My character in our tabletop game has a Disruptor rifle. Has had it since the second session 3 years or so ago. GM has regretted it ever since

@kaironic8231

25 күн бұрын

Didn't ask

@MrTavrosNitram

15 күн бұрын

​@@kaironic8231I did

@jj9elmejor988

4 күн бұрын

@@kaironic8231 i ask

is it just me or are the laser shots from star wars weapons painfully slow moving

@Rocco049

Ай бұрын

Well yeah I think it’s been proven that they move significantly slower than most actual projectile weapons

@djcuevas1057

Ай бұрын

On screen it varies from baseball to bullet speed. Lore wise blasters are far faster than bullets explicitly

@Nenshokaze

Ай бұрын

In our world, and probably Star Wars too, they might be slower than bullets as it’d be a plasma shot with a magnetic field around it to give its shape.

@teleportedbreadfor3days

Ай бұрын

@@Rocco049 If so, it’s probably cause they’re dense? Or maybe it’s the source of lasers, which are usually crystals.

@irystocratictakodachithatmooms

Ай бұрын

I believe that instead of being proper lasers it's bolts of plasma.

Ngl, the amount of energy released from a person breaking down at a chemical or atomic level would make them seem like they combust if you really think about it, anytime you break chemical bonds, there's always energy released, so, doing that to an entire human, almost instantly, would release a lot of energy, so Star wars has a pretty decent interpretation of it compared to most other media

@ananonymousnerd.2179

Ай бұрын

I believe Because Science had a piece on the dangers of vaporizing people with a phaser (disintegration capable weapon from Star Trek) where firing one on a starship would cause the person to become an explosion of expanding gasses (gasses tend to take up more volume than their solid forms, and you've got a decent amount of mass in humans). I don't think this even took into account breaking chemical bonds, it was just what if all the water in your body became gas at once. Long story short, big explosion that could possibly destroy your ship from the inside, just from the energy of vaporizing one poor bloke. Of course, disintegration and vaporization are different things, but the idea still stands - the amount of energy involved with weapons that can make a person "disappear", no matter what the method of disappearance is, is obscene.

I love that whole category of StarWars weapons of “extremely overpowered but kinda niche for various reasons”

Sadly, didn't get to talk about the Jedi kyber crystal rifle It is an interesting and rare weapon

@Ezramando16

Ай бұрын

Was just about to comment this.

@Diver-778

20 күн бұрын

I'm sorry, the WHAT

@demian_csomic_winters9484

20 күн бұрын

@@Diver-778 it's called the lightsaber rifle. Look it up it's pretty cool

So, Chewie is toting a mini MAC cannon? Nice.

@shockwave3318

Ай бұрын

The Mac Mini

@theoverpreparerlamenters3r436

Ай бұрын

A Little Mac, if you will.

@derironrailfan1919

Ай бұрын

mac jr

@DashsChannel

Ай бұрын

A mini MAC that shoots projectiles encased in blaster energy! Take notes, UNSC.

@Woopor

20 күн бұрын

If only the UNSC had those at reach

The bowcaster definitely stands out among a myriad of energy weapons, since it's essentially a railgun. You don't usually see those kinds of "slugthrowers" in the modern era, at least according to RC-1138, who remarked on how nostalgic the Trandoshans seemed for using the ACP Scatter Gun, which looked a lot like an old slugthrower. As for disruptors, I always think of Star Trek.

@rapatacush3

Ай бұрын

The verpine shatter rifle is just a rail rifle that would work even with rocks.

Eck my man you MUST talk about the Geonosian Sonic weapons and the Umbaran arsenal from The Clone Wars. They are all so interesting from the standard issue infantry blasters to their heavy artilary and walkers. Both factions have the most unique weapons weve seen in the franchise.

@seanmoran9383

Ай бұрын

Facts!

The fact that the wookies have bowcasters means that their local fauna must be really wild for them to develop such a devastating small arms.

@arrun5125

Ай бұрын

It definitely is in Fallen Order!

@nomercyinc6783

Ай бұрын

They didn’t develop the bowcaster for fauna. Thats not why weaponry exists in starwars

@arrun5125

Ай бұрын

@@nomercyinc6783 They could have, couldn't they? Surely we just don't know.

