IEDs? What SW substances can be used to be explosive?

[Maximum7]

I was reading A New Dawn and in it; one of the characters uses IED’s or Improvised Explosive Devices. They are basically explosives that can be made from makeshift materials on a scene and don’t have the punch that say Baradium has. What can I say they are made with? Does anybody know of a substance in Star Wars they could be salvaged and used as a bomb?

[pakman]

Same things as normal world - except with sci-fi names perhaps.

The key is a material (i.e. chemicals) that rapidly combust and thus produce a rapid expansion of gasses/force - against a closed container.

I will refrain from more explanation, for privacy and security concerns.

They key here is you as the gm does not have to know, neither do the players - just their characters - a few skill rolls on demolitions and knowledge checks should be enough for them to improvise other materials.

That is - you don't need to list them - just make some rolls, have them go to the hardware and or grocery store....maybe have them take apart some weapons or datapads as well.

I would not overthink it, and I would not suggest googling it too much.

Best of luck in your game!
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[garhkal]

IIRC in one of the Crakens books, you can do an IED (SW style), by linking 2 or more blaster power packs together, and causing them to overload..
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[Mamatried]

I would think most blaster type weapons can be rigged to blow up
There is a set of wrist blasters that has this setting, ( possibly in cracken's field guide)
other than that is regular exploives placed in "anything" and I would say given the tech in star wars, most power sources I would think, and large ones are at least in games a way to use a IED type effect

[Whill]

[KageRyu]

As I recall, in addition to Blaster Power packs, Cracken's Rebel Field Guide (1st Ed.) also mentioned a few other possibilities involving Power Couplers, Tibanna Gas Canisters, Droid Power Cells...I still cannot readily access my books to verify these. I would image a whole host of combustible chemicals can readily be found or synthesized in Star Wars/ I am sure they still have pipes which can be used to make pipe bombs. Flammable Liquors to make a Corellian Cocktail (or other suitable Star Wars named Molotov Cocktail)... I am sure fossil fuels are still in existence in parts of the galaxy. For improvised triggers a lot of things could be used ranging from Comm Links, Proximity Sensors, etc... to a Droid Restraining Bolt (limited ranged trigger).

If I had more time I could probably think of a lot more.
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[CRMcNeill]

If you’re looking for hard sci-fi answers to your questions, that really isn’t our purview. I suggest trying the Fractalsponge Discord (Link). They love this sort of stuff.
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[KageRyu]

@Maximum7, I must say, having been made aware of the nature of the many threads and questions posted and asked, I am more than a little irked that these are fishing for ideas to use in writing you hope to be credited for, or for use in your fanfics. I say this as someone who has been paid for written material and who is a relatively unknown writer. Rather than create for yourself or expand on research of existing sources, you are essentially asking a community of gamers and game masters to unwittingly be your ghost writers and create your material for you. To me, the ethics of this with the intent to be a hopeful credited writer using these provided ideas is highly questionable.

While I have shared many unpublished ideas for D6 rules from a defunct project here, I have done so willingly for the good of the D6 and SW D6 community. I would hate to see variations of material I shared show up in a for profit work credited to some one other than me, and this goes ten fold for non-rules based ideas I share. I would suspect I am not alone in this feeling either.
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