SW Technical Talk

This topic is for talk about the Star Wars technology, like lightsabers and stuff.



To start us off, let's discuss jetpacks. I think the jetpacks in Star Wars are powered by highly compressed gas, which upon ignition provides the thrust in the form of kinetic energy for lifting off the ground. Starting the jetpack ignites a small amount of gas, then the output and steering are controlled by a power lever and by adding more power to either side of the thrust nozzles. Does that sound good?

I think it does. I never thought about that.

Well, I need everyone's intellectual opinions on this, so please tell me what you think then we can move on to other technology

I read somewhere that lightsabers are pure units of heat. But strangly, they don't emit any heat if you put your hand right next to it.

I think that since this is all Science Fiction I think They could be made out of anything.
Even something we don't even know of.

I think a Mando jetpack is activated by a series of blinks or clicks with the teeth, since this is very common in activating and locking comm channels and certain weapons.

aquabug1998 wrote:

I think a Mando jetpack is activated by a series of blinks or clicks with the teeth, since this is very common in activating and locking comm channels and certain weapons.

That's funny.

I think jet-packs are made out of Lego! :lol:

Heh, nice.

Did you not read the rules before joining? MINIMUM 5 WORDS PER POST.T_C

Anyone know how they cloned clones?

The Kaminoians used Jango Fett as a base, and then somehow duplicated his DNA to create the clones.

Yeah. Boba Fett was a pure genetic replica of his father, without any genetic alteration.

You don't need opinions if this is technical talk. You would like facts.

Jetpacks were usually worn on the back, and controlled by a wrist-mounted device or through verbal commands issued into a visor or helmet. To launch, a jetpack funneled both air and fuel through miniaturized turbines. In the device's intake system, the air-fuel mix was ignited, providing the thrust needed to propel the wearer through the air. They were not reliable for use in zero, low or high atmospheric situations, since they required atmospheric gases to produce thrust[1]. The launch of most jetpacks was also accompanied by a cloud of exhaust - useful for quick getaways requiring a handy smoke screen.
In flight, directional exhaust nozzles controlled the user's flight path, while a gyrostabilizer counterbalanced the jetpack's velocity for descent. Jetpacks were considered impractical for public use: downsides to the jetpack's agility included the device's thirty-kilo weight, and the fact that most models could carry enough fuel for around twenty bursts of thrust.

Wow! :affraid: that's quite a mouthful! Thanks, that explains everything now!

Would love to take the credit but there IS a source for SW info.

starwars.wikia.com

You will find ALMOST everything you need.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure everyone knows that website called wookieepedia.com.

What about black lightsabers? Where do you think they find the black crystals?


Please do not use abbreviations like u or r - Fith.

PrivateAllen wrote:

What about black lightsabers? Where do u think they find the black crystals?

Black lightsabers? Do you mean the blade that the death watchers had from the jedi temple? Found during , i believe, the sith wars?

Hmmm...... those sound interesting, I think there might of been multiple colors in the crystals., other then the ones that are most popular.

I am assuming we are talking about the same saber so:

The Darksaber was an ancient lightsaber that was stolen by the Mandalorians during the downfall of the Galactic Republic. It was eventually passed down to the Mandalorian Death Watch member Pre Vizsla. It had a unique black blade that was flattened and came to a point like a traditional vibroblade, rather than the rounded beam of more standard lightsabers; it also hummed at a higher pitch than a standard lightsaber.

This lightsaber had many unique features that distinguished it from almost all other known lightsabers. The hilt was slightly longer than the standard saber length. The blade was flattened and pointed making its general shape closer to a vibroblade in appearance. The blade color was black which is unique in itself. However, the more interestingly, the core of the blade was black and the edges glowed white. This is opposite to all other known blade colors, where the central core is white and the edges glow in the specific color

Since it doesn't say where the crystal came from here is my theory behind it.

If you study the origin of Diamonds you will know that diamonds are white in nature, the clearer, the better. But where do they come from? Compressed coal over a long period of time.

Now these are 2 theories since I don't know if anyone used a diamond in SW yet for there sabers so it will be one of my theories.

I believe, since the dark saber also takes on a different form, that instead of a crystal at the core it has a coal. The black center with the white glow around it is because of the black coal and the white is from the diamond center.

Another idea is that it is just a white diamond and when focused all the colors that the diamond produces is focused into a black beam.

I like the coal idea better:P.

Anybody know how the Death Star lasers work? And where are that things engins?

i think it sounds spot on, one of the other things about the jetpack is that there is a special retainer mandalorian bounty hunters wore and they would use thier tongue to controll their path with the retainer, i thought that was cool too

The Death Stars, the Galactic Empire's ultimate terror weapons, were battle stations several hundred kilometers in diameter and mounting a directed energy superlaser capable of completely destroying a planet with a single shot along with 15000 lasers, ion, turbolasers batteries, and heavy turbolasers in all plus an additional 768 tractor beam emplacements. However, the first Death Star's defenses were not tight enough to stop starfighters from penetrating them.

also:

The 501st Legion was sent to Mygeeto during the Clone Wars to collect an ancient Mygeetan crystal which was an experimental power source that the Chancellor required for a top-secret tributary laser-stream project codenamed "Hammertong," which would be used on the first Death Star.
Darth Sidious later ordered the Death Star's construction after the Galactic Empire was formed, in order to secure his new-formed absolute power. Wilhuff Tarkin was appointed to mastermind the secret development project, though other stories have it that Raith Sienar was the superweapon's creator. Tarkin's creative work and thought resulted in the realization of the Death Star as the Empire's ultimate weapon.




Facilitating the Death Star's realspace propulsion were a network of powerful ion engines that transformed reactor power into needed thrust. In order for the Death Star to be a deadly threat, it needed to be mobile. Using linked banks of 123 hyperdrive field generators tied into a single navigational matrix, the Death Star could travel across the Galaxy at superluminal velocities. The incredible energies harnessed by the station combined with its great mass gave the Death Star magnetic and artificial gravitational fields equal to those found on orbital bodies many times greater in size.
The Death Star's superlaser derived power directly from the hypermatter reactor. Its faceted amplification crystal combined the destructive power of eight separate tributary beams into one single blast with the intensity of a stellar core. Though the energy output of this blast could be scaled to fire at smaller targets such as capital ships, as was the case during the Rebel assault on the second Death Star, the two major instances in which the superlaser was fired were at full power at planetary bodies.

My understanding would be that the engines were around the trenches in the death star.

The Death Star's main superlaser was actually composed of several powerful lasers which all shot at once, then merged togther at a precise focal point. Then the enormously powerful main laser which was formed would fire at its target. However, very accurate and precise calculations were needed, otherwise the firing could be skewed and one or more of the lasers might not merge with the focal point, thus lessening the power and debilitating the accuracy of the superlaser.

Darth Caedus wrote:

The Death Star's main superlaser was actually composed of several powerful lasers which all shot at once, then merged togther at a precise focal point. Then the enormously powerful main laser which was formed would fire at its target. However, very accurate and precise calculations were needed, otherwise the firing could be skewed and one or more of the lasers might not merge with the focal point, thus lessening the power and debilitating the accuracy of the superlaser.

Yeah, as you can see in the Lego Death Star set, all the beams come together at one point, then go out as a single laser.