I was so disappointed when I found out that lightsabers just had an on switch. I learned about the crystals (and Star Wars in general) through cultural osmosis, and I was like “Oh, so you pass force energy through the crystal, and it becomes the visible blade.” Made perfect sense.
But no. You forget your saber in a spaceport toilet, and a six year old shuts the place down.
Well before Disney bought it I had heard the reason only Jedi used them was that the blade created some sort of gyroscopic torque that made them hard to swing if you didn’t have the force. Also finding a crystal required a force guided quest.
Lightsabers now should be all over the place. Swords to knives and bayonets that can cut anything and are super concealable? No force required and they have mines for the stuff? What’s holding you back from walking into a cantina fight with wolverine claws?
Well, they’re absurdly easy to accidentally maim yourself with and unless you’re precognitive the blaster deflection feature is virtually useless, so just packing a gun is usually a better move. Kyber mines also didn’t exist until the Empire, and they were heavily restricted with only the Emperor himself, Vader, and the Inquisitors getting any at all that weren’t being sent to the Death Star. Jedi still go on a bit of a quest to find a crystal in the new continuity. And if you and the crystal don’t get along for whatever reason the blade will be heavy and unwieldy. Most of the kyber crystals don’t care much, but the older ones have personalities, like the one in the Darksaber.
Was it just a switch? I thought I remember that they used the force to raise/lower the “blade” which was part of reason the light saber is a weapon only a force user can weild.
My current (possibly wrong) understanding is that jedi keep the planet with the crystals secret, so that not just anyone can go make a saber. On top of that, the Force allows a user to kinda “extend” their perception, which allows for things like reflecting blaster shots, as well as being hyper aware of their personal space during saber duels. So a trained jedi can “see” things like how far a blade is from hitting them, even if they can’t actually see, and that determines how they move.
So it’s more that taking one would be like robbing a special forces soldier, and playing with one would most likely kill or dismember you.
I was so disappointed when I found out that lightsabers just had an on switch. I learned about the crystals (and Star Wars in general) through cultural osmosis, and I was like “Oh, so you pass force energy through the crystal, and it becomes the visible blade.” Made perfect sense.
But no. You forget your saber in a spaceport toilet, and a six year old shuts the place down.
Well before Disney bought it I had heard the reason only Jedi used them was that the blade created some sort of gyroscopic torque that made them hard to swing if you didn’t have the force. Also finding a crystal required a force guided quest.
Lightsabers now should be all over the place. Swords to knives and bayonets that can cut anything and are super concealable? No force required and they have mines for the stuff? What’s holding you back from walking into a cantina fight with wolverine claws?
Well, they’re absurdly easy to accidentally maim yourself with and unless you’re precognitive the blaster deflection feature is virtually useless, so just packing a gun is usually a better move. Kyber mines also didn’t exist until the Empire, and they were heavily restricted with only the Emperor himself, Vader, and the Inquisitors getting any at all that weren’t being sent to the Death Star. Jedi still go on a bit of a quest to find a crystal in the new continuity. And if you and the crystal don’t get along for whatever reason the blade will be heavy and unwieldy. Most of the kyber crystals don’t care much, but the older ones have personalities, like the one in the Darksaber.
I also assumed it was like that
Was it just a switch? I thought I remember that they used the force to raise/lower the “blade” which was part of reason the light saber is a weapon only a force user can weild.
My current (possibly wrong) understanding is that jedi keep the planet with the crystals secret, so that not just anyone can go make a saber. On top of that, the Force allows a user to kinda “extend” their perception, which allows for things like reflecting blaster shots, as well as being hyper aware of their personal space during saber duels. So a trained jedi can “see” things like how far a blade is from hitting them, even if they can’t actually see, and that determines how they move.
So it’s more that taking one would be like robbing a special forces soldier, and playing with one would most likely kill or dismember you.
Yeah, that’s more or less how it works.
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