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The Rebel Alliance was saved by the v-150 Planet Defense Ion Cannon. How did the Rebel Alliance get the Hoth Ion Cannon? How did it Work? The story involves Kuat Drive Yards and Star Destroyers, as well as the remaining natives of Alderaan. See how the Hoth ion canon works, how much it cost, and how it was used by the New Republic.
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The thing is in the novelization of The Empire Strikes Back the ion bolts actually did far more damage to the Tyrant than just disabling her power systems and sending the ship spinning out of control from a combination of the kinetic force of the bolts and misfiring engines. In the novel the attack caused heavy physical damage to the ship with multiple large explosions breaching the hull. But then that was before they decided that ion weapons in SW only disabled and didn't outright destroy like they do elsewhere.
That's because an ion bolt is basically plasma encasing heavy ionic energy based on the speed, of the bolt, the size of the bolt, and the max distance the bolt can reach the bolt should not only deactivate on board systems but RIP through the hull of most ships.
Well, it, was less damage from the ion bolt itself, as it was secondary effects on systems (and by malfuctioning systems) on a ship that size trying to maintain position in a gravity well to begin with.
Ok. Virgin.... *puts on air pods and walks away*
Vinnie Moretz this is the most virgin comment I have ever seen in my life
@@richardhicks5031 "Ionic"? now isn't that quite 0:08
No wonder its OP
Its blessed by the sexiest star wars character: The Gonk Droid
Ahh yes here’s a nice fact The gonk Droid actually powered it using 0000000000000000000.1 of its power if it even used a little bit more it would be more powerful than starkiller base
@@calmgoodfire4662 Heck yeah
***slow suductive GONK***
@@atomicbuttocks i start getting kinky with gonk
@@atomicbuttocks Whoops! Wrong room. Sorry! *quickly closes door and leaves*
Good another very cool video
I only read like one of the books about the yuuzon vong, and I don't know exactly how ion the is suppose to work in the star wars universe, but it should still work on biological things. Maybe not as well, but also maybe better. Living things use electrical signals to do, well anything, and if ion the can disrupt electronics, it should be able to mess with a living things nervous system. But again, I know little about the yuuzon vong, and don't remember the specifics of ion tech, so could be very wrong.
On the left of the thumbnail the laser looks like an evil face
I used to play Star Wars online and these things where around then! Is star wars online cannon or legend? I can't be bothered keeping up with Disney anymore.
“It could easily hit the international space station”
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I had to just shake my head and chuckle at this
If Kuat's products are destroying each other both sides will want replacements and Kuat will make money.
Said every weapons dealer ever
I was today years old when I found out that 17 of the 30 transport ships fleeing from Hoth were destroyed......
I always assumed it was a hugely successful emergency evacuation!
that IS successful
It was the darkest day for the rebel alliance, and the greatest day for the 501st.
@@carlosandleon Odds worse than russian roulette: success?
@@WayStedYou I mean usually 0 would have gotten past
same
Head Rebel Technician: Well, it took 4 weeks, a lotta elbow grease, negligence of our closest relationships, 3 wampa attacks, and 13 injuries during construction, but we did it everyone. The Echo Base Ion Cannon is finally up and ready! Our accomplishment shall remain a testament of Rebel Can-do for-
PA system: Attention! Attention! The Empire has discovered our location! Prepare for evacuation!
Head Rebel Technician: :'(
1 Tuan-Tuan died in the making
Yah But that One Star Destroyer was all Like Leeroy Jenkins. Gets Disabled Fleet is all like God Damit Leeroy LOL.
Guess you could say it went tits up?
And people seriously can't understand how the bible was made up.... 🤦♂️
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Sound Quake fuck you beat me too it
More importantly, why aren't it's shots blue colored?
Lol they're so intense a blue your eye can't process it and to cope our brains percieve it as red/orange.
Jake Yatta yeah your right why aren’t they blue cuz in battlefront 1 the ion shots are blue
Jake Yatta good question
MetaNerdz Lore like how Chuck Norris threw a grenade that killed 50 people then exploded xD
Practical effects in the old movies
That's why the lightsaber was white not blue
The battle at Hoth scene was filmed at Finse in Norway. I think that they had people from the Norwegian Army playing as rebels.