@kR-qj7rw

Ай бұрын

@@arrun5125 be cause the woolies never developed that tech Its from adapting galaxy wide tech with their own tradition That's like if a tribesman in Australia had a bongstick AK-47 they didn't. Develop shit just used a world or galaxy wide tech and added stuff from the aeathetics they use

@pineapplepapercrafts

28 күн бұрын

Oh ya the shadow lands is terrifying haha

For the disruptor rifle, I have a sneaking suspicion that if it existed in real life, it would probably be a lot like the various scenes in Watchmen when Dr. Manhattan obliterates people from existence.

The disruption of molecular bonds usually results in a release of energy, so I think it's likely that targets may explode or at least ignite.

@MrTavrosNitram

15 күн бұрын

Explains the ash they leave behind

Apparently, a victim of a disruptor experienced their disintegration extremely slowly relative to real time.

"Make it into a noodle dish instead of a ramen" The noodles are called ramen noodles, literally anything you make with them is a ramen dish

I'm surprised the slugthrower didn't make an appearance, considering that in the aftermath trilogy and in the alphabet squadron trilogy the slugthrower was particularly brutal, like having rounds with acid inside. In addition to the way mandos used them.

@spartan22808

Ай бұрын

That was in particular the dissuader KD-30

I have always head cannoned that disrupters work by the beam being charged ions, all either positive or negative, and on impact it causes a chain reaction between all the atoms in your body, disrupting the positive/negative charges, which is why a hit to one part of the body damages all of it

the bowcaster is literally a grenade launcher but like 10x better

@user-pi2ic4bb8u

Ай бұрын

Or a rail gun

@voidstrider801

Ай бұрын

@@xxxlonewolf49 Has more in common with a 40k bolter than a grenade launcher, as the rounds generally explode on contact with their target due to the massive amount of kinetic energy in each shot.

I'm not gonna lie, you're the only place i hear about the ramen... dunno why.

You've mentioned them before in more generalized videos about Pre- and Old Republic tech and events, but I think it would be cool to see a breakdown of the technology and capabilities of the Rakata.

Has there been a video yet comparing different warrior cultures, like the Mandalorians, the Echani, and the Kaleesh or maybe the Barabels?

disruptor rifles did exactly what you suggested, not a sudden combustion but a disintegration from the point of hit

I’ve got an idea. How do the jet packs in Star Wars actually work? How are they activated?

So, an idea for a video: an outline of the Wookiee/Trandoshan conflict and how while Trandoshan hunters were doing terrible things to the Wookiees, the Wookiee response was to basically starve the entire population of Trandosha to death.

The mercenary assault squads and Noghri assassins in Empire at War's expansion had disruptor rifles and they were so overpowered against infantry and armor alike, would love to see them represented in Canon more often!

Cool topic, weapons in Star Wars are fascinating to me🎉

I'm so happy and frankly blown away that you brought up the Xerrol Nightstinger sniper rifle! I thought I was the only one who loved that blaster. And it was used in such a cool unique way too in the book too. Thank you!

Shadows of the Empire had a disruptor, but it was more like a BFG from doom where it killed almost anything on screen except bosses. Also, look up the Varon-T disruptor (ok ok, not Star Wars, but Star-something) It's somehow more graphic and violent when someone disintegrates from the inside relatively *slowly*.

The whole tripod thing makes me wonder why we never see something like this in Star Wars. Imagine a scaled up disruptor on a vehicle. You could disintegrate whole groups of people with one shot...

I loved the way that the bowcaster was portrayed in "Han Solo and the Lost Legacy" and the way Rekkon's disruptor pistol was portrayed in "Han Solo at Stars' End".

