one meant for wandering back and forth carrying boxes

>>33982107
>disregard space M-60
>plan entire defense around space ropes

>>33981492
>Halcyon cruiser flying in atmosphere that close to 2 unshielded CCS Cruisers
this image triggers me

>>33981492
>non atmospheric ship against 2 cruisers
Daily reminder that the ship the POA disabled managed to land while the POA crashed and burned because it cant fly in atmosphere

>>33982092
The Battle of Hoth is pretty WTF if you pay attention. Several of the turbolaser turrets aren't even pointed in the right direction by the time the AT-ATs are in range.

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>>33981867
>(alien shriek)
Fuck, was that supposed to be funny? I lost.

>>33980194
How could it be more hardcore? Literally every character died aside from Leia, Vader, and Tarkin.

>>33971556

19km=6e-5 light seconds

Besides star destroyers were designed to assault ground targets

>>33982149

Pretty sure a lot of the extra armor on AT-ATs takes the form of mobile force field protection, like ships. I don't know where I'm remembering that from, so don't trust me too much.

>>33982338
Star Destroyers are functionally mobile military bases, though some designs are more specialized at certain roles. If anything they're analogous to an expeditionary strike group packed in a single ship.

>>33982681
It seems like the problem with the Empire isn't that their weapons and vehicles are shit, it's that the people in charge of deploying them are complete retards
Shit, Empire could have easily beaten the rebels at Hoth of the Admiral in charge didn't totally fuck it up and just followed Vaders fucking orders to not jump so closeto the planet, blowing any chances of a stealthy landing

>>33980071
>the battle of Geonosis not being /k/ as fuck
>supplementary media based around clone troopers not being hardcore shit

I'm sorry but you're wrong.

>>33982093
That's why Lord Varder keep killing ship capitans and random crews in general.

Good Lord Imperial Navy is a joke.


That's why we're losing to the Rebel Scum.

>>33982815
Technically you're implying you need the supplemental material to get the full effect of the clones.

On an only semi-related note, I've just now remembered once again that the Clone Commando novels will never be resolved. Fuck this gay earth

>>33982945
didn't finished my first thought:

Which leaves the movie lacking behind others on standalone value.

>>33982945
I mean, Delta Squads appearance in the Clone Wars TV show makes them, and possibly their game, canon
So maybe the novels could be considered canon as well
I'm honestly wondering what's going to happen after the Imperial Commando book

>>33982995
Nothing. The CGI series validated the video game and Delta, but trashed a large bulk of what Traviss was working on with Omega and Skirata. She's said a while ago IIRC that due to the direction the show took with Mandalore and Mandalorian culture/history, she can't canonically continue or finish her story.

>>33983017
Skirata and Vau should at least be carried on in the canon somehow, they were probably the most likeable out of all the characters she wrote

>>33971556
How do you think modern navies work, much less sci-fi ones, OP? Do you think they still have runners to relay orders, or do you think they upgraded to semaphore yet?

>>33983049
Not to mention the fact that it's such a damn good candidate for a continued side story arc in general, looking at the aftereffects of war on clones who still age twice as fast as anyone else while a ragtag group of Mandos desperately searches for a cure

>>33983202
Not just looking for a cure by looking for an identity
That's why I like doing it, Skirata and Vau wanted their men to be MEN, not the faceless troopers that the Jedi and public treated them
Shit I remember in Triple Zero Skirata had Ordo ride a bus without a helmet and everyone lost their shit over the fact that he's human

>>33983321
>not the faceless troopers that the Jedi and public treated them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR10RgykdNw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_2potL5fDw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjxPoc2lJec

We literally only saw a tiny sliver of what things were like in the movies. They were individualizing and standing out to their leaders right from the beginning of the war.

>>33974024
This is the shit

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>>33979341
There was even a rebel using thumb over bore and slicing his corners when clearing the prisoner transport juggernaut

>>33985455

Goddamn, these things are sexy

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>>33982093
What an egregious pilot error.

On that note, anybody here play the old star wars card game? The one before Wizards took over? That game was the shit, man. You could throw Yoda on a swoop and have him zip around Hoth throwing grenades at battle droids.

