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rairii:jumpingjacktrash:littlepinkbeast:adigitalmagician:cybernetic-catriarch:adigitalmagician:beeishappy:TCR | 2014.12.01 | “In 1977, when I was in 8th grade, I won two tickets from a local radio station to see this new movie Star Wars, two weeks before it came out nationally. I loved it. But at school on Monday I couldn’t explain how everything was different now because nobody had seen it. They thought my Darth Vader impression was just asthma. Then the movie comes out and everybody’s saying it’s the greatest thing ever but I saw it first. I have been a Star Wars fan two weeks longer than any of you.”Dude, Colbert knows his ‘saber tech. I totally buy this theory.He had me at triple plasma channels.Although I wonder about that, actually. It depends on how far along the hilt the actual emitter mechanism is, because if you cut through that bit the blade dies anyway. If it’s dead center and simply has three openings, that leaves a bit of a vulnerable angle (possibly - diagonal cut at the corner), but not too much of one, and that would wreck a regular saber anyway.It does make the most sense that the metal hilt parts are just hand protection, though.Still. What happened to all the saber-resistant material? Phrik, cortosis, ultrachrome - although cortosis might interfere with the saber itself and ultrachrome has a nasty tendency to melt as a single piece, so phrik is probably the best alternative - and it’s definitely present in the Empire era. Oh well, could be a consequence of the Expanded Universe shift. Or the stuff got hard to find after a generation of Imperial rule.I’m actually surprised no one considered a basket hilt out of any of the saber resistant metals. Especially the Jedi known for dueling. Sidious, Dooku, why the hell did they think that elegant curve was better than a straight handle and a basket hilt for fencing?Next step: cortosis-weave gloves, a saber with the quillon blades coming out at an angle, and Talhoffer’s fechtbuch. Mordschlag would be pretty effective, and yanking their ankle with them would, well, cut their foot right off, but I can’t see much use for half-swording with a saber.idgaf about star wars but god i love nerdsWhat Jesse said -- source link
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