Cortosis.. Gun?

[Zef Halo]

I am looking to develop a wrist weapon that shoots small pellets of cortosis in a wide arc. The intent is to give this badass sniper, a counter lightsaber measure in close quarters.

Soooo, I am asking if there is a chance to manipulate the cortosis in such a way cause I'd shoot my leg if I had to dev thread and getting it rejected lel

Additionally, if this is legit, would I need dev thread for only gathering the cortosis only or you need both that and a construction dev thread.

 

[Gavin XIII]

[member="Alexei Makarov"]

Don't see why not. Might have to fire disks instead of spikes. Or you could just use a Larnavok. Those are usually made of cortosis.

 

[Jynx]

Say... wouldn't you kinda need to always do more dev threads to continually acquire more cortosis??

 

[Gavin XIII]

[member="Jynx"]

Yeah... part of the benefits of a Larnavok is that you just fetch the disks out of the person's body afterwards.

 

[Julius Sedaire]

[member="Jynx"] - Not really. X amount of threads can count for Y amount of cortosis... And you would be amazed at how permissive they are. Depends on the production level of the ammo.

My advice? Make the gun and the ammo separate. Make the gun first. Then you will know if you nee dev for it. Fancy ammo does nothing without a boomstick. After that, try for the ammo.

Alternately, [member="Rusty"] might have some guidance, though I haven't seen him around lately.

 

[Jsc]

[member="Alexei Makarov"]

• Too expensive
• Too complex
• There are better options already available
• Does not pierce armor
• Does not contribute to good ballistics in flight
• May not allow your partner to fulfill or contribute to your expectations during all measures of PvP combat

Do it. Try it. Hate it. Then throw it away and try something else. This is how we learn.

Cheers!

 

[Elaine Thul]

I got two anti force user weapons for sale.
See my signature,
Plasma caster and disc cannons

 

[Gray Raxis]

[member="Alexei Makarov"]

Cortosis is better as an anti-energy material while phrik or beskar would be better for anti-lightsaber combat. I'd suggest just having a pair of gauntlets or bracers made of the previous material to block the saber. The materials are too hard to get your hands on to use for ammo which you might not be able to retrieve later. Also if you want a good anti-light saber weapon think about a scattergun. It is hard to block a hail of buckshot all flying at you at once, especially up close.

 

[Gavin XIII]

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lanvarok

 

[Zef Halo]

[member="Gavin XIII"]

The wrist thing is nice yet I am an NFU.


@Everyone

Good points made by everyone, I might reconsider this a lot. My initial thought was to have something to disable lightsabers and ofc FUs at a close-ranged combat.

 

[Gray Raxis]

[member="Alexei Makarov"]

Well cortosis' ability to shut down lightsabers can be countered by using special lightsaber components. It might not be able to deactivate them but it can still stop them if they do. The other issue with that is that cortosis is not force resistant, just energy resistant. If a FU shots lightning at you then you can block the lightning with the cortosis, just like you can block blaster fire with it or EMPs. That is the major advantage of cortosis over phrik and beskar so I am sure you can find someway to work it into an anti-FU object.

If you want to disable an FU then find a way to hit them with a stun round or electrified weapon. Stun batons, stun bolts, etc would work well for it unless they use cortosis to absorb it. Really fighting an FU isn't too hard and they are still mortal. The best way to deal with an FU is to overwhelm them or trick them, which a scattergun or stun rounds or EMP to disable their lightsabers can do just that.

 

[Jsc]

...EMP to disable their lightsabers can do just that.

Lightsabers are built as hardened and vented structures against energy distortions of tremendous electromagnetic potential. Especially ones built with Kyber crystals. Indeed, the Force Lighting emitted by most Sith Lords is insignificant in it's potential to interfere with one. And that's sustained current. Not an event.

An EMP grenade with any less potential than a bolt of lightning will not cause a saber to blink an eye. You'd be better suited to throwing a Thermal Detonator than ever throwing an NNEMP weapon against a Force User.

Just saying.

 

[Gray Raxis]

[member="Jay Scott Clark"]

Did not know that, thanks for informing me on it!

 

[Jsc]

[member="Gray Raxis"]

Honestly, applying real world science to SW is never a good idea. So to be completely truthful? I'm sure there is a dura-EMP that could do what it was you were suggesting. We just currently don't have any real world NNEMP weapons that could interfere with such a magically functioning item as a Lightsaber. Because Lightsabers are unicorns. Meh.

Nobody knows how any of this stuff works. It's a gimme.

 

[Elaine Thul]

[member="Alexei Makarov"]
Plasma Caster this can by pass a lightsaber, with fire
Disc Cannon this is up to date version of a lanverock

 

[Grrwunhoooll Agaburry]

Hehe I got the best Idea, [member="Alexei Makarov"]

Spraystick that fires cortosis dust.... Nasty deadly

 

[Gray Raxis]

[member="Graaf Zalec"]

Shark surgeon save me!

 

[Ellie Mors]

I don't see why not.