Star wars hypervelocity gun
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The fact that Star Wars itself has both ray and particle shielding, and only the former works against blasters, suggests that the main damage mechanism consists of massless particles and Mass Effect shields are the equivalent of SW particle shields.īlasters aren't all beam weapons.
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So I suppose the question is whether blaster bolts are made up of massive particles or massless particles, the EU stuff seems to portray them as plasma weapons (based on superheating and accelerating gas), but it's often suggested that there is a laser component as well. They are however completely useless against lasers and other EM weapons. Which isn't surprising, as particle beams consist of normal matter with mass and momentum, and there is no particular reason why barriers should react differently to the KE in a particle beam versus the KE in a hypervelocity projectile. Mass Effect kinetic barriers are effective against the Collector's particle beam weapons. It's stated in game that Kinetic Barriers are exactly that, and do nothing to impede directed energy weapons. I don't think we've seen much mor than glimpses of their ground combat vehicles either and even then we don't have much hard data on them (other than they have funky mass lightening crap too.) They have some interesting trick weaponry as well, but that's about it. Even then we dont know much about rate of fire, ranges, etc. Supposedly they fire sand grain sized pellets (carrying thousands of rounds per ammo block) at hypervelocities, but that has some problems all its own nevermidn that some of the data suggests they fire much bigger rounds (which alters the mass/velocity dynamic quite a bit.) Nevermind them still using shotguns. We don't really know enough about the guns either. Storm troopers (either SW or 40K) are entirely debatable. If Shepard is any indicator your average ME soldier is better equipped than your average Imperial army trooper (or in 40k terms imperial guardsmen) as far as gear goes. We don't have enough hard, numerical data on the ground combat capabilities to make definite ground combat comparisons.