@CaptainXtra  
They’re based on The Empire, of course they’re like Stormtroopers…

The tag stormtroopers is wrong, its a First Order Trooper.

what happened to the Rainbow Dash version?

@Background Pony #6C27  
It looked like it was gonna be pretty lethal when he was ready to bring it down on Finn’s head. That thing has some definite weight to it.

There’s nothing particularly special about his weapon folks, it’s a riot control baton used to suppress resistance from natives in First Order territory. Nowhere near as lethal as a lightsaber, even though it can resist it.

@PwnyPony  
Hard light constructs are generally treated as doing the opposite of passing through everything they touch. :P

Traitor :3

@PwnyPony  
No definitive explanation has ever been given for what a lightsaber is, though I’m pretty sure hard light isn’t one of the common theories.

@Eeveeinheat  
Sometimes I am glad he did not do what he did there. So happy he did not overdo it on the lens flare effects in starwars.

@Background Pony #BE91  
Honestly, I’m surprised it didn’t make a black hole. The densities were great enough that the Schwarzschild radius was almost certainly outside a lot of the matter’s physical radius. Maybe he just didn’t want another scene to be like the one that destroyed the Vulcan homeworld in his other movie?

@Background Pony #3F0C  
I call it World of Warcraft in Space.

@Keith Mowz  
I thought sabers were hard light?

@Keith Mowz  
The potential for the largest explosion this side of a supernova, and Abrams went the other direction. Where’s Michael Bay when you need him?

@Background Pony #3F0C  
Things like light speed travel, containing plasma into blaster shots and laser swords, having mental magic that lets you read minds and telekinetically move objects, that’s all easy to suspend my disbelief over. Even most of my complaints were things I didn’t actually notice at the time they were happening. But they done fucked it up at the last minute. As Marvin would say, “Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom.” That weird, slow, half-assed gentle collapse back into a star ruined my immersion and made me question how it was supposed to work because it was no longer being narratively consistent.

@Eeveeinheat
 
@Keith Mowz  
You two realize this comes from the same universe that gave us space monks, weapons of light speed grade and commonly used FTL drives…
 
What do we call something like this? Not Science Fiction cause that would be Star Trek territory. We call it Science FANTASY!
 
God, some people can’t just sit back and enjoy a movie can they…?

@Mori  
I want to believe.

@Drefsab  

@Mori  
Considering he got blasted by Chewie’s bowcaster, probably not.

I mean, Star Wars has never claimed to be realistic. That’s why it’s sci-fi. Storing a star’s energy is no more implausible than traveling at millions of times the speed of light, creating a moon-sized base that unleashes the same amount of energy in one second as a star creates in thousands of years, or using space magic to read someone’s mind.

I hope he will return in Star Wars VIII.

@Eeveeinheat  
Don’t forget that containment field somehow preventing all that stellar mass from gravitationally affecting… anything really. Even imagining you could somehow squeeze a star into a planet (which would require squishing it down to about one millionth the star’s original volume by the way) especially with the ideal gas law shooting the temperatures into scientific notations of degrees (At which point even things like neutrons fucking melt) and contain it in a plasma field or something so the heat isn’t an issue, that doesn’t stop gravity from being a thing that extends even through a vacuum. And that the time and energy required to suck up that stellar mass is orders of magnitude more than it would take to just suck up the target planets instead.
 
And then when the containment field is ruptured, the planet gets all crackled and then just sort of crumbles and the star casually reinflates to its normal size with no consequences from all of that whatsoever. And that is what broke my suspension of disbelief, that slow, obvious non-explosion. (That somehow doesn’t catch and fry all of the casually leaving starships when expanding outwards 50 or so planet diameters and presumably having its gravity be a thing again)

Haha, awesome!

@Background Pony #BE91  
And yet they could build an entire super weapon into a good chunk of a planet. Just face it, it isn’t logical. No matter how rare the material is, it could be given to most troopers if they have that kind of resources to throw away. Also, I can’t imagine making a containment field strong enough that it can contain a star’s entire mass in a small enough area without also making a black hole to be easier than making a small containment field of plasma.

@PwnyPony  
Because the material required to make said weaponry was either rare or expensive. No point in spending thousands to make a single weapon when you can get a dozen blasters for the same price and overwhelm your enemy with massed firepower.

He died for our spins