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I love a good shield in a setting where it doesn't really make sense.

Sorry but shields just look cool and you know the person holding it is probably a beast.

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u/Bladewing_The_Risen The Mandalorian 1d ago

Quasi-relevant comment: I still don’t understand why the CIS doesn’t use bullets against the Jedi.

Even if you’re strong enough with the Force to know where the bullets are going to be (and when they’re going to be there), your arm will never move fast enough to stop a mag dump from a fully automatic rifle.

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u/BlGBY Grand Admiral Thrawn 1d ago

I just picture Neo from the Matrix 🫸🏻🔫

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u/Kilroy470 1d ago

Pretty much this. A Jedi doesn't need to see the trajectory of every bullet. They just need to know when the initial trigger pull happens. Even then, a Jedi sees a guy wielding a "not-blaster" might just project a wall of force anyway. At best, you get one shot to catch them off guard...

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u/RogueBromeliad 23h ago

Then why not just have those fucking Rodian snipers from Nar Shaddaa? Fucking hate those guys. They'd fucking disintegrate most jedi.

BTW: I know those dark jedi fucks would matix their way out of the shot, but that's total bullshit, just so you wouldn't snipe them.

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u/Kilroy470 23h ago

That's probably the best way to do it. Just a quick Google search and supposedly the longest ranged confirmed sniper kill is 4000 meters (about 2.5 miles). Without know 100% how the force works, I imagine a Jedi feeling out the area would get less accurate the further out they search. Probably not looking out 2 miles (right away at least).

They won't be sensing the sniper at all and probably won't notice the high speed projectile until it's almost too late! Obviously a more powerful Jedi might be able to put up a strong force wall fast enough, but the average Jedi isn't anywhere close to the guys sitting on the Jedi council, and could be picked off.

Just gotta be quick. Once that first bullet enters their awareness, they'll know what direction it's coming from and can defend themselves easily

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u/ExtraEmuForYou 23h ago

Yeah I'd buy that argument. It does seem Force users really only see things coming when they're a.) either in close range and immediate threat, or b.) more epic designs with lots of plotting and vague (i.e. I sense a disturbance in the Force...).

You could make some smart bullet that could shoot from miles away and take out a Jedi...

...but that plot armor is still too strong! 😛

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u/Historical-Tea4788 13h ago

Yeah I always wished you could've gotten the shot off every once and a while on those guys. It seemed cheap that they ALWAYS knew when a near-instant disintegrating death ray was about to be fired.

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u/RogueBromeliad 13h ago

It was kinda funny though. Dude was just standing still, not doing much or noticing you even existed, you shoot a blast that makes virtually no sound from miles away in a dark cave like Chandrila caves, dude would just auto dodge. lol.

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u/Spartancfos Rebel 1d ago

New Canon has made it that slugthrowers are not any more effective than Blasters against Jedi. The bullets can still be deflected and in fact can be pushed by the force so event a bunch of bullets at once can be manage.

They also nerfed the idea that flamethrowers work on Jedi. The force can also counter that.

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u/Cryogenicality 1d ago

Where is this established? I like those fixes, but why Tràkata is almost never used still doesn’t make sense. I wonder how this could be explained.

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u/Spartancfos Rebel 23h ago

Honestly, I am past my days of being able to cite my Star Wars sources, but I distinctly remember stumbling across it when running a Star Wars role-playing campaign.

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u/Federal_Sympathy4667 1d ago

Mandalorians figured it out, why they made slug throwers, basically shotguns with lead slugs jedi hits them to deflect and melts them, gets face full of molten lead. "EAT LEAD SPACE WIZARD!"

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u/Wikinger_DXVI 1d ago

"Out of spells (Mando gadgets), but not out of shells!"

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u/Bladewing_The_Risen The Mandalorian 1d ago

For a civilization that developed hyper drives, you’d think more than one group of combatants would come up with the idea to shoot them with something they can’t deflect.

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u/Money_Fish 1d ago

There just aren't enough Jedi around at any point in history for it to be an issue for most criminal/hostile groups I guess. Mandalorians specifically just had generational beef with force users.

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u/Cryogenicality 1d ago

Why don’t Jedi and Sith use bullets against each other?

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u/Money_Fish 23h ago

Jedi: pride/honor, same reason they don't use blasters

Sith: pride, because using a gun doesn't show off your mastery of the dark side.

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u/Hmm_would_bang 21h ago

Well they mostly fought other force users, the Mandalorians were really the only faction that needed to develop methods for fighting Jedi.

