• Courtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 days ago

    Video games aren’t true to lore, as you need video game mechanics that won’t work in-lore. S

    In said games, you also can slash droids many times and they won’t slice in half. You can slash the viewport looking out into space and not have to worry about decompression.

    And besides, none of that matters since as the crewman stated, “I vaporized with my phaser” which is not something that would “split” and still hit whoever is holding the saber.

    And if you threw a rock, the jedi would use force abilities, not his lightsaber.

    And trying to argue one group’s weapons are nonsensical when the other group literally invented the term “treknobabble” to justify anything with complex sounding words is hilarious.

    To be clear: I am not in any way upset about the meme, it’s funny, and I like franchise vs franchise stuff. Warhammer vs star trek would be awesome. Golden age of humanity might be able to stand against starfleet, but certainly not the Imperium as it is in M41.

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      10 days ago

      The lore is that slugs and shot are super problematic for Jedi though. Not so much a Trek issue, but IRL Jedi would get merked by stuff like shotguns or rifles.

      • Scattershot, yes, but I don’t remember single-shot kinetic weapons being an issue. Logically the worst would be splattering it instead of vaporizing it, which then just kind of makes it scattershot. Of course, molten metal splashing across your body at high velocity isn’t nothing.

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          10 days ago

          Modern firearms have an extremely high rate of fire and travel fast as hell. It wouldn’t be deflecting a bullet, it would be deflecting dozens or more bullets effectively all at once (never mind if there was more than one shooter).

          I forget what their energy weapons travel at, but I recall it being a fraction of the speed of even your basic M4 (never mind something like a sniper rifle or anti materiel rifle).

          Even a shotgun slugs would be a big problem once they hit the lightsaber: They’d probably explode and pepper them with semi-melted lead spall traveling around 1,500-3,000 feet per second.

          Seems like it would actually be more of a liability than just taking cover, retreating, or maybe using the force to either escape or deflect them.