Luke's skill

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I'll attest to that. Unless you modify it, the cybernetic limb has no feeling. In addition, depending on how you alter it, you can turn it into a deadly weapon! 😱 My character Galder has a knife and a blaster built into his arm, as well as a secret compartment for his lightsaber.

Vader tooled up his synthetic limbs to be stronger. Hence the whole 'lifting people off the ground and breaking their necks with ease' awesomeness. Also, he keeps fighting even when missing an arm. 😉

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Originally posted by jollyjim311
A few things:
-All the links elaborate on what happened in between the movies, they can be used as sources and are part of the character.
-About the lightsaber: An artist just screwed up the drawing, so what?
-PT Jedi weren't just killed by surprise attacks from clones! Crappy battle droids have gunned them down in straight fights. Battle droids are far worse than Jabba's mercs. When put in a situation against harder opponents than some PT Jedi faced and died against, Luke walked away unharmed. Don't try to pretend like having a robotic hand is a bad thing, either. It is stronger and more durable than a normal hand.

Those battle droids seriously outnumbered the jedi too. Yeah 1 on 1 a jedi could block the shot, but 20 to 1....

And for a jedi a robotic arm is bad. No force out of the hand that is robotic. Since when does a jedi need a more durable hand?

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Originally posted by balanced_blade
Those battle droids seriously outnumbered the jedi too. Yeah 1 on 1 a jedi could block the shot, but 20 to 1....

And for a jedi a robotic arm is bad. No force out of the hand that is robotic. Since when does a jedi need a more durable hand?

He was referring to the Clone Wars not Battle of Geonosis where some Jedi were gunned down by Battle Droids in battle with Clone Troopers allies.

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Originally posted by balanced_blade
And for a jedi a robotic arm is bad. No force out of the hand that is robotic. Since when does a jedi need a more durable hand?

Oh, they can still use the Force with that limb. I think there's an article in the Official Site's Answers & Questions section that addresses that nicely. The hand motions are just a focusing technique. Vader chokes Ozzel without moving a muscle, so the hand motions and whatnot are unneeded if they're powerful enough.

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Originally posted by Captain REX
That looks like Kenobi's, really. Depends on what time the comic takes place, doesn't it? He also has his father's lightsaber on the cover.

Indeed, it is definitely Obi-Wan's (hilt details and color confirm it) Indeed, Luke did have Anakin's saber on the cover, but in the comic, the only saber he used was clearly Obi-Wan's. (Cover was probably drawn by a different artist to the main part of the comic, and the artist who drew the rest just used incorrect reference material for the saber... I've had that happen when I tried to make a replica of Anakin's AotC saber. I used the Visual Dictionary as the reference, but little did I realize, that the picture printed was actually reversed..)

Originally posted by Captain REX
That would be spamming...

So what's the proper 'netiquette' here? I ask a question that LightSnake ignores (most likely because it would prove him wrong). He responded quite clearly clearly that there was nothing wrong with the saber design (which there blatantly is) to my comment, and has ignored evey attempt to justify that opinion through clarrifying evidence (because it proved he was wrong) So how am I supposed to address that if I can't re-post the question and the accompanying evidence? Or should I just take his refusal to answer as proof that I'm right after all?

Originally posted by Captain REX
You're right there. Lightsnake, even though this is the EU forum...the movies still overrule.

Thankyou 🙂

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Originally posted by jollyjim311
-About the lightsaber: An artist just screwed up the drawing, so what?

-With regards to the artist, it is simply unprofessional. An artist should strive to be as accurate as possible with their work. As an artist myself, I can tell you that there is no greater frustration than doing something, only to find you used the wrong reference material (as I said above about my recreation of Anakin's AotC saber)
Would you say 'so what?' if you went to get a tattoo and the artist used the wrong reference material and drew the wrong thing on you?
-With regards to making a point of it with Lightsnake, I said that the saber was wrong, and he said it was not. The saber is clearly wrong. A few days ago, he tried arguing that in RotJ, Luke was not shot in his artificial hand. He's someone that will not accept being proven wrong, despite the evidence shown that does so.

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Originally posted by jollyjim311
Don't try to pretend like having a robotic hand is a bad thing, either. It is stronger and more durable than a normal hand.

I'm not saying that an artificial hand is a bad thing. What I was saying (if you'd actually read my comments properly) was that the only reason Luke was not disarmed by the shot was because it hit his artificial hand. Had it been an organic hand, he would have dropped his lightsaber.

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Originally posted by Captain REX
I'll attest to that. Unless you modify it, the cybernetic limb has no feeling.

The AotC visual dictionary clearly said about Anakin's artificial hand, that the fingertips were electrostatically sensitive to touch. It probably didn't transmit much in the way of texture or temperature, but it would have transmitted some tactile information. In CW, Anakin was clearly in pain when he pushed his hand through the forcefield (possibly due to energy conducted into his flesh by the metal of his hand, possibly due to the hand's sensors being overloaded) either way, it clearly caused him some discomfort, and he screamed when the hand exploded.
Luke's hand was a much more sophisticated model. The synthetic flesh would have transmitted much more in the way of tactile information. Luke cried out in pain when he his hand was shot. Not as much as if it had been an organic hand, but it still caused him some pain, so artificial hands do indeed have some feeling.

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Originally posted by Captain REX
Oh, they can still use the Force with that limb. I think there's an article in the Official Site's Answers & Questions section that addresses that nicely. The hand motions are just a focusing technique. Vader chokes Ozzel without moving a muscle, so the hand motions and whatnot are unneeded if they're powerful enough.

Indeed. I think the episode of CW showed it best where Anakin burst the Techno Union minion. He pointed the remains of his artificial hand at him, so mentally, he was clearly still thinking of making the Gesture of Influence, which then led to the bursting...