To keep this /k/ related, anybody else pissed at the writing the trade federation got? They had infinite soldiers and they still screwed it up.
>pic related, it's the Confederacy

>>33982815
>Geonosis
>Clones and Droids moving around in massed pseudo-Napoleonic formations when they're supposedly throwing around nuclear level firepower as per >>33974533
Too autistic for it tbqh

>>33973976
Nobody will watch it.

>>33979341
Rogue One was a boring piece of shit movie, I hope to god they don't do anymore.

>>33985388
who then proceeded to get the crap kicked out of him by a girl with a shovel.

>>33985693

You can play the old card game online here

http://tlbiesterfeld.servegame.com/gemp-swccg/

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>>33982092
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ImMtKIC_po

>>33982107
That's a load of shit. There's no reason for AT-ACTs to exist.

What more than likely happened is that the writer wanted AT-ATs, and then someone at Lucasfilm caught it and pulled this out of their ass to justify the rule of cool.

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>>33982077

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These guys will never fucking appear in a movie

>>33979364

I have it.

>new star destroyer thing
>han's freighter he has when he meets rey and finn
>falcon mk2
>T70 xwing
>TIE fighter
>that one snowspeeder that got cut from the film
>that ugly box dropship thing from the start of the film
>ren's personal shuttle

Not even one of those not-ATATs you see on Starkiller Base or anything. Super disappointing book.

>>33980071

Phantom Menace, maybe.

But everything surrounding the Clones and Geonosis in II and basically the entirety of III is pretty cool.

>tfw no clone wars era live action movie about a squad of clone commandos wth rogue one's aesthetic and budget

>>33981781
RLM really running that joke into the ground

>>33982945
>>33982995
>>33983017
>>33983049

http://www.karentraviss.com/page22/files/How_would_you_have_wrapped_u101.html

Jusik has to rub Arla’s memory to enable her to cope with her trauma. Afterwards, she doesn’t remember being Arla Fett or what happened to her family, but she knows who she is – she just doesn’t feel the pain of memory. Jusik marries her.
>Skirata and Altis team up, and the Nulls help Altis fake his own death to escape. Scout is adopted by Gilamar and Uthan, but she remains a Jedi with Altis’s sect.
>Skirata and Ny marry, as do Gilamar and Uthan.
>Maze and Zey (unrubbed memory) go off and become the Starsky and Hutch of the galaxy with Altis, along with Kina Ha. (Also unrubbed – Skirata reaches some kind of peace with at least some Kaminoans.)
>Uthan perfects the treatment to stop the clones’ accelerated aging.
>Darman comes back, kidnaps Kad, and goes on the run. Niner deserts and joins the clan at Kyrimorut.
>The Death Watch find out that Gilamar killed Priest, and go hunting for Skirata’s clan.
>Rede turns out to be a loyal and not-all-that-naive trooper and Skirata is forced to kill him to save the others, an act that haunts him for the rest of his life.
>The clan is forced to flee off-planet in a ba’slan shev’la (strategic disappearance) to evade the Empire.
>Darman shows up again with Kad and joins them as they disappear.

>>33986239

I don't actually get the joke

Like, am I the person who it's laughing at because I finally got my fanboy circlejerk star wars war film that just focuses on the rebels/ empire?

>>33983017
>She's said a while ago IIRC that due to the direction the show took with Mandalore and Mandalorian culture/history, she can't canonically continue or finish her story.

Good

>>33983017
Didn't Traviss basically rewrite and fuck up Mandalorians entirely?

test

>>33986372

People can say what they want about the prequels, but no one can deny they had some fucking aesthetic designs all round.

I wish they got those guys back for the sequels. I can't stand the majority of new First Order designs.

>>33986255
They're essentially poking fun at Disney for using starwars as a cash cow (big surprise) and not really doing anything too innovative with the universe. And of course making fun of the fanboys who eat that shit up simply because it is STARWARS!!1!, basically the neckbeards that applaud in the movie theater when they see something they like or recognize, AT-STs for example

>>33982813
Promotion within the Imperial military and bureaucracy is mostly about cronyism and politicking, competency helps but is not required.

>>33985693
Strictly speaking the Trade Federation violated the NAP by blockading Naboo. The primary flaw of the CIS is that most of it was comprised of business interests, who wanted to win a war while maintaining a profit margin.

