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[Reelya]

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.

[origamiscienceguy]

Kylo ren used the guard to burn Finn's shoulder when their lightsabers locked togetherr.

[Rolepgeek]

Plasma does, though. But mostly I was talking about the hilt; those aren't exactly small, after all.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

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.

[ChairmanPoo]

Leaked Episode VIII footage

[Bohandas]

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

[RedKing]

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.

[Orange Wizard]

Looked like some kind of electro-lance

[Rolepgeek]

It was obviously an Echani Weave Vibro-Baton.

Or just the same style of things as Grievous' guards.

[Kot]

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.

[LordBrassroast]

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.

[RedKing]

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[Kot]

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.

[Xantalos]

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.

[mainiac]

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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Seems about right.