He gets into the room the cannon is in at 7.25. It gets taken out at 8.13 and he does the feat at 9.07.
The cannon itself is an experimental prototype. The feat is pretty clearly unquantifiable.
Actually no. The other capital ship oposite fired the exact same lighting ball style laser to disable the weapon in the first place.
skip to at 8:14 of the video neph posted.
As for the feat it looks like Galen is just starting up the weapon with his powers as oppose to charging it, which is why the cylandars are sustaining themselves after he finished using the lightning.
Nah, the cylinders, which are generally down when the gun is active, stay up, and Galen has to transfer energy energy into them, which light up all the cylinders around it. he then blasts the front of it which pushes it. to fire, seems like he did it manually.
If it were automatic, I don't think he would of physically had to push the trigger.
Originally posted by Haschwalth
Nah, the cylinders, which are generally down when the gun is active, stay up, and Galen has to transfer energy energy into them, which light up all the cylinders around it. he then blasts the front of it which pushes it. to fire, seems like he did it manually.If it were automatic, I don't think he would of physically had to push the trigger.
The point is that people are claiming that Galen's three second lighting blast = the resulting blast that destroyed the enemy ship. If that were the case, the bolts would have annihilated the enitre room as soon they left his finger tips. An alternative (more appropriate) explanation is that Galen is providing the turbines enough power to spin allowing them to tap into to the weapons own power source before it fires. A bit like jump-starting a car with an allready full tank of petrol. Playing which light was on when is a semantic game and Galen "manually pushing the trigger" just means that the connection between the cannon and whatever remote device was used to controll the weapon would have been disabled after it got hit. And as we discovered before, the blue lightning-like orb emitted from the cannons barrel is standard for the device.
Originally posted by Haschwalth
Then we are in agreement because I've been stating it's probably the steel equilvent. Strong, and can manufacture a lot of it at a good price.
Except we know it's likely far stronger then steel... The upper limit for the durability of SW material is far higher then the upper limit for real world materials.
Originally posted by Nephthys
I actually did find what you're talking about and not only does that not change my point, but by the looks of it Starkillers shot is significantly different in that he forces the cannon to shoot everything in one shot whereas before it was shooting without overtly draining the energy tanks.The physical forces and stresses was what I was referring to. It would be much easier to destroy a ship that's already shredding under the pressure.
Also I find it pretty egregious that you're mixing and matching scenes between two contradicting sources. Starkiller doesn't charge the cannon in the book. And he doesn't destroy the ship in the game. He can't have done both.
The cannon is stated to be offline forcing Galen to charge it with his own energy. Not affect how much energy the gun is using from its own stores. I don't know how you came to that conclusion.
I'm not disagreeing there. Simply noting that the ship tearing apart would not be indicative of the shield's going offline. Especially given a corona had formed around the Salvation during its descent similar to the one that formed around the Invisible Hand in RotS.
Hey, it's all of you who've always nagged me to accept all C canon sources as equally valid. Now that I'm doing that, it's apparently not kosher.
Originally posted by Conty
Also if it was indeed his lightning that charged up a blast that could one shot a star destroyer it would have destroyed the cylinders and, probably the entire area Galen was standing in as soon as he unleashed it.
?? Why would a cannon designed to take out capital ships necessarily get overloaded by the energy needed to take out capital ships?
Anyway, I think a lot of the counters made to this feat have been rather convoluted mental gymnastics that don't match the physics of it really well, but I'm still debating whether I should save further conversation for my debate with Ant.
Originally posted by The Ellimist
?? Why would a cannon designed to take out capital ships necessarily get overloaded by the energy needed to take out capital ships?
Pretty contradictory stance by the detractors tbh. If it can contain the power necessary to carry out the feat they're attributing to it then it definitely has the ability to absorb/store that kind of energy in the first place.