More like "rule of cringe". If you can't make a new light saber design, you do something new and exciting with a lightsaber. Like block/deflect blaster bolts/lighting, melt through an armored door, cut someone's head off, get an extremely athletic stuntman to perform acrobatics while wielding a saberstaff as he fights two opponents...
Rule of new is the overriding principle of long running entertainment. And the best anyone could ever really manage is a variation.
Each of the Lucas films had new tricks for the use of a light saber. ANH, Obi-wan cuts a guy's arm off. ESB, Luke decapitates a vision of Vader. RotJ, Luke demonstrates blaster bolt deflection. TPM, breaching a door, saberstaff, and multiple fighters. AotC, arena battle, lighting deflection, and dual wielding. RotS, mostly just Grevious. Mind you, many of these things had already been in the EU in one shape or form before being committed to film, but that only further makes the point.
All Disney's got are cheap gimmicks that don't pan out.
Well, I mostly see this as oversized energy storage/loading device.
Yeah I could see that. Something something saber draws more power from the battery for greater cutting power but has shorter lifespan than other sabers, something something "sheath" is a battery recharger to counter the drawback, or whatever.
When has a lightsaber ever failed to cut through anything? It was one of George's rules. He was extremely hesitant to allow anything to offer meanwhile resistance for one obvious reason; it'd render the weapon obsolete.
When has a lightsaber ever failed to cut through anything? It was one of George's rules. He was extremely hesitant to allow anything to offer meanwhile resistance for one obvious reason; it'd render the weapon obsolete.
Outside of stuff made with cortosis they've never failed to my recollection but we've seen them struggle sometimes with stuff like blast doors and heavy armor where it takes them more effort than usual.
Outside of stuff made with cortosis they've never failed to my recollection but we've seen them struggle sometimes with stuff like blast doors and heavy armor where it takes them more effort than usual.
And with that example, they had a hard time deciding how it'd actually work. You go with the KOTOR portrayal, the weaving offers blunt resistance. But other instances, like the Hand of Thrawn Duology, it'd turn a light saber off on contact because of some mechanism commonly found in light sabers.
As for offering resistance, the main point was preventing an armored personal foe from posing a problem. Ordinarily, someone isn't carrying a blast door around to protect themselves.
And with that example, they had a hard time deciding how it'd actually work. You go with the KOTOR portrayal, the weaving offers blunt resistance. But other instances, like the Hand of Thrawn Duology, it'd turn a light saber off on contact because of some mechanism commonly found in light sabers.
Is there a reason it can't be both? KOTOR and HoT are a few thousand years apart, plenty of time for the tech in a lightsaber to shift or for cortosis to become too rare to employ. IIRC in I, Jedi it was noted to be an extremely rare mineral only found on a handful of planets.
As for offering resistance, the main point was preventing an armored personal foe from posing a problem. Ordinarily, someone isn't carrying a blast door around to protect themselves.
Maybe, but what about stuff like vehicle armor? Cutting through a stormtrooper is one thing, cutting through a tank is another matter.
When has a lightsaber ever failed to cut through anything? It was one of George's rules. He was extremely hesitant to allow anything to offer meanwhile resistance for one obvious reason; it'd render the weapon obsolete.
In the Mandalorian, beskar has been shown to be fairly resistant against a lightsaber. At least resistant enough that a weapon made of it can withstand and handle repeated strikes against a lightsaber. Though prolonged contact with the light saber with gradually heat up the metal.
And with that example, they had a hard time deciding how it'd actually work. You go with the KOTOR portrayal, the weaving offers blunt resistance. But other instances, like the Hand of Thrawn Duology, it'd turn a light saber off on contact because of some mechanism commonly found in light sabers.
As for offering resistance, the main point was preventing an armored personal foe from posing a problem. Ordinarily, someone isn't carrying a blast door around to protect themselves.
George still follows the rule of physics when making the rule of 'Lightsabers does X', yanno. The infamous door cutting scene shows it: lightsabers employs superheated plasma contained in a field, and it's excellent 'cutting' abilities are in fact, burning through the material. It makes perfect sense if there's some material that can resist lightsaber by either repelling the containment field (like how copper can slow down magnets thrown at it), disturbing the containment field so the lightsaber 'vanishes' aka the plasma dissipates or being so resistant to temperature change, as in case of Beskar.
None of this had Disney's direction. The studios were told to do as they wanted, make it as Star Wars as they wanted. These are not 'canon.' These are exploring different ideas and concepts.
Unless the 'sheath' part can split into two other lightsaber, this is pretty much useless.
I was thinking something like the "rifle sheath" of Sam, from metal Gear Rising. It could literally shoot the blade, propelling it forward with great speed upon drawing!
