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Question about sci fi guns...

...why are they so shit?

If you look at a lot of sci fi guns it becomes apparent that the designers of such weapons were too focused on what is high tech than what's actually effective.

Take the blasters from Star Wars, famous enough right? Their bolts travel at around 75kph

With if we're talking projectile speed? That's shit...honestly lol how does anyone in that universe hope to win a war? Then again, laser swords are a common weapon in the universe (I wonder why)

Any other sci fi weapons that compared to what we have now is terrible?
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Burnley123 · 41-45, M
Superb question.

A cynic would suggest that its more about what flashes brightly across screen and makes a zapping sound than any utility or physics.

I am not a cynic though. Blasters are awesome. ;-)
Fangirlsarah1996 · 26-30, F
@Burnley123: Agreed, phasers and blasters look cool, sound cool etc.

If say, The Empire (Star Wars) sent an army down here...we'd fuck them up.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@Fangirlsarah1996: Absolutely. Their fighters use sonar technology from the 70s, their walkers are blatantly inferior to tanks and light-saber vrs machine gun? Please

No wonder the Ewoks kicked their ass.
Fangirlsarah1996 · 26-30, F
@Burnley123: Oh and don't forget we can just nuke their ass.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@Fangirlsarah1996: Yeah but... The Death Star.

We would just need an awesome plan to beat it. Like send a missile down one of the air-vents. Why the fuck did they use fighters for that anyway?

We wouldn't need to smuggle Death Star plans out either. They don't have the internet and we do.
Fangirlsarah1996 · 26-30, F
@Burnley123: Why didn't The Empire send ANY ships with it?

Like...they had a fleet...they just sent it in without any escort...
kayoshin · 41-45, M
@Fangirlsarah1996: Because the technology in their galaxy already went as far as possible with projectile weapons to which they developed shields that are virtually impenetrable however those shields made the soldier slow in response to that they developed something that would go beyond shields energy weapons. Since the targets were slow the weapons projectiles didn't really need to be fast either. As no one used projectile weapons anymore they stopped making shields against them as well, even the storm trooper armor is mostly designed to distribute the energy of blaster fire so that the soldier gets knocked out instead of killed, they didn't design it to be bullet proof because bullets are almost nonexistent in their time (it's like now people don't really prepare against ballistas and catapults when preparing for siege).
Anyway in case you haven't fallen asleep from all that boring stuff: if the empire would send an army down here we would not fuck them up because they would know we are still using bullet weapons and simply use shields, they'd just have to look up antique weapon plans and build some, they definitely have the resources. We could only fuck them up if we used nukes probably, but also fuck ourselves in the process and the whole planet for a long time. :)
ronisme1 · 61-69, M
@Burnley123: seems to me to knock out the death star - just poison the food supplies - they have to supply sometime