# Star Wars Rebels Comes Back Tonight (2/19/18)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-rebels-comes-back-tonight-2-19-18/809124>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 19, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-rebels-comes-back-tonight-2-19-18/809124 "2018-02-19T16:10:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Silver\_lining](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Silver\_lining](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_lining)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-rebels-comes-back-tonight-2-19-18/809124/41 "2018-03-09T15:45:48Z")

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Star Wars is flawed Sci-fi, from a military/war point of view. They are supposed to be far ahead of 2018 earth, but in many ways, they are not.

For example, a modern automatic assault rifle is 10X better than a blaster. They use blasters firing one bolt at a time.

Do you want to take out a large ship or the death star? I guess a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away nuclear weapons were not around.

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-rebels-comes-back-tonight-2-19-18/809124/42 "2018-03-09T16:58:54Z")

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> [@Silver\_lining](#):
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> Star Wars is flawed Sci-fi, from a military/war point of view. They are supposed to be far ahead of 2018 earth, but in many ways, they are not.
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> For example, a modern automatic assault rifle is 10X better than a blaster. They use blasters firing one bolt at a time.

Baze Malbus’ repeater cannon in Rogue One fired quite a bit more than one bolt at a time.

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**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-rebels-comes-back-tonight-2-19-18/809124/43 "2018-03-09T19:24:22Z")

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I’ve always looked at Star Wars as Fantasy with a Sci Fi veneer.

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**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-rebels-comes-back-tonight-2-19-18/809124/44 "2018-03-09T19:39:53Z")

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We had a lot of backwards examples from Star Wars in that Bad Scifi Tech thread. It is not a plausible hard science universe, so you just have to live within the lines drawn.

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