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The idea that blasters are 120 mph has to be one of the dumbest things in existence

In the video above, Stormtrooper that is around 30 meters away, fires blasters, that crosses that distance in, and I measured, 2 frames. That is less than 0.067 of a second. That is clearly supersonic even visually. And this is not some special scene; there are countless scenes where blasters look like this, or much faster, in Rouge One, Andor and so forth.

Hell here Crosshairs sniper crosses miles in fraction of second, making escaping ship look frozen in comparasion, moving at high hypersonic speed even visaully, same blaster was deflected by kid Caleb after it was fired at close range.

What does all of this mean? Blasters move visually at incosistent speeds, so to see their rael speed, it is better to look to lore and what it says about their speed. When we do we see that it is very clear that blasters are meant to be enormously fast. Furthermore, Matt Martin is one of main editors of SW canon, and he says that he thinks they are light speed as well.

They are, at the very least, faster than hypersonic slugs/bullets, and that is if you ignore many statments in lore in universe or out of universe calling them light speed. The idea that blasters, which replaced slugs and are weapons of level 2 civilization( while we are level 0) are slower than medieval arrows contradicts:

  1. Many feats where they are shown much faster, like I posted
  2. Lore
  3. Intent from writers/editors.
  4. Common sense
u/BlockAffectionate413 — 7 hours ago

Rank these Duelists from best to worst

Legends Continuity, rank them from the most skilled at lightsaber dueling to the least. For characters that come from Games (Galen Marek, Kyle Katarn, Bastila Shan) only their LORE accurate versions should be taken into account.

u/MysteryRedditor23 — 4 hours ago

The time Maul and Savage fought 5 Jedi Masters and ripped off Plo Koon’s breathing mask

A very underrated feat for them both imo

u/Bespashin — 8 hours ago

On a scale of 0–100%, what percentage of his potential did Anakin reach?

Note: Exclude the Mortis arc and feats, as that was a one-off, isolated event.

Note 2: It also considers his version from when he was Darth Vader.

u/Kah0000 — 11 hours ago

How competitive of fight do you think was this fight, given it only ends inconclusively with Anakin and Ventress being interrupted?

u/CrazyTangerine7522 — 6 hours ago

I know some will say this list has a few Hot takes, but i feel like logically this makes the most sense when taking into consideration training, feats and how balanced the character is.

You can just ignore the side text of the tiers, if you wish, it is just a general ranking, also the reason i have put a tier of Apex and Nexus was to indicate the Apex or peak of a living force user without Amps, and Nexus for force users gaining external amps drawing on power them themselves can not fully achieve.

I know a lot of people will disagree with some placements but i think overall it makes sense

u/National-Course2464 — 12 hours ago

Are Marrok and Crow overrated in terms of ability and scaling?

Someone was just telling me how these two could defeat ROTS Anakin and Obi Wan and can each be scaled to TPM Maul

u/RexDAGOAT77 — 12 hours ago

Luke prime (cómics canon) o anakin prime rots?

Quién ganaría si ambos luchan? La versión prime de Luke sería en cómics en la época de the mandalorian y el libro de boba fett aprox

u/Informal-Society-636 — 6 hours ago

Star Wars: the Clone wars - Anakin and Ahsoka vs Ventress

Ventress fought Ahsoka and Anakin during their mission on Teth in the TCW movie; the fight was animated but not shown in the film. Can we consider this fight as canon or not?

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u/OkraInfinite7118 — 7 hours ago

Here are my picks for the Top 20 Jedi/Sith in Legends, I'm a bit rusty with my SW scaling tho!

Not including force gods or other entities, just mortals and normal people I suppose you'd say! If it's not already clear, I think that the Old Republic era force users are mostly overrated and outclassed by people in the 'modern'/PT/OT/Post-ROTJ era.

u/V_Kamen — 15 hours ago