The most disturbing blasters in Star Wars

[@Praxus42]

My character in our tabletop game has a Disruptor rifle. Has had it since the second session 3 years or so ago. GM has regretted it ever since

[@kaironic8231]

Didn't ask

[@MrTavrosNitram]

​@@kaironic8231I did

[@jj9elmejor988]

@@kaironic8231 i ask

[@ChristianRandorff]

@@kaironic8231 youre so cool you know that right

[@kaironic8231]

I am​@@ChristianRandorff

[@carsoncasmirri3874]

I love that whole category of StarWars weapons of “extremely overpowered but kinda niche for various reasons”

[@CrystallineFoxCF]

Ngl, the amount of energy released from a person breaking down at a chemical or atomic level would make them seem like they combust if you really think about it, anytime you break chemical bonds, there's always energy released, so, doing that to an entire human, almost instantly, would release a lot of energy, so Star wars has a pretty decent interpretation of it compared to most other media

[@ananonymousnerd.2179]

I believe Because Science had a piece on the dangers of vaporizing people with a phaser (disintegration capable weapon from Star Trek) where firing one on a starship would cause the person to become an explosion of expanding gasses (gasses tend to take up more volume than their solid forms, and you've got a decent amount of mass in humans). I don't think this even took into account breaking chemical bonds, it was just what if all the water in your body became gas at once. Long story short, big explosion that could possibly destroy your ship from the inside, just from the energy of vaporizing one poor bloke. Of course, disintegration and vaporization are different things, but the idea still stands - the amount of energy involved with weapons that can make a person "disappear", no matter what the method of disappearance is, is obscene.

[@demian_csomic_winters9484]

Sadly, didn't get to talk about the Jedi kyber crystal rifle It is an interesting and rare weapon

[@Ezramando16]

Was just about to comment this.

[@Diver-778]

I'm sorry, the WHAT

[@demian_csomic_winters9484]

@@Diver-778 it's called the lightsaber rifle. Look it up it's pretty cool

[@_ZapRowsdower]

Eck my man you MUST talk about the Geonosian Sonic weapons and the Umbaran arsenal from The Clone Wars. They are all so interesting from the standard issue infantry blasters to their heavy artilary and walkers. Both factions have the most unique weapons weve seen in the franchise.

[@seanmoran9383]

Facts!

[@GmodPlusWoW]

The bowcaster definitely stands out among a myriad of energy weapons, since it's essentially a railgun. You don't usually see those kinds of "slugthrowers" in the modern era, at least according to RC-1138, who remarked on how nostalgic the Trandoshans seemed for using the ACP Scatter Gun, which looked a lot like an old slugthrower. As for disruptors, I always think of Star Trek.

[@rapatacush3]

The verpine shatter rifle is just a rail rifle that would work even with rocks.

[@pyroslev]

So, Chewie is toting a mini MAC cannon? Nice.

[@shockwave3318]

The Mac Mini

[@theoverpreparerlamenters3r436]

A Little Mac, if you will.

[@derironrailfan1919]

mac jr

[@DashsChannel]

A mini MAC that shoots projectiles encased in blaster energy! Take notes, UNSC.

[@Woopor]

If only the UNSC had those at reach

[@anotharoundboi]

The fact that the wookies have bowcasters means that their local fauna must be really wild for them to develop such a devastating small arms.

[@arrun5125]

It definitely is in Fallen Order!

[@nomercyinc6783]

They didn’t develop the bowcaster for fauna. Thats not why weaponry exists in starwars

[@arrun5125]

@@nomercyinc6783 They could have, couldn't they? Surely we just don't know.