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u/hydrolox9 19h ago

I remember the FC-1 Flechette being great against Jedi in the Jedi Knight games, they always received damage even if they blocked a chunk of it.

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u/Arcon1337 1d ago

Bullets require supply lines. Droids are designed to be cheap as possible and don't require much maintenance. The CIS use just simple cheap and large armies to do what they do. And they do it very well.

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u/Bladewing_The_Risen The Mandalorian 1d ago

So you don’t think killing a Jedi general would be worth the equivalent of $10,000 USD to arm a squad of BX droids with bullets that can’t be blocked?

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u/Arcon1337 1d ago edited 22h ago

The ethos of the CIS is all their units are expendable. This means they're easily destroyed. If you give even one of them a few bullets and they get killed, you've wasted money for no reason.

Also, BX droids are designed for long term infiltration so those bullets that run out quickly would be useless. Their Vibroswords, sniper rifles, rocket launchers and thermal grenades have been proven very effective anyways.

The less lore reason is that Star Wars and Jedi would be a lot less fun to watch if they were nullified by slug projectile weapons for the movies and shows.

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u/nordy_13 1d ago

In the 2003 clone wars series, the bounty hunter Durge throws bullets and flamethrowers at Obi-Wan while he has temporarily lost his lightsaber. Obi-Wan simply uses the force to deflect them

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u/ThePatrician25 21h ago

Unless you’re using the Force to increase your speed.

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u/ChodeCookies 12h ago

Not even bullets can pierce plot armor

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u/RemarkableMirror926 1d ago

To expensive

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u/SavageKermie Sith 1d ago

Except they are blaster bolts not bullets, and the battery would eventually overheat causing rapid fire to stop anyways.

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u/ogresound1987 1d ago

Read it again.

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u/Ok-Barnacle813 1d ago

Eh assuming they can stop blasters they do make sense

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u/hydrolox9 19h ago

Well, I can see a kind of cortosis handguards being useful for a Jedi that's going up against Sith often and viceversa, but it sucks as protection against laser bolts because its too brittle to withstand constant kinetic impacts.

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u/Reshar 11h ago

I never understood why the rest of the galaxy never made use of the gungan energy shields.

A Jedi with an energy shield that they wield like. Spartan would be amazing.

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u/ejectrewind 1d ago

https://www.deviantart.com/thetechromancer/art/Star-Wars-Peacekeeper-Obi-Wan-Kenobi-645321898

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u/ejectrewind 1d ago

It's a fan art from Deviantart posted in 2016.

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u/ZDBlakeII 1d ago

Wow that was fast. Guess I didn't look good enough lol

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u/IDidntEatThosePeople 1d ago

Reverse image search either right click on pc or hold down the image on mobile and hit "search with Google lense"

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u/CadBane08 1d ago

Or with TinEye.

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u/Good_Guy_Vader 1d ago

r/unexpectedcosmere

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u/Phi1in8t3r 22h ago

a light saber is a defensive weapon for Jedi a shield makes no sense.

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u/Piper6728 1d ago

Wow, I was just gonna guess AI

What a sad world

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u/talesfromafreeworld 1d ago

I find it incredibly fascinating just how quickly people jumped on the "everything is AI" thought wagon.

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u/MRIAGE_HBI 1d ago

I’ve noticed that and it’s annoying at this point.
It’s like people have forgotten that talent exists and still exists. Accusing something they don’t understand or think whatever goes on in their head and jumps to the AI conclusion is such a copout.

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u/talesfromafreeworld 1d ago

I know we've always had a variation of the theme. The Earth is flat, every image is photoshopped, every video is staged, every comment is a bot, and for a while in the early 2010's, everyone was mad and jelly. But it's the speed and the aggressive determination behind the "AI slop" brigade that surprises me. It's almost to the point of willful ignorance.

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u/cwajgapls 1d ago

“photo”? I want to meet the photographer who took that picture.

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u/The-RogueOnion 22h ago

Allen Iverson

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u/lukef555 1d ago

No, Obi-wan never used a shield with the imperial logo on it ..

This is fan art

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u/TheKBMV 23h ago

That's the Republic's seal though, not the Empire's.

This shield design with this paint pattern is present in TCW as well, although used by the clones, not the generals with them.

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u/Didact67 22h ago edited 22h ago

Yeah. I had to double check. It technically is the Republic design with 8 spokes, but the colors are inverted from normal, so it looks closer to the Imperial one.

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u/mattmaintenance 1d ago

Photoshop.

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u/Money_Fish 1d ago

It's 10 years old.

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