Jedi and slugthrowers, railguns, firearms, etc...

[Son of Fire]

Well I look at it this way Volar…
The sabre blade is supposed to be pure energy right? A blaster bolt is also energy, and from what we have seen on film the only thing that a sabre can’t cut through is energy (other sabre blades, blaster bolts, energy fields, etc.) so the refection is probably an energy + energy interaction that results in refection of the lesser energy (pretty much everything is “lesser” to a sabre).
Now a bullet is a solid projectile, and again from what we have seen on film sabres just slice through (while heating) solid matter (stomries, blast doors, AT-AT armour, etc.). So it would seem to me that a bullet would be no different in that aspect.

Now I do think a Jedi has the ability to hit a bullet with their sabre, but that does not seem to be the problem. The problem would be the heated shrapnel still flying at the Jedi after they connected with the projectile. Sure its trajectory would be off, seeing that it would have encountered the sabre in its path, but still the particles would be present and traveling in the general direction as a hazard to anyone hit.
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[Maximilian Bernas]

Blaster bolts seem to fly slower than high velocity lead projectiles. At least it would appear so from watching the movies.
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[Ray]

Blaster Bolts are very much Subsonic rounds... Most Projectile weapons are Supersonic.

Thus, Blaster Bolts are slower, and more easily deflected.

Despite that, it's unlikely there'd be enough mass remaining from a Projectile after flying through a Lightsabre to really affect the Jedi.

The *HEAT* from said melting orb, on the other hand...

And, if you hit a Jedi with a big enough round...

Might I suggest some of Corel & DuVal's fine 75mm Mass Drivers? Stylish and Functional!!! Act now, and get a free reload of Mass Driver Bolts absolutely free!!!

[Son of Fire]

I think there would be enough of the round left Ray.
I mean, from what we can tell the sabre has monomolecular cutting edge, if not thinner. So its not like a great deal of the bullet would be destroyed upon hitting the blade.
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[Volar the Healer]

[Volar the Healer]

[Son of Fire]

Not a prob Volar.
I just tried to look at it in a very simplistic way, much like how I think the filmmakers did. I’m fairly sure they did not bust out the math and such just to figure out the properties of a sabre. They just had it operate in the fashion of their choosing, and I just tried to work with what onscreen evidence I saw.

I think Esoo was using the tech guide for his definition of blaster operation. And we all know how much Lucas sticks with continuity.
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[Esoomian]

Yes I was using the tech guide

Basically I was just using my understanding of how WEG described blasters to formulate a hypothesis...

I could make arguments about SW having few ferrous metals and superior electronics but SoF's energy + energy argument works just as well and doesn't require us to break out the maths so I'll switch to that one 8)

[Son of Fire]

Thanks mang.
Well I pretty much tried to look at it like how Lucas would…for some reason I felt that Greedo should shoot first too…go fig.
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[Esoomian]

Well when you try to turn a movie into an RPG there are going to be some complications as movies don't have to explain exerything but RPG players can be quite creative in thier used of 'background scenery'

[Volar the Healer]

[Rathe Ehtar]

To answer the question, NO.
NO, NO, NO. It states that, abbreviated of course, that a lightsaber can deflect blaster bolts. Blaster bolts, not slugs, not lead pipes, not rocks, blaster bolts. It may be cool to say, "that vending machine is coming at me, better cut the thing in half and have the two pieces fall the either side of me..." Yes very cool. But one does not say the same for a bullet. A jedi would dodge, rather than recklessly block with his lightsaber.

If you do, 1) the bullet continues and hits you at super speeds and super temperatures, 2) the bullet is disintigrated, 3) you decide.

If you have to think about it longer than ten seconds then dodge. Afterall, the punk got a gun, you got a lightsaber that you can throw, but that's another thread entirely.
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[Jace_Terrik]

Jedi can sense attacks before they happen. Jedi can use TK to stop the bullets. Jedi are super-kick-@$$-characters.

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