Venator hangar gun footage

Meest · Post by **Meest** » 2005-03-14 08:01pm

Here's a gif of a new type of beam weapon fired from a Venator's hangar bay area. That's a powerfull tractor beam

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Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-03-14 08:04pm

I'd say it just nother incarnation beam laser weapon like the ones used in LAAt/is and the DSs.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2005-03-14 08:10pm

The beam does look like it is pulsating like the other weapons.

After the explosions, it looks like an escape pod turned into a fireball after the hit.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-03-14 08:13pm

Soontir C'boath wrote:The beam does look like it is pulsating like the other weapons.

After the explosions, it looks like an escape pod turned into a fireball after the hit.

the LAAT/i turret doesn't seem to have pulses and that distance they would hard make out anyway. As for escape pog who, it's possible since something did get turned into a fireball.

Techno_Union · Post by **Techno_Union** » 2005-03-14 08:45pm

At first it looked a lot like a B5/ST battle... It's an interesting weapon, mainly because it comes from the hanger bay.

The Original Nex · Post by **The Original Nex** » 2005-03-14 08:53pm

Looks like a SHPA-T gun put on a Star Destroyer.

Clone Sergeant · Post by **Clone Sergeant** » 2005-03-14 08:54pm

Maybe the ship's commander had an SPHA-T put in there as a nasty surprise for enemy ships exploiting that area in an attack.

But seriously, that's a really odd place for a beam to be coming from. Perhaps it's an FX gaffe?

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » 2005-03-14 09:30pm

Could be possible, but I doubt it if they're working hard on each little detail of the battle. Besides, it's too conspicuous, so there must be a reason (damned if I can think of one) for having a beam firing from the hangar bay.

Where did you find this, Meest?

Post by **Vympel** » 2005-03-14 09:51pm

It's from the trailer.

I hope it's labelled in the ROTS:ICS!

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2005-03-14 10:00pm

Only reason I can think of its position there is as a defensive weapon in case any capital manages to get underneath to try and attack the hanger bay. *shrugs*

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » 2005-03-14 10:04pm

It's not visible in the version I've seen, which shows the scene right as the red flare shoots off to the right (I can see the beam terminating into the Separatist ship, however).

Clone Sergeant · Post by **Clone Sergeant** » 2005-03-14 10:14pm

Actually, the hangar beam shot is from space battle clips in the Clone Wars DVD EP3 featurette. Take a gander: +http://s14.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0M3A ... GP4V6EF3GO

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-03-14 10:34pm

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

Old Plympto · Post by **Old Plympto** » 2005-03-14 10:43pm

Vympel wrote:It's from the trailer.

I hope it's labelled in the ROTS:ICS!

Gee whiz, mister. I hope that swell dude that writes the ICS reads this forums and chance upon this thread....

dragon · Post by **dragon** » 2005-03-14 10:49pm

Soontir C'boath wrote:Only reason I can think of its position there is as a defensive weapon in case any capital manages to get underneath to try and attack the hanger bay. *shrugs*

Since the republic is just now learning about warfare could the weapon be a new weapon that they just haven't managed install yet in a normal way. After all it probably takes years to design, develop and manafacture a new weapon system.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2005-03-15 04:50am

One of notes for possible scenes in the opening battle did say "Concentrated beam attack", which I took to mean several ships firing beam weapons.

Dark Primus · Post by **Dark Primus** » 2005-03-15 05:35am

The speed the beam is traveling is not very fast, can it be a short range weapon?

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2005-03-15 05:42am

This reminded me of the P-Tower from ESB. I believe it was a beam weapon as well. In some shots it appeared to fire a continuous beam and in other short bolts (running out of ammo?) Point is, when the scene changed to an AT-AT being hit, it showed it more as a long bolt, with the front hitting while the end came into view. It just reminded me of this shot, with the front and back of the beam moving slow enough to register with our eyes.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2005-03-15 05:55am

PD beam weapon perhaps? Turbolaser firing on a different mode?

Icehawk · Post by **Icehawk** » 2005-03-15 06:12am

Dark Primus wrote:The speed the beam is traveling is not very fast, can it be a short range weapon?

It only looks that way because of the .gif file format which isnt playing the clip at its proper speed.

IMO its a SPHA-T firing from the cargo area.

Post by **Vympel** » 2005-03-15 06:14am

While possible, it's highly unlikely. An SPHA-T couldn't depress it's gun that far down. I think its just a hangar defence weapon.

Admiral Drason · Post by **Admiral Drason** » 2005-03-15 08:01am

Since the SPHA-T is a turbolaser I'm guessing that this is just a differently calibrated turbolaser. It looks like its short range but has a much higher energy level then a regular TL bolt.

Techno_Union · Post by **Techno_Union** » 2005-03-15 09:31am

Vympel wrote:While possible, it's highly unlikely. An SPHA-T couldn't depress it's gun that far down. I think its just a hangar defence weapon.

I think so too. It could be a weapon used for boarding or just generally incapacitating a ship and then boarding it.

Kerneth · Post by **Kerneth** » 2005-03-15 09:39am

I'm probably going to get flamed for this, but maybe it's a test model for the DS superlaser, and they put it in the hangar bay because it was a big, open, convenient space.

Now, obviously, it's not a full-size test model for the superlaser, but perhaps they hadn't previously built that particular type of beam weapon on a scale larger than an SPHA-T gun before and wanted to see how well it would scale up?

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2005-03-15 09:59am

Obviously they marched a thousand Clonetroopers into the hangar and told them to fire a volley at that trade federation ship.

Commander: "Company halt! Present arms! Target the donut! Fire! Beware fore! Fire! I say, clonetroopers in a space battle? This is most invigorating?" *being British, like all Republic/Imperial navy personal, he sips his tea as a Gungan in a loincloth carries his personal hunting blaster behind him*
Poncy-the-Gungan: "Yes, massah! Messa think so to!"
Commander: "They are on the ropes! OK, men, on three we give them a round of the old bayonet charge! Poncy, my gun!"

Or not. It's probably just a defensive gun for the hangar taking a opportunistic shot at an unshielded target.

What I find more interesting is that all those ships are so freaking close together and despite the large number of them, every capital ship there, Seperatist and Republic alike, is lined up on about the same axis. They really must work these things out ahead of time.