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funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

another note on the light Saber blade: it’s actually a long spinning loop like a narrow ‘0’ or the eye of a needle, which is why it doesn’t disconnect

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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Not quitesure if I am understanding you correctly, but I think you are saying it isn’t like, a flat, edged geometry…

…its more like a sort of … very angry, ‘fuzzy’, elongated cylinder with a roughly hemispherical ‘endcap’.

And the sort of… exit point, or emmitting point of the ‘blade’ is… more like an camera aperture or a nozzle.

But you also say this O, this eye of the needle… is spinning?

That is a bit of lore I am not familiar with, could you expand on that?

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- funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  "Energy constantly flows through the crystal. You're not fighting with a simple blade as much as you are directing a current of power." ―Sabine Wren and Kanan Jarrus on the Darksaber, Rebels: s3e15 Trials of the Dark Saber
  
  I’m sure there are other references, too, but for it to be a power current it needs to flow to and from a terminus. See also the Tagge Protoblade in which the energy circles around a metal core (internally referred to as the corn dog lightsaber) instead of being a sword
  
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  - sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I get that, sort of, that… some kind of supernatural/extradimensional energy is essentially drawn into, and then focused by the kyber crystals and the modulation systems of a light saber…
    
    I just had not heard that they involved a mechanically spinning component.
    
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