Black Lightsaber

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.

There is actually a fighting style based upon this, but it'd be hard to use due to the fact that you might get your arm sliced off. It's called Tràkata.

'Tràkata was a form of lightsaber combat. It took advantage of a lightsaber blade's ability to be turned on and off, a unique quality in a melee weapon. Quickly shutting off then re-igniting the blade could cause confusion in one's opponents, allowing for diversionary feints in combat. Sith Lords would occasionally use this form to free their blade hand, allowing greater control of some force powers, such as Force lightning.'

Yoda is a frequent user of it.

As for a black lightsaber, it should be possible, as it has been stated (In Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor), that it is a blade of pure plasma, not of light, but due to GL not wanting sabers of colours other than blue, red and green - Windu being a special case - we haven't actually seen one in canon, as every cutscene in TFU depicts Marek with either a blue or a red one.

Originally posted by Wolverine2179
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Pure plasma? That's retarded, how would that even work? What's to keep the plasma from expanding into a major explosion at a rapid rate the moment some poor sod turns his "darksaber" on.

There was a book with that title I think.... in Young Jedi Knights.......... or something.

You know what strikes me as odd? How the black lightsaber is different from the other ones. All of the other sabers have colored outlines (making them red, blue, green, purple, etc. lightsabers). But the black one is black in the middle (where white usually is), with white outlines. I would have liked the black lightsaber to be a lightsaber with black outlines.

Gameplay-wise, I think they added it so you could actually see the blade, instead of risking it blending in with the background.