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Old 03-05-2007, 02:32 PM   #1
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the line that should be in there

"set your lasers to "miss"!'
I've always wondered how these futuristic societies have all these incredible energy weapons, the products of centuries of development and gazillions of spacebucks...but not one cent was apparently spent on targeting systems. Seriously...blasters have the apparent equivalent of iron sights. The Death Star probably couldn't have *hit* anything smaller than a planet. The double-barrelled defense weapons on Hoth were nothing more than primitive ack-ack guns with really nice tracer effects.
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Old 03-05-2007, 06:21 PM   #2
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I've always wondered how these futuristic societies have all these incredible energy weapons, the products of centuries of development and gazillions of spacebucks...but not one cent was apparently spent on targeting systems. Seriously...blasters have the apparent equivalent of iron sights. The Death Star probably couldn't have *hit* anything smaller than a planet. The double-barrelled defense weapons on Hoth were nothing more than primitive ack-ack guns with really nice tracer effects.
And a bunch of teddy bears with rocks and sticks wallop an entire Imperial garrison. Talk about training...I guess they didn't teach dwarf tossing at the Academy.
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Old 03-05-2007, 06:36 PM   #3
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I guess they didn't teach dwarf tossing at the Academy.
Eeeew. I hope not.
I mean if it's consensual and all that, but - classes?
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Old 03-06-2007, 10:17 AM   #4
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The Death Star probably couldn't have *hit* anything smaller than a planet.
<<< Star Wars Geek >>> It did hit at least one Calimari Cruiser in ROTJ...
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Old 03-06-2007, 11:10 AM   #5
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<<< Star Wars Geek >>> It did hit at least one Calimari Cruiser in ROTJ...
Didn't it just blunder into the path of the beam?
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