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Author Topic: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Discussion Thread (spoilers, obviously)  (Read 57774 times)

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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Discussion Thread (spoilers, obviously)
« Reply #315 on: January 04, 2016, 12:29:45 pm »

Well light does have momentum, and exerts force against surfaces, even though it has no mass. Due to conservation of momentum, a lightsaber could indeed have some pushback.

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« Reply #316 on: January 04, 2016, 12:30:37 pm »

Kylo ren used the guard to burn Finn's shoulder when their lightsabers locked togetherr.
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« Reply #317 on: January 04, 2016, 12:32:48 pm »

Plasma does, though. But mostly I was talking about the hilt; those aren't exactly small, after all.
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« Reply #318 on: January 04, 2016, 12:51:03 pm »

Non-lightsaber things have been able to block lightsabers since episode 6.

Non-lightsaber things have been able to black lightsabers for thousands of years in-universe if you want to take the Old Republic era as canon, considering Disney probably won't do anything with it.
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« Reply #320 on: January 04, 2016, 07:51:18 pm »

Also, lightsaber. Light doesn't have mass (does it? I'm not a physicist!) so... no heft. The hilt, aye, all metal and crystals and shit, but not the blade.

IIRC the lightsabers and the blasters are both actually plasma weapons
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Discussion Thread (spoilers, obviously)
« Reply #321 on: January 04, 2016, 10:04:21 pm »

I just took it as the riot baton thing had a forcefield on it much like the deflectors on a starship. Makes sense that lightsabers wouldn't cut through it, and that you could use it to wallop people with it.
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« Reply #322 on: January 04, 2016, 10:13:07 pm »

Looked like some kind of electro-lance
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« Reply #323 on: January 04, 2016, 10:19:23 pm »

It was obviously an Echani Weave Vibro-Baton.

Or just the same style of things as Grievous' guards.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Discussion Thread (spoilers, obviously)
« Reply #324 on: January 05, 2016, 10:40:32 am »

Or just the same style of things as Grievous' guards.
Most proably, as I mentioned that the things that Grievous guards used were later used by Empire riot and heavy stormtroopers (Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, though that's not really canon anymore, but I vaguely remember they happened in something canon recently too) so it would be only logical that First Order modified the design.
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« Reply #325 on: January 06, 2016, 12:19:53 pm »

I loved the Grand Admiral Thrawn trilogy. A much worthier successor to the SW line than Episodes I-III.

And now it's basically fanfiction.
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« Reply #326 on: January 06, 2016, 12:22:00 pm »

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« Reply #327 on: January 06, 2016, 12:27:22 pm »

I always admired Thrawn for his ability to rise to power when you could compare the whole situation to a Jew becoming a Führer of (well, kind of) Germany and then turning the whole thing around and making it reasonable and whatnot.
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« Reply #328 on: January 06, 2016, 12:52:07 pm »

I loved the Grand Admiral Thrawn trilogy. A much worthier successor to the SW line than Episodes I-III.

And now it's basically fanfiction.
Indeed. Apart from Luke and anyone Skywalker being a thing in it, it was actually pretty damn awesome. But then that's a flaw in all of the Star Wars works.

Fucking skywalkers.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Discussion Thread (spoilers, obviously)
« Reply #329 on: January 06, 2016, 12:59:40 pm »

I always admired Thrawn for his ability to rise to power when you could compare the whole situation to a Jew becoming a Führer of (well, kind of) Germany and then turning the whole thing around and making it reasonable and whatnot.

I thought that was most Pellaeon?  Thrawn was only in control for a brief time and most of what he was doing was simply expedient.  Pellaeon was the one who ruled over the empire and took the long view.

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