Star Wars Weapons

[Darkened Angel]

Well it won't be soon anyways, since we've got CotS going right now.

Anyways, another question came to mind. A disruptor bypasses energy shields, right? What exactly makes that so, and are they actually more powerful than a blaster, or just have that extra edge?  

[Sol Walker]

I've never known Disruptors to be able to penetrate shields any better than other blasters.  

[Darkened Angel]

Must just be a KOTOR thing then. Disruptors apparently ate through shields better than normal blasters, comparable I guess to armor-piercing rounds.  

[Jaden_Ordo]

Yeah, that was just a non-canon thing for KOTOR. Normally, disruptors just eat up organic material a lot more violently than a blaster.  

[Anna Sachae]

Arright, disruptors are ridiculously high-powered blasters. They vaporize organic and mechanical material with frightening ease, but eat through their power packs at a similar rate. Usually a disruptor will do much, much much more damage than a blaster, but only has about eight shots to a 'mag, as it were.

In KOTOR, they do physical damage instead of energy damage. That's more of a game thing than a canon thing. They needed something to bypass regular energy shields (which are very common in KOTOR, but not in the GCW-era), so they made a weapon that ate through molecules instead of causing energy combustion.  

[Valkore Fraust]

Good for a sniper rifle, am I right? Especially in a one shot, one kill situation. I'll take a Disruptor, but I'll take the DLT over that, depending on the situation.

I'm starting to take a liking to the DL-44, now.  

[Nelowulf]

Disruptors, if i remmber right, use a lot more tibanna gas to create such power.

Also, they are outlawed on nearly every planet, even on the rim, due to the sheer power they hold, again, if i remember right.  

[Anna Sachae]

It's particularly good for a sniper rifle. The DXR-6 is quite effective in the games it was used in, and most of the shots didn't even require a headshot. Distruptors are made to where even a grazing blow might require the entire limb to be amputated due to the extensive tissue damage it caused.

Also, think of the DL-44 as the mid-way point between a pistol and a rifle. It's not quite as weak as a pistol and can usually penetrate Stormtrooper armor, but it doesn't have the range or ammo of a rifle.  

[Valkore Fraust]

You're right, Nelo.

And yeah, it's like the SW equivalent of a Desert Eagle.  

[Nelowulf]

No, i wouldn't say Desert Eagle. I'd be more prone to calling it the Colt .44 mag though.

Deagles aren't powerful so much as they are just plain heavy...  

[Valkore Fraust]

True. I'd say the most powerful is a S&W .500.

What about a WESTAR-34? M1911?  

[Nelowulf]

I'm not going to bust a nut trying to compare weapons in SW to real life. you can only make a general assumption, and frankly, it's really not really that interesting to me. Nospai was much better than me at it anyway. Poor guy isn't here anymore though...  

[Valkore Fraust]

Bust a nut? lol Alright, then.  

[Sol Walker]

No.
A Westar is not a M-1911.
Just look at the damn thing and who uses it. Its not a military pistol. Its a gunslinger pistol. That means its more akin to Wild Bill's 1851 Colt Navy Cap & Ball revolvers than a man-dropping mil-spec semi auto number like Browing's masterpiece.
And a disruptor pistol has no real world equivalent.  

[Anna Sachae]

Yeah, it's kinda hard to have an equivalent to a weapon that completely disintegrates matter.