Ion cannons

Esoomian · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 9:09 pm Post subject: Ion cannons

In Starwars 4 A New Hope we see R2 being 'stunned' with a Jawa's hand held ion cannon.

Does anyone have the stats for such a weapon?

Can you get multiple types of hand held ion weapons?

Can a ion cannon be modified to be able to stun organics too?

Are their official rules for an ion (EMP) grenade?

How do you 'fix' ion damage or does it just wear off?

If I shoot Boba Fett with an ion cannon do all the weapons and gadgets built into his armour stop working?

Son of Fire · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 9:18 pm Post subject:

Official rules on that I can’t help you.

But I know that E-11’s have a stun setting, we saw as much in ANH when Liea got captured by stormies. I believe most weapons have a stun setting, though I could be wrong.

As for Boba, he might have some sort of shielding to prevent ion attacks…but then again his rocket pack did not have redundant systems or safeties so who knows.
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Ray · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 9:55 pm Post subject: Re: Ion cannons

Son of Fire · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 10:13 pm Post subject:

Unless you’re a blind smuggler...then Fett is toast.

I figure that there would be two different settings for ion weapon…stun and the regular one. I mean, why would Jawa’s who want to nab a Droid try to actually damage something they are going to sell?
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Ray · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 10:59 pm Post subject:

Son of Fire · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 11:54 pm Post subject:

Lucky shot or no, they should have made the dang this a bit less “touchy”.

I have said it before and I’ll say it again…

The Fett’s never learn, they both have been undone by their rocket packs.
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Jedi Knight Jael Weiss · Ensign Joined: 07 Dec 2003 Posts: 33

Hope the following info helps in some way...

Check the Imperial Sourcebook, pg 122. It gives a descriptin of the Merr-Sonn DEMP gun, that is designed specifically to stun or knock out droids. You can get it either as a handgun or a blaster carbine, and it has three settings (2D/3D handgun/blaster carbine, 3D/4D, and 4D/5D).

Perhaps the Jawas scavenged one and used it to stun R2?

If you want, I can write up the exact specs in a future post. Hope this helps...
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Son of Fire · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 3:02 am Post subject:

Great stuff man!
I can’t wait to see that.
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Volo Enrunk · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 3:58 pm Post subject:

the jawa gun is called a droid disabler and it does 4d ion damage rng: 0-5/7/10. as far as how ion damage affects Organics... um bad. the way the novels describe it is its like getting hit with electrical damage. i assume it feels alot like being force lightninged. and i would treat it as such and ionization should affect anything that has electronic relays and circuit boards fetts armor would lose his sensor pack and controls over his armor weapons etc but hand held ion guns are very limited remember almost every system in the galaxy requires some kind of restraint on droids and most police would have a universal remote to them. so not many people have a hand held ion gun. since it doesn't really cover it in the rules though it would have to be at your GM's descretion.
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Esoomian · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 4:01 pm Post subject:

Post it. I really want to see it...

Besides if it can be altered (modified) to have a blanket effect or just a wide angle blast (perhaps at the expense of range) you can then use it to take aout all the electronic devices that a person has by just shooting them with this gun...

Now that would be sweet Twisted Evil

Is a lightsaber effected by ionisation?

Volo Enrunk · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 4:11 pm Post subject:

if you shortened its range anymore it wouldn't go anywhere. and i don't know if it would affect a lightsaber maybe if a jedi wasn't wielding using lightsaber combat then yeah i'd say it would turn off. as far as blasters i think they would still functioni mean the powerpack is sealed and all i don't see how it would really affect a blaster. and what did you want me to post the Droid disabler?
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Volo Enrunk · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 4:27 pm Post subject:

droid disabler: galladinium fantastic technology p 77
While time and again droids have proven to be reliable tools in our galaxtic(is this a word?) society, there is still the very real chance of a serious and possibly dangerous malfuntion. Never fear with a droid emergency shutdown controller!
Unlike standard droid restraining devices that need be physically attached to the droid, this hand-held device unleaches an ion-acclerated energy blast that ionizes the droid, preventing further operation. Meanwhile anyone standy nearby notices only a slight tinge from the energy surge.
The droid can usually be reactivated without loss of memory or ability, but it sometimes needs a complete system restart.
Model: Felebreck Electrical Defense Systems Droid Disabler
Skill: Blaster
Ammo: 5 uses standard power packs
Cost: 700;25(power pack)
Availability: 3
Range: 0-5/7/10
damage 4d Ionization Damage
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Esoomian · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 4:31 pm Post subject:

Sweet.

I assume as the damage is ionisation any unshielded (or even sheilded if you roll high enough for damage) electronics may also be effected by the blast

Son of Fire · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 4:55 pm Post subject:

Heh, that’s one of the things that I just “love” about some of the game designers…instead using logic, they makeup the most convoluted explanations, “well considering that this thing does the same thing as the ion cannon did in ESB just on a character scale…lets turn it into an entirely different device! Even though it would be safer to assume that since it functions on the same principle, it would have the same effect.”

Sometimes I wonder what those early designers where thinking.

But then again they did not have the support of Lucas Licensing to help them sort through they myriad of different interpretations and speculations of the SW universe, so I will forgive them.
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Ray · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 4:58 pm Post subject:

Big Time Es... Kiss those pirated songs on datacards goodbye!!!

"DARN IT!!! It took me an hour to find the full, extended version of 'Darth Vader Eyes'!!! FOR THIS YOU DIE!!!".

Personally... Why go with some specialized piece of equipment, when you can pull out your just as handy BlasTech ZH-500 ( http://www.rancorpit.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=170 )... Laughing

Or, for those really tough droids, the Corel & DuVal HV-20 ( http://www.rancorpit.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=182 )!!! Twisted Evil

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