>>33986719
>The primary flaw of the CIS is that most of it was comprised of business interests, who wanted to win a war while maintaining a profit margin.
Which was Sheev's intent, to break the corporate collectives and bring their powers under government control, like he did with the banks.

>>33981677
waifu material

>>33985938
To be fair, he wasn't expecting the person he was coming to rescue to be the one to whack him

>>33986330
Other way around. Clone Wars series did it to her.

>>33971644
It doesn't work thay way. Quantum entanglement only works if you just observe the particle without changing its state, if you force one of the particles in a +1 or -1 state, you break the entanglement.

>>33988827
Eh, personally I liked the Constant Civil war -> Attempt at a peaceful society -> Back into civil war culture building the series did instead of "all Mandos are honor-obsessed warrior nomads" of Traviss' books.

>>33971556
>but order is delayed 3 hours because of 19km long ship
What? are they using hand written notes while here in the "space stone age" of earth, we can get large quantities of data across the planet in a fraction of a second?

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>>33981308
:^)

>>33990561
But that... that's not Star Wars.

What does that even have to do with anything.

>>33990581
Bullets aren't commonly used in Star Wars either, but that is what would happen if a silly /k/ommando tried to assassinate a Jedi by using his superior American AR-15 that has been milled with over ten thousand cuts.

Clairvoyance and Force Speed would probably tip the scales.

>>33986118
But they did though

>>33981867
>HOW CAN YOU SHOOT WOMEN AND YOUNGLINGS!?
>RRRRRRRRRR-GHGHGHGHHGHG

>>33973715
Warhammer 40K detected

>>33973996
He'd probably have a whole lot more ugly ticks on the side of his ship, pirates were more common than rebel fighter groups. If he had that many positive rebel kills as a squint pilot they'd stick his ass in a defender.

>>33979024
I think the idea behind the tank was so that it could be sold to private military contractors that didn't utilize droid troops, so that the potential sales audiance was potentially higher.
>What do you mean I'm buying a droid tank? I don't trust a droid not to go haywire, remember that shit that happened back on Halsian Prime? Thats not happening in my facility. Just sell me a regular sithin' tank.

>>33985938
To his credit, he didn't really expect the gir who he's rescuing to smack him.

>>33993628
What movie had darktroopers?

>>33973906
I always wondered why they didn't depict the death star as being mostly hollow. That would be a great way to have a mobile space station for star destroyers.

>>33994670
Well, the death star (first one) was origionally depicted as being a stand alone weapon, requiring (shortsightedly) no escort fleet, designed to hop in, vape a planet, and if any extranious circumstances arose, its turbolaser armament and fighter compliment would have more than been capable of dealing with any enemies which survived the primary ignition.

>>33973651
You and the actual screenwriter are correct
They are also driven by little mice

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Banzai!

>Commanding officer tells me not to fire on escape pod because no lifeforms were detected....

>>33994839
Hey, you don't make the budget Greg, I do. Tibanna gas ain't free.

>>33994852
If your busy chasing rebels accross the galaxy on a mad dash sprint to catch those responsible for taking the Death Star plans, replenishing your stores may not be in the near and forseeable future- especially in the out rim, near bumble-fuck space boonies Tattooine. Why waste shots on pods that aren't full of rebels?

>>33994788
I was honestly tearing up a bit when that light carrier got destroyed.
Sure, it was an even trade for a strategic target, but still...

>>33985693
(((Trade Federation)))
(((INTERGALACTIC BANKING CLAN))) (as if it couldn't be more obvious)

Thank the Force the Emperor seized the (((Munns))) assets.

>>33994916
If he had destroyed the Chimera, it would have been an even trade

>>33986372
LAAT-i or C?

C meant carrier

Regardless. The Republic gunship is my favorite sci-if ship of all time

>>33994884
>>33994916
Maybe we can keep some of that "expiring" gas next time instead. I hated last week when we had every idiot come down and fire some shots off and pose for holo vids. Prison guards, waste management personnel, cooks, comms, a few members of the senate too.
Just firing shots off at an asteroid.

>>33992532
You do realize that the force required to move your arm (or hand) at several thousand feet per second in order to meet the bullet would break every bone in your arm and completely wear out your are muscles, right?

Like, a human arm cannot physically move as fast as a bullet flies without coming apart at the figurative seems?

