Д«laster small arms come in a range of sizes, from small hand-held blasters to carbines and larger laser rifles.

The least expensive type of gas generate red-colored particle beams, while more expensive gases produce a green particle beam. This also results in different coloration depending on the gas used. Дifferent types of gas are used as blaster ammunition, such as the fictional Tibanna gas found in the lower atmosphere of Bespin used to power weapons and other devices. A more powerful blaster bolt also generates more recoil which can make it more difficult to use the weapon. 5В m (1В ft 8В in) wide in a wall made of the fictional material ferroconcrete when set on maximum power, but doing so consumes more gas and reduces its ammunition capacity from 500 shots to 300. For example, the DC-15 blaster rifle used by clone troopers can blast a hole. Д«laster weaponry can vary the intensity of their output, generating bolts of greater destructive power but with corresponding trade-offs. Prolonged use will also result in overheating the weapon, which can be counteracted by utilizing alloys with greater heat resistance, and employing heat-dispersal vents and cooling packs and compressors. The longer the barrel the more collimating components it can be fitted with to rectify these problems for increased range and accuracy. However the bolt's inherent instability is a limiting factor in precision aiming, and it will start to lose coherence while traveling to the target as the plasma dissipates. This plasma is fired through collimating components in the barrel such as galven circuitry and focusing lens to emerge as a coherent energy bolt held together via magnetic bottle effect. When the trigger is pulled, high-energy gas is excited by a power cell and converted into plasma. The inner workings of blasters essentially create particle beams to pierce, melt and disintegrate targets. In that film, the Republic employed green and blue blaster fire and attacked from the right, while the Separatists employed red blaster fire and attacked from the left. In Star Wars: Episode II вЂ“ Attack of the Clones, the second film of the prequel trilogy, the color and the direction were reversed. In the Star Wars original trilogy, rebels employed red blaster fire and often attacked from the left, while the Empire employed blue blaster fire, using green blaster fire only with TIE Fighters, and attacked from the right. Like in Ran, color-coding and an 'onscreen sense of direction' of blaster fire are used to depict opposing forces. In a chapter of the book Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars, Michael Kaminski, writing about the influence of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa on the Star Wars films, said that Kurosawa's Ran influenced the exchange of blaster fire. Burtt hit the guy-wire of an AM radio transmitter tower with a hammer and recorded the sound with a microphone close to the impact. Д«en Burtt, a sound designer who worked on the Star Wars films, came up with the sound of blaster fire during a family backpacking trip in the Pocono Mountains in 1976. These blank cartridges are responsible for the muzzle flash seen on screen and, in some scenes, the cartridges themselves can be seen being ejected from the guns, or the actual sound of the blank cartridge is not dubbed over by a sound effect.

Stormtrooper wielding the E-11 blaster rifleДЇunctional Sterlings firing blank cartridges were used in some scenes with the laser bolt added later in post-production. Several design changes were made by the filmmakers, such as alterations to the magazine. The iconic E-11, a standard mid-range weapon used primarily by stormtroopers, is based on the real-life Sterling sub-machine gun used by the armed forces of the United Kingdom over the second half of the 20th century. They are also said to be able to be modified with certain add-ons and attachments, with Han Solo's blaster being said to be illegally modified to provide greater damage without increasing power consumption. Many blasters mirror the appearance, functions, components, operation, and usage of real life firearms. Lucasfilm defines the blaster as 'ranged energized particle weaponry'. Plot element from the Star Wars franchiseДЄ blaster is a fictional gun that appears in the Star Wars universe. (the prop is based on the frame of a real Sterling submachine gun).

An E-11 blaster rifle, the standard issue weapon used by Imperial stormtroopers

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