Yes and some as snowtroopers as well. I have a friend from there who says the local old guys were actors for the set of episode v
They had blind people play storm troopers, its the only explanation, as to why they missed all the time
I also heard that they shot from inside while the actors froze on the outside
my view well that’s wrong stormtroopers have incredible accuracy
@@jacktheflash8478 unless they are shooting at plot armor. then they couldnt hit the broadside of a barn from the inside
“Prepare to fire Giant Boob Nipple Gun!”
Would give ESB a different feel
I have to admit when I was younger and played Battlefront 2 I thought this thing was reverse engineered remains of the death star.
When I was little I thought it was a Trade Federation Core Ship with a gun on the front lol
I see you people had a very good imagination
I just kinda went: “hey it’s a ball with a gun”
When I was little, they made me clean the gunk out of the exhaust fins
@@Elloliott same
KDY Star Destroyer gets electronics fried by KDY ion cannon
*Kuat Drive Yards*
"We can fix that for a "small" price"
lol KDY is the SW universe equivalent of BAE and Thales - selling war material to both sides!
The most expensive mammary gland I've yet seen.
What a boob
This comment is underrated
The most dangerous boob in the galaxy
666 commets
Ah 90's sideboob
Last time I was this early the empire was the republic
FakeNukeTC16 ·-· new galactic empire
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Last time I was this early Legends was still called the EU
Don't you have better things to be doing than proving your intellect on the internet? Nobody cares dude seriously quit being cringy
Noice comment. Underrated
Ah according to family guy known as "The boob Gun" 😂🔫
Panzer Raven leave it to family guy to be silly
DONT DO IT YOU HAVE SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR
Yeah saw that one coming
That’s what I said
Actually, they called it the Giant Boob Nipple Gun.
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When it comes to super-weapons, this one is an under-appreciated great. Pound for pound and credit for credit, probably the best investment of any of them too, seeing how well it did against Vader's personal fleet.
What's funny is an ion cannon like this one is impressive not only for its anti electronic warfare but based speed size and max distance of the bolt this thing should be tearing through hulls and giving out insta super cancer.
Based on size of the bolt it has a impressive plasma payload and the speed at which it travels indicates I would have a heavy impact on the hull the plasma would then warp the hull and then the heavy ionized energy would wipe out the ships electronics while also delivering a very very large amount of ionized radiation to the ship probably more than the ships hull can normally handle and with multiple hits to the ship the second bolt would do more damage as the shield wouldn't weaken it like it did the first bolt
Remember: "When in need, raid Kaut Drive Yards!!!" That is funny and a good strategy!!! Denial enemy for resource and possible strengthen our own resource!!
I wouldn't be surprised if KDY had a couple Rebel sympathizers on the payroll who conveniently had security/defenses at low alert or in maintenance when the raiders would come in.
"One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own"
@@Seraphil1 In the old EU stuff (around the time the fact files magazine was released) it was all but stated that KDY knowingly sold the alliance multiple of these.
So that's how the Rebels got all the parts for the Starhawks.
You really love Ion Cannons, huh.
Ashakari Singh I love defense cannons that leave a mostly intact ship I can salvage for my fleet later
Don’t you mean the giant boob nipple gun?
Well Ion cannons are pretty useful, so what is not to like about those guns, plus they make attacking ships hwlla easier by taking shields down
@@alejandroelluxray5298
Well, the energy requirements are pretty gnarly for one.
@@unintentionallydramatic it is worth it, though, capturing supplies or VIPs from enemy ships is always a valuable operation, and for that there's nothing better than a couple of Ion cannons
Star Destroyer: *minding it's own damn business*
Ion cannon: "I'm about to end this whole bois career"
In Legends the Star Destroyer is stolen by the rebellion and renamed Rebel Dream. So sad 😢
@@minecat1839 would be a wasteful undertaking. Ship might be disabled but still 20,000+ people aboard at least ¾ of them either have or has access to blasters, ammunition, explosives, home field advantage. Even if the ion blasts somehow disable small arms too, fixing bayonets and hand-to-hand combat is very much an option, especially with numerical superiority.
The Ion Cannon is left intact in the Star Wars Marvel comic storyline. Wedge Antellies winds up MIA in the Ion Cannon fighting off Wampas. It was a cool Star Wars comic.
