Non-Jedi and lightsabers

[cignus_pfaccari]

Yeah, the character would have to aquire the lightsaber from somewhere else, as it requires a special ritual to imbue the crystals correctly. Non-Force Users can't really do that...

Enterprising Clone/Storm troopers who looted them off of dead Jedi? (Note that when the Jedi Temple is knocked over, a great many lightsabers would be available, as they certainly have spares out the wazoo...)

Fallen Jedi cranking them out in workshops on annoyingly remote worlds?

It finds you? Seriously, the Force guides you to it, especially if you're already Force-Sensitive and heading towards Dark Side Marauder?

BTW, the Darth Impostors are COOL.

Brad

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Enterprising Clone/Storm troopers who looted them off of dead Jedi? (Note that when the Jedi Temple is knocked over, a great many lightsabers would be available, as they certainly have spares out the wazoo...)

Interestingly enough, take a look at the Return of the Jedi DVD shot of Coruscant. In the background, you can see the Jedi Temple is actually still standing back there.

Of course, that doesn't stop the looting, which is a very cool idea...same with those Vader posers. May have to yoink those sometime

 

[Bill Scott]

How my character got the dark jedi's lightsaber is because his father's best friend and constant companion was a wookie. After seeing him killed he ripped off the dark jedi's arms,beat him to death with them and took his lightsaber.

Now I am confused. You said, to put it in easier words, that the bounty hunter's primary goal in life is to kill the dark jedi who killed his father. Now you're saying that the dark jedi was killed by the father's wookie constant companion, which sounds funny IMO, out of revenge. Which is it?

 

[warlord]

did I forget to mention the wookie killed the dartk jedi's aprentice not the dark jedi. Sorry about that guys.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Interestingly enough, take a look at the Return of the Jedi DVD shot of Coruscant. In the background, you can see the Jedi Temple is actually still standing back there.

Of course, that doesn't stop the looting, which is a very cool idea...same with those Vader posers. May have to yoink those sometime

You know, I'd rather thought the Jedi Temple'd've been a smoking hole in the ground when the Emperor was done with it. Hrm. Probably got turned into a museum on the iniquity of the Jedi Order, with their torture chambers, massive files from their inquisitions and pogroms, and the ovens where they cooked all the little children they were given to train to be jedi. You know, standard Big Lie stuff.

Brad

 

[Aaron2]

Or Luke just had no real idea what exactly he was doing...heh, probably the worst example of any kind of Jedi tradition will always be Luke, as he got the biggest crash course in being a Jedi in the history of Star Wars.

Of couse, in the 80s and 90s when WEG was making up all sorts of silly things about Jedi, Luke was the -only- example of the Jedi training that existed.


Aaron

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

You know, I'd rather thought the Jedi Temple'd've been a smoking hole in the ground when the Emperor was done with it. Hrm. Probably got turned into a museum on the iniquity of the Jedi Order, with their torture chambers, massive files from their inquisitions and pogroms, and the ovens where they cooked all the little children they were given to train to be jedi. You know, standard Big Lie stuff.

Brad

According to EU, the Temple was destroyed and the Emperor built his palace over it...well, actually that was changed with the NJO which seem to have had it as the museum type place you describe. Not anything like a 'temple' anymore.

Of couse, in the 80s and 90s when WEG was making up all sorts of silly things about Jedi, Luke was the -only- example of the Jedi training that existed.

True. But on the point of Luke trying to not use the Force to focus the crystals and failing...that doesn't mean its possible, it just means that Luke tried something that didn't work. Since the imbuing of the crystals is an fairly important ritual(it seems that way, at least) then use of the Force would make a good amount of sense.

 

[Aaron2]

True. But on the point of Luke trying to not use the Force to focus the crystals and failing...that doesn't mean its possible, it just means that Luke tried something that didn't work. Since the imbuing of the crystals is an fairly important ritual(it seems that way, at least) then use of the Force would make a good amount of sense.

First off, the sequence from the Radio Drama has nothing to with "imbuing crystals", that was EU stuff added later on. It was a simple mechanical process of aligning focal lenses. Nor was there a ritual involved, Luke was reading the instructions out of an old book.

It is not conclusive either way, however, I see it as more than enough wiggle room for a GM to allow non-Jedi to make lightsabers yet still remain true to SW canon. That's all.


Aaron

 

[Sejs]

Anyone can use a lightsaber, force user or not, you just need the force to do the neat jedi tricks like deflecting blaster bolts. Even if you don't want to take the -4 non proficient penalty for swinging one around in combat, they'd still make very handy cutting tools. Bulkhead, eh? *Kztchwhuum* We'll just see about that.

And as for needing the force to align the crystals properly, I don't buy that in the slightest. This is a society that can build fully sentient robots, completely destroy entire planets, and send their spacecraft skipping thru other dimentions simply because they want them to go faster. Aligning a crystal with exacting precision is something even we can do. What I would say, would be that aligning a lightsaber crystal properly is normally something that requires very large, complex, precise machinery. Something about the size of a large oven, and is normally found in a weapons lab or machining plant. However, if you're down with the force you can do it by yourself using only standard hand-tools, or telekinesis.

The jedi didn't invent lightsabers, they just widely adopted them. Thus someone had to be able to make them without needing the use of the force before that adoption took place.

 

[0-hr]

Well a non force user may be able to use a lightsaber, but he better have a very good reason for having one since lightsabers require the use of the force in it's construction (from I, Jedi and various other novels.)

A good excuse like "He saved up 3000 Cr."?