Talk:Blaster (Star Wars)

message: This article is ambiguous and is rather unclear about whether or not a blaster bolt is actually plasma or coherent light.  At the beginning of the article it refers to blaster bolts as "light-based energy" and then later on as "an intense particle beam."  It needs to be cleaned up, in my opinion.  If anyone agrees I'd like it to be tagged for such.  Then again, it is an article on sci-fi weaponry, so if that's how it is then so be it. Adam Martinez 03:01, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: When an element of sci-fi is too ambiguous to be clearly understood, it is not what wikipedia currently describes as hard science fiction. That is not to argue for Star Wars, but merely the blaster. The article at this point is still ambiguous as to whether blasters fire light-based energy" or "intense particle beam." If the blaster fires at less than the speed of light, then it is not light. So a question to ask is what is "light-based energy" if it is not electromagnetic radiation. --Trakon 04:53, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguous 

message: For the love of god, I CREATED A WHOLE NEW PAGE and someone reverts my work. DC-15 and DC-17 should point to Clone Weaponry. Please read before you revert. --65.101.108.247 02:28, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clone Weaponry page 

message: I am propsing a merge to List of Star Wars weapons because much of the information, especially information on specific weapons, already appears on that page. (I'm currently working on reducing redundant or minor Star Wars articles.) – Mipadi 20:04, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Most of the weapons in the Star Wars weapons category belong in the list, which we can eventually split into personal, ship-based, and so on. Deckiller 00:05, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge? 

message: Why do blasters have an actuator? Isn't an actuator a device that converts energy into motion? It makes no sense for an energy weapon to have a mechanical mechanism... 71.48.153.8 (talk) 03:52, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Actuator? 

message: There's more than one source on blasters. There's the Visual Dictionary by DK, which says blasters hyper-ionize Tibanna gas into charged plasma in an ignition chamber, and then electromagnetically accelerates it from the gun.
That explanation makes far more sense than the current one, why did you ignore it? Or did you just not know about it?71.48.154.114 (talk) 14:46, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  More sources. 

message: In a chapter of the book Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars, Michael Kaminski, writing about the influence of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa on the Star Wars films, said that Kurosawa's Ran influenced the exchange of blaster fire. Like in Ran, color-coding and an "onscreen sense of direction" of blaster fire are used to depict opposing forces. In the Star Wars original trilogy, rebels employed red blaster fire and often attacked from the left, while the Empire employed green blaster fire and attacked from the right. In Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, the second film of the prequel trilogy, the color and the direction were reversed. In that film, the Republic employed green and blue blaster fire and attacked from the right, while the villains employed red blaster fire and attacked from the left.
There is no way Kurosawa's Ran could have influenced the original Star Wars trilogy (1977-1983) for the simple fact that Ran was released in 1985, after the conclusion of the trilogy., Star Wars/Episode IV: A New Hope. , Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back., Episode VI: Return of the Jedi., Ran.. I do not know if this is a mistake from the source or a mistake in quoting the source, but it is certainly wrong as written and should be changed. I do not have Mr. Kaminski's book, and cannot check its accuracy or make a correction myself. I also do not want to absolutely erase this, as it is a large part of the article. I have also heard about the color and directional coding from another source but I do not know where (probably from an IMDB trivia page or a another article in Wikipedia). Ber06122 (talk) 14:09, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factual Inaccuracy