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What would happen if you put a mirror in the lightsaber beam? being light it would reflect...correct? Discuss  |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger 
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http://www.howstuffworks.com/lightsaber.htm  _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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Lucky Mintaka - Ex-Student 
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i agree with virtue on the whole resitance of the lightsabers but you have to think whos gana stay there and fight a jedi..? lol are they gana hold a mirror up to the light saber and wear minerals in his shirt? lol _______________ Vasper Adept-1600 Comment Raydoe-150 comment Pink -Floyd 425 comment This comment was edited by Lucky Mintaka on May 20 2005 05:20pm. |
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NotSoLittleCaesar - Student 
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Quote: i did not say that cortosis was immune to a lightsaber blade i just stated that it shuts off a lightsaber when it comes into contact. it is very weak, in fact a blaster can easily crumble cortosis.Mara Jade and Luke Skwalker came accross a large wall of cortosis while searching for the hand of Thrawn. even though the shut off sensor is not mandatory it is reccomended that one is incorporated into a jedi's weapon as it prevents accidental injury to other beings if the lightsaber is droped. Wrong my friend, cortosis is like bullet proof armour . it can stop the saber beams from reaching the body. but, aswell at bullets the ycan rip through it from close range, a saber will cut through cortosis if angles range, speed are all corect, the scrystal inside can react to rip thr armour apart _______________ Quote: I mostly agree oh Lord of the squeezy mop
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Daral-zand - Student |
i did not say that cortosis was immune to a lightsaber blade i just stated that it shuts off a lightsaber when it comes into contact. it is very weak, in fact a blaster can easily crumble cortosis.Mara Jade and Luke Skwalker came accross a large wall of cortosis while searching for the hand of Thrawn. even though the shut off sensor is not mandatory it is reccomended that one is incorporated into a jedi's weapon as it prevents accidental injury to other beings if the lightsaber is droped. |
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Kueller - Student 
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Virtue is very very right in this! Listen to him you shall  _______________ Personal sleepness-nights-supporter of Virtue. Owner of the 1000th comment of Daidalus and 1943th comment of Gradius! Owner of the 300th comment of Carda! -Taught Gradius all his laming skills
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Virtue - Jedi Council 
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The automatic shut off sensor isn't mandatory for all Lightsabers, it is optional. Some Jedi add it, some don't. You're right on everything but the Cortosis part, Cortosis is in fact a mineral that was quite common at the peak of the old republic, it resists Lightsaber beams, it doesn't actually react with them. Just to add here, Cortosis only resists Lightsaber beams, it is not immune to them. It merely takes a Lightsaber sufficiently longer to cut through them. In the times of the Empire and after, Cortosis became a very rare metallic mineral, as most known places that housed it had been mined out. - Virtue.  _______________ Academy Architect This comment was edited by Virtue on May 19 2005 04:44pm. |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger
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Where do you get this stuff? EDIT: Someone should consider adding all that to the Holocron methinks. _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. This comment was edited by tarpman on May 18 2005 11:16pm. |
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Hitokiri - Student 
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Dude, your an expert!  _______________ Ph34r m1 1337 5k1llz! |
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Daral-zand - Student |
there are several ways for a lightsaber to be shut down. a jedi can press the activation stud again, if a lightsaber comes into contact with a rare mineral called cortosis it will start an overload in the engram cicuit which shuts off a lightsaber, if the lightsaber comes out of contact with a jedis hand with out the jedi useing the force to turn the deactiavtion cicuit off. |
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Daral-zand - Student |
i will now answer the question of the activation and deactivation of a lightsaber. when a jedi makes the lightsaber they add a device into the handle called an automatic shut of sensor. this means that if the lightsaber leaves a jedi's hand it will shut off unless the jedi is using the force to keep sensor off(see lightsaber throw)once the jedi presses the acivation stud the jedi will not have to keep his finger on the button( this would cripple a jedis use of a lightsaber as many skills require a lightsaber to be turned in the hand and the hand would not be in conntact with the button) |
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Daral-zand - Student |
