Comment on The reason prosthetics are so good in Star Wars is because the Jedi use live lightsabers to train.

Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• IHawkMike@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And similarly, why can’t Star Trek officers just set it to wide beam and/or just hold down the button while they paint the room?

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  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think the simole answer to both of these questions could be “power limitations”.

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s what the big rifle ones are for.

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      • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Janeway used a wide beam dispersal at least once.

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      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Maybe the length of the saber doesn’t scale linearly. Maybe there’s some extremely fast dropoff in effectiveness after a couple of feet.

        And the power limitations of the phasers seem to me like they require some kind of capacitor to charge up and release in a burst. Plus maybe the tip of the phaser would overheat under sustained fire.

        And sure, you could say “add more tips”, but we’ve tried that with gun barrels IRL for the same reason. They’re heavy & unwieldy so they only get used for mounted guns, like with the minigun.

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• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We have been shown that there is some weight to a lightsaber when lit though. Like in Rebels and the Mandalorian/Book of Boba.

  And this weight is different to how a normal sword would work. The length adjustment is to finetune this power/weight distribution to fit the user and their style of fighting. Which is why we get shotos and claymores, as well as different sizes for different sized species.

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