Have they missed any good ones?
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I like that Han’s blaster is more powerful than an ATAT
By a factor of 4 or more, no less.
Nobody accused Star Wars of having any form of coherent world building.
Yeah, I don’t think the creator was very rigorous in their research. I feel like the Halo rings have to have more impact than the death star.
The Fat Man nukes from Fallout were miniature tactical nukes and were in no way more powerful than an actual nuclear bomb like Little Boy.
and i dont get how the Iron Giant is so low, its chest mounted cannon was basically a nuke launcher.
I think you might be confused as to the reference- Fat Man was the nuke dropped on Nagasaki, and was larger than Little Boy, which was dropped on Hiroshima.
which makes these two not-actually-fiction.
Iain M Banks’ Culture series has a scene where a ship mind describes the Neural Lace as “The greatest torture device The Culture has ever created”
When the gravity gun gets temporarily modified in Half-Life 2
The Tasp (Larry Niven: Ringworld). No real destructive power, but renders victim incapacitated by inducing a strong orgasm.
I’m really not a fan of super weapons in sci fi. They make little sense, if you ask me.
like. really. the Deathstar didn’t really serve much in the way of a useful purpose.
A carrier for self-mobile carriers? that made planets go poof?
Any reasonable rebel would just not be on a planet, which means you’re making your own resources go poof. and by resources, I mean labor force.
This something I never understood about Hoth. strap that ion gun and it’s genset to a freighter, and you’d have a pretty mean gunship that can disable entire convoys or blockades. equip other freighters for wildcat gas extraction and refinery and solve your fuel problems. same for manufacturing, with the advantage of not losing your shit everytime the Empire shows up.
You sir, are suggesting that Star Wars makes logical hard-sci-fi sense which it has not. Please refer to first minute of movie where you can hear engines and laser fire.
aural synthesis of sensrionics to enhance situational awareness.
(For a non bullshit answer it was for creating engagement with the audience. The utter silence of 2001 space odyssey kinda bothered a lot of people.)
(Same with the swooping.)
(Though from a certain point of view, swooping happens.)
Kinda misses the point that star wars is space fantasy, not sci fi
It absolutely is fantasy
But the physics as far as that goes are still on point compared to, idunno, Star Trek.
The sound in space, the swooping, all of that were story telling tools used to convey a sense of what was happening. Realistic space battles aren’t really all that exciting.
Not even the expanse got that right. They just replaced particle beams with Gatling guns and condescending but inaccurate explanations of why things don’t swoop.
Fun fact, the reason planes and stuff seem to swoop is because they’re under constant accelerations and observed from the perspective outside the plane. One source of that constant acceleration is the atmosphere (drag and lift,) but you can just as easily replace that with fusion maneuvering thrusters or something.
Real space battles are probably like split-second flypasts repeated until one spacecraft is destroyed. The likelihood of both spacecraft voluntarily keeping the speed between them below 100m/s is very low.
The Cobra Assault Cannon from Robocop
The “I like it!” gun
If James bond is in the mix, what about goldeneye?
If they start the list with handguns, they should have included the Bowel Disruptor from Transmetropolitan. Hands down (and ass puckered) my favorite weapon.
species 8472 planet killer, very effective, extremely fast charging, due to haivng multiple vessels charging up the main planet killer ship in a few seconds, while other scifi takes a VERY long time to charge. plus extremely manuevarability of the ships and thier ability to appear anywhere in the galaxy due to opening “singularity rifts”, makes them extremely deadly.
