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 Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 1:09 am Post subject: The Inquisitor's Lightsaber (Star Wars Rebels) |
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The Inquisitor's Lightsaber
Color: Red
Type: Lightsaber
Scale: Character
Skill: Lightsaber, thrown weapon
Cost: Unique
Availability: -
Damage: 5D
Game Notes:
--Double-blade (when wielded double-bladed +5 bonus to all parry rolls; if the weilding character misses the base difficulty number by more than 10 points they have injured themselves with the lightsaber)
--Spinning Double-blade (Very Difficulty; +10 bonus to all parry rolls, +5 to strike; if the weilding character misses the base difficulty number by more than 10 points they have injured themselves with the lightsaber)
--May be thrown (use the Thrown Weapon skill; 5D; 3-5/8/15)
Capsule: This is a unique variant of lightsaber wielded by the Jedi hunter known only as the Inquisitor. The weapon featured a ringed emitter which could partially detach from the cylindrical handgrip in the center, allowing the twin blades to rotate rapidly without effort from the wielder. The Inquisitor's personal weapon could also separate into two single-bladed lightsabers, and the handgrip could be removed entirely from the ring-shaped emitter, allowing the Force-imbued circlet of metal to be used as a throwing disc.
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tetsuoh
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 2:43 am Post subject: |
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I dunno why, maybe it's just me - But I have always found his lightsaber to be utterly ridiculous. Guess its the spinning part, the fact that he seemingly no longer has a connected power cell to the thing, or something.
Good write up though - keep em comin. |
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Jedi Skyler
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 3:54 am Post subject: |
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| tetsuoh wrote: | I dunno why, maybe it's just me - But I have always found his lightsaber to be utterly ridiculous. Guess its the spinning part, the fact that he seemingly no longer has a connected power cell to the thing, or something.
Good write up though - keep em comin. |
I agree. Good write up. However, I also find this to be utterly ludicrous. Having a Force-imbued circlet of metal? Sure, I can understand that. But the way this is described as being put together and working? There's no way the lightsaber could spin freely like that and be configured the way it is. |
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cheshire
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 11:09 am Post subject: |
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They keep modifying what is already a cool weapon to try to make it cooler. At some point you hit the modification ad absurdum event horizon, and instead of making it cool you transcend into a new plane of "stoopud."
The write-up is fine. And it's not the write-up's fault that the writers did something strange.
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Thx1138
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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| I believe that I figured out how it works, when in spinning mode, the emitter/powercell sends out a powerful burst of energy that keeps the lightsaber working during the spinning part, since it passes the powercell part every half rotation, the cycle is recharged again and again. there for instead of a constant stream of power coming from the powercell, short strong burst are used, which also makes the blade a little weaker as shown when he goes up against that big beast in the one episode. |
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Zarm R'keeg
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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| cheshire wrote: | They keep modifying what is already a cool weapon to try to make it cooler. At some point you hit the modification ad absurdum event horizon, and instead of making it cool you transcend into a new plane of "stoopud."
The write-up is fine. And it's not the write-up's fault that the writers did something strange. |
Well said, to both points. And (as I suppose I am a bit of a rebels apologist), the only point I can suggest is that the over-modding is kind of the point, I think. It's revelatory about the Inquisitor's character- that he doesn't respect the saber as a weapon, or trust in the Force; that he's built in tricks and gimmicks to gain an advantage and treats both saber and Force as tools... coldly and pragmatically, without any reverence and respect. It's subtle, but I think his overdone lightsaber is supposed to give us some insight into how his mind works. (Though I could just be overreaching, here.) 
Either way, in a real-world sense... yeah, they probably overdid it a bit. I do like the retractable circle hilt (which can become a swashbuckler's hand-guard, and also allows for a variety of hand-positions and different tactics). If they'd left it at that, without the spinning, I think it would have ended up a far more respectable weapon.
| Thx1138 wrote: | | I believe that I figured out how it works, when in spinning mode, the emitter/powercell sends out a powerful burst of energy that keeps the lightsaber working during the spinning part, since it passes the powercell part every half rotation, the cycle is recharged again and again. there for instead of a constant stream of power coming from the powercell, short strong burst are used, which also makes the blade a little weaker as shown when he goes up against that big beast in the one episode. |
I like it! Well-reasoned, Thx1138- very clever!
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Jedi Skyler
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Thx1138 wrote: | | I believe that I figured out how it works, when in spinning mode, the emitter/powercell sends out a powerful burst of energy that keeps the lightsaber working during the spinning part, since it passes the powercell part every half rotation, the cycle is recharged again and again. there for instead of a constant stream of power coming from the powercell, short strong burst are used, which also makes the blade a little weaker as shown when he goes up against that big beast in the one episode. |
I'm not so sure; it seems to me that, when the metal circlet is detached, you would then be leaving the recharge ports open, and then run the risk of getting water, particulates and the like in there, effectively making it unable to be recharged because you can't get a good solid connection. Or, in the case of water getting in, you have the chance of the entire weapon being rendered useless (at least until it dries out). Also, I'd think that a laser of any kind (let alone a powerful blade such as a lightsaber) could remain on when there isn't a steady stream of power to the mechanisms that generate said laser. At the very least, and to me this is a HUGE stretch, to the point of beyond ridiculous, you'd see the blade pulse as the connection is made/lost/made/lost as the device spins.
Please don't misunderstand my criticism of the weapon as criticism of the individual doing the write up; nothing could be further from the truth. I appreciate EVERYONE who does stats for the things we see in the SW universe; it saves a lot of work for those of us who do not do such things. I just find this particular example to be well beyond what can be explained, at least as it's described and used. |
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Thx1138
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| No I completely forgot about disk mode, This kind of lightsaber has been highly debated an how it works and that it is stupid. To me, the lightsaber is a reflection of the user and therefore no design is horrible. Also to add to the workings, If you look at when lightsabers are deactivated, the blade retracts, it doesn't just go away, Meaning excess energy is being used and dissipated which makes me think that if a strong enough surge of power is used, it could stay on until it reach's one end of the handle. |
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Jedi Skyler
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I believe the reason it retracts, rather than just disappears, is that the power flow gradually drops to nothing. If you cut the power to a laser, you *might* still see the beam away from the emitter, but if the power just stops, rather than being dropped to zero, you'd see something like when we see blaster bolts zinging away; there would be a definite ending on either side of the beam. Since it's coherent light, and it's actually traveling, the beam would stop being emitted, but would run its course. |
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Thx1138
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Well the second way I thought it could work is the way the old Rakatan Force Saber work. The Force Sabers in Dawn of the Jedi are basically the same as lightsabers but are a little more primitive and are fueled by the dark side of the force, and if you look at him when he uses it, he always has a angry look on his face. I feel that this way is a less likely since as I said it is more primitive than modern lightsabers but it is an interesting possibility. |
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