#AskEck What do we know of the development of the Venator? Was it ready at the outset of the Clone Wars or did it enter service sometime after it began? And what did the Republic Navy have before the Venator (and by extension, the Victory) came into service that could stand up to Seperatist capital ships? Lore ship Versus video request: Resurgent vs. Starhawk Tie Striker vs. New Republic V-Wing World Devastator vs. Vong Worldship Tie Silencer vs. X-83 Twintail Tie Silencer vs. Tie Defender (legends version) Keldabe vs. ISD II MC90 vs. Nebula class star destroyer Nebula class vs. Pellaeon class Majestic class vs. Bothan Assault Cruiser EAWX: FOTR’s Mandator II portrayal vs. Subjugator Praetor vs. Subjugator EAWX: TR’s Mediator portrayal vs. Resurgent Starhawk vs. Bulwark MK III Gargantua/Aratech 520 Battle Platform vs. A6 Juggernaut

Factions compared idea sci fi insect swarm. Such as Tyranids, arachnids, Zerg, rachni, terminids.

That one bro was in full femboy mode. Well done.

Firearms (Earth🌎🌍 versions) users be like: "Are we a joke to u?! 💢😠".

Under one minute crowd here!

@ishkanark6725

14 күн бұрын

Hell yea 😎

Now we know why vader said "no disintegrations"

It's funny you thought the Verpine Shatter gun was a gun that shattered itself because *I* remembered it as a gun that shattered *the target* . I saw the thumbnail and went "Oh he's talking about the Verpine Shatter Blaster"😂 Then you started talking about the Disruptor and it became clear that's what the thumbnail was showing, so, mid-video I looked up the Verpine Shatter Rifle and found out I was wrong about it and you wouldn't be talking about it in this video. Just as I made that assumption, you showed it on screen and then started talking about it🤣

The Mandalorian Ripper... from KOTOR 1 and 2

For me, the best example of a disruptor was in Star Trek Picard when Seven of Nine shot Bjayzl on Freecloud. You could see her disintegrating outward from where she was shot, and Bjayzl even had enough time to scream before she disappeared

A couple of tech pieces that I'd love to see covered are Magwit's teleporter hoops and the man trap gravity plate.

I wonder, has any Jedi or Sith used a lightsaber that has a retractable fiber-optic coil? I can only imagine how cool a lightwhip would look and be used!

@Flint_Inferno

Ай бұрын

That is called the lightwhip, and it exists in canon

The psychological effects to some of the troops on the ground must have been devastating after seeing these weapons in use. I don’t think we see that enough in the Star Wars universe.

You might be thinking of the single use redirection crystals that can be used with the Nightstinger

Massaman Noodles + spice + disruptor rifle = Jawa Hunting

Hello Justin :)

In the kotor games, I've always been fond of the mandolorian slug throwing disruptor pistols...

Chewie's bowcaster doesn't cock itself. He has to jack the forend to recock, as we see on Mytus VII, on Ammuud and (especially) on Dellalt. It's also fed from detachable magazines.

disrupters showing a person falling appart? look to necron weapons, theres that one animation where guardsmen, sisters of battle and space marines fight against necrons

Why is the disruptor in kotor so useless then!!! 😢

When I think of the disruptors I think of the scene where like 100 People get disintegrated in Halo 4

I like the hold out needler. No not the one from Halo. It was referenced in one of the original Han Solo books. It was used by assassins, usually fatal with proper shot placement up close, leaving only a pin hole. Only give away was the discharge of ozone you get from any blaster.

#askEck this might be a long one, but the short of it is, what was baby Yoda doing right before the mandalorian? In the show we see him being held by what seems to be a band of pirates, and he had to have been there for some time and in the care of them for the local warlord to know of his location and so many bounty hunters to have his tracker, so these pirates had to have been attached to him in some way and were protecting him despite the obvious bounty on baby Yoda's head. So these pirates took care of him and protected him before the mandalorian just came and killed them all and kidnapped baby yoda

