Creatures that tank blasters

[Vince 520]

We see in TCW that creatures exist that can withstand loads of firepower from blasters taking no damage, and in the end they decide its easier to shoot down tens or hundreds of tons of rock to block these creatures passage than to actually kill them with shots to the eye. They can do that with a spray from their guns, or split meter thick stone support columns, but not even scratch these creatures.

 

This could indirectly flow with the intelligent guns idea as the gun detects it is firing upon organic targets it fires kilojoule shots capable of pockmarking your shirt with a kill shot to the chest or injuring your arm. It seems quite far fetched to believe creatures are so supernatural in their endurance that a few cubic center meters of their armoured hide is harder to destroy than a hundred pounds of iron. 

[Airlocke 12,014]

Pffft. I could destroy 100lbs of iron. With my teeth.

[Tyralak 12,068]

We see in TCW that creatures exist that can withstand loads of firepower from blasters taking no damage, and in the end they decide its easier to shoot down tens or hundreds of tons of rock to block these creatures passage than to actually kill them with shots to the eye. They can do that with a spray from their guns, or split meter thick stone support columns, but not even scratch these creatures.

 

This could indirectly flow with the intelligent guns idea as the gun detects it is firing upon organic targets it fires kilojoule shots capable of pockmarking your shirt with a kill shot to the chest or injuring your arm. It seems quite far fetched to believe creatures are so supernatural in their endurance that a few cubic center meters of their armoured hide is harder to destroy than a hundred pounds of iron. 

 

That seems to happen in a lot of sci-fi. It seems to be closely dependent on the plot requirements. I'm skeptical of the intelligent gun idea. The reason being, it's well known that Stormtroopers can't hit the broad side of a barn. The gun would only be able to control the type of blast before it left the barrel. When they miss their target (which is what happens 90% of the time) the bolt would hit whatever object with the original setting. I haven't seen really any hard evidence that blasters have more than two settings. Stun and Kill. And the stun setting looked like more like it came from a separate device on the blaster rifle. Sort of like a grenade launcher attachment on a military rifle. Being that blasters are clearly a thermal weapon that does its damage through brute force, it would make sense that the stun "setting" would actually be a separate device. 

[Vince 520]

I'm considering doing my own vid comentary on that one, or at least a collection of videos and reasoning. Some scenes depict for example multiple heavy blasts from fighters where one destroys a "small arms" proof droideka in single shots while the other goes of and hits some marble leaving no more than a sqaure meter of black scorching, literally orders of magnitude less firepower than handheld weapons cause in other scenes. Furthermore its the only way to rationalize some scenes in TCW.