precedent for curved blade lightsabers?

tetsuoh · Captain Joined: 21 Jul 2010 Posts: 505

Simple questions - does any know of canon or precedent for a lightsaber with a curved blade?

we have someone wanting to make a lightsaber scythe and the gm has stated that if he can find proof of it done before in a book or game then he will allow it but otherwise it will need to be a straight blade (though there is already the idea of using three or more blades but he doesn't want to have to find that much crystal.)

Hellcat · Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 12:42 am Post subject:

Never heard of a curved lightsaber blade, though they could use the same basic principle as a lightwhip to produce the blade their after.
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tetsuoh · Captain Joined: 21 Jul 2010 Posts: 505

thats one of the topics we were wondering about.

Hellcat · Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 1:55 am Post subject:

Info on lightwhips does appear in the New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology. And of course there is the article on Wookieepedia that can be of some help. The has been around, real world terms, nearly as long as the lightsaber being introduced into the SW mythos nearly ten years after the lightsaber.
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garhkal · Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 4:59 am Post subject:

I know one of our Sparks campaign modules has force using droids (don't ask) with light scythes.
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Fallon Kell · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 2:07 am Post subject:

All aesthetics aside, there is little reason for a curved lightsaber from a physics standpoint...
Curved blades in physical edged weapons served to focus pressure into as small an area as possible, thereby increasing sharpness, whereas a lightsaber operates on an entirely different principal for its cutting work.
of course if you want a curved blade for the sake of having the only lightsaber in the galaxy that actually looks like a saber, that's different!
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CRMcNeill · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 2:38 am Post subject:

I can't remember his name, but there was a graphic short story where Vader was attacked by a bounty hunter who could project curved energy blades from his forearms (among other interesting weapons). Don't know how you feel about Eu sources, but that one seems applicable.
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vanir · Jedi Joined: 11 May 2011 Posts: 793

Count Dooku's lightsabre springs to mind as a canonical representation of a classical duelling sabre of the mid 18th century. The handle is curved and aesthetic, but the blade is still straight.

It seems to me the canonical lightsabre is all about the handle, which helps determine or is determined by the Jedi's fighting style. Blades are all straight though.

just imo.

garhkal · Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:50 pm Post subject:

Anyone know how/why they made the Lightwhip for Lumia??
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Esoomian · Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:45 pm Post subject:

As I recall the lightwhip is actually a regular whip made of some lightsaber resistant material that has the lightsaber blade projected along the resistant material.

I looked it up in Wookieepedia a while back, I'm betting the information is still there.
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Drop Bear · Ensign Joined: 23 May 2011 Posts: 33

If you want a curved energy blade it will have to shroud a solid form so it will be no where as compact as a conventional lightsaber, but I know of a way to have the template form collapse down to less than a foot plus hilt length.

vanir · Jedi Joined: 11 May 2011 Posts: 793

As someone else mentioned the lightwhip seems to me as well, to be a different kind of energy weapon, despite some similar characteristics.

Other energy weapons like the lightfoil are clearly common technology to the lightsabre.

A sabre shaped "energy blade" strikes me as, like the lightwhip, a different kind of energy weapon, which works using different technology. Allien technology perhaps. The Hyperdrive was never invented by the Core Worlds, but introduced by an unknown alien species. Perhaps this is one of their weapons? (canonically lightsabres are mundane technology which existed before Jedi did, invented in and by the regular Republic systems).

Call it a plasma blade and have it work in a different way. It makes no difference to Jedi. They took the lightsabre as it was and developed their way of using it. No reason they can't do this with other weapons.

garhkal · Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:50 pm Post subject:

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Fallon Kell · Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 6:00 pm Post subject:

I guess the short answer is there is no precedent either for or against, assuming a lightwhip operates on different principals.

My brothers and I have talked a lot about how lightsabers work, and half or more of our ideas would support a curved blade, with some significant increases in complexity of the hilt.
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