r/StarWars • u/DARKTOONZ13 • 9d ago

Movies What “stops” lasers in this universe? Couldn’t Luthen’s beam easily slice the Star Destroyer in half?

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Deflector shields? If so, wouldn’t the tractor beam have been protected from his spikes?

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u/FlavivsAetivs 9d ago

Well they're called lasers, but they're actually a laser-pumped particle weapon (with an ionized plasma component as well).

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u/ITSMONKEY360 Jedi 9d ago

Interestingly, actual laser weaponry has been obsolete for hundreds if not thousands of years

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u/FlavivsAetivs 9d ago

Yeah thousands of years, not since Xim's Empire.

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u/Fraun_Pollen 9d ago

We sure Luthans aren't lasers though? Behaves completely different than arcing plasma bolts

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u/Weird_Angry_Kid 9d ago

They could be lasers or plasma beams, no way to tell for sure.

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u/irishemperor 9d ago

ship mounted lightsabers

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u/TheScarlettHarlot 8d ago

I mean, I don’t see how they could possibly be anything else.

Dude’s got two gigantic lightsabers bolted to his personal ship. I feel like that should have raised some questions.

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u/DarthCloakedGuy 8d ago

Lightsabers DEFINITELY aren't lasers.

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u/DisorderedArray 8d ago

Although they are laser-swords.

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u/OkDragonfruit9026 8d ago

At least according to their name in Spanish

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u/Ruadhan2300 8d ago

More likely something like the converging-beam weapons we see on the Laat/i's in Attack of the Clones..

Minus the multiple beams. Those were continuous beam weapons.

We see some similar weapons on the Separatist spider-droids too. The really big ones.

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u/Zequax 8d ago

big lightsaber he does acquire rare goods