Black Lightsaber

is there anybody in the EU who had a black lightsaber.?

Galen Marek had one, in his game. But no. A black lightsaber would be impractical anyway. Imagine using it in the dark, you wouldn't be able to see the bloody thing! Great way to lose an arm.

You shouldn't need to see it, it's an extension of you afterall. You don't have to see your arm to know where it is.

Hell, i would love to have one. Where can you get the black crystal?

Why don't jedi just keep their lightsabers deactivated in a fight, and then activate them when they strike? That'll make their attacks almost impossible to stop, especially when stabbing.

A natural one such as a weak crystalline matrix of an onyx crystal might work.

Or there may be a synthetic one out there.

Originally posted by Hewhoknowsall
Why don't jedi just keep their lightsabers deactivated in a fight, and then activate them when they strike? That'll make their attacks almost impossible to stop, especially when stabbing.

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No Lucien, he made sense.

Think about it: you move your deactivated lightsaber hilt toward the enemy, and at the last second you activate it, and the saber ignites into the guy and kills him. The guy can't do much about it because it's hard to block a saber that hasn't been ignited yet.

...never mind. You don't get it.

Originally posted by Hewhoknowsall
Think about it: you move your deactivated lightsaber hilt toward the enemy, and at the last second you activate it, and the saber ignites into the guy and kills him. The guy can't do much about it because it's hard to block a saber that hasn't been ignited yet.

...never mind. You don't get it.

because its a horrible idea

i get it.. but no one ever does that, cuz the enemy will be counter attacking also. With the blade unignited, the opponent can't be blocked. And it would be really hard to concentrate on activating and deactivating the lightsaber for the whole fight just to switch between blocking and attacking.

Originally posted by Incanus
Hell, i would love to have one. Where can you get the black crystal?

Originally posted by Hewhoknowsall
Think about it: you move your deactivated lightsaber hilt toward the enemy, and at the last second you activate it, and the saber ignites into the guy and kills him. The guy can't do much about it because it's hard to block a saber that hasn't been ignited yet.

...never mind. You don't get it.

A relatively clever move (no, I'm not talking about yours) in a saber match would be for one combatant to suddenly deactivate their saber mid offensive swing. It'd be a risky move, but as the opponent's momentum from moving to block a blade that isn't there anymore swings their own blade past your hilt, you reactivate the saber, impaling them.

Originally posted by Nephthys
Galen Marek had one, in his game. But no. A black lightsaber would be impractical anyway. Imagine using it in the dark, you wouldn't be able to see the bloody thing! Great way to lose an arm.

Originally posted by Incanus
Which version ps2 or 360? If ps2 where can i get it...........

I think a black lightsabre would be an "anti-light" sabre. I'm no physicist, but as I see it, if you can have anti-matter, why not anti-light (which would look like blackness to us)?

Lightsabers aren't made of light.

Originally posted by Eminence
Lightsabers aren't made of light.

How do you know? How do you know that they don't have some kind of technology to keep a light beam contained within a small space?

SW Databank:
These crystals are ideal for the creation of lightsabers, as they focus the energy released from a saber's power cell into the tight, blade-like beam.

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Once unleashed, the power channels through a positively charged continuous energy lens at the center of the handle. The beam then arcs circumferentially back to a negatively charged high energy flux aperture. A superconductor transfers the power from the flux aperture to the power cell.

Seriously, I know you have access to Google.

Originally posted by Hewhoknowsall
Think about it: you move your deactivated lightsaber hilt toward the enemy, and at the last second you activate it, and the saber ignites into the guy and kills him. The guy can't do much about it because it's hard to block a saber that hasn't been ignited yet.

...never mind. You don't get it.

I'm pretty sure Corran Horn did that in a duel against Mara Jade, and it worked for him.