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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.
Granted an audience with the Mandalorian privateers, Bo-Katan challenges Woves for leadership and defeats him. Woves tries to goad Bo-Katan into challenging the Mandalorian for the Darksaber, telling her that the true ruler of Mandalore should possess the ancient weapon. Bo-Katan reasons that in order to retake Mandalore, they should stop ...
Migs Mayfeld is a former sharpshooter from the Galactic Empire, which has fallen out of power by the time that The Mandalorian is set. [1] [2] [3] He uses two blaster pistols, as well as a third blaster controlled by a droid arm attached to his backpack, [4] [5] [6] which he can extract and retract as necessary for additional firepower. [7]
The blaster made for the 1977 film A New Hope was lost, and a second blaster was made with resin from the cast used for the first one. The blaster was subsequently used as a prop in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. [3] Other heavy repeating blasters were Lewis light machine guns with the barrel shroud and pan magazine removed.
Moff Gideon (/ ˈ m ɒ f ˈ ɡ ɪ d i ə n /) is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise who first appeared in the Disney+ television series The Mandalorian, where he is the main antagonist of its first three seasons.
The Woolworth's store is notable as the site of the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960. [2] [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, with a reevaluation in 2003, and boundary adjustments in 2023. [1] The most recent changes included adding city and country government buildings completed by 1975. [4]
J. Douglas Galyon Depot, [1] also known as Greensboro station, is an intermodal transit facility in Greensboro, North Carolina. Located at 236 East Washington Street in downtown Greensboro, it serves Amtrak passenger rail and is the city's main hub for local and intercity buses. The station was built in 1927.
This is a list of airports in North Carolina (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.