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Is there a possible in-universe reason why lightsaber strikes don't flash-boil the victim?
It was established in official canon that lightsaber blades are NOT made of light and are instead plasma contained in a strong magnetic field. This is actually possible to do in real life and ...
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Why does Luke have a blue lightsaber post-ROTJ in some early Legends works?
In several different early Expanded Universe works set after Return of the Jedi, Luke is shown or said to use a blue-bladed lightsaber:
Luke whipped out his lightsaber, and its brilliant blue glow ...
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Lightsabers with extendable hilts
Are there any examples (preferably in canon but Legends is also acceptable) of a lightsaber featuring an extending hilt? What I'm looking for is perhaps some kind of telescoping mechanism such that ...
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How does the lightsaber rifle work (in universe)?
From what limited things I’ve seen on the internet, the lightsaber rifle consumes lightsabers as ammunition. I don’t know exactly which comics it’s in, but I know Jocasta Nu uses it against Vader, but ...
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How did Luke get his lightsaber back from Raynar Thul?
In the Unseen Queen, Luke and Han are forced to give up their weapons:
Han's knuckles whitened around his blaster grip. "When Hutts ride swoops!"
"We would rather have it now," ...
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Can a lightsaber hold someone up?
If you wedged a lightsaber between other sabers or into a material that a saber can't cut well, could you safely dangle off the handle without breaking it, like some sort of climbing spike?
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How does a lightsaber behave in a confined space?
Imagine I place a lightsaber hilt upright on the ground, in a room with a very very low ceiling which is to some extent impervious to lightsabers (or at least which takes some time to be melted into ...
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Are there lightsabers with moving emitters?
Has there ever been shown in Star Wars (canon or Legends, but canon preferably) a lightsaber where the emitter can move position? That is to say, that the 'head' of the lightsaber is hinged or in some ...
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When did we first see a purple lightsaber?
I have often heard that the reason why Mace Windu's saber is purple is that Samuel L Jackson just really wanted a purple saber because he likes that color, and thus the purple lightsaber was born. ...
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What happened to ‘old’ lightsabers pre Empire?
In TPM we see Obi-Wan use Qui-Gon's lightsaber to defeat Dart Maul. In AOTC Anakan and Obi-Wan are thrown a couple as they have had their own taken away or destroyed, and in ANH and TESB Luke uses the ...
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Has Rey's new lightsaber been seen before in canon or legends?
The new Rise of Skywalker trailer has Rey (or someone who looks an awful lot like her) wielding a new double lightsaber, but now with action deploy mechanism! (someone in marketing has to be giddy). ...
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What happened to Count Dooku's lightsaber?
In Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Dooku fights Kenobi and Anakin in front of the 'captured' Palpatine. At the end of the duel, Anakin disarms (and dis-hands) Dooku and takes his ...
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Could a lightsaber be used as a cane?
I recently came across this cover art while reading through The Other Lost Missions: Rare Clone Wars Comics and Literature, Part 2, and I couldn't help but notice the way the guy in the picture, ...
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Why do some Jedi have red lightsabers in Star Wars: Republic?
In the Star Wars: Republic series, multiple Jedi have red lightsabers. Given the association between red lightsabers and the Sith, why is this? I'm looking for both the in-universe and out-of-universe ...
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Does a lightsaber have to be intentionally kept on during use? [duplicate]
In the answers to this question it is noted that when the user dies a lightsaber goes off and that the activation button on a lightsaber may be a safety feature so that it will go off if the user ...
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Who makes all the other lightsabers?
According to this no-longer-canon answer you don't have to be a Force user to build a Lightsaber, and this answer states that there is no outside company that builds them, so who's in charge of ...
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Are there any lightsaber forms specific to the dark side?
Most of the discussion of lightsaber forms presents them as Jedi forms, although many dark side Force users, Sith or otherwise use them as well.
In particular we have Vaapad which is described as ...
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Powering lightsabers with the Force instead of a switch
Has there ever been a time in the Star Wars mythos in which lightsabers are only able to be activated and used by the power of the Force? (Not turned on by the Force by means of flipping a switch but ...
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Are Lightsabers ever used outside of combat?
I found this question which asks if there were ever any other technologies based on lightsabers.
What I would like to know is if there's any instances in canon or Legends where an actual saber is ...
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Is there a story behind Darth Maul's double bladed lightsaber?
One of the most famous lightsabers is Darth Maul's double bladed lightaber.
But is there an in-universe backstory of how/why he has one?
When he battles Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon Jinn in Episode I, his ...
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Why do so many Jedi in EU use red light sabers
It seems that you look at every Jedi in the new Jedi Order and like every third one either has a red or "non-standard" color. But everything before the empire and mostly green/blue.
Why? Does ...
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To whom does each of these lightsabers belong?
These lightsabers look like they're from the Star Wars films:
These lightsabers look like they're from the Star Wars non-film universe:
To whom does each of these lightsabers belong?
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When did lightsabers first appear in the Star Wars timeline?
Where do we first see/read about a lightsaber in the Star Wars universe (EU and Legends count)?
I mean this from an in-universe chronological perspective, not publication/release order.
It’s a ...
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Why do lightsabers attract Force sensitives?
There are at least two incidents in the canon which suggest that lightsabers attract Force sensitives:
Ezra was attracted to Kanan's lightsaber in the pilot episode of Star Wars: Rebels TV show.
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Can a lightsaber hilt be made out of cortosis?
Let's say I'm a Jedi.
If I constructed a lightsaber hilt out of Cortosis, would the lightsaber work? If it did, could I then hit another lightsaber-wielder's blade with my hilt, short out that ...
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How did Satele Shan block this lightsaber thrust?
In the SWTOR game, there is a scene where Satele Shan blocks (absorbs/ dissipates?) the beam from Darth Malgus' lightsaber.
Was she wearing cortosis armored glove?
Or is it her mastery of the Force ...
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Why didn't the Clones use vibroblades to fight against lightsabers?
It is known in the Knights of the Old Republic series that vibroblades were made from a special material that couldn't be cut by lightsabers. Then, why aren't the clone troopers using any?
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Why did Luke use a synthetic crystal in his lightsaber and what were the implications of this choice?
The book Star Wars Lightsabers: A guide to weapons of the force indicates that Luke's green lightsaber uses a "synthetic" green crystal as its focusing crystal while all other Jedi in the book use ...
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What type of wavelength is the light from a lightsaber? [closed]
There are different types of light on the spectrum as many of you science geeks will know. These are made up of different frequencies and wavelengths. My question is this:
Is there an ACTUAL light on ...
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Is there a case of a Force user using the Force to curve a lightsaber blade in Legends?
This is me trying to track down a vague rumor from childhood, so be warned. When I was in elementary school, somewhere in the late 1980s to the early 1990s, I remember being told that Emperor ...
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Lightsaber claws in Expanded Universe?
This may be a bit of a weird question, but here goes; have any notable Sith or Jedi used 'lightsaber claws' in the expanded Star Wars universe?
The reason why I asked this is because I remember an ...
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Do adjustable length lightsabers exist in Star Wars universe?
I always see blades of lightsabers have more or less the same length (dual blades are double). Why is that?
Can't a longer or shorter length be advantage in some case?
I am NOT expecting infinite ...
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How many Jedi use red lightsabers? [closed]
We know some Jedi use red Lightsabers, but I'd like to know who all of them are.
I know Adi Gallia originally used a red blade.
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