Could you imagine a subjugator class dreadnought with these ion cannons instead of the stock ones
The ion cannons were also a part of every map in star wars battlefront elite squadron. You could capture a specific control point, and then, after it charged, fire the ion cannon at the enemy capital ship, in order to destroy its shields, allowing for you to finally board it.
Though I guess no one really cares about the game that much.
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Please do not raid Kuat Drive Yards. Every time the Rebellion hits Kuat, they cancel the company picnic that year.
Or as I call it, THE NIPPLE-ATOR
SPACE BOOB!!
It's a hoth cannon
It's the giant boob nipple gun
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Where's the other one?
@@The_Str4nger I was looking for that
Keep in mind that depending on the plantet size - one cannon will provide very small coverage - to cover a planet size of earth you would need at least 50 or so cannons - without including any co-firing coverage - and it would only get worse the bigger the planet is - there is also cost of not the guns alone - each gun would have to be protected from land attack - so each gun would have to be surrounded by a decent fortification + troops + their support = the cost grows exponentialy...
My loadout Ion cannon + proton torpedo. Paralyzed than finish them off.
lol..."When in need, raid Kuat Drive Yards"
I would like to point out that an ion cannon would indeed cause damage to bio-organic lifeforms. Our bodies have an electrical grid made up of neurons, so getting hit with a high enough charge from an ion cannon could potentially cripple a living creature for life. There may be other factors at play in specific situations, but it's an important factor not to forget about.
Not to mention the radiation and the fact ion bolts are generally a plasma ball encasing a payload of heavy ionized energy
Handheld Ion Disruptors can Disintegrate Organic Matter in Star Wars, you could probably convert those cannons to do the same thing to smaller Vong Ships.
A complete planetary shield costs around 6 million credits?!?! If they're so cheap (relative to most capital ships), why don't we see them all over the place? This is yet another frustrating example of how stats, figures and costs in Star Wars don't make much sense. Their rarity would imply much, much higher costs and difficulty in building and operating planetary shields... Yet apparently you could get 25 for the cost of a single ISD?!?
Yeah I agree it is pretty silly. I keep meaning to make a list of all these lore breaking stats to make a vid
@@MetaNerdzLore That would be a fun video to watch. On that note, while time-consuming, it'd be nice if Lucasfilm/ Disney commissioned a new stats book that tries to reconcile a lot of the crazy numbers and figures we have in Star Wars with the actual lore (and logic in general lol). There's a lot of stuff to update or re-include for the new canon anyways.
Never pointed out the Ion Cannon is used in Star Wars: Empire At War games. Though it is just an upgrade and may not see it. Yet when it is used. Double-tap those Imp ships and leave them defenseless lol.
Qardo it’s a building on the ground in ground battles if you built one
@@codename1176 Well, yes after I did realize that. Yet most times people rarely even bother try to do ground-based combat in SWEAW. As it was far cooler to see the Space Battles. So the Ion Cannon is only seen when it is fired.
@@Qardo Mhh. Depending on what ships you were packing it could debatably be superior to the imperial hypervelocity gun, because it was less likely to miss and would leave a ship defenceless.
the HVG would rip medium ships apart but couldnt do a whole lot to bigger ships and in turn, the Ion Cannon would render it immobile and unshielded for your fleet to tear up instead
"ion cannon firing" gave me ptsd
@@ThatIcy777 B-Wings tho.
the ultimate "I Win" card. the ONLY reliable counter to a swarm of them was was boba fett's seismic charges or a missile frigate... if you could keep it safe!
5:52 17 out of 30 were destroyed??!!! Smh. They should have just had the rebel escort pilots destroyed that ISD's [5:53] bridge with their X-wing's proton torpedoes... The bridge of the ISD is the only place that controls (I think) all of the guns on the ISD so destroying the bridge would have helped. And, there's no secondary command bridge on the ISDs either.
The Ion cannon is also in the old, but great game Star Wars:Rebellion. It is used mainly to allow you to get people off a blockaded planet from what I read. I guess it allows personel to leave without doing a skill check to see if they get captured.
The cannon is 1.5 mil and a star destroyer is 150 mil wouldn't just making 100 of those be cheaper than one star destroyer?
Yeah that is really silly to me especially when you consider how powerful it would be on a star destroyer
How it compares to turbolasers?
