

He made Kylo a chill dude, clever and calculating, menacing, imposing, heroic, sensitive, emotional etc while still keeping him the bad guy. Now then, for fighting against other things, like a landspeeder without shields/armor, blasters can fire at it without being provoked really easily.

What is the advantage of a blaster over a lightsaber?īasically, with enough training, the lightsaber warrior is unbeatable when armed and fighting someone with any handheld weapon.

Princess Leia in the beginning of ANH seems to use a Luger with a suppressor. In the Hand of Thrawn Duology, an assassin uses a gas that makes the laser blast invisible, but the shot was still heard. To the best of my knowledge, there were no silencers/suppressors in the Star Wars universe. WESTAR-M5 Blaster Rifle – An fully automatic blaster commonly found among ARC Troopers. What gun do clone troopers use?ĭC-17m Interchangeable Weapons System- The primary weapon, mainly used by Clone Commandos. EDIT: This answer has nothing to do with Rex being promoted to Commander in season 7, episode 9 of The Clone Wars. Some other clone commanders actually do this too. Most clone commanders just to chose to use the same weapon as their brothers, while Rex chose to use two pistols. He chose to use two to augment firepower.
