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Obviously there is no power supply. The Jedi channels the energy of the Force. I never noticed the Jedi avoiding looking at the naked beam of a lightsaber in t
by enduser 13y ago
Obviously there is no power supply. The Jedi channels the energy of the Force.
I never noticed the Jedi avoiding looking at the naked beam of a lightsaber in the movies. I'd think it would be quite damaging to the eyes.
- deletes 13y agoI read a long time ago in some kinda official source, that they have a cold fusion source in the handle.
- RKoutnik 13y agoIf it is, it isn't conscious, Han Solo cuts open a Tauntaun at the beginning of Ep 5 with Luke's lightsaber.
- eps 13y agoThere's also Gen. Grievous and his throphy lightsabers.
- damon_c 13y agowe don't mention him...
- mschuster91 13y agoFor all that's known, Grievous was a pretty good fighter before he got turned into that machine monster. So, like Vader, he is still alive in a Force sense. I guess this is also why his MagnaGuards don't carry lightsabers, but electrostaffs instead.
- ekianjo 13y agoNobody cares about Grievous. He's part of the later, shittier movies from a different director (yeah Lucas in 2000s has nothing to do with the Lucas in the 70s).
- clem 13y agoMaybe just having the lightsaber Luke's proximity was enough to power it? After all, some Jedi can hurl their lightsabers.
- eric_h 13y agoDidn't Luke wield a lightsaber before he knew he was force sensitive?
- talmand 13y agoYep, he picked it up and just turned it on. I guess you could say it was natural instinct but I would have to think such a thing would require a great deal of concentration. Plus there's the fact it's quite canon that there's a power source. Luke bought one when he built his second lightsaber. EDIT: Thanks to Wookiepedia I now see that the earliest lightsabers were the result of the user channeling the force through the device. Later to be changed to various power sources which resulted in superior weapons.
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- sitkack 13y agoThat shit was stoles from Dune.
- GeneralMayhem 13y agoHan Solo cutting open the Tauntaun in ESB is the death-blow to any mystical theory about lightsabers.
- patmcc 13y agoUnless Han Solo is force sensitive.
- jonnathanson 13y agoIt's never been conclusively ruled out. Curious fans have speculated about it every now and then. In the books, he ends up fathering three Jedi. (Granted, he fathers them with Leia, a known force-sensitive. But it's entirely possible he's force sensitive, too.) I should note that a fantastic way to start a nerd fight with Star Wars fans is to take the position that Han is force sensitive. Most people seem vehemently opposed to the idea. They see it as breaking character and/or narrative theme for him.
- stcredzero 13y agoStar Wars is just the realpolitik machinations of midichlorians trying to gain lebensraum.
- lotsofmangos 13y agoMidichlorians are heretical. They are the propaganda of a false prophet. The force exists outside of such things.
- stcredzero 13y agoIs there a special branch of Godwin's law that includes the addition of Episode 1-3 to references to the 3rd Reich?
- lotsofmangos 13y ago