[@kR-qj7rw]

@@arrun5125 be cause the woolies never developed that tech Its from adapting galaxy wide tech with their own tradition That's like if a tribesman in Australia had a bongstick AK-47 they didn't. Develop shit just used a world or galaxy wide tech and added stuff from the aeathetics they use

[@pineapplepapercrafts]

Oh ya the shadow lands is terrifying haha

[@sidthesuperkid87]

is it just me or are the laser shots from star wars weapons painfully slow moving

[@Rocco049]

Well yeah I think it’s been proven that they move significantly slower than most actual projectile weapons

[@djcuevas1057]

On screen it varies from baseball to bullet speed. Lore wise blasters are far faster than bullets explicitly

[@Nenshokaze]

In our world, and probably Star Wars too, they might be slower than bullets as it’d be a plasma shot with a magnetic field around it to give its shape.

[@teleportedbreadfor3days]

@@Rocco049 If so, it’s probably cause they’re dense? Or maybe it’s the source of lasers, which are usually crystals.

[@irystocrattakodachithatmooms]

I believe that instead of being proper lasers it's bolts of plasma.

[@bozo6049]

The disruption of molecular bonds usually results in a release of energy, so I think it's likely that targets may explode or at least ignite.

[@MrTavrosNitram]

Explains the ash they leave behind

[@sauronsrighthandman301]

For the disruptor rifle, I have a sneaking suspicion that if it existed in real life, it would probably be a lot like the various scenes in Watchmen when Dr. Manhattan obliterates people from existence.

[@monkofbob]

I have always head cannoned that disrupters work by the beam being charged ions, all either positive or negative, and on impact it causes a chain reaction between all the atoms in your body, disrupting the positive/negative charges, which is why a hit to one part of the body damages all of it

[@sidthesuperkid87]

the bowcaster is literally a grenade launcher but like 10x better

[@Burner-i6v]

Or a rail gun

[@voidstrider801]

@@xxxlonewolf49 Has more in common with a 40k bolter than a grenade launcher, as the rounds generally explode on contact with their target due to the massive amount of kinetic energy in each shot.

[@arthurbrandonnielsen]

You've mentioned them before in more generalized videos about Pre- and Old Republic tech and events, but I think it would be cool to see a breakdown of the technology and capabilities of the Rakata.

[@edudrisdeatherage2895]

You might be thinking of the single use redirection crystals that can be used with the Nightstinger

[@thedeklanman]

I'm surprised the slugthrower didn't make an appearance, considering that in the aftermath trilogy and in the alphabet squadron trilogy the slugthrower was particularly brutal, like having rounds with acid inside. In addition to the way mandos used them.

[@spartan22808]

That was in particular the dissuader KD-30

[@valemontgomery9401]

Apparently, a victim of a disruptor experienced their disintegration extremely slowly relative to real time.

[@damon3082]

I'm so happy and frankly blown away that you brought up the Xerrol Nightstinger sniper rifle! I thought I was the only one who loved that blaster. And it was used in such a cool unique way too in the book too. Thank you!

[@matthewanderson9754]

I'm not gonna lie, you're the only place i hear about the ramen... dunno why.

[@patrickfiller5197]

Has there been a video yet comparing different warrior cultures, like the Mandalorians, the Echani, and the Kaleesh or maybe the Barabels?

[@advancedlamb]

disruptor rifles did exactly what you suggested, not a sudden combustion but a disintegration from the point of hit

[@Sawtooth44]

disrupters showing a person falling appart? look to necron weapons, theres that one animation where guardsmen, sisters of battle and space marines fight against necrons

[@ihn-90]

Now we know why vader said "no disintegrations"

[@Dave_Chrome]

The mercenary assault squads and Noghri assassins in Empire at War's expansion had disruptor rifles and they were so overpowered against infantry and armor alike, would love to see them represented in Canon more often!

[@alixnicolai-dashwood1266]

Disruptor is warhammer 40k gaussflayer but for statwars

[@Dreforian]

Shadows of the Empire had a disruptor, but it was more like a BFG from doom where it killed almost anything on screen except bosses. Also, look up the Varon-T disruptor (ok ok, not Star Wars, but Star-something) It's somehow more graphic and violent when someone disintegrates from the inside relatively *slowly*.

