I have once more returned to the whimiscal land of SD.NET, where myth makes the science, fools are punished, and a good light-hearted insult here or there hurts no one. Some may remember me, others not.
Why is it that the hand-laser-block is never used by any other Jedi/Sith in the SW saga? Imagine a Jedi absorbing blaser bolts with his hand, while flinging physical objects at foes, AND slicing up guys with a lightsaber. Unless it is unpractical to wield a saber in one hand a use the other for laser-blocking and other Force-assited powers, I see no reason why it is ignored throughout the enitre saga (save Vaders run-in with Han in TESB).
It could have proven life-saving at the disatrous Battle of Geonosis, where Jedi could have absorbed blasts with their hands and deflected them with their lightsabers.
Is this technique only a dark-side power? Is it too strenuous for most (seeing as Vader is unusually strong in the Force), or does it require too much effort to be worth it in such fast paced fights, such as Geonosis?
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People who can do it will(Corran Horn) have to be pretty much stationary and they can do it only from one way if its concentrated enough meaning running/gunning very hard to do
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Using the movie ESB and it's novelisation (along with an earlier thread) it seems Vader was quasi using the Force. We only see sparks shoot out from his hand in the movie. However the book makes it very plain that his gauntlet not only blocked the shot, but defelcted them into the wall. Go figure.
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I vaguely recall you, welcome back.
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To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. ~Steve Prefontaine
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
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