Rifleman Archive

*Grasps bucket*

*Loses his breakfast, lunch and most of what he ate last week*

What! Did someone say a real to life shot of a T21! I'm there!

By the way, have any of you seen the fan movie "Troops"? That short flick is great

Haha, Way'ev, that was funny as hell. Tarq guys finally get to see a T21. Hey Onichi you can keep that bucket, I got my own now.

*pukes*

*walks outside, takes box of speed sliced T21's and hands it to a commando walking by*

Here, use your flamethrower on these please. If you think you can hit it.

*walks back in*

Hey save a seat for me, I want to see if this guy with a T21 gets killed by a rill.

The E-Web is technically in the same vein of weapon categorization that the T21 is in, that being the Repeating Blaster. The T21 is classified as a light-repeating blaster, a class the designated the weapon as operable and portable by a single person.

The E-Web is not a light-repeating blaster, it is a medium-repeating blaster. It is mobile, but not operable when not set up on it's tripod. And moving it is generally a two-person job, (though I'm sure a Wookiee or Trandoshan could move it by themself).

The next class would be the heavy-repeating blaster. It is not mobile, unless fixed on a vehicle of some sort. You saw these on JAbba's Sail Barge in RotJ. Usually it is motorized to allow a person to easily aim it.

Thanks DVader, hmmm I still think we should get it. I mean we are gunners too right? Would'nt a gunner be positioned with an E-Web since they understand the mechanics of repeating weapons? I mean sure Rockets, Flamethrowers and Gernades are a commando thing, unconventional weapons. Like D said the T21 is related to an E-Web, a repeating blaster. Well if the comandos do get it, maybe they'll make it a rifle type weapon.

-Enough of my covetous greed, did Greedo or Han Solo shoot first, I missed that scene?

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Zeritul wrote:

Haha, Way'ev, that was funny as hell. Tarq guys finally get to see a T21. Hey Onichi you can keep that bucket, I got my own now.

*pukes*

*walks outside, takes box of speed sliced T21's and hands it to a commando walking by*

Here, use your flamethrower on these please. If you think you can hit it.

*walks back in*

Hey save a seat for me, I want to see if this guy with a T21 gets killed by a rill.

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ummm i hope the fire insurance is paid on the Hall. i mean theres a comamando out there with a cigerette lighter out there. we better watch how close we let them get too.

/yell hey gaurd novices aim for the commando

don't worry he'll be fine, we all know they can't hit what they aim for just want to scare him back some .

/think maybe we should let the CM's join us in here. 1 good toss of disease and we're all done for.

naw screw that, /donate 1000000 lets build us some towers say 75m away from the hall and put the novices up there. they walk too loud on the roof can't hear the movie.

grabs a jawa beer from the fridge. mmmm fresh squeezed jawa's.

Wabit

People think I have a T21. It's actually a CDEF that I clamped a stove pipe around the barrel.

Where are the cute Twi'liks? they told me there would be cute Twi'liks...

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WayneInAustin wrote:

(Stops playing "Knights of the Old Republic" on the TV)

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What? You said we were watching a bootleg, pre-release copy of Episode III. Aw. I thought the plot was moving kinda slow, but I was just starting to get into it.

The infamous "Parsecs"!!!

Umm, parsecs. That was easy. Hey Dvader you got to be kidding me. Only a wookie or transdoshon could move an E-web. What about Bothans, I mean, look at me. I'm strong, I could put it all in my backpack. I had like 4 houses in my backpack one time, along with 20 crates of muon, assorted food and weapons. Hell, if I were to empty some space out I could probably carry the Millenium Falcon around with me.

*Jawa beer starting to affect judgement*

(Fumbles for the remote and fast-forwards past the Chuck Norris/Christy Brinkley infomercial)

"Hey! Who recorded this damm movie off the TV!"

(Thinks to himself, "Hmmm, I thought a parsec was a distance measure, not a time measure.")

Parsec is a measure of distance, a measure of huge distance, actually. There are ways of explaining it, of course,e specially since the Kessel Run goes very close to the Maw, a collection of black holes that make hyperspace jumps dangerous.

Exactly, DVader539, which of course was my follow-up question. Why did he brag about the "speed" of the Falcon by referencing a measure of distance? As you indicated, the hyperspace route from Kessel skirts the Maw, alarge cluster of black holes. Safe navigation of the Kessel run requires going around the Maw, putting as big of a distance between you and the Maw as you can. But the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, of course, so the fastest way to make the run is to cut as close to the Maw as you can. Thus, the bragging rights for having the speed record comes from having cut closer to the Maw than anyone else. Han, therefore, bragged about the distance the Falcon traveled, rather than the time in which he made it, at least in the movie version.

Okay, next two related questions:
1. Han has another significant connection to the Kessel run. What is it?
2. At this time in galactic history, there is something significant about the Maw. What is it?

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Sotaudi wrote:

Okay, next two related questions:
1. Han has another significant connection to the Kessel run. What is it?
2. At this time in galactic history, there is something significant about the Maw. What is it?

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1. Han and Chewie both get captured in the Spice mines of Kessel later only to be saved by Kip Duron

2. The prototype deathstar is in the maw, where it was constructed or just tested don't remember which.