Podcast Notes Part B Weapons of Star Wars (continued) Light Sabers Elegant weapon for a more civilized age. Lots of mystical lore surrounding this weapon. Force aligned crystals are necessary for their construction. How would the blade be created? Plasma? Use EM fields to constrain it. Blasters They are not laser weapons! This is why the projectiles do not travel at the speed of light. Gas cartridge and a power cell. 400-500 shots per charge. Gas can be mostly anything but typically is Tibanna – a naturally gas found on Bespin home of cloud city. The gas is created by Beldons huge gas filled creatures. Tibanna is also used as hyperdrive coolant.
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