[@bendavis3778]

For me, the best example of a disruptor was in Star Trek Picard when Seven of Nine shot Bjayzl on Freecloud. You could see her disintegrating outward from where she was shot, and Bjayzl even had enough time to scream before she disappeared

[@ninjalectualx]

"Make it into a noodle dish instead of a ramen" The noodles are called ramen noodles, literally anything you make with them is a ramen dish

[@justinschultheisz4673]

I’ve got an idea. How do the jet packs in Star Wars actually work? How are they activated?

[@Machina_EX_Machina]

Cool topic, weapons in Star Wars are fascinating to me🎉

[@SamwiseOutdoors]

I loved the way that the bowcaster was portrayed in "Han Solo and the Lost Legacy" and the way Rekkon's disruptor pistol was portrayed in "Han Solo at Stars' End".

[@VestedUTuber]

So, an idea for a video: an outline of the Wookiee/Trandoshan conflict and how while Trandoshan hunters were doing terrible things to the Wookiees, the Wookiee response was to basically starve the entire population of Trandosha to death.

[@tatepalmer1997]

Factions compared idea sci fi insect swarm. Such as Tyranids, arachnids, Zerg, rachni, terminids.

[@JainaSoloB312]

It's funny you thought the Verpine Shatter gun was a gun that shattered itself because *I* remembered it as a gun that shattered *the target* . I saw the thumbnail and went "Oh he's talking about the Verpine Shatter Blaster"😂 Then you started talking about the Disruptor and it became clear that's what the thumbnail was showing, so, mid-video I looked up the Verpine Shatter Rifle and found out I was wrong about it and you wouldn't be talking about it in this video. Just as I made that assumption, you showed it on screen and then started talking about it🤣

[@millenniumf1138]

A couple of tech pieces that I'd love to see covered are Magwit's teleporter hoops and the man trap gravity plate.

[@lightspeedvictory]

#AskEck What do we know of the development of the Venator? Was it ready at the outset of the Clone Wars or did it enter service sometime after it began? And what did the Republic Navy have before the Venator (and by extension, the Victory) came into service that could stand up to Seperatist capital ships? Lore ship Versus video request: Resurgent vs. Starhawk Tie Striker vs. New Republic V-Wing World Devastator vs. Vong Worldship Tie Silencer vs. X-83 Twintail Tie Silencer vs. Tie Defender (legends version) Keldabe vs. ISD II MC90 vs. Nebula class star destroyer Nebula class vs. Pellaeon class Majestic class vs. Bothan Assault Cruiser EAWX: FOTR’s Mandator II portrayal vs. Subjugator Praetor vs. Subjugator EAWX: TR’s Mediator portrayal vs. Resurgent Starhawk vs. Bulwark MK III Gargantua/Aratech 520 Battle Platform vs. A6 Juggernaut

[@Machin3Jamm3r]

The Mandalorian Ripper... from KOTOR 1 and 2

[@BierBart12]

One thing I love about the Zann Consortium is their use of all these unconventional weapons. Their sheer amount of wealth allowed them to equip most of their troops with disruptors and all kinds of brutal Mandalorian tech, from rapid-fire railguns to carbonite missiles. Only thing missing in their arsenal is nuclear weapons, which the Mandalorians of old loved. Though, these wouldn't make as much sense for an empire that aims to remain in the shadows(Not like much about them makes sense anyways, but hell. They strapped bombs to Ewoks. Everyone and everything was just a disposable asset to Zann.)

[@jacobulm1200]

In the kotor games, I've always been fond of the mandolorian slug throwing disruptor pistols...

[@HisDudenessTK421]

That one bro was in full femboy mode. Well done.

[@MrStrikecentral]

I wonder, has any Jedi or Sith used a lightsaber that has a retractable fiber-optic coil? I can only imagine how cool a lightwhip would look and be used!

