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| Whill wrote: | | garhkal wrote: | | Imperial (and most likely thus clone trooper armor) was often said to be ceramic composites. Power armor and the like, i can EASILY SEE being metal. just like most bounty hunter armors.. |
Just ignore me. I'm used to it.
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I posted BEFORE i saw your comment..
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| garhkal wrote: | | Whill wrote: | | garhkal wrote: | | Imperial (and most likely thus clone trooper armor) was often said to be ceramic composites. Power armor and the like, i can EASILY SEE being metal. just like most bounty hunter armors.. |
Just ignore me. I'm used to it.
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I posted BEFORE i saw your comment.. |
Your reply was 7.5 hours after mine. That's some slow internet there, buddy. 
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garhkal
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It was more i wrote it, then pressed send, before i finished reading what everyone else wrote..
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| CRMcNeill wrote: | | garhkal wrote: | | Imperial (and most likely thus clone trooper armor) was often said to be ceramic composites. Power armor and the like, i can EASILY SEE being metal. just like most bounty hunter armors.. |
I very much doubt that, with all the other technological advancements in the SWU relative to the RW, armor tech advancement would’ve stagnated to the point of still using ferrous metal plates, save for all but the most primitive of worlds. Stormtrooper or clone trooper isn’t particularly special; it’s mass produced to provide a decent level of protection for troops that are ultimately expendable. There’s no reason natural-borns wouldn’t have access to the same or better. |
Most armor might be plastoid like clone-trooper and stormtrooper armor, but we know that Mandalorian armor made of Beskar (or Mandalorian iron) at least is metal - as are droids (we saw magnets used to pick up C3-PO and R2D2 |
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True, but even with the word “iron” in the name, there’s no guarantee that it will be affected by magnetism. Iron may even just be a colloquialism based on other properties.
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garhkal
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| CRMcNeill wrote: | | True, but even with the word “iron” in the name, there’s no guarantee that it will be affected by magnetism. Iron may even just be a colloquialism based on other properties. |
Hence why for traps like that, i'd just go with Gravity plates, and RAISE the gravity level say by a factor of 4....
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| CRMcNeill wrote: | | True, but even with the word “iron” in the name, there’s no guarantee that it will be affected by magnetism. Iron may even just be a colloquialism based on other properties. |
Yep. Beskar is a fictional metal, but nothing from the show is coming to mind to indicate whether beskar is even magnetic or not.
| garhkal wrote: | | Hence why for traps like that, i'd just go with Gravity plates, and RAISE the gravity level say by a factor of 4.... |
Ding ding ding, evil GM for the win! A magnetic trap could work for droids as Macavity indicated, but gravity affects all matter.
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In the relevant CW episode, the intended effect of the trap was to disarm, not immobilize. The fact that it also worked on Anakin’s bionic hand was an unintended side effect. Everybody’s blasters and lightsabers suddenly got yanked up to the ceiling, leaving them to face commando droids unarmed.
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| Whill wrote: | | CRMcNeill wrote: | | True, but even with the word “iron” in the name, there’s no guarantee that it will be affected by magnetism. Iron may even just be a colloquialism based on other properties. |
Yep. Beskar is a fictional metal, but nothing from the show is coming to mind to indicate whether beskar is even magnetic or not.
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IF it is, perhaps a weapon could be made that MAGNETIZED the armor, so all blasters in a short range (say 3-5 meters) gets PULLED ONTO THEIR armor.. STR roll at a high diff to pull it away.
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| garhkal wrote: | | IF it is, perhaps a weapon could be made that MAGNETIZED the armor, so all blasters in a short range (say 3-5 meters) gets PULLED ONTO THEIR armor.. STR roll at a high diff to pull it away. |
That sounds like an awfully bespoke weapon to just have sitting around in case you have a need for it...
I could see something like the magnetic grappler from the Total Recall reboot, though; fires a projectile that locks onto the target and allows the gunner to reel them in / fling them about, etc. It'd allow some duplication of a tractor beam effect without taking tech miniaturization too far.
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| CRMcNeill wrote: | | I could see something like the magnetic grappler from the Total Recall reboot, though; fires a projectile that locks onto the target and allows the gunner to reel them in / fling them about, etc. It'd allow some duplication of a tractor beam effect without taking tech miniaturization too far. |
I have the Total Recall reboot. Good movie. I'm gonna have to rewatch that sometime, but after I rewatch the Arnold version.
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