STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT BOWCASTER SERIES

In all Jedi Knight series of games, the bowcaster made an appearance. In the Super Star Wars video game, Chewbacca's weapon looks like his usual bowcaster but is referred to as an FD-011 crossbow. This is due to the retcon that Chewbacca made his out of a stormtrooper rifle. However, in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Chewbacca's weapon fires red bolts and in Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, Chewbacca's weapon fires yellow bolts. Most sources, including Revenge of the Sith, depict bowcasters firing green bolts. Martin's novelette 'And Seven Times Never Kill a Man', published in the July 1975 issue of Analog, on which Ralph McQuarrie's final Chewbacca concept art was based. The bowcaster was originally inspired by an illustration by John Schoenherr for George R.R. Variants of the bowcaster included the Assault bowcaster used during the Galactic Civil War and the Ceremonial bowcaster used in ceremonial hunts. However, all Wookiees were able to wield their cultural weapon with proficiency. One non-Wookiee individual who used a bowcaster was the Kyuzo bounty hunter Embo. In addition to its size, the exotic design of the bowcaster required a non-Wookiee user to have training in order to wield the weapon proficiently. The weight of the weapon, however, was no impediment to the massive strength of the Wookiees. These would sometimes have poison tips or explosive tips.Д«owcasters appeared huge to many non-Wookiees and even Jedi such as Olee Starstone doubted they could lift one, much less fire it. They also shot pure bolts that were not engulfed in energy. Some bowcasters could load multiple quarrels to create a spread-fire effect, further enhancing their close range effectiveness, while others could fire specially charged bolts that could ricochet off certain surfaces. While decreasingly effective beyond 30 meters, the bowcaster was more powerful and accurate than typical blaster weapons. To generate the requisite potential energy for conversion into kinetic energy, the cocking spring required the strength of a Wookiee to draw back, although some modern bowcasters featured automatic cocking mechanisms for use by other species. After cocking the weapon, a simple trigger sped the quarrel forward and charged it in an envelope of plasma. ДЄ polarizing orb sat at each end of the bow, generating a magnetic field used to accelerate the quarrels. A quiver of 10 quarrels cost 50 credits and weighed 1 kilogram.

However some Wookiees developed a bowcaster that fired pure blaster bolts and no magazine was required. The bowcasters were magazine-loaded with usually six to ten explosive bolts per magazine. In use as early as the Jedi Civil War, the bowcaster could unleash a explosive bolt with impressive stopping power essential to defend Wookiees against the fierce predators of Kashyyyk's forests. Artistry and firepower in one package.' вЂ• Clone commando RC-1138 ' I've always admired these Wookiee bowcasters.

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