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Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2002-11-30 10:25pm

According to the Essential guide, a planetary turbolasers has a barrel diameter of 25 meters. Not inches, meters. No wonder they can blast apart ISDs!

Anyways, after that little note, a question:

What are the various types of planetary defenses for SW?

Post by **Vympel** » 2002-11-30 11:36pm

Planetary turbolasers, ion cannons, shields ... erm that's all I know

Star Wars: Rebellion as a source hehehe

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2002-11-30 11:51pm

Kirby: *wipes the drool off AB's mouth**glances at his pants and rushes out the room disgusted*

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2002-11-30 11:54pm

Uuuuh, thats an assload. Over a quarter of a football field!?!?

How goddamn big is the turret that houses this monstrosity?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2002-11-30 11:54pm

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:According to the Essential guide, a planetary turbolasers has a barrel diameter of 25 meters. Not inches, meters. No wonder they can blast apart ISDs!

Anyways, after that little note, a question:

What are the various types of planetary defenses for SW?

25 meters isn't that astounding if you think about it.

Beam cannons in Freespace 2 have emitters that are at least 80 meters wide.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2002-12-01 12:45am

There's probably surface-to-space missiles too.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-12-01 02:03am

Shinova wrote:
Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:According to the Essential guide, a planetary turbolasers has a barrel diameter of 25 meters. Not inches, meters. No wonder they can blast apart ISDs!

Anyways, after that little note, a question:

What are the various types of planetary defenses for SW?

25 meters isn't that astounding if you think about it.

Beam cannons in Freespace 2 have emitters that are at least 80 meters wide.

But these babies would eat anything in Freespace for breakfast. Those have got to be some serious monesters.

It's not in the least suprising in light of the ion cannon on Hoth. But still very impressive.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2002-12-01 02:06am

The planetary turbolasers can be seen in the Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology. They dwarf AT-AT walkers, which appear to them as a person appears to Jabba's Palace. Well, maybe not quite that much, but the walker is far smaller.

ViciousMink · Post by **ViciousMink** » 2002-12-01 02:42am

I remember reading that little tid-bit in Essential Guide. My beef with it, is that it's completely self-contained. That bothers me. Even considering 'hypermatter annihilation' reactors, the power source seems to me that it should be external; and there's got to be more support equipment and hardware, and the fire control systems should be elsewhere, as well.

Now, the *size* of the thing doesn't really bother me too much. (Caveat: I KNOW SW turbolasers aren't RL lasers!) An RL laser with a focal aperture of 25 meters would likely be darn fine for plinking orbital targets, though of course it depends on the power going through it, and the wavelength of the light, etc. As always, it's not the SIZE that matters.

P.S. Holy shamolie, GAT, the avatar is hilarious! I'm trying to picture everyone's favorite Chiss intoning, 'By order of the Empire... *mutter*grumble* Happy Holidays.... I seem to be in a new holiday special. Rukh, you may kill me, now....'

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2002-12-01 04:45am

Heh. So much for Species 8472 assaulting Imperial planets.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2002-12-01 06:19am

GAT (as the post subject) wrote:Holly shit...

Season's curses.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-12-01 06:43am

Wow.... 25 Meters?

Considering they are supposed to be more powerful than Shipmounted Weapons and we know MEDIUM Weapons are ONLY(

) 200 Gigatons

Jason von Evil · Post by **Jason von Evil** » 2002-12-01 06:47am

Ok, I'm American, we don't use this backwards measurement system called the metric system,:P so what's 25 meters in feet or yards?

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-12-01 06:50am

This is your friend then Aya
http://www.convert-me.com/en/

Convert anything to anything else, bookmark it, it helps

In this case 25 Meters=82.02 Feet

Acclamator · Post by **Acclamator** » 2002-12-01 08:15am

Mr Bean wrote:This is your friend then Aya
http://www.convert-me.com/en/

Convert anything to anything else, bookmark it, it helps

In this case 25 Meters=82.02 Feet

Bah humbug! We want it in furlongs per fortnight. The pathetic coverter doesn't do that.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-12-01 08:45am

We want it in furlongs per fortnight. The pathetic coverter doesn't do that.

AH but it Can! 25 Meters is 0.1243 Furlongs

However it can't be per Fortnight as that is a mesure of time and thusly hard to define when mesuring a STATIONARY object

Or to put it another way

How many seconds are in a foot?

kheegster · Post by **kheegster** » 2002-12-01 08:58am

Mr Bean wrote:
We want it in furlongs per fortnight. The pathetic coverter doesn't do that.
AH but it Can! 25 Meters is 0.1243 Furlongs

However it can't be per Fortnight as that is a mesure of time and thusly hard to define when mesuring a STATIONARY object

Or to put it another way

How many seconds are in a foot?

About 1.0167e-9 light seconds :

KG

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2002-12-01 09:01am

You know what's real fun? Go look at what Edam put them at. 500 TT-5 PT. Both values work given Bean's numbers BTW.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2002-12-01 11:11am

Are you referring to that book?

Cyaround,
Jason

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2002-12-01 11:47am

Let me put it this way: An Iowa class battleship has 16" guns. 25 meters is 984".

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2002-12-01 11:51am

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:Let me put it this way: An Iowa class battleship has 16" guns. 25 meters is 984".

All I can say is. Owww...

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-12-01 12:36pm

Let me put it this way: An Iowa class battleship has 16" guns. 25 meters is 984".

That is an EXTREMLY good way of putting it

Solid Snake · Post by **Solid Snake** » 2002-12-01 03:06pm

You guys never knew of this? Wow...

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2002-12-01 03:08pm

SolidSnake wrote:You guys never knew of this? Wow...

I actually knew it intellectually, but I kind of lost it in the grand scale of things. If you had asked me about this, earlier, I would have been able to answer, but I guess I would not have been able to explain the significance of it properly.

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2002-12-02 12:39am

Aya wrote:Ok, I'm American, we don't use this backwards measurement system called the metric system,:P so what's 25 meters in feet or yards?

If you want a quick and dirty conversion from meters to feet, simply multiply the number of meters by 39 and then divide by 12.

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