Ion cannons make great tree cutters.
They also make great tree vaporizers.
Apocalypse: Dirge Of Swans.They're also good for shooting at the people you are trying to plant traps for.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Ah, how annoying it is for scientific terminology to interfere with your cool futuristic gun ideas. Ion and plasma weapons are semantically identical, because plasma is literally ionized matter. They should call a weapon that disables electronics an EMP gun; then it would at least make some sense. But shooting a bunch of ions at someone is exactly what a plasma weapon does, and plasma has an intense magnetic field which would wreak havoc on electronics anyway.
edited 5th May '16 8:00:07 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacegunexotic.php#id--Plasma_Weapons
don't work, but ion weapons have uses.
So Han wants to get an "ion cannon", which is an EMP cannon everywhere else. But is it invisible?
Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no.
Just read it, I can't adequately express my horror at what is about to transpire.

Holy shit.