Re: Star Wars weapons

[email removed] (Andrew Salamon) writes:
>
>   I always thought of the hand weapons in Star Wars as 'blasters', by which
> I mean a weapon that actually launches some sort of physical projectile.
> Kinda like a plasma pistol.  Any guesses as to what tech level would be needed
> to make such a thing in MT.  I.E. is there any good correlation between the
> tech level at which a rifle (large version of a weapon) comes out and when
> the equivalent pistol comes out?

7mm rifle: TL5		9mm revolver: TL4:	Pistol TL = Rifle TL - 1
7mm auto-rifle: TL6	9mm auto-pistol: TL5:	Pistol TL = Rifle TL - 1
Gauss rifle: TL12	Gauss pistol: TL13:	Pistol TL = Rifle TL + 1
Laser carbine: TL8	Laser rifle/pistol: TL9	Pistol TL = longarm TL + 1
PGMP: TL12		Plasma rifle: TL16	Rifle TL = introductory
							   TL + 4

So, there seems to be little correlation between the introductory TL of a
rifle (or longarm), and the introductory TL of the equivalent pistol in
general.  For the gauss and laser weapons, the TL of the pistol is one
above the TL of the earliest longarm.  If the plasma rifle is TL16, then I
would make the plasma pistol TL17.

(Incidentally, there's something wrong with the table of weapons in the
Imperial Encyclopedia.  The 9mm auto-pistol is TL5; the 7mm auto-pistol
is TL6.  As far as I know, the earliest auto-pistol was the Borchardt,
the forerunner of the Luger, and that was 7.63mm.  The earliest Luger was
also 7.63mm, as was the Mauser M1896.  Did we really get to TL6 before we
got to TL5?)

What TL is a light-sabre?  :-)

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