Not even going to mention how retardedly powerful a brain would have to be to calculate a flying bullet's trajectory and then signal the arm to move in the handful of miliseconds before the bullet hits it's target.

The design of the human body, even one that can see the future, is physically incapable of matching the sheer speed and force of a bullet.

I would find it more likely that the Jedi in question would just pull some kind of physical force field out of their ass or use force pull to get themselves mobile cover.

No Jedi is sabering bullets out of the air mid-flight though.

>>33985693
Didn't play the card game, but I played the D20 rpg. Made a trandosian merc. Called him Thusla-dun. By the end of the game the rest of the group was calling him trandosian batman.

>>33981867
If they run, they're imperial
If they don't run, they're well disciplined imperial

>>33995000
I mean, space opera rules don't apply the same rules we do. In the comics star wars has, we see slug throwers, (which are what they sound like) and we see jedi able to catch bullets out of the air.

>>33995000
But they're Jedi.

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>>33982092
>>33982107
>>33982149


They actually explained this. something do with magnets and electrics that gives the AT-ACT a higher carry weight than a Normal AT-AT. Meaning the Ion shots from whatever that gun is ( Ion weapons basically act like an EMP its also what they disabled the Star Destroyer with in the film and empire strikes back ) just disabled said system and the leg was crashed on the under the weight of the body.

>>33981867
>SOME FOLKS ARE BORN
>MAAADE TO USE THE FORCE
>OOOH THAT BALANCE INSIDE YOU YEAH

>>33995449
This makes sense. The leg actually breaks at the joint (knee?) even though the shots at the time were hitting higher (lower thigh I guess lol)

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>>33995508

Well Ion shot can clearly spread around the entire frame, if you look where they hit the SD, it disables all electrics on the ships regardless of only hitting the top thick Armour. I'm not sure how it works really only that if you hit something with enough of it, its going to be disabled. The bombers in Rouge one hit the SD in quite a few places but the Ion cannon in Empire only hit a few shots at a small part of the ship but the Entire thing went dark.

>>33995508
to add on to
>>33995569

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rKUvnPQqTc

Watch as the Y-Wings hit the SD, look at it surge all around the ship. i'd assume its the same just on a smaller scale.

>>33995569
>>33995573
Exactly. I actually watched this the other night, and it bothered me that the shots weren't hitting the breaking point when it fell apart. I didn't realize it was an ion cannon, haven't read any of the tech canon for the new series'.

cheers.

>>33982077
For the love of kek please

>>33995000
>Like, a human arm cannot physically move as fast as a bullet flies without coming apart at the figurative seems?
>Not even going to mention how retardedly powerful a brain would have to be to calculate a flying bullet's trajectory and then signal the arm to move in the handful of miliseconds before the bullet hits it's target.
Do you not, like, read, like, the sentences I wrote, like could you just not be like, illiterate?

The Force means they can move fast and the Force also means they have clairvoyance and are predicting the future, not reacting to the present. They are moving to deflect the bullet before it has even left the barrel, which is actually almost exactly what Traprito is doing.

>>33997347
>which is actually almost exactly what Traprito is doing.
Specifically, in that game they telegraph the bullet's path before it's fired. And Kirito was one of the top lead raiders in SAO, where he had to learn to read enemy attacks without any aids like that.

>>33995065
>>33995133
>>33997347
Them being Jedi and being able to see the future doesn't mitigate the fact that the physical human form is not designed to withstand the forces that would be required to move their arm or hand at the speeds required to stop a bullet, even if they did so before the round was fired. A fully automatic firearm would also destroy this whole theory because the Jedi still can't move their arm at thousands of feet per second to block every round without completely destroying their arm, I don't care how powerful the force is.

I'm not saying Jedi can't do it in the lore, just pointing out how retarded it is.

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>>33998540
You are still confusing predictive and reactive movement, buddy. Jedi flow with the force, and don't need to move their arms that much. In the attached image she's basically just twitching her wrist to shift the position of the weightless blade.

>>33998637
And my argument is that the speed at which Jedi stop laser blasts are small time compared to what would be required to stop a bullet.

It doesn't matter how much you "flow with the force" or how much you predict where the bullets will go, your physical frame would still be unable to move fast enough to stop every bullet, particularly if they are from a fully automatic firearm.

I don't think you understand how fast bullets actually travel in flight.