[@Flint_Inferno]

That is called the lightwhip, and it exists in canon

[@Soboba.Fett69]

Massaman Noodles + spice + disruptor rifle = Jawa Hunting

[@halofox4770]

The psychological effects to some of the troops on the ground must have been devastating after seeing these weapons in use. I don’t think we see that enough in the Star Wars universe.

[@TVOverlord_F_Alastor]

Under one minute crowd here!

[@ishkanark6725]

Hell yea 😎

[@oneproudbrowncoat]

Chewie's bowcaster doesn't cock itself. He has to jack the forend to recock, as we see on Mytus VII, on Ammuud and (especially) on Dellalt. It's also fed from detachable magazines.

[@enoughothis]

Bowcasters are railguns, firing explosive ammunition, putting them on the level of Warhammer 40k Bolters in terms of destructive potential.

[@DS-wl5pk]

It would be more powerful then a bolter. Those are mainly just big guns with explosive shells. The explosion from the rail gun is caused by its excessive velocity….

[@calebbarnhouse496]

Bolters are easily the most overhyped weapons in existence, there warhead is small, to the point if they hit a human's arm it won't even kill them, it's effective a high powered hollow point, bowcasters meanwhile re effective against heavy armor

[@DS-wl5pk]

@@calebbarnhouse496 no, bolsters are supposed to penetrate and explode inside like an APHE shell. It needs to hit something hard enough to activate the timer then after a set distance of travel or time they go off. Like battleship guns irl would either try to punch enough holes to sink a ship, or use the explosives inside the armor piercing shells to try and damage internal parts of the ship with shrapnel or maybe start a fire or set off ammo. You want it to blow up inside. Tank shells from WW2 that used “conventional” ammo that was set to go off after a certain distance. Now the explosive core was often damaged on impact and didn’t always go off, but the results are self evident. However, with bolsters or battleship guns there’s only a set amount of explosives inside so you can be reasonably sure how much damage you’ll do every shot…. A rail gun that utilizes physics to turn solid inert projectiles into explosives… well the results will vary

[@calebbarnhouse496]

@@DS-wl5pk except for the part where the bolters warhead is absolutely pathetic it doesn't do anything unless it's embedded in the target, the warhead is worthless for anything except a direct hit, even on light infantry, making it's warhead a glorified hollow point, it is only useful in a situation where a hollow point would be what you want after you bypass armor

[@pyeitme508]

Firearms (Earth🌎🌍 versions) users be like: "Are we a joke to u?! 💢😠".

[@HIMcules2112]

I like the hold out needler. No not the one from Halo. It was referenced in one of the original Han Solo books. It was used by assassins, usually fatal with proper shot placement up close, leaving only a pin hole. Only give away was the discharge of ozone you get from any blaster.

[@Argiebee_]

When I think of the disruptors I think of the scene where like 100 People get disintegrated in Halo 4

[@Molfra]

#askEck this might be a long one, but the short of it is, what was baby Yoda doing right before the mandalorian? In the show we see him being held by what seems to be a band of pirates, and he had to have been there for some time and in the care of them for the local warlord to know of his location and so many bounty hunters to have his tracker, so these pirates had to have been attached to him in some way and were protecting him despite the obvious bounty on baby Yoda's head. So these pirates took care of him and protected him before the mandalorian just came and killed them all and kidnapped baby yoda

[@DrMutran]

Hey EckhartsLadder, not sure if I was supposed to use a “#” or not but I was wondering what you thought of all the stealth droids that the CIS used? There’s the BX-Commando Droid, Buzz Droids, C-8 Sabotage Droids, Chameleon Droids, Demolition Droids, a type of sabotage droid we saw in the Clone Wars video game that followed the series, and another type of stealth droid that “somehow” was invisible to the force. How would you evaluate each model? Do you think each served a purpose or were just a waste?

[@scottbraun2457]

Stealth vehicles.. though I can only remember the one in the CLONEWARS series.

