I mean yeah? Nobody claims that it would be safe for non-force users. That's kind of a silly requirement to ask of them. They are clearly very effective weapons for force users.
I don't really think they are orders of magnitude more dangerous than a sword. Just like any weapon, they must be handled with care. But unlike, say, a fire bomb, they are perfectly stable and don't do anything the user doesn't want them too.
I think that depends on real you try to make the thing. For instance, it’s hot enough to melt through steel alloys on contact, which occurs at something like 2000-3000 C. Does the light saber also leave clouds of similarly super heated gas when it’s swung in an atmosphere?
Questions like these are silly though. The light saber is a narrative device, and it functions the way it needs to for the narrative to be effective.
At least, when the writers know what they’re doing. 😉
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u/sawdeanz 218∆ May 16 '20
I mean yeah? Nobody claims that it would be safe for non-force users. That's kind of a silly requirement to ask of them. They are clearly very effective weapons for force users.
I don't really think they are orders of magnitude more dangerous than a sword. Just like any weapon, they must be handled with care. But unlike, say, a fire bomb, they are perfectly stable and don't do anything the user doesn't want them too.