I think I prefer the original lore from the early 2000s, back when the Official Star Wars Fact Files were being released. The entries on KDY and the V-150 heavily implied that the Rebels got their Ion Cannons in a way that looked a bit like this:
*Alliance Representative walks into KDY sales bureau
KDY Sales Rep: Hello, how can I help you?
RA Rep: Hi, We'd like to buy some counters to those Star Destroyers you sell to the Empire.
KDY Sales Rep: Say no more, we got just the thing for you!
THAT is how the Rebels got their V-150s. They just straight up bought them directly from KDY.
So was it worth the credits?
Well we didn't exactly buy it...
Sure, you can’t just “dig it up and bungee it to a ship”, but you could have it mounted to a ship in the first place (like a modified GR-75) and add a retractable grounding spike. When it’s time to leave just pull up the spike and you’re ready to go.
but wouldnt that make it slower than it already is?
Lol shhhhh that's too logical for star wars. Why don't we see these on every capital ship? Why doesn't every world have a planetary shield? How would ships not develop counters to this, anti-ion tech, something like shooting at the plasma ball to break it up. Lol so many problems with every bit of star wars tech
MetaNerdz Lore xD yea thats true! though it would be hilarious to see, a giant ion cannon ball ontop of a GR75 transport
I feel the real issue is that kuat just really really likes to build things. To the point the planet may implode the day kuat drive yards goes under
Maybe they had a space UHAUL?
Hold up, planetary shields are only 6M credits?! Elon, make it happen! Generation Tech calculated that 1 credit is about $1 so let’s make this happen!!
In 1980 when I was 11 I asked why didn't they just point this at the snow Walkers and still ask that same question at 50 years old today
Guess it cannot be pointed that low thanks to its enormous construction. They have to decide, It will be always low, or pointing into the sky... You got it.
Don’t have anything to say just keep up the great work meta!
Lol thanks!
Be easy enough to get out of their range of fire to the left or right. So ya, it was pretty much a very, very expensive "one off" ground based weapon. It would be a great orbital platform possibly but still. Come from the far side of the moon or planet then land shock troops so once again- one off.
It would be ideal if it could be a network set up globally with no holes in the blockade. Then they have a shield that was similar to the death star to back it up. This planet or moon would basically be impenetrable. Yet, once again the invading force could merely wait you out because a frozen planet like Hoth wouldn't survive long without logistics from off world sources.
I never knew this gun was that big.
Prediction: Maybe it was already there?
How convenient
Damn you've been really stepping up the measurements in your videos. Props for doing the extra work, also do you just have a spreadsheet of prices and sizes?😂
Bro I swear you ask the the questions I didn’t know I wanted to know
So the Ion Cannon had an exterior made from " Permacite " the galaxies toughest material....was the Shield Generator made of Permacite ?
Also known as
" The Boobie gun"
Depending on what side of the galaxy your from🤷🏾♂️👽🤖
Real perky with a sting
Wouldn’t ionized radiation do a lot of damage to the living ships?
Kuat: "YOOOOOO, THIS IS LIKE, REALLY NICE"
"The first transport is away....................... the first transport is away" *Echo Base rebels cheering*
warhammernerd52 I think the Battle Of Hoth was probably inspired to some degree by the evacuation of Dunkirk in WW2
Nobady:
Star Wars: 2 Ion-Canons on a Mon Calamari Ship
Why am I thinking of the hero ship from _Battle beyond the Stars_ ??
sand
the weapon lack sand
Further proof the Gonk Droid is the real hero of star wars.
I always loved this cannon. It is basically a giant F U to any ship trying to blockade.
But a quick question though. Are you planning on doing other things beside Star Wars? Like continue the Halo vids, or things like Thunderbirds?
if not, are projects like the major city on Manaan, or Tantooine a project for future videos?
I never understood why instead of one massive ion cannon for fleet defense they didnt have smaller versions to repel ground attacks. I mean what General got fired for that one? The planetary shield was able to defend against any planetary bombardment so why not employ better ground defense instead of this behemoth which is good for one thing only and that is protecting evacuation ships. Smaller ion cannons used for both planetary and ground defense would have been smarter. The rebels knew what types of ground attack they would face but had shit ground defenses. One smaller ion cannon would have wreaked havoc with AT-AT and AT-ST attackers considering the longer range of the ion cannons. By building multiple smaller versions their combined firepower would still be a large deterrent to fleets and would have been deadly to ground attacks. Such shortsightedness was almost the end of the rebels.