also if water does not affect the beam of a lightsaber, if a light saber is activated under water it will short out the activation circuit. while this does not damage a lightsaber it will put a jedi at a dissadvantage(see episode 1 where obi wan runs from the droid stapps, he had tried to activate his lightsaber under water and it shorted it out) but if a lightsaber is allready on the water will not effect it if you put it under water. |
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Daral-zand - Student |
a mirror would not affect a lightsaber beam as all lightsabers have a device called a magnetic constrainment circuit. this device affects the length and stabilty of a lightsaber. it stops a lightsaber beam just shooting of when the activation stud is pressed. and it also stops the blade from being bent by mirrors and other relfective surfaces |
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Daral-zand - Student |
i will answer all questions pertaining to the constuction and and maintenance of the jedi lightsaber. |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger 
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Quote: Again, speculation on my part; but I believe it's some sort of thumb button or other spring-mounted trigger that you have to hold lightly in order for it to stay on. I read this somewhere too... although, it would kinda make Vader's lightsaber throw in RotJ impossible, right? Use the Force, Kilphi. About not being able to hold the button down, it wouldn't be that hard, they could even use the Force if their finger got uncomfortable xD. Yeah, I assumed they would use the Force to hold the button down while it was in midair. Shouldn't be *that* hard. Quote: I think Kit Fisto might have been one of the few Jedi (or the only) to make a waterproof saber. Then Luke's new Jedi also learned how to make their sabers not short out it water. A few of Luke's students didn't make theirs waterproof, though. I wonder what George Lucas' opinion is.... Apparently Kit Fisto was quite the water-oriented Jedi, according to the Databank. It mentions that (edit: wait, no it doesn't. where did you see this?), and also that he had mastered a number of difficult Force powers dealing with shaping and manipulating water. http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/kitfisto/?id=eu _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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Muad'dib - Student 
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I've alwsays wondered about the effects of mirrors on lightsabers, as well as the possibilities. I mean think about it, if a mirror could deflect a lightsaber (let's say some kind of mirror made out of saber crystals or somesuch thing) that opens it up to a world of new weapons. Like halberds and stuff. LIGHT HALBERDS! But there are alot of weapon possibilities that have been completely ignored in lieu of the traditional single stick of fiery death. Like spears, and variations there of. http://www.geocities.com/alchemyst/polearms.htm http://retromud.org/weapons/polearms.html I mean I understand the comlications of actually bending light, but it's frikkin SciFi. They have gravity generators in the SW Uni, and in a polearm there's a lot more room for circuitry and the like. I just think there are various facets of lightsaber technology have been completely ignored. And that's sad.   EDIT: On the other hand, it occurs to me that perhaps a curved blade on a lightsaber mightn't yield the same boost in efficiency that it would for a steel blade, so perhaps a curved lightsaber blade, although cooler looking, would be completely superfluous. _______________ "It's because I love you. No. It's because I love you" Oh, Anakin, you're eloquence is second to none. I AM THE OPIATE OF THE MASSES! This comment was edited by Muad'dib on May 05 2005 03:52am. |
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Aiddat - Student 
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I think Kit Fisto might have been one of the few Jedi (or the only) to make a waterproof saber. Then Luke's new Jedi also learned how to make their sabers not short out it water. A few of Luke's students didn't make theirs waterproof, though. I wonder what George Lucas' opinion is.... _______________ -Aiddat, the Gran with the green blades. "You have a right to be angry, but believe me when I say you don't want to feed that emotion." - Kyle Katarn {Owner of Liso Jowol's 550th comment, Conchris Chaotic's 80th, 150th and 350th comments, Pink Floyd's 200th comment Tyrant's 695th comment, D@RTHM@UL's 10600th comment}, accidentally tricked Pink Floyd into giving me his 1700th comment, I also have Alexander D'Kana's 1950th comment, Mindrith Pride's 1850th comment and I used the same accidental trick on Lewis's 100th comment, and I have Aiddat's 1992nd comment (birthyear), and #Elmo's 450th comment. Unsuccessfully tried to prove Senor Hat's theory wrong. Click for screenshots. Padawan of R2-D2. |
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Aiddat - Student 