#AskEck [This was much longer than I originally intended... But oh well] (intro/praise) Hello there! Long-time listener and big fan of your work. I love turning on your long compilations in my headphones or some speakers while doing housework, cleaning, or other mindless tasks. It always makes the time go by more quickly and it definitely feels like you're accomplishing your goal of making your videos as though you were just chatting with a friend and hanging out. 10/10 will continue watching and loving all your stuff. (I don't always agree with your perspective on SW, but I have always loved hearing your different point of view!) I have a lot of SW EU books that I started getting/collecting as a kid, but I've only actually read a few. I have a total of 75 of the 150+ SW "legends canon" novels now. (Actual #AskEck Portion) In one of your compilations, you were talking about how Crystal Star is commonly thought of as one of the worst, though not by you. I was wondering if either you have a video on or are thinking of making a video on your favorite and least favorite SW novels. Similar to your book club content but maybe in a much more brief format. I'm currently on the Heir to the Empire trilogy, and I'm trying to decide what will be next of my TBR. Some kind of "Top 10 SW Novels I would read first" or "SW novels that seem bad, but are still worth a read." I know you have a TON of content that stems from the novels looking at in universe lore, but I haven't seen many if any videos giving your thoughts on the novels themselves, other than mentioning in passing what you thought. (more praise) Thanks again for all you do! I always look forward to getting to hangout and hear what you have to say about my favorite franchise!. MTFBWY

@Gbob96

24 күн бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/aamVvNSQo5nZcco.htmlsi=9a5SHDZGRrMoiKK1 I feel seen. 😂 I’m hype to listen to 12 hrs of Eck on repeat. 🥳

Hey EckhartsLadder, not sure if I was supposed to use a “#” or not but I was wondering what you thought of all the stealth droids that the CIS used? There’s the BX-Commando Droid, Buzz Droids, C-8 Sabotage Droids, Chameleon Droids, Demolition Droids, a type of sabotage droid we saw in the Clone Wars video game that followed the series, and another type of stealth droid that “somehow” was invisible to the force. How would you evaluate each model? Do you think each served a purpose or were just a waste?

for the disruptor, applying a large (an i mean _LARGE_) amount of energy can break molecular bonds. that tracks with the energy requirement, especially against a target las large as a human made of of many different kinds of bonds

Bowcasters are railguns, firing explosive ammunition, putting them on the level of Warhammer 40k Bolters in terms of destructive potential.

@DS-wl5pk

Ай бұрын

It would be more powerful then a bolter. Those are mainly just big guns with explosive shells. The explosion from the rail gun is caused by its excessive velocity….

@calebbarnhouse496

Ай бұрын

Bolters are easily the most overhyped weapons in existence, there warhead is small, to the point if they hit a human's arm it won't even kill them, it's effective a high powered hollow point, bowcasters meanwhile re effective against heavy armor

@DS-wl5pk

Ай бұрын

@@calebbarnhouse496 no, bolsters are supposed to penetrate and explode inside like an APHE shell. It needs to hit something hard enough to activate the timer then after a set distance of travel or time they go off. Like battleship guns irl would either try to punch enough holes to sink a ship, or use the explosives inside the armor piercing shells to try and damage internal parts of the ship with shrapnel or maybe start a fire or set off ammo. You want it to blow up inside. Tank shells from WW2 that used “conventional” ammo that was set to go off after a certain distance. Now the explosive core was often damaged on impact and didn’t always go off, but the results are self evident. However, with bolsters or battleship guns there’s only a set amount of explosives inside so you can be reasonably sure how much damage you’ll do every shot…. A rail gun that utilizes physics to turn solid inert projectiles into explosives… well the results will vary

@calebbarnhouse496

Ай бұрын

@@DS-wl5pk except for the part where the bolters warhead is absolutely pathetic it doesn't do anything unless it's embedded in the target, the warhead is worthless for anything except a direct hit, even on light infantry, making it's warhead a glorified hollow point, it is only useful in a situation where a hollow point would be what you want after you bypass armor

I think the single use blaster you where thinking of was the lightsaber blaster made by a jedi which was banned and later used by Jocasta Nu to fire at either Vader or the Grand Inquisitor.

Stealth vehicles.. though I can only remember the one in the CLONEWARS series.

Disruptors... I don't mean to begin screaming in Klingon, Romulan, or in like 99% of the languages of the Star Trek 21st-31st centuries... they're just stupidly commonplace in Star Trek, and they can do the same thing they do in Star Wars (disintegration - one source even translates the Klingon term for Disruptor to "Shake-it-until-it-falls-apart-tool", literally shaking your molecules apart at the atoms) or be used to just kill someone without atomizing the body. And then the Mando casually having a Phase-Pulse weapon while Star Trek has Pulsed-Phase weapons (i.e. what Archer recommended they put on NX-02 Columbia), not to mention the ever ubiquitous phaser. I'm starting to feel like Star Wars' disintegration weapons unintentionally (or maybe super intentionally) line up stupidly well with Trek's weapons.

