SW VIII: The Last Jedi - Tech Breakdowns *spoilers*
Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2017 1:24 am
Figured I would start a thread for posting of tech bits and pieces as people find them
* Heavy Bombers are now a thing
- The B/SF-17 seen in the trailers
- So many proton bombs
* Tracking ships through hyperspace without a beacon is now possible, but is new
- This also required as special sensor array with a dedicated power supply
- Present on Supremacy and presumed to be on the Resurgent class SDs by the Resistance
- Seems to have a limited range, but if you jump near the ship, they can track you
* Hyper Space ramming it a helluva thing
* Mandator IV Dreadnought
- The Auto cannons are huge
- And I was not impressed on a first watching
- I personally expect more from guns the size of cruisers
- The ships point defense is also woefully lacking, but atleast they hang a lantern on needing to launch fighters earlier.
* The Supremacy is pretty nicely loaded out
- Accurate, "long" range guns
- Special hyperspace trakcing sensors
- huge planetary assault force
* A new form of *cloaking* seems to be common, at least on Resistance ships.
- it's more of a stealth mode than cloaking like the Stealth Ship from Clone Wars S2E16 that Anakin had
- no visual stealth effect
- can be countered if you know what to look for
* The first order has a ground based Siege Cannon based on Deathstar tech
- cut through a large blast door in a single shot
- has a decent charge time
- big, but low to the ground and is line of sight weapon, so limited effective range unless the terrain is very flat or otherwise favorable
* Long range wearable beacon that let you find people across vast distances are available
- and I'm surprised I haven't seen this as a bobble for the holiday season, but I may just not have recognized it yet.
* Yoda's Lightning attack is way better than Palpatine's
* A rough lower bound for hyperspace speed can be very roughly put together
- towards the end of the movie, Finn is is traveling in hyperspace a says something like "4.x parsecs left" as they are traveling toward the dramatic conclusion, on a time table.
- Can't recall exactly from memory and the internet does not seem to know yet
- Timetable is in the range of minutes, as the mission they left on, had an upper limit of something like 16 hours
* Heavy Bombers are now a thing
- The B/SF-17 seen in the trailers
- So many proton bombs
* Tracking ships through hyperspace without a beacon is now possible, but is new
- This also required as special sensor array with a dedicated power supply
- Present on Supremacy and presumed to be on the Resurgent class SDs by the Resistance
- Seems to have a limited range, but if you jump near the ship, they can track you
* Hyper Space ramming it a helluva thing
* Mandator IV Dreadnought
- The Auto cannons are huge
- And I was not impressed on a first watching
- I personally expect more from guns the size of cruisers
- The ships point defense is also woefully lacking, but atleast they hang a lantern on needing to launch fighters earlier.
* The Supremacy is pretty nicely loaded out
- Accurate, "long" range guns
- Special hyperspace trakcing sensors
- huge planetary assault force
* A new form of *cloaking* seems to be common, at least on Resistance ships.
- it's more of a stealth mode than cloaking like the Stealth Ship from Clone Wars S2E16 that Anakin had
- no visual stealth effect
- can be countered if you know what to look for
* The first order has a ground based Siege Cannon based on Deathstar tech
- cut through a large blast door in a single shot
- has a decent charge time
- big, but low to the ground and is line of sight weapon, so limited effective range unless the terrain is very flat or otherwise favorable
* Long range wearable beacon that let you find people across vast distances are available
- and I'm surprised I haven't seen this as a bobble for the holiday season, but I may just not have recognized it yet.
* Yoda's Lightning attack is way better than Palpatine's
* A rough lower bound for hyperspace speed can be very roughly put together
- towards the end of the movie, Finn is is traveling in hyperspace a says something like "4.x parsecs left" as they are traveling toward the dramatic conclusion, on a time table.
- Can't recall exactly from memory and the internet does not seem to know yet
- Timetable is in the range of minutes, as the mission they left on, had an upper limit of something like 16 hours