---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: afinalunity@hotmail.com (DarkStar) Date: 29 May 2002 10:39:45 -0700 Subject: Re: [TECH] TIE fighter firepower Message-ID: <80ae86b7.0205290939.3cdf619e@posting.google.com> -------- Kayla wrote in message news:... > Let us analyze the meat of your post, the latter two paragraphs. I've > snipped the rest as irrelevant to the point. > Your analysis was excellent, but you and Elim both didn't allow for the idea of secondary explosions. Luke must have been shooting at something in particular, one would hope. I'm reminded of World War II strafing footage I saw recently. You see the gun camera view of the plane's bullets hitting a train, and the train blows up into a thousand pieces. This does not mean that the bullets were capable, by themselves, of blowing the train into a thousand pieces. Either the bullets blew the train's boilers, or ignited something highly flammable/explosive in one of the cargo cars. The same is probably true here. Luke was probably shooting at something on the surface that it would be good for the Rebels to shoot. It might have been a turbolaser tower, or a sensor cluster, or something. Whatever it was, there was something there that exploded violently when he shot it. This makes sense, since there are other scenes of people shooting the Death Star and only causing small flashes. So, either Luke suddenly ramped up his guns to 60 or 320 gigajoules to cook himself when they'd all been shooting less than that before, or else he hit something that caused a secondary explosion.