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I heard an interesting theory about lightsabers recently...
The tl;dr is that a lightsaber's blade is actually plasma contained in a stasis field. Stasis tech doesn't get a lot of mention, but it is official WEG tech (see Han Solo & the Corporate Sector SB) that creates an entropy field that either stops or greatly slows the progression of time within the field. So, rather than having to constantly generate a beam of plasma with an insanely high degree of energy conservation, all it is doing is generating enough plasma to make the beam, then effectively freezing it in time (with the assumption that maintaining the stasis field draws a lot less power than would maintaining a plasma blade).
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| Whill wrote: | | Are we talking real world super hot plasma, or space opera "plasma" like what Gungan forcefields (and the core of Naboo) are supposedly made of? |
Real world super-hot. The stasis field would only be breached on physical contact with an object; it’d even block thermodynamics.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2021 11:09 am Post subject: Re: Lightsaber Tech |
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| CRMcNeill wrote: | I heard an interesting theory about lightsabers recently...
The tl;dr is that a lightsaber's blade is actually plasma contained in a stasis field. Stasis tech doesn't get a lot of mention, but it is official WEG tech (see Han Solo & the Corporate Sector SB) that creates an entropy field that either stops or greatly slows the progression of time within the field. So, rather than having to constantly generate a beam of plasma with an insanely high degree of energy conservation, all it is doing is generating enough plasma to make the beam, then effectively freezing it in time (with the assumption that maintaining the stasis field draws a lot less power than would maintaining a plasma blade). |
I like it. That would mean that you only have to generate a relatively small stasis field, and explain why being near the blade doesn't give every jedi a tan on the right side of their face.
Huh. Since the Death Star Superlaser was ALSO powered by kyber crystals, imagine that it worked on a similar principal... not so much blowing up a planet as using the planet's own force of rotation to rip it apart.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2021 12:08 pm Post subject: Re: Lightsaber Tech |
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| MrNexx wrote: | | I like it. That would mean that you only have to generate a relatively small stasis field, and explain why being near the blade doesn't give every jedi a tan on the right side of their face. |
Exactly. Of course, once the plasma is outside the stasis field, thermodynamics kicks in again (see TPM where Qui-Gon tries to cut through the blast door), but until then, it's basically room temperature.
| Quote: | | Huh. Since the Death Star Superlaser was ALSO powered by kyber crystals, imagine that it worked on a similar principal... not so much blowing up a planet as using the planet's own force of rotation to rip it apart. |
I'm not too sure about that; I'd rather go with Kyber Crystals being some super-efficient method of plasma generation that's used alongside the stasis field generator.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2021 2:05 pm Post subject: Re: Lightsaber Tech |
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| CRMcNeill wrote: | | Quote: | | Huh. Since the Death Star Superlaser was ALSO powered by kyber crystals, imagine that it worked on a similar principal... not so much blowing up a planet as using the planet's own force of rotation to rip it apart. |
I'm not too sure about that; I'd rather go with Kyber Crystals being some super-efficient method of plasma generation that's used alongside the stasis field generator. |
*shrug* Works for me.
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| CRMcNeill wrote: | | Whill wrote: | | Are we talking real world super hot plasma, or space opera "plasma" like what Gungan forcefields (and the core of Naboo) are supposedly made of? |
Real world super-hot. The stasis field would only be breached on physical contact with an object; it’d even block thermodynamics. |
It'd have to. Blocking and maintaining the temperature is not the most fantastic aspect.
Stasis fields first appeared in the Lando Calrissian Adventures, which was pretty out there even for Star Wars. My knee jerk to "stasis fields" is because time is an inherent aspect of space-time, so my rational mind rebels against a small field that slows only time but can be carried around and moved through space independently of time. To me it seems more fantastic than than other physics-suppressing miraculous technologies like artificial gravity, antigravity, inertia compensation, and even jumping to lightspeed.
But warping time doesn't seem required for this concept. Just maintaining plasma, which is miraculous enough as it is.
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While I like the Stasis Field concept, and agree it has some problems (why carbon freeze Han if you can just lock him in stasis relatively easily?), you might also simply have it be a ray shield, already designed to stop plasma and mitigate heat, while allowing physical objects to pass through.
The lightsaber containment then becomes something like a black box... specifically designed to tolerances you couldn't build a larger shield to, making it essentially invulnerable to energy. This also lets Jedi parry blasters, but not slugs or grenades... the physical objects pass through, the blasters do not.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 8:23 am Post subject: Re: Lightsaber Tech |
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| CRMcNeill wrote: | I heard an interesting theory about lightsabers recently...
The tl;dr is that a lightsaber's blade is actually plasma contained in a stasis field. Stasis tech doesn't get a lot of mention, but it is official WEG tech (see Han Solo & the Corporate Sector SB) that creates an entropy field that either stops or greatly slows the progression of time within the field. So, rather than having to constantly generate a beam of plasma with an insanely high degree of energy conservation, all it is doing is generating enough plasma to make the beam, then effectively freezing it in time (with the assumption that maintaining the stasis field draws a lot less power than would maintaining a plasma blade). |
I agree!
I can even see that we can argue we have seen this through the rebels animated series and Ezra's lightsaber with his stun blaster combo. Knowing how a balster works, with indeed plasma bolts forming before they are launched, We have no evidence that the stun rays or balls or bolts function any differently, they too are plasma that launches from the weapon.
I can see lightsabers using some of the similar tech to as you say create a plasma balde held in place by some form of force field, be it a membran, a magnetic field or the force or even some tech that can create a "light stick" and I thinmwe have seen this before in no lightsaber wespons, but still with a projected "blade" of energy.
I really like this concept |
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