What's the deal with torps and missiles?

What's the deal with proton torpedoes and concussion missiles? You notice, they're the only two projectile types in all these years of books. Disregarding the creative stuff of Black Fleet (T-33 plasma torps aka heavy ion torps, flechettes, etc) . . . why aren't there more torpedo names, variety?

 

Largely its because both are recognizable and frankly peopl don't want K or E wings, they want X-wings. Same principles apply with Proton torpedoes.

In universe, proton torpodoes covers a wide range of ordinance types...its just short hand for one of the two main types of projectile weapons

 

Plasma bombs in The Black Fleet Crisis were observed to pack a lot more punch than Proton torps. Also we observe anti-capital ship CM-6 mounted on K-wings.

Again a lack of continuity.

 

On Black Fleet Crisis' part, not the rest of the EU.

 

No reason why the rest of the EU should ignore what was written by others. Time and time again are we told the X-wing was superceded by the E-wing and others. Only thing that saves the X-wing from obsolence is continued upgrades that aren't really major till the XJ-wing.

 

People want Black Fleet Crisis' stuff to be incorporated, it was ONE book people. Let it go.

 

Okay, so Black Fleet had ion torpedoes. I'm not comparing to all the Earthian missile names like sidewinder, tomahawk, etc---but since HTTE all there's been are two name types, and I think there's allowed to be more, don't you think?

 

There were Mag pulse torps. But those disappeared too. One would think the technology was recovered somehow.

And those Plasma torps were observed to slag a thrustship with one shot.

 

Thrustships are rather weak and diminutive compared to the finest of the Imperial Navy; I am not surprised that such technologies were marginal with a larger and more professional force like the Imperials.

 

What I'm saying is you might have Vorsknyr, bantha, and Kitten Proton Torpedoes

It's the difference between ROCKETS and BOMBS

You can call a Nuclear Missle anything you want but largely its just a nuke to most people.

 

People want Black Fleet Crisis' stuff to be incorporated, it was ONE book people. Let it go.


It was three books, but so was TTT or JAT....should we not include those? Or let's make no reference to the original three X-Wing books. There's no difference. BFC is part of the EU and should be incorporated as such.

 

The obvious answer is that they're books based on movies and everyone wants to hear about the things they saw in the films in other material...

 

[It was three books, but so was TTT or JAT....should we not include those? Or let's make no reference to the original three X-Wing books. There's no difference. BFC is part of the EU and should be incorporated as such.]

Okay, here's my EU solution

"The new class ships were hated by everyone and proved to be government pork after all the countless problems and designs lead to a near revolt by the military to go back to old designs. K-wing still means 'a flying piece of junk' to most pilots."

 

The obvious answer is that they're books based on movies and everyone wants to hear about the things they saw in the films in other material...

Masterskywalker, are you saying seeing "proton torpedo" is thrilling for a reader?

How about alternative words, like saber missile or talon torp; I'm just curious why it has to be the same two proton/concussion names for over a decade.

 

Again

It's the name for the class

Otherwise its "What's more powerful a Bantha class or a Skywalker class"

 

The big problem is that all the launchers and magazines are internal. For good reason, since those can't be easily changed, the Republic would want to standardize within a class what its fighters can carry (else you might end up squadrons mixing types, greatly increasing the necessary parts base, and making the mechanics' lives much more difficult). They wouldn't want to change those partway through a fighter's production life, either--it'd be a bitch to retrofit all the older fighters.

Alas, ANH gave us X-wings and Y-wings with proton torps, so those were locked down then and there. A-wings (and the Falcon) get concussion missiles, which are different for them. So... dunno when the B-wing got the already-used proton torpedoes (B-wing? if so, I understand why they did it, then), but it's the only thing you can really blame for the lack of originality.