Why do the rebels have red lasers?

If I recall, the color of a blaster bolt (character-scale or starship scale) is determined by the quality of the gas used in it - higher quality gives you green, lower quality gives you red. The Rebellion didn't have access to the highest quality gas, and had to make do with the lower quality ammunition.
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Why do Imperial ships have green lasers?

Well the simple answer is that green lasers have more energy than red lasers. Rebels need to pierce storm trooper armor so they use high power green lasers. Storm troopers can get more shots at unarmored rebels using low powered red lasers with out recharging their blasters.
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Why are clone blasters blue?

Blue blaster bolts are one of the more unique colors in Star Wars lore. Used primarily in the Clone Wars, blue bolts are gases that have been ionized and work especially well against machinery. This is why the clones primarily used them.
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Is red laser stronger than green?

If you work mostly indoors, want to see the laser more clearly, and don't want to move the laser around as much, a green laser level will almost certainly outperform a red laser level.
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Can you make a white laser?

No one has been able to create a laser that beams white light. Researchers at Arizona State University have solved the puzzle. They have proven that semiconductor lasers are capable of emitting over the full visible color spectrum, which is necessary to produce a white laser.
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Why TIE Fighters Shot Green Bolts and X-wings Shot Red Bolts (Canon)



What are purple lasers used for?

Violet, the newest laser pointer color, has a stunning blue-purple glow at 405nm and is used in spectroscopy, fluorescence, microscopy, and more!
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Can Star Wars blasters run out of ammo?

Though blasters are not an easy weapon to use, they do have the distinct advantage of firepower. This advantage is two-fold: ammo capacity and lethality. Blasters can fire hundreds of bolts without reloading — we only see a handful of blaster users run out of ammo in the movies or television series.
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Do blaster wounds bleed?

As such, some blaster hits could cause bleeding instead of burning, or could do both, with the force of the impact being enough to rupture organs and break bone, especially if the target is armored in any way.
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Do blasters use kyber crystals?

Normal blaster weapons use the standard plasma and particle-based energy powered by gas munitions. Kyber crystals, as expected, acted as the primary firing mechanism for these blaster type weapons.
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Why does the TIE Fighter scream?

Sound designer Ben Burtt created the distinctive TIE fighter sound effect by combining an elephant call with a car driving on wet pavement. In the book The Sounds of Star Wars, the engine roar is likened to German Junker Ju 87 "Stuka" bombers, who used sirens to frighten civilians on raids.
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Who has a black lightsaber?

The Darksaber goes back to the time of Tarre Vizsla, the first Mandalorian to become a Jedi Knight. He created a one-of-a-kind lightsaber with a flat blade of dark, swirling energy. In the Star Wars Rebels episode “Trials of the Darksaber,” Fenn Rau shared more of the Mandalorian folklore surrounding the weapon.
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Why are TIE Fighters green?

The most common color was red because of its cheaper tibanna gas from Bespin. Green bolts were produced from a higher-quality gas, thus costing more. Blue bolts used ion-based charges for more effectiveness against electronic and mechanical targets, such as droids.
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Are Star Wars lasers Plasma?

This means that blaster bolts (glowing projectiles) are simply blobs of plasma – similar to a lightsaber flying through the air. Coherent masses of plasma and their associated magnetic fields are known as plasmoids.
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Why are some lasers Blue in Star Wars?

Blue lasers was used more by the imperial because they are ion lasers meant to take down walkers more effectively.
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How fast is a laser in Star Wars?

The average for these things is just 34.9 m/s (78 mph). This is in the ballpark of a baseball pitch. Compare this to the speed of a Nerf gun bullet at about 10 m/s.
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Do Blasters need to be reloaded?

In the Rouge One DLC for star wars battlefront 2015 Director Krennic used an older, less efficient blaster that had to be reloaded every six to eight shots. And the Republic Commandos used blasters that also needed to be frequently reloaded.
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Why do lightsabers not bleed?

Following that, every subsequent time a limb is amputated on-screen or a wound of any kind is inflicted by a lightsaber, the lightsaber flash-cauterizes the wound, resulting in little to no blood loss or any visible blood.
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Do Lasers cauterize?

Mid-infrared lasers with long wavelengths cut by burning. That is, they heat up the tissue to the point where the chemical bonds holding it together break down. Because they automatically cauterize the cuts that they make, infrared lasers are used frequently for surgery in areas where there is a lot of bleeding.
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How hot are blaster bolts in Star Wars?

We can say that a plasma bolt at 360,000 degrees would most likely vaporize any part of your body that it hit, if enough plasma is present. There is a problem with blasters shooting plasma, though. A plasma is made up of a soup of charge particles that will experience forces from electromagnetic fields.
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Do lightsabers need to be charged?

Under normal Jedi use, they simply recharge their lightsaber once every few years. The lightsaber expends minimal energy when it's just on. It uses more when cutting through matter or deflecting blaster bolts. Since they're so efficient, and Star Wars power cells are so powerful, recharging isn't a frequent occurrence.
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Is there a blue laser?

Blue beams are produced by helium-cadmium gas lasers at 441.6 nm, and argon-ion lasers at 458 and 488 nm. Semiconductor lasers with blue beams are typically based on gallium(III) nitride (GaN; violet color) or indium gallium nitride (often true blue in color, but also able to produce other colors).
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What are green lasers used for?

Reflecting back off of the dust and suspended particles in the atmosphere, a green laser provides a pointer beam allowing the user to trace out constellations and faint objects. Lasers can also be mounted on the optical tube assemblies of a telescope for pointing in lieu of a finder scope.
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Is it illegal to point a laser pointer in the sky?

Laser pointers can light your path or entertain your cat, but pointing a laser at an aircraft is dangerous and illegal.
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