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

• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s what the big rifle ones are for.

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    • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Janeway used a wide beam dispersal at least once.

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    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And star wars has miniguns as well to solve that problem, usually carried by a single heavy gunner

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