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Force Pike
The following is a list of weapons shown in the ''Star Wars'' universe. By type Directed-energy weapons Directed-energy weapons (DEW) figure prominently in the ''Star Wars'' franchise, with the most common type referred to as lasers or blasters. The in-universe description for how these weapons function is that a high-energy gas is charged by a power cell and converted into plasma, which is fired as a coherent energy bolt at the enemy via magnetic bottle effect. Small-arms blasters come in many types, from pistols to rifles, with accuracy and range improving as barrel length increases.Luceno, et al. (2018), p. 15 Blaster cannons and laser cannons are more powerful types of these weapons commonly found on ''Star Wars'' vehicles, starfighters and other spacecraft, with laser cannons generally considered superior of the two. The most powerful type of these weapons are referred to as turbolasers, commonly found on ''Star Wars'' capital ships. Turbolasers require large crews and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Wars
''Star Wars'' is an American epic film, epic space opera multimedia franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the Star Wars (film), eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide popular culture, pop-culture Cultural impact of Star Wars, phenomenon. The franchise has been expanded into List of Star Wars films, various films and Star Wars expanded to other media, other media, including List of Star Wars television series, television series, Star Wars video games, video games, List of Star Wars books, novels, List of Star Wars comic books, comic books, List of Star Wars theme parks attractions, theme park attractions, and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, themed areas, comprising an all-encompassing fictional universe. ''Star Wars'' is one of the List of highest-grossing media franchises, highest-grossing media franchises of all time. The original film (''Star Wars''), retroactively subtitled ''Episode IV: A New Hope'' (1977), was followed by the sequels ''The Empire Strik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscillator
Oscillation is the repetitive or periodic variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value (often a point of equilibrium) or between two or more different states. Familiar examples of oscillation include a swinging pendulum and alternating current. Oscillations can be used in physics to approximate complex interactions, such as those between atoms. Oscillations occur not only in mechanical systems but also in dynamic systems in virtually every area of science: for example the beating of the human heart (for circulation), business cycles in economics, predator–prey population cycles in ecology, geothermal geysers in geology, vibration of strings in guitar and other string instruments, periodic firing of nerve cells in the brain, and the periodic swelling of Cepheid variable stars in astronomy. The term ''vibration'' is precisely used to describe a mechanical oscillation. Oscillation, especially rapid oscillation, may be an undesirable phenomenon in pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Star Wars Story
The ''Star Wars'' franchise involves multiple live-action and animated films. The film series started with a trilogy set ''in medias res'' which was later expanded to a trilogy of trilogies, known as the "Skywalker Saga". The 1977 self-titled film, later subtitled ''Episode IV – A New Hope'', was followed by the sequels '' The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980) and '' Return of the Jedi'' (1983), respectively subtitled onscreen as ''Episode V'' and ''Episode VI''; these films form the original trilogy. Sixteen years later, the prequel trilogy was released, consisting of ''Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'' (1999), '' Episode II – Attack of the Clones'' (2002), and ''Episode III – Revenge of the Sith'' (2005). After creator George Lucas sold the ''Star Wars'' franchise to Disney in 2012, a sequel trilogy consisting of ''Episodes VII'' through ''IX'' was released, consisting of '' Star Wars: The Force Awakens'' (2015), '' The Last Jedi'' (2017), and ''The Rise of Sky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donnie Yen
Donnie Yen Chi-tan (; born 27 July 1963) is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, and action director. Yen is one of Hong Kong's top action stars. Yen is widely credited for bringing mixed martial arts (MMA) into the mainstream Asian cinema by choreographing MMA in many of his films since the early 2000s. The first Chinese UFC champion Zhang Weili states that Yen's films introduced her to MMA. Yen has displayed skill in an array of martial arts, being well-versed in Tai Chi, Boxing, Kickboxing, Jeet Kune Do, Hapkido, Mixed Martial Arts, Taekwondo, Karate, Muay Thai, Wrestling, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Hung Ga, Sanda, Judo, Wing Chun, and Wushu. One of the most popular film stars in Asia of the early 2000s, Yen is consistently one of the highest-paid actors in Asia. Yen earned HK$220 million (US$28.4 million) from four films and six advertisements in 2013. Yen is credited by many for contributing to the popularisation of Wing Chun in China. He portrays Wing Chun grandmaster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chirrut Îmwe
The Guardians of the Whills are a faction in the fictional universe of the ''Star Wars'' franchise. The Guardians are depicted as an organization of ascetics who revere the Force, a metaphysical concept in the ''Star Wars'' fictional universe, though unlike the Jedi or the Sith, they do not appear to wield overtly supernatural powers derived from their connection to the Force. The term Whills originated from unused in-universe elements and story treatments by series creator George Lucas for the franchise's film series, most notably the ''Journal of the Whills, Part I'' (Lucas's earliest known draft for the first film). Following the acquisition of Lucas' company Lucasfilm, Ltd. and the ''Star Wars'' intellectual property by The Walt Disney Company in 2012, the term is repurposed and reintroduced as the Guardians of the Whills, an esoteric monastic order who protect visiting pilgrims to a sacred temple located in the planet Jedha. A blind Guardian named Chirrut Îmwe and his comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joonas Suotamo
