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Star Wars is so fascinating to me. I have never seen a franchise try so hard to bash one of the very things that made it popular

The jedi

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lightsabers vs lightswords

lightsabers have cleaner and more defined blades, especially at the base near the emmiter.

along with the kyber crystal (or a few other limited options) they also have a focusing crystal(s) to stabilize and basically clean up the shape of the blade and push it together, cooling it down as well, this helps the lightsaber be safer for longer periods of use and gives the saber it's classic hum

lightswords or have no focusing crystal and because of this they have sparks emerging from the bottom when ignited, they have very crackly sounds (which I love) and because they heat up quickly they're slightly more unstable and leave trails of smoke when extinguished by the user

these sabers were actually a more ancient version of the lightsaber known in the high Republic and onwards

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The Phantom Menace

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okay sooooo

am I the only one who actually prefers the lore that says that Jedi collect their crystals and then meditate with them and that's what gives the crystal it's colour??? (i certainly hope not)

i know it's a thing in the comic books where characters just pick out a crystal with the color already ingrained into it and there's nothing more to it but I feel like half the reason lightsabers are cool to me is because they actually tell you something about the user, they tell you their preferences in combat, how they view the force and sometimes even how deadly they can be

do I wanna believe mace windu just found a purple crystal or do I wanna believe he got this rare color because he uses dark side tactics but has the ability not to be blinded by them?

the first time I saw Anakin's lightsaber was blue I thought it was very telling about who he was and I believe that it was actually the first hint to his dark tactics and eventually his fall to the sith (even if it was by accident this is my interpretation).

how could the chosen one, the person with the most midi-chlorians, a person who has incredible force potential, uses a blue lightsaber instead of a green one? it is so accurate to his character because blue means you prefer using your saber to using the force in combat, they're also usually the first to pull them out and the ones to do it without hesitating to anyone anywhere.

i just thought it was perfect, that paired with an aggressive style, it was right under their noses

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i still think about the plo koon lightsaber we could've gotten way too often lol

i know lots of people think it's stupid but I'm sure movie magic could've made it work

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ok so in the wake of the new acolyte trailer I decided to finally keep reading the high Republic books I've been meaning to get to, more specifically 'light of the jedi' and I read something I absolutely adored

so avar kriss

she has a very special connection to the force, needs to find a hunk of a damaged ship in the whole star system.

she sits down in a field of farmers crop saying that the force is extremely strong here, it's all around her. she floats up her saber and makes it start to spin like a windmill in front of her, she then uses this lightsaber and adjusts it's speed to channel the force to find the object like a kind of force magnifying glass to put it simply if crudely

i really love this and think it's a genius push to the boundaries of what can be done with a lightsaber when paired with the force and it got me thinking of maybe alternative ways that a lightsaber could be used.

what if a Jedi needs to push something that's far away, so they throw their saber in that direction, ignite it with the force and use the blade like an extension of themselves to push said object away? that would be so cool!

id love to see more of this in the new show, fingers crossed!

ps. avar kriss' lightsaber is so gorgeous and I love it

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little ahsoka doodle I did 💙💙

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got em! (and two blades)

so my thoughts so far, it being the next day

first thoughts:

out of the box, the shoto wouldn't display color on the blade at all, but it did have sound, luckily I did bring fresh batteries to the park and switched them out, that fixed it just fine.

hilts:

they're absolutely gorgeous, very accurate, a little big for my hands, definitely made for grown man hands which I find ironic lol, hopefully it's just because of the electronics inside (ignoring the fact that other brands have them in a slimmer style)

i can still spin them a bit, I love the way they sound, it's not too loud which is perfect for my taste. The ignition and swinging sounds are satisfying but the smooth swing kinda just decides when it wants to work

blades:

I got the 34 inch blade and the 24 inch blade and 34 inch is ridiculously long for me, I had no clue it was that big, and the 24 was perfect for my size

the 34 inch blade started to malfunction, sometimes the color just stops displaying but the shorter one works perfectly, I'm in love

the scrolling effect is smooth enough for me but I'm more used to baselit sabers so take it with a grain of salt

I'm gonna try to get a replacement blade so I'll update on that for sure but so farrrr

final thoughts:

sabers: 8.75/10, a little chunky, a little easy to scratch, the smooth swings is off.

blades: 5/10 you can see the led placement inside the blade and the larger one just stopped working and was way too long for a main blade.

i would recommend, id just get two shoto sized blades (even though it's not accurate, it's just better that way) and I want to have it clear

they're beautiful, I adore them 💙💚

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so I think I figured something out.

I'm hopefully getting ahsoka's Galaxy's edge lightsabers soon and in all the reviews I've seen people always point out how the shoto is the wrong color, because it's green instead of the yellow-green that we see in the clone wars

this one

however, if Disney wanted to have this color, they would, because the shoto even has a different tone of sound font, it doesn't match the main saber exactly. every time Disney has released an animated padawan ahsoka, both her sabers are green

a bit of digging with find you with the story that when they were deciding on ahsoka's shoto George Lucas wanted green and Dave wanted yellow, they settled on yellow-green (which I'm not really a fan of). i find it funny that its here when Disney wants to follow what George wanted tbh

but in conclusion, Disney did it on purpose, and personally I like when lightsabers match eachother