If it was vaporized, then this requires an additional 62 GJ per ton, so if we think that grate was vaporized, then 46 times the power was expended, or the energy of about 207 thousand. If that was around 100 pounds of steel, (which requires 1.36 Gigajoules per ton to melt), then that blaster delivered at least 68 Mjoules- the power of 4500. Let's be generous and say Leia only melted that grate not vaporized it. The muzzle energy of a 50 caliber bullet is about 15 Kilojoules.
*Footnote ubergeek section: You can calculate the power comparison.
So even the most powerful fallout weapons are woefully underpowered compared to a hand blaster at maximum setting. Picture the raider in armor in place of the detention floor. A hostile in heavy Raider armor can survive a hit from a Gauss and all it is made of is scrap steel. It takes several gauss hits to do any significant damage. But look at the effect of Gauss weapons to the skin of a vertibird. Superficially, the blaster's bolts appear similar to those of Gauss Rifles. A blaster can deliver orders of magnitude more energy.īut this is geek talk, so lets get real so to speak. There are star wars lore explanations for these differences in apparent capability, but a non Star wars geek can be forgiven thinking that a blaster is roughly comparable in destructive power to a.
On the other hand, recall the time when Leia grabs one of her rescuer's blasters and fires it at the detention facility's floor The blast instantly melts or vaporizes a section of one inch thick steel metal grate, producing a hole large enough for them to jump through. On one hand you see the storm troopers shooting at Leia hiding at the entrance to an imperial facility on the Ewok planet, and the entrance metal is effectively deflecting blaster rounds. Well Michaela to be fair, there is a LOT of ambiguity about the power of weapons and defensive armor in the two universes.
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