Call me crazy but that ion canon clearly could of aimed at the at-ats
I like this idea, if it can do precision targeting all the way into space, it ought to be able to hit a terrestrial target. There's just the issue of the ground topography. The film shows the ion cannon mounted in the base of a mountain so it has a limited field of fire.
Older sources place the cannon in a different location than the shield generator, and didn't have a field of fire on it -- there's a map in the DK Locations book. The Empire would have been able to scan the base location from orbit and detect the energy signatures of the structures -- I think they had a good idea of what the base layout was and deployed their forces accordingly.
Here's a good compilation of the different ground layouts of Echo Base:
www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/158460-the-journey-back-to-echo-base/&do=findComment&comment=2916147
However, newer sources place the ion cannon in a firing arc that could have attacked the advancing AT-ATs. While this is good for art & entertainment to place the iconic elements in the same shot, it changes the dynamics of the battle incredibly. If the shield is strong enough to hold off the orbiting fleet, and the ion cannon could have hit terrestrial targets advancing on the main power generator, then clearly the priority is to use the big cannon to blow up the big slow walkers advancing through an open field and keep that generator up. Once the ion cannon took out the ground forces then they can disable the space forces, and THEN safely evacuate. No casualties.
If the ion cannon can protect the shield generator then the Empire should have used stealth and speed to their advantage. I'm imagining either a covert ops team placing explosives (which is exactly what the Rebels did at the shield generator on Endor) or a kamikaze swarm of speeders carrying warheads. We'll assume TIEs can't be used because they are too fast to fly through the shield and would have been easy pickings for the snowspeeders to be slowly moved through the shield perimeter and then launched.
If the ion cannon could have hit the AT-ATs the battle would have gone completely different. I believe this is why the DK locations book puts the ion cannon on the other side of the mountain.
How did they keep the snow and ice around the magnetic coils frozen ? The amount of heat this would generate would be enormous it would melt all the snow and ice around it lol
Lol......good point. #toologicalforstarwars
MetaNerdz Lore I wonder if you could make satellite variants of this and place them in orbit around a planet.
Also technically you could swivel this and fire at I dunno imperial walkers. Lol
The star wars universe probably has much more advanced reactor cooling systems, the same reason ships didn't just melt the second they turned into he hyperdrive
MCJon C3R34L K1LL3R that’s a dimensional shift..... it wouldn’t generate energy in the form of heat the reactor core would generate the heat. but yes I’m sure they have more advanced cooling but they still use radiators we know this because the tie fighter wings etc are radiators
Marcus yes well in the case of the cannon they probably just put the excess energy into the bolt of ventilated it at the top rather than the bottom.
I still don't know why it couldn't rotate down a bit and just take out the AT-AT's. They'd probably just fall over like the idiotic robotic camels they are.
Also, no transports were destroyed on screen...imperial apologist nonsense.
so at the low end its jsut 100k more than a Droideka *without the meat*
Lol yeah guess so
500K to 1.5 mil credits for an Ion Cannon?
That would be pretty useful for disabling warships so that they are much easier to capture.
They bought it on Ebay or Amazon!
a super transport? what type of ship would something like that be? maybe something around the size of an acclamator or something.
starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Transport_series
Edit: Only picture. starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Transport_XI
You can also use it and see it in Star Wars Empire at War. In skirmish games while in space the Rebellion can buy an upgrade for an ion cannon shot. And if you play the large-scale galactic battle when you put defenses on your planet if you put down an ion cannon, if any ground battle occurs you will be able to see the ion cannon on the planet.
yea these kinda ruin it kinda like light speed ramming. why have anything but 5 of these on any ship and a tiny laser to takeout helpless ships floating around without any power.
any large fleet should haveships with nothing but these and a few ships behind em with a few more laser cannon
its pretty easy to drill down in snow if there is only loose rocks... they use electric heated metal plates about manhole cover size. they found a ww2 plane under like 0.6 miles or more of ice and brought it up piece by piece and rebuilt it up top and tried to fly it(if i remember) out but it caught fire.
