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Re: Stun Blaster Bolts
The conventially accepted interpretation is that all stun bolts look like the ones in ANH, and I think this is about as close as you get to an official line. If the weapon is more exotic, you could make a case for a bolt shaped stun blast.
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10/29/2006, 8:39 pm
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Trowa
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Re: Stun Blaster Bolts
Hey, in The Hutt Gambit, the stun shot was described as...
"...a blue-green splat of energy from a stun beam"
In the same confrontation, it also says "The stun beam sreamned past him again" and other subtle things that might indicate a bolt.
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10/29/2006, 9:34 pm
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Re: Stun Blaster Bolts
a "beam" can be interpretted in many ways.
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10/30/2006, 12:23 am
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Re: Stun Blaster Bolts
And the Hutt Gambit is not a primary source. 
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10/30/2006, 9:21 am
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Trowa
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Re: Stun Blaster Bolts
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And the Hutt Gambit is not a primary source.
But it is cannon, isn't it? I mean, one member of this group is reading the Mandalorian Armor for references to the Hound's Tooth, so why can't Hutt Gambit provide that level of detail?
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10/30/2006, 2:45 pm
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Re: Stun Blaster Bolts
Okay, my statement was probably a bit complicated.
The Hutt Gambit is not a primary source. That means it provides no extensive level of binding informations. Secondary canon sources also weight a lot higher, when there is no primary canon source. It should also be noted, that while the actual story of the novels is secondary canon, technical aspects are officially not! Most of that is only fluff level information and it is best used only, when NO other source is availlable.
However, the whole debate is totally pointless in this direction, Trowa. We all have already agreed, that there can and will be multiple possible forms of stun weapons. However, there is movie evidence for one type only. All deviations are hypothetically, yet not impossible.
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10/30/2006, 3:12 pm
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Re: Stun Blaster Bolts
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I think a stun blast is an area of effect weapon, like a shot gun.
there is a sotgun like weapon that also has a stun setting, so I don't like this explination. Why would you want a rifle/pistol suddenly to act like a different type/style of weapon. I think the blue rings are just a way to show you that something is happening in a differnt way.
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could be a low power discharge of a standard blaster.
I like this one better, but i also think the blue rings are meant to show more than a change in the power setting.
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Considering the trooper says "set for stun" this means that the standard blaster that the stormtroopers carry have a stun setting.
and that it requires an adjustment to make it less lethal. How much of an effort do we see him make to make the adjustment?
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perhaps the focussing lens can be realigned with a selector switch...this might indicate a flexible lens material.
Or a/the lens could be swaped with the adjustment changing the pattern. The adjusmtment could simply change the focus of the beam.
Or since we are talking about an energy weapon maybe the feild is distorted electrically to provide a less than lethal effect. Is it possible that a/the "lens" is an energy feild (think sheild type tech) that is distorted in shape to alter the output effect of the weapon in both shape of the resulting "blast" and effect to the receiver.
But I do not think the resulting shot from the blaster seen in ANH would act like a sotgun blast. While it may indeed be wider and spreading, it would still be far more focused than a shotgun.
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10/30/2006, 7:28 pm
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Re: Stun Blaster Bolts
The E-11 is not a rifle. It's a light carbine. Carbines, as well as shotguns, are close combat weapons. So fitting a carbine with a stun-shotgun function, is not far fetched. If it is fitting is personal opinion, I guess. Style question.
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10/30/2006, 8:34 pm
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Re: Stun Blaster Bolts
A carbine is basically a shortened version of a rifle and still has more in common with a rifle than a shotgun, including accuracy at a distance. My analogy was to show just that.
Those big bubble rings that we see in ANH are not really all that shotgun like. It acts more like a net fired from a gun in that it spreads out very quickly.
What do the rules say about firing weapons on stun?
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10/30/2006, 9:07 pm
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Trowa
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Re: Stun Blaster Bolts
Wait, what about the gas? Blasters use all sorts of different blaster gasses to create their bolts of energy, explaining the different colors. Blaster gasses can also have other effects on a blaster bolt. A special form of Tibanna Gas could even produce an invisible bolt.
So isn't it possible that a different blaster gas could create a bolt-stun shot?
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11/6/2006, 12:43 pm
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