the one true God is Doctor Doom and we should all be worshiping him.
A lightsaber is going to be just like a cutting torch and welder which means you're going to need eye protection to prevent you from going blind.
How? Who cares. It's a movie, and nobody should care about the practicality of laser swords.
The typical lightsaber hilt consisted of a metal cylinder between twenty-four and thirty centimeters in length.[4] However, the size of individuals hilts varied drastically, as the weapon was tailored to the creator's specific needs and preferences. The hilt had a pommel cap at the bottom which sometimes held a backup power cell. The lightsaber mechanisms were contained within the hilt. High levels of energy generated by a high-output Diatium power cell was unleashed through a series of focusing lenses and energizers that converted the energy into plasma.[37] The plasma was projected through a set of lightsaber crystals that lent the blade its properties and allowed for the adjustment of blade length and power output. The ideal number of crystals was three, though only one was required.[4] A power insulator was installed on the hilt to protect the wielder from any energy discharges.[38] Activating the lightsaber usually required a button of some sort.[3] A blade power adjustment knob was sometimes installed to allow the wielder to vary the power of the blade.[39] A discharge energy cell could also be installed to increase a lightsaber's power output.[19]Once focused by the crystals, the plasma was sent through a series of field energizers and modulation circuitry within the emitter matrix that further focused it, making it into a coherent beam of energy that was projected from the blade emitter.[40] The blade typically extended about a meter before being arced by the blade containment field back to a negatively charged fissure ringing the emitter, where it was channeled back to the power cell by a superconductor, completing the circuit. This containment field also caused the blades to make contact with other lightsabers blades without passing through like other forms of energy. This trait is seen when lightsaber wielders can block and parry other lightsaber blades.
Quote from: Winy on November 16, 2016, 09:38:57 AMHow? Who cares. It's a movie, and nobody should care about the practicality of laser swords.why not
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lightsaber/LegendsQuoteThe typical lightsaber hilt consisted of a metal cylinder between twenty-four and thirty centimeters in length.[4] However, the size of individuals hilts varied drastically, as the weapon was tailored to the creator's specific needs and preferences. The hilt had a pommel cap at the bottom which sometimes held a backup power cell. The lightsaber mechanisms were contained within the hilt. High levels of energy generated by a high-output Diatium power cell was unleashed through a series of focusing lenses and energizers that converted the energy into plasma.[37] The plasma was projected through a set of lightsaber crystals that lent the blade its properties and allowed for the adjustment of blade length and power output. The ideal number of crystals was three, though only one was required.[4] A power insulator was installed on the hilt to protect the wielder from any energy discharges.[38] Activating the lightsaber usually required a button of some sort.[3] A blade power adjustment knob was sometimes installed to allow the wielder to vary the power of the blade.[39] A discharge energy cell could also be installed to increase a lightsaber's power output.[19]Once focused by the crystals, the plasma was sent through a series of field energizers and modulation circuitry within the emitter matrix that further focused it, making it into a coherent beam of energy that was projected from the blade emitter.[40] The blade typically extended about a meter before being arced by the blade containment field back to a negatively charged fissure ringing the emitter, where it was channeled back to the power cell by a superconductor, completing the circuit. This containment field also caused the blades to make contact with other lightsabers blades without passing through like other forms of energy. This trait is seen when lightsaber wielders can block and parry other lightsaber blades.
"field energizers and modulation circuitry within the emitter matrix "
Quote"field energizers and modulation circuitry within the emitter matrix ""Guys, how many scientific words can we throw into a single sentence?
"power thingies and controlling doohickeys inside the part that makes the light go 'pew'"
How do you know they are not blind samuris?
Legends material doesn't real anymore though
Quote from: Word Wizard on November 16, 2016, 06:04:21 AMHow do you know they are not blind samuris?They usually make a somewhat big deal about it if they are actually blindSpoiler
Disney hasn't made their own sources on the applications of lightsabers, so Legends is the best we have until then. Disney really shot themselves in the foot with that rule on what's canon. We had books dedicated to how a fucking Star Destroyer's day to day operations went and the practicality of them, and Disney is all like "Nope! Non-canon now!" without giving anything to fill in the gaps they created. Quote from: Uranium on November 16, 2016, 09:59:06 AMLegends material doesn't real anymore though
the shitty nice thing about star wars is that you can point to any stupid inconsistency with the plot and justify it with "the force"this mostly applies to the OT, though--the prequels managed to use (not abuse) this justification in many clever ways--especially since they put a tangible, grasp-able science behind the force with midi-chlorians, rather than just have it be incomprehensible magicky bullshitit makes sense that a force-sensitive would have microscopic life forms in their bloodstream trying to protect them, just like we have microscopic life forms trying to protect us in the real worldit doesn't make sense that a force-sensitive can just magic himself out of any bad situation for the sake of plot convenience
Star Wars is science-fantasy, not fiction, so there's no real need for an explanation. It's literal space magic.
Quote from: TurkTurkBangBang on November 16, 2016, 07:04:08 PMStar Wars is science-fantasy, not fiction, so there's no real need for an explanation. It's literal space magic.Don't tell Jacob "Fun is for Natalists" Potila that.
Can you blame them, though? Arbitrarily picking random parts of old EU media to stay canon would probably result in a messy, confusing story. I'm sure a lot of the EU referenced things that happened in other EU sources and in what Disney would have preferred remained canon, so it made sense that they wiped the slate clean except for The Clone Wars, the films, and any comics released after the rights were given to them.
Quote from: Mmmmm Napalm on November 16, 2016, 07:16:59 PMQuote from: TurkTurkBangBang on November 16, 2016, 07:04:08 PMStar Wars is science-fantasy, not fiction, so there's no real need for an explanation. It's literal space magic.Don't tell Jacob "Fun is for Natalists" Potila that.napalm asked me my last name specifically for this post
Isn't that what they're essentially doing with Thrawn though? Quote from: Winy on November 16, 2016, 05:04:35 PMCan you blame them, though? Arbitrarily picking random parts of old EU media to stay canon would probably result in a messy, confusing story. I'm sure a lot of the EU referenced things that happened in other EU sources and in what Disney would have preferred remained canon, so it made sense that they wiped the slate clean except for The Clone Wars, the films, and any comics released after the rights were given to them.
How do Jedi manage to avoid being blinded and burned from their lightsabers?
