Lightsaber Colors, and Power Influence.

loomer · Post by **loomer** » 2006-07-24 09:20pm

I personally am of the opinion that a coloured blade is just like any other coloured blade- There may be minute differences due to impurities in the crystal causing the power to be enhanced or diminished by the tiniest amount.

However, I also believe that other crystals may be implemented in a lightsabre to increase the efficiency of said lightsabre. An additional focusing lens may refine the beam and result in more power being concentrated into the sabre, and so on...

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2006-07-25 02:48pm

Dooey Jo wrote:Blue light is more energetic than red light, so there should at least be a small and indirect difference.

That may be an efficiency issue.

I, Jedi has Coran using a fake crystal in his lightsabre. Not artificial, not synthetic, but one made of zirconium. (Stackpole substituted "Kubaz" to try and be witty)

That would indicate that the crystal has not influence on the blade at all.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » 2006-07-25 06:43pm

How is Bob Brown's old theory holding up where crystals are, like in modern electronics, used for frequency regulation?

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2006-07-25 06:45pm

Darwin wrote:How is Bob Brown's old theory holding up where crystals are, like in modern electronics, used for frequency regulation?

Speaking of mr. Brown; I much prefered his 'virtual partical' theory better than any of this 'crystal' crap.

Cos Dashit · Post by **Cos Dashit** » 2006-07-25 09:21pm

A friend of mine was telling me about some orange lightsabers that have the ability to, "cut through other lightsabers." Claimed it was EU canon. Also said the crystals were destroyed by the Jedi because they were 'dangerous'. Any basis at all? I've done a little wiki/wookiee-ing but I couldn't find anything.

Manus Celer Dei · Post by **Manus Celer Dei** » 2006-07-25 09:59pm

Cos Dashit wrote:A friend of mine was telling me about some orange lightsabers that have the ability to, "cut through other lightsabers." Claimed it was EU canon. Also said the crystals were destroyed by the Jedi because they were 'dangerous'. Any basis at all? I've done a little wiki/wookiee-ing but I couldn't find anything.

I think Supershadow's nonsense had something like that in it. Which is decidedly not canon.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » 2006-07-26 04:14am

Knife wrote:
Darwin wrote:How is Bob Brown's old theory holding up where crystals are, like in modern electronics, used for frequency regulation?
Speaking of mr. Brown; I much prefered his 'virtual partical' theory better than any of this 'crystal' crap.

Yeah, personally I find the 'spinning hypermatter disk bombarded with electrons to force it into an elongated shape' theory to be the most interesting of the bunch, plus it can be extended to turbolaser technology and the like.

Certainly better than the WEG 'standing wave' or almost-okay frozen blaster theories. Anyway, that's off topic.

As far as I'm concerned, and I've never read anything competant to contradict this, crystals are definitely a lightsaber component. They don't have any concrete effect on the color of the blade. The blade color may indicate certain things, and different colors may perform slightly differently; but only to the personal preference level, nothing overwhelming or hugely noticable in either way.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2006-07-26 07:48am

at least in KOTOR series the only effect that regular saber crystals had was the color of the blade (though you needed one for the saber to work), though some special crystals had effects on the performance of the blade itself (this could be game mechanics though).

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2006-07-26 11:09am

Lord Revan wrote:at least in KOTOR series the only effect that regular saber crystals had was the color of the blade (though you needed one for the saber to work), though some special crystals had effects on the performance of the blade itself (this could be game mechanics though).

Welcome to page 2, your point was addressed on page 1 numb nuts.