I do think it's funny how in Classic Battlefront 2, bowcasters fire like a shotgun, and can be charged for a precision shot. Speaking of Battlefront 2, do we have any info on the Bothan Spies' Incinerator weapon?

The thing the Bothan spies use in Star Wars Battlefront II (2005)

Congrats on one milk Eckharts! Think ill pick up some vite ramen! So... Stream Setup Reveal with the new youtube plaque? :D

My guess to how distroptor worked is that highly charged particles are sent colliding into a target which starts a chain reaction

Hey ech you used to make battle breakdown videos when I first started watching you and I was wondering if your ever going to get back into those?

So basically, disruptor rifles can be likened to Necron gauss weapons.

I would love to see a video on blades other than lightsabers

You Strainin to do some splainin…It just looked kewl.

Bowcaster? Dang-near killed er'.

Give a Spartan a Bowcaster

You reached 1m subscriber 🎉

never been this early

Remember when blasters were just laser things

#AskEck What ships did the Empire use to carry ATATs, tanks, etc to the battlefield? Did they use ships like the LAAT in the clone wars?

Kylo Ren survived a direct shot through plot armor.

#AskEck What is your favourite bio-weapon present in Star Wars canon or legends?

Cool video

Can you cover some of the Chiss weapons from the canon Thrawn novels? I remember there being some neat and interesting weapons

Personally I have always like the Mandalorian Ripper

Bow caster like a railgun?

If Chewie is using a mini mac cannon and we see han use it to throw stormtroopers around. How did kilo survive a direct hit to the stomach from it?

@fsdf4311c

Ай бұрын

The dark side

@m05513

Ай бұрын

Honestly its why I don't hate on Abrams for Rey winning the dual in episode 7. The man literally just took a Bowcaster shot to the chest, its a miracle he's still conscious enough to fight, let alone win. And he still mopped the floor with Finn despite that massive injury.

@calebbarnhouse496

Ай бұрын

​@@m05513 the dark side gets buffed up from pain, that bow caster shot should have made him a lot stronger

Disruptor is warhammer 40k gaussflayer but for statwars

The proper disruptor lore always gave me cognitive dissonance as someone whose very first introduction to the weapon was Shadows of the Empire on N64. I know the consensus in everywhere else describes them as these uber-powerful and dangerous blasters that maim and disintegrate everything and are very inefficient, but in my head when I hear "disruptor" I immediately think of shooting those glowing green Starfox-style mininukes from the game.

No genosian blaster?

Well everyone; today, April 25th, 2024 officially marks 10 years since The Star Wars Expanded Universe was decanonized, and renamed Legends.

Whatever the gun the Bothan spy used in og bf2 seemed pretty messed up to me.

What is the name of the game we first see?

#AskEck (never used the hashtag so don't know if it's correct) Can you tell us more about the equipment used by the New Republic troopers?

#AskEck Why didnt the CIS use umbaran tech like their fighters and tanks for offensive purposes?

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How blasters actually work ?

We have them in bf2015 too

Battletech please

Number oooone: "Emperor Palpatine, I don't feel so good..."

If were talking all weapons not just blasters the high ground is the best

The Bothans did nothing wrong.

Bow caster? The gun from fortnite?

Eck why do you let the guy with marbles in his mouth post on your channel?!?!

First

Yay half the video is your stupid commercial

Nothing. Nothing at all is disturbing in science fiction. Fictional shit isn’t capable of being disturbing

@xnyxiee1784

Ай бұрын

That isn't how anything works at all, but you go off on your rant as you're going to anyway.

Dude, I get it that you need sponsors, but by now, your videos are 25% advertising. Time to unsubscribe.

Hey ecko! You really deserve that 1 mil, been watching for ages now love all the well deserved progress 🫶