>>33998665
The other anon clearly can't read, but I think it's safe to say that Jedi are firmly in the "it's magic, I aint gotta explain shit" department. They could just *use the Force* to have their arms not fly apart when they try to block bullets.

But most depictions of Jedi show extensive Force use as taxing, so they would tire out and make mistakes a lot faster. Assuming a given Jedi's precog abilities (which vary a lot) and their ability to use the Force (which varies a lot) are even enough for them to do it in the first place.

So some of them would be able to do it for a short time... but the average Jedi would die about as fast as that blue lizard alien Jedi that landed next to Jango when they attacked the arena in Attack of the Clones.

>>33986372
>Space hind

>>33998665
I think it's a moot point because:
A: Slugthrowers are all but non-existant in Star Wars and may be dangerous to block anyways. And even then, it's, again, moving to block where the Force is predicting it to be, not tracking it in flight.
B: Jedi don't try to block too much fire.
C: THe image that set that off is from inside a video game in the setting, so you're being a triple autist about this.

>>33998665
Does this mean that a fully automatic rifle in .220 swift would be the best anti-jedi weapon?

>>33977118
>mfw literally plow blades for wheels
stay on the fucking roads, trooper

>>33971556
>gun turrets
why didn't they just use missiles like normal people

>>33979341
>Praises self for being a 'gritty realistic war movie take on star wars'
>Give protagonists the highest amount of plot armor imaginable until they need to die because this is A DARK GRITTY WAR FILM GUYS
>Stormtroopers are brutally murdered and executed for literal humor moments

no

>>33979341
I had my doubts about Star Wars: Diversity Squad, but it was actually a pretty dang good movie. Anyhow, the most /k/ Star Wars ever was no doubt some of the more clone-oriented episodes of Clone Wars, like Landing At Point Rain, Citadel Rescue, or the Krell arc.

BTW, it's been retconned and is now official canon that the one grey-haired older rebel trooper you see on Endor in Return of the Jedi is, in fact, Captain Rex.

>>33981829
Yeah, what I like about her is that she has character development. When she starts out, she's a disrespectful annoying kid, but the more time goes on, the more she matures. You know, kind of like how actual teenagers really are.

>>33982885
That's precisely *why* any Imperial officer who could, got assigned to Thrawn's fleet the second they could manage it.

>>33995449
sucks for my nigga running for his life with a goddamn rotary gun

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>>33981867
God I fucking loved the Vietnam look they had in R1. Came buckets when I realized it.

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>>33994560
That's Baron Fel.

Nigga killed a shitload of rebels/pirates/religious crazies, fucked a movie star (who was also Wedge Antilles's sister kek), told an Imperial admiral to basically go fuck herself and then defected to the Rebels to save his waifu because the Empire never gets to have cool characters that live.

>>33999419
Pellaeon was breddy cool. I liked him.
RIP old EU

>>33999671
Most of the stuff around the Imperial Remnant and Pellaeon was really good because it wasn't YET ANOTHER rebel/jedi story that I couldn't give a shit about anymore.

Also the comics had some really good artists.

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>>33974273
strange maybe it was because of the PENIS SHAPE

>>33999419
Thats Fel? Shit my bad senpai, didn't know

>>33999722
I mean, at least we get Thrawn back, who's the first villain we've got who isn't some "Oh muh force powrz are de strongist" thats managed to leap from EU to main canon

>>33997438
Actually that only mattered for the part where he had to beat the speed challenge. NPCs always look where they want to attack so it is possible to get an early read by watching their eyes. He still has to rely mostly on the shot guide lines when fighting real players with automatic weapons. Only once in anime canon did he guess a real person's aim by their eye movement.

>>33998716
But it doesn't stop momentum, so now you have a spray of molten metal heading at your face

>>33998886
Stop jacking off to missiles, David Weber

Reminder that the only good Star Wars is the Old Republic era.

>>34003230
Unless the magnetic field keeping the blade together along with the molten front of the bullet expanding and deforming causes it to bounce away at a safe angle.

>>33994708

Another thing I never understood was how a giant metal ball with no obvious engines to propel it could jump to lightspeed/hyperspace

Again space magic I suppose

>>33986379
Holy shit they hold a lot of Armored Assault Tanks

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>>33974024
amazing, reminds me of the /k/arrier