What is the most Advanced Technology in the Star Wars Galaxy

Mad · Post by **Mad** » 2004-01-09 03:08pm

Corran constructed his lightsaber in a very short period of time. Perhaps the Force was required to help accelerate the process when having it done by hand. The traditional month-long process is probably less Force-intensive, and thus more like Luke's vision of the Light Side. (I don't have my copy of I, Jedi at the moment, so I can't check to see if Luke mentioned which method he used at Obi-Wan's place.)

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2004-01-09 03:40pm

Spartan wrote:Ender wrote:

1) Shadow hunter takes place 32-33 years prior to ANH. Plenty of time for change

2) Vader and Palpatine are not the only lightsabre wielding darksiders, it is entirely possible that Kenobi was referring to the Inquisitors and the Dark Side Adepts
That's at most a handfull of sabre users. Ben said they were still widely used in some places. Besides how likly is it that he while hiding out on Tatooine would even know about the Emperor secret cache of darksiders.

Its a couple hundred. And Ben would know, suppossedly he experienced the death of every Jedi through the force.

Connor MacLeod · Post by **Connor MacLeod** » 2004-01-09 04:31pm

Eframepilot wrote:
Connor MacLeod wrote:
Illuminatus Primus wrote: The blast door melting in TPM IIRC was MJ range.
So why do you say "high megajoule" range? 100-300 maybe is low to mid MJ range.
100-300 megajoules per second is pretty high. Any higher and you could call it low gigajoule range (over several seconds, you would get gigajoules of heat). 1-10 MW would be low to mid MJ range.

"Megajoule" range is 1e6 joules (1 MJ) or more, but less than 1e9 joules (1 GJ). the midpoint for that range would be 500 MJ (with a plus/minus variance of maybe 100 or so MJ), High end would be (at least) greater than 500-600 MJ but less than 1 GJ. Low MJ would be between 1 and 400-500 MJ

Eframepilot · Post by **Eframepilot** » 2004-01-09 06:54pm

OK. I assumed a logarithmic scale with 1-10 low, 10-100 mid, 100-1000 high for any metric prefix.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2004-01-10 02:05am

Darth Wong wrote:Technically speaking, from a thermodynamics viewpoint, heat is a process, not an object. Lightsabres heat things. It is impossible to "radiate heat". Microwaves heat radiatively. So do lasers, even though a laser beam has no "temperature" of its own.

You're correct. My point would be that lightsabres do not emit radiation that heats matter. Matter brought in contact with the blade itself is heated as part of the cutting process.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2004-01-10 02:07am

Connor MacLeod wrote:So why do you say "high megajoule" range? 100-300 maybe is low to mid MJ range.

Because I was quite sure that the calc came out to 600+ MJ, but didn't want to wager on that, so I said it was "high MJ" range. I was off by more than I thought.

Mechwarrior · Post by **Mechwarrior** » 2004-01-10 09:46pm

Stravo wrote:
Illuminatus Primus wrote:
Stravo wrote:What about the lightsaber, it is so advanced that no one else has been able to replicate it except the Jedi who have kept it secret for thousands of years.

Source?

I'm with Bob Brown on that. The idea that the lightsabre is somehow something magical or ultra-arcane that engineers and scientists couldn't deal with it is dumb.

Its a piece of technology, nothing more, nothing less.
Does anyone other than a Jedi wield a lightsaber in either the EU or the films? Even the comics have we ever seen anyone using something akin to a lightsaber? I don't have an explanation for it but the sourece material can support my position can it support yours?

I can remember at least 2 non jedi using Lightsabers.
From the Comics there was Baron Tagge who was blinded by Vaders Lightsabre and trained himself to use one so he can use it when he got his revenge.
Then there was another character from the young Jedi Knights series (cant remember her name) who also used a lightsaber and wanted to get revenge against Han Solo for her fathers death.

so whie Lightsabers are common among Jedi they are used very rarely by non jedi (well in the Expanded Universe anyways) and the Young Jedi Knight series does describe them as being easy to build. Heck one jedi (tennel Ka) actually housed her lightsabre in the tooth of a Rancor and another (Corran Horn) housed his in the Handle of a Swoop bike.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2004-01-10 09:57pm

Mechwarrior wrote:I can remember at least 2 non jedi using Lightsabers.
From the Comics there was Baron Tagge who was blinded by Vaders Lightsabre and trained himself to use one so he can use it when he got his revenge.
Then there was another character from the young Jedi Knights series (cant remember her name) who also used a lightsaber and wanted to get revenge against Han Solo for her fathers death.

Anja Gallandro. She was the Andris addict.

Techno_Union · Post by **Techno_Union** » 2004-01-10 11:49pm

what about something like the ssi-ruuvi entechment? or the cloaking shields? or even the superlaser.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2004-01-11 12:24am

Tribun wrote:
Crazedwraith wrote:Really?
Read I,Jedi you'll see the force plays a large part in the construction of a lightsabre.

Read NJO:Conquest where Anakin's blade couldn't even activate until he'd foind peace with himself and the force.
That' even more dumb. The lightsaber is simply a piece of technology. Everyone who writes different, is not to be taken serious in that matter.
And if you want canon evidence:
-Han Solo was very able to use Lukes lightsaber in TESB, and he is clearly not strong in the Force.

In "the Crystal Star," Hethrir has a lightsabre that requires the Force to complete the connection so the 'sabre activates to weed out the weaker students (kids). Perhaps Anakins is the same?

Eframepilot · Post by **Eframepilot** » 2004-01-11 05:00pm

Anakin's saber had a Yuuzhan Vong telepathic lambent crystal as the beam emitter, and it wouldn't work before he aligned himself with it or something. Once properly constructed, anyone could use it, even Force-deprived Vong.

Mlenk · Post by **Mlenk** » 2004-01-11 06:39pm

Techno_Union wrote:In Darksaber(as much as all of you hate KJA) Calista used a lightsaber against Daala at the end in the Knight Hammer ready room. She had lost her powers and was still able to use a lightsaber, granted she did not do all that well but that was because Daala fired the stun.

From what I remember, she was able to access the dark side and was using it when she was fighting Daala.

Techno_Union · Post by **Techno_Union** » 2004-01-11 08:38pm

Ah, I have not read the book in a while, not to mention those entire parts made me mad, but I do not remember that.

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-01-14 05:30pm

From all the options I choose DS II as an example of advanced technology. R2 is of a common droid type and the other ones are all ships .... so pick up the biggest

Equinox2003 · Post by **Equinox2003** » 2004-01-14 07:43pm

Death Star 2