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Its also in “Star Wars: Rebellion” (PC). LNR maybe?
an awesome weapon, It might not have done a lot of direct damage to a star destroyer. but it left it powerless in orbit and likely on crash course unless they could resort power quickly
There was a short comic in one of the Star Wars anthology books, that wasn't officially canon, but I liked to think of it as Head-Canon, where Mon Mothma had a son who was a rebel soldier and fought at Hoth, more specifically, he was one of the troops defending the Ion Cannon and died defending it when Vader himself kicked in the door
*Guy who designed it back in 1980* : I just made it look like a boob, but this is cool, I guess...
When swollen, it fires a quantum lacto-ion blast or a steady stream...
imagine accidentally hitting their own ship xD
Geostationary orbit for Earth-sized planets is about 36,000 kilometers above the equator, putting it well beyond the optimal range for that thing.
Credits must be worth a lot and minimal inflation because if they are like US Dollars it means you could get 90 of those for the cost of one Falcon Heavy.
It’s probably a combination of technology making this type of technology cheaper and the huge size of the galaxy that makes this cheaper
In cannon the one in echo base was left intact but when they when back to get it the internals were destroyed. The source is The Rebel Files.
So the rebels had enough funds to put this on Hoth?, WOW! they were loaded 😂 with credits
He says in the video they stole them from kuat drive shipyards
SmokyBear 420 still would cause a lot installing it
@@typicalperson8206 on hoth cause of the terrain maybe but you gotta take in account in star wars there is entire companies that focus on mining entire planets dry of resources empire big example of this. And this practice isn't anything new so I'm sure they have special machine and robots that would make work we consider impossible or even difficult easy there by cutting back on cost not too mention you don't pay driods unless it's a ig38 then you better pay that driod even go so far as pay it double to make sure he likes your business
SmokyBear 420 yea true
They ordered it on amazon.
"Rebellions take guts, resourcefulness, and alarmingly powerful surface-to-orbit defense systems."
*Ion cannon: exists?*
*Death Star: hold my blaster*
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The nerdiest part of the internet. Welcome lol
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One giant problem with the geosynchronous orbit idea is that at a range of 4000km this would only shoot to about one tenth the altitude of a geosynchronous orbit around an earth equivalent planet.
having 2 of these cannon mount on 1 big capital flagship may be heavily modified Starhawk-class. I am sure these cannon can knock out the ship with the planet killer cannon, and send in all the commando and druid to take over the ship would not seem impossible now.
#GONK DROIDS!
Who to think this was made by kuat
I would have these dot the planet my military is on with shield's as well
Ion cannons are so op and cool
Not enough to defend Hoth tho
Some clone pilots loved the ball turret on the LAAT that after the the clone wars they just wanted to recreate it, and ended up with a big shooting ball
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And they left that cannon on Hoth when they evacuated.
Well if you mean by leave it as in having the crew hit the self destruct button then yes they "left" it on hoth
Do a video on the droids that jar jar and mace fought to save the queen
I wonder if copious amounts proton torpedoes fired surface-to-air/space would be feasible and cheaper for planetary base defense? Can proton torpedoes be launched and guided to their target in such manner? From what we've seen they don't seem to be fully-autonomous, self-guided weapons capable of semi-independent operation like Star Trek's photon and quantum torpedoes. They can be launched from a ship, shuttle, space station, planetside or from defense satellites armed with them and once a target is acquired, relayed to the weapon, and launched, it will seek and home in on the target until it hits, destroyed, redirected by gravity, etc.
Many real-life guided missile systems work similarly, most modern surface-to-air, anti-ship, air-to-air, air-to-surface, surface-to surface and underwater torpedoes all can or exclusively do work semi-independently of the launch platform once fired.
Ion Cannon is inaccurate, I thought the in-universe lore named this weapon as the Giant Boob Nipple-Gun.
Hadnt thought about this before, but it should have still been effective against the vong. It scrambles electricals. That should also still apply to organics. Unless intercepted, it really should be like gods taser to organic craft/beings/systems....
is this intentional?: the optimal range of the gun is 4000 km but a geosynchronous orbit (at least on earth) is at roughly 36000 km height. Did Star Wars screw this up or did you forget a 0 for the range? Or is it normal to operate the gun with space stations outside its optimal range?