[@bennmagee1038]

I think the single use blaster you where thinking of was the lightsaber blaster made by a jedi which was banned and later used by Jocasta Nu to fire at either Vader or the Grand Inquisitor.

[@Gbob96]

#AskEck [This was much longer than I originally intended... But oh well] (intro/praise) Hello there! Long-time listener and big fan of your work. I love turning on your long compilations in my headphones or some speakers while doing housework, cleaning, or other mindless tasks. It always makes the time go by more quickly and it definitely feels like you're accomplishing your goal of making your videos as though you were just chatting with a friend and hanging out. 10/10 will continue watching and loving all your stuff. (I don't always agree with your perspective on SW, but I have always loved hearing your different point of view!) I have a lot of SW EU books that I started getting/collecting as a kid, but I've only actually read a few. I have a total of 75 of the 150+ SW "legends canon" novels now. (Actual #AskEck Portion) In one of your compilations, you were talking about how Crystal Star is commonly thought of as one of the worst, though not by you. I was wondering if either you have a video on or are thinking of making a video on your favorite and least favorite SW novels. Similar to your book club content but maybe in a much more brief format. I'm currently on the Heir to the Empire trilogy, and I'm trying to decide what will be next of my TBR. Some kind of "Top 10 SW Novels I would read first" or "SW novels that seem bad, but are still worth a read." I know you have a TON of content that stems from the novels looking at in universe lore, but I haven't seen many if any videos giving your thoughts on the novels themselves, other than mentioning in passing what you thought. (more praise) Thanks again for all you do! I always look forward to getting to hangout and hear what you have to say about my favorite franchise!. MTFBWY

[@Gbob96]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/babEi6WNqJumd8ksi=9a5SHDZGRrMoiKK1 I feel seen. 😂 I’m hype to listen to 12 hrs of Eck on repeat. 🥳

[@BladeCrossEXE]

I do think it's funny how in Classic Battlefront 2, bowcasters fire like a shotgun, and can be charged for a precision shot. Speaking of Battlefront 2, do we have any info on the Bothan Spies' Incinerator weapon?

[@kleptomaticagain]

for the disruptor, applying a large (an i mean _LARGE_) amount of energy can break molecular bonds. that tracks with the energy requirement, especially against a target las large as a human made of of many different kinds of bonds

[@boi905]

The thing the Bothan spies use in Star Wars Battlefront II (2005)

[@chandlercarpenter9740]

My guess to how distroptor worked is that highly charged particles are sent colliding into a target which starts a chain reaction

[@Lingon_]

No genosian blaster?

[@ananonymousnerd.2179]

Disruptors... I don't mean to begin screaming in Klingon, Romulan, or in like 99% of the languages of the Star Trek 21st-31st centuries... they're just stupidly commonplace in Star Trek, and they can do the same thing they do in Star Wars (disintegration - one source even translates the Klingon term for Disruptor to "Shake-it-until-it-falls-apart-tool", literally shaking your molecules apart at the atoms) or be used to just kill someone without atomizing the body. And then the Mando casually having a Phase-Pulse weapon while Star Trek has Pulsed-Phase weapons (i.e. what Archer recommended they put on NX-02 Columbia), not to mention the ever ubiquitous phaser. I'm starting to feel like Star Wars' disintegration weapons unintentionally (or maybe super intentionally) line up stupidly well with Trek's weapons.

[@matthewanderson9754]

Why is the disruptor in kotor so useless then!!! 😢

[@graemehirstwood670]

I would love to see a video on blades other than lightsabers

[@gabesisneros136]

Bow caster like a railgun?

[@yoshikiharo1020]

Give a Spartan a Bowcaster

[@philjohnson1744]

Bowcaster? Dang-near killed er'.

[@MemesOfProduction69]

Can you cover some of the Chiss weapons from the canon Thrawn novels? I remember there being some neat and interesting weapons

[@theinquisitor8112]

So basically, disruptor rifles can be likened to Necron gauss weapons.

