That depends on who the writer is. But a helpful equivalent might be to imagine trying to do the same thing to something like a laptop battery. It’s certainly possible, and probably not all that difficult under controlled circumstances. But doing it on a whim, “in the field” is probably difficult to accomplish on purpose, and there certainly isn’t a button you can press to make it happen because that would be incredibly dangerous to have on something you carry with you and use every day.
I guess I don’t know enough about light saber physics to know what kind of modifications you’d have to make. But it’s a least something a rogue could do with it; nothing’s as good as a blaster at your side.
Yield depends greatly on the shield and laser settings. The only reason that one instance goes the way it does is because the shield were set to protect from a single direction, at full power, and the lasers were randomly sweeping the ground at maximum power trying to blindly roast stragglers. The single direction setting on the shield carried the most weight, usually the energy would be roughly evenly divided in all directions. In more standard fights with average shield use and laser settings, you are going to get a blast closer to a fragmentation grenade than a nuke. The biggest problem is it will happen at a completely random point along the beam, so it still isn’t an attractive proposition.
I read it years ago but I remember they try the shield with a laser on a moon and the result scares the builder of the shield. And they don’t do anything fancy. Just shooting a normal military laser to an active personal shield.
Can you set a laser sword to overcharge and blow up?
That depends on who the writer is. But a helpful equivalent might be to imagine trying to do the same thing to something like a laptop battery. It’s certainly possible, and probably not all that difficult under controlled circumstances. But doing it on a whim, “in the field” is probably difficult to accomplish on purpose, and there certainly isn’t a button you can press to make it happen because that would be incredibly dangerous to have on something you carry with you and use every day.
I guess I don’t know enough about light saber physics to know what kind of modifications you’d have to make. But it’s a least something a rogue could do with it; nothing’s as good as a blaster at your side.
And if that doesn’t work, have your Wookie friend start tearing arms off.
In Dune, yes. Shooting a shield with a laser creates a nuclear explosion equivalent.
Yield depends greatly on the shield and laser settings. The only reason that one instance goes the way it does is because the shield were set to protect from a single direction, at full power, and the lasers were randomly sweeping the ground at maximum power trying to blindly roast stragglers. The single direction setting on the shield carried the most weight, usually the energy would be roughly evenly divided in all directions. In more standard fights with average shield use and laser settings, you are going to get a blast closer to a fragmentation grenade than a nuke. The biggest problem is it will happen at a completely random point along the beam, so it still isn’t an attractive proposition.
I read it years ago but I remember they try the shield with a laser on a moon and the result scares the builder of the shield. And they don’t do anything fancy. Just shooting a normal military laser to an active personal shield.