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Quote: Again, speculation on my part; but I believe it's some sort of thumb button or other spring-mounted trigger that you have to hold lightly in order for it to stay on. I read this somewhere too... although, it would kinda make Vader's lightsaber throw in RotJ impossible, right? Use the Force, Kilphi. About not being able to hold the button down, it wouldn't be that hard, they could even use the Force if their finger got uncomfortable xD. _______________ -Aiddat, the Gran with the green blades. "You have a right to be angry, but believe me when I say you don't want to feed that emotion." - Kyle Katarn {Owner of Liso Jowol's 550th comment, Conchris Chaotic's 80th, 150th and 350th comments, Pink Floyd's 200th comment Tyrant's 695th comment, D@RTHM@UL's 10600th comment}, accidentally tricked Pink Floyd into giving me his 1700th comment, I also have Alexander D'Kana's 1950th comment, Mindrith Pride's 1850th comment and I used the same accidental trick on Lewis's 100th comment, and I have Aiddat's 1992nd comment (birthyear), and #Elmo's 450th comment. Unsuccessfully tried to prove Senor Hat's theory wrong. Click for screenshots. Padawan of R2-D2. |
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Dunn'Canni - Student 
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Quote: Wouldn't an average gun defeat a lightsaber? Ala Indiana Jones just whip out a pistol and shoot the dude! I find it surprizing that anyone would fire a blaster at a lightsaber. LOL, they don't fire at the saber, but the Jedis' reflexes are such that they are able to move the saber and deflect the bolt in time. _______________ "There is no emotion... there is peace. There is no ignorance... there is knowledge. There is no passion... there is serenity. There is no chaos... there is harmony. There is no death... there is the Force." -Master Zhar Lestin |
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Kilphi Tonfor - Student 
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Quote: Again, speculation on my part; but I believe it's some sort of thumb button or other spring-mounted trigger that you have to hold lightly in order for it to stay on. I read this somewhere too... although, it would kinda make Vader's lightsaber throw in RotJ impossible, right? _______________ My Father: "How come Bobo Fett wasn't in that one?" Me: "Why do I even bother?" |
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Trooper! - Student 
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Wouldn't an average gun defeat a lightsaber? Ala Indiana Jones just whip out a pistol and shoot the dude! I find it surprizing that anyone would fire a blaster at a lightsaber. _______________ Honor those better than you would yourself. |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger
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Quote: I think it has some sort of "standby" mode where it turns on as soon as you hit the button Actually, that's another thing; Jedis' sabers turn off automatically when they get killed (see Qui-Gon or Obi Wan's death), yet I hardly think that the greatest thing on your mind when in your death throes is turning off your saber... My point is, they must be in some way tied (through the force?) to their masters so that they turn off when the master dies. Again, speculation on my part; but I believe it's some sort of thumb button or other spring-mounted trigger that you have to hold lightly in order for it to stay on. *incredibly unathletic Jedi faints from having to hold his saber's power button down* _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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Blademaster - Student 
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I have to agree with Squibit, the lightsaber would melt the mirror without even touching it. Remember some Star Wars 101? Lightsaber battles are pretty much bloodless because the lightsabers heat instantly cauterizes the wound. If a lightsaber is hot enough to stop a beings blood flow than it is hot enough to melt a mirror. _______________ Let's race. You, me, and 5 kilometers of ground. The only question is: Do you feel fast today? |
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Squibit - Student 
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Jedi looking at lightsabre that is sparking and not working ... :- "I don't believe it, it's blocked lasers and blaster bolts, it melts right through mirrors, or any other type of material for that matter, it can cut through freaking blast doors and it doesn't even rust!" Jedi padawan :- "Yeah, but its not water proof!" _______________ Quote: fiZZe: its SIR Fizzy Fluffy :p Quote: FiZZ[JAK]: that was what I call a counter Ah, things you only ever expect to hear once 
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Dunn'Canni - Student
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Well, to me one of the SW universe's most endearing features is the fact that it is grounded in plausible realities. I fail, therefore, to see the harm in exploring these realities' integrity. _______________ "There is no emotion... there is peace. There is no ignorance... there is knowledge. There is no passion... there is serenity. There is no chaos... there is harmony. There is no death... there is the Force." -Master Zhar Lestin |
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NotSoLittleCaesar - Student
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Quote: guys lol, why u guys thinking aobut it so much tbh its simple just check out the anatomy of teh saber, ive seen them hunderds of times, its simple how they work . some of the rust stuff i dont think george lucas cares pffffffftt dont u hate it when he is right all the time? dude...im just..well...star wars nerducular > _______________ Quote: I mostly agree oh Lord of the squeezy mop
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