[@_robustus_]

You Strainin to do some splainin…It just looked kewl.

[@starkiller6357]

Hey ech you used to make battle breakdown videos when I first started watching you and I was wondering if your ever going to get back into those?

[@OptimisticSturmmann142]

Number oooone: "Emperor Palpatine, I don't feel so good..."

[@Zehamas]

Congrats on one milk Eckharts! Think ill pick up some vite ramen! So... Stream Setup Reveal with the new youtube plaque? :D

[@marcelxd1633]

You reached 1m subscriber 🎉

[@GavinMakesVideos-xm7dd]

Remember when blasters were just laser things

[@bruhmagic1323]

Hello Justin :)

[@Nobodywithabeard]

Personally I have always like the Mandalorian Ripper

[@ItsYaBoyYogi]

I love that Star Wars is the rough lawless galaxy but disruptor weapons are banned n outlawed where Star Trek is the utopian lawful galaxy but disruptor weapons are legal and widely used

[@abelgarcia3900]

#AskEck What ships did the Empire use to carry ATATs, tanks, etc to the battlefield? Did they use ships like the LAAT in the clone wars?

[@DashsChannel]

The proper disruptor lore always gave me cognitive dissonance as someone whose very first introduction to the weapon was Shadows of the Empire on N64. I know the consensus in everywhere else describes them as these uber-powerful and dangerous blasters that maim and disintegrate everything and are very inefficient, but in my head when I hear "disruptor" I immediately think of shooting those glowing green Starfox-style mininukes from the game.

[@gehrigstory6674]

Well everyone; today, April 25th, 2024 officially marks 10 years since The Star Wars Expanded Universe was decanonized, and renamed Legends.

[@V1vusS]

What is the name of the game we first see?

[@robot5626]

If Chewie is using a mini mac cannon and we see han use it to throw stormtroopers around. How did kilo survive a direct hit to the stomach from it?

[@fsdf4311c]

The dark side

[@m05513]

Honestly its why I don't hate on Abrams for Rey winning the dual in episode 7. The man literally just took a Bowcaster shot to the chest, its a miracle he's still conscious enough to fight, let alone win. And he still mopped the floor with Finn despite that massive injury.

[@calebbarnhouse496]

​@@m05513 the dark side gets buffed up from pain, that bow caster shot should have made him a lot stronger

[@grenademan200]

Whatever the gun the Bothan spy used in og bf2 seemed pretty messed up to me.

[@aster4jaden]

Kylo Ren survived a direct shot through plot armor.

[@rileymosman2808]

#AskEck (never used the hashtag so don't know if it's correct) Can you tell us more about the equipment used by the New Republic troopers?

[@matthmtf7035]

#AskEck Why didnt the CIS use umbaran tech like their fighters and tanks for offensive purposes?

[@the_falcon0power150]

#AskEck What is your favourite bio-weapon present in Star Wars canon or legends?

[@noahallard1313]

never been this early

[@henryheavy8044]

Battletech please

[@abdullahiaderinto5153]

How blasters actually work ?

[@jeffreycarman2185]

Cool video

[@baradmemarkermani2184]

We have them in bf2015 too

[@ArtisticPandemonium]

If were talking all weapons not just blasters the high ground is the best

[@chrisclarke4665]

The Bothans did nothing wrong.

[@GunsAndAmmo3]

Bow caster? The gun from fortnite?

[@DarthVages]

👍

[@baron7755]

Eck why do you let the guy with marbles in his mouth post on your channel?!?!

[@just8310]

Yay half the video is your stupid commercial

[@freekashyyyk896]

First

[@nomercyinc6783]

Nothing. Nothing at all is disturbing in science fiction. Fictional shit isn’t capable of being disturbing

[@xnyxiee1784]

That isn't how anything works at all, but you go off on your rant as you're going to anyway.

[@trnogger]

Dude, I get it that you need sponsors, but by now, your videos are 25% advertising. Time to unsubscribe.