Joonas Viljami Suotamo (; born 3 October 1986) is a Finnish actor and former professional basketball player. He is best known for his role as Chewbacca in the ''Star Wars'' saga, taking over the role from Peter Mayhew, first as a body double, with '' Star Wars: The Force Awakens'' (2015), and later as the lead in '' Star Wars: The Last Jedi'' (2017), '' Solo: A Star Wars Story'' (2018) and in '' Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker'' (2019). Early life and education Suotamo was born in Espoo. In his youth he performed roles as a stage actor. Suotamo attended Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and played the power forward and centre positions for the Penn State Nittany Lions. With childhood interests in music, arts, and movies he studied film and video at PSU. He was a strong academic performer at Penn State, where he was twice named to the Academic All-Big Ten team, and graduated in years with a Bachelor of Arts degree in December 2008 in order to fulfill his Finnish conscription ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Mayhew
Peter William Mayhew (19 May 1944 – 30 April 2019) was a British-American actor. He was best known for portraying Chewbacca in the ''Star Wars'' film series. He played the character in all of his live-action appearances from the 1977 original to 2015's ''The Force Awakens'' before his retirement from the role. Early life Peter Mayhew was born on 19 May 1944, in Barnes, Surrey. At the age of 8, he was diagnosed with gigantism. Some news outlets have mistakenly reported that he either " idnot have gigantism" or that he had Marfan syndrome. His peak height was . Career Early work Mayhew gained his first acting job when the producers of ''Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger'' (1977) discovered him from a photograph in a newspaper article about men with large feet, and cast him in the role of the Minoton. ''Star Wars'' When casting the original ''Star Wars'' (1977), director George Lucas needed a tall actor who could fit the role of the hairy alien Chewbacca. He originally had i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chewbacca
Chewbacca ( ), nicknamed "Chewie", is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise. He is a Wookiee, a tall, hirsute, bipedal, intelligent species originating from the fictional planet of Kashyyyk. Chewbacca is the loyal friend and first mate of Han Solo, and serves as co-pilot on Solo's spaceship, the ''Millennium Falcon''; together they help the Rebel Alliance defeat the Galactic Empire and restore freedom to the galaxy. In the original trilogy, Chewbacca is portrayed by Peter Mayhew. Mayhew shares the role with his body double, Joonas Suotamo, in the first episode of the sequel trilogy, '' Star Wars: The Force Awakens''. Suotamo took over the role in the next episode, ''The Last Jedi,'' and reprised it in the anthology film '' Solo: A Star Wars Story'' and the final sequel trilogy film, ''The Rise of Skywalker''. The character has also appeared in numerous works within the Expanded Universe, consisting of television series, books, comics, and video games. Characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crossbow
A crossbow is a ranged weapon using an elastic launching device consisting of a bow-like assembly called a ''prod'', mounted horizontally on a main frame called a ''tiller'', which is hand-held in a similar fashion to the stock of a long firearm. Crossbows shoot arrow-like projectiles called '' bolts'' or ''quarrels''. A person who shoots crossbow is called a ''crossbowman'' or an '' arbalist'' (after the arbalest, a European crossbow variant used during the 12th century). Although crossbows and bows use the same launch principle, the difference is that an archer must maintain a bow's draw manually by pitching the bowstring with fingers, pulling it back with arm and back muscles and then holding that same form in order to aim (which distresses the body and demands significant physical strength and stamina); while a crossbow utilizes a locking mechanism to maintain the draw, limiting the shooter's exertion to only pulling the string into lock and then releasing the shot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wookiee
Wookiees () are fictional humanoid aliens in the ''Star Wars'' universe, native to the forest planet Kashyyyk. They are distinguished from humans by their gigantism, hirsutism, and physical strength. The most prominent Wookiee is Chewbacca, co-pilot of the ''Millennium Falcon'' alongside his best friend Han Solo. Inspiration According to an interview with creator George Lucas, the inspiration for the Wookiee was Lucas's dog, Indiana (whose name is used in Lucas's Indiana Jones movies): "He was the prototype for the Wookiee. He always sat beside me in the car. He was big, a big bear of a dog." During the climactic chase scene in ''THX 1138'', one of the robotic cops, voiced by actor Terry McGovern, improvises: "I think I ran over a Wookiee back there", and thus the word was born. "Wookey" was the surname of a friend of Terry's, Ralph Wookey, and Terry thought it would be a funny in-joke to include his friend's name in the soundtrack for ''THX-1138''. In one episode of Animal P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxidizer
An oxidizing agent (also known as an oxidant, oxidizer, electron recipient, or electron acceptor) is a substance in a redox chemical reaction that gains or " accepts"/"receives" an electron from a (called the , , or ). In other words, an oxidizer is any substance that oxidizes another substance. The oxidation state, which describes the degree of loss of electrons, of the oxidizer decreases while that of the reductant increases; this is expressed by saying that oxidizers "undergo reduction" and "are reduced" while reducers "undergo oxidation" and "are oxidized". Common oxidizing agents are oxygen, hydrogen peroxide and the halogens. In one sense, an oxidizing agent is a chemical species that undergoes a chemical reaction in which it gains one or more electrons. In that sense, it is one component in an oxidation–reduction (redox) reaction. In the second sense, an oxidizing agent is a chemical species that transfers electronegative atoms, usually oxygen, to a substrate. Combust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurra Sing
This incomplete list of characters from the ''Star Wars'' franchise contains only those which are considered part of the official ''Star Wars'' canon, as of the changes made by Lucasfilm in April 2014. Following its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in 2012, Lucasfilm rebranded most of the novels, comics, video games and other works produced since the originating 1977 film ''Star Wars (film), Star Wars'' as Star Wars expanded to other media, ''Star Wars Legends'' and declared them non-canon to the rest of the franchise. As such, the list contains only information from the Skywalker Saga films, the 2008 animated TV series ''Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series), Star Wars: The Clone Wars'', and other films, shows, and video games published or produced after April 2014. The list is organized in humans and various alien species. No Droid (Star Wars), droid characters are included, so for those, see Droid (Star Wars)#List of droid characters, the list of ''Star Wars'' dro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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