dreamwars | Chat corner 35: Weapons

The customary Dark Side post link, for your grumblings.

I am going to be the most basic person ever and say lightsabers. They're super cool! It's like a color-coded sword that is also a flashlight! You can get them in my favorite color of blue! I'm not that fussed about hilt designs – there are plenty of sleek ones that get my approval, and the hands cover it up mostly – as the blade is amazing.

I’m a big fan of the Double Bladed style myself! Ever since I saw Darth Maul draw his back in The Phantom Menace it’s always been my choice. (I even spent real world money so my MMO character could have several fancy ones lol)
I’m really glad that the new EU has them show up more now too.

Ooh, saberstaves! I like those as well, and I have just rolled a MMO character who can use them. The default one is hip-mounted, but I might check if the in-game auction house has some nice back-mounted ones for affordable prices. (SWTOR has no physics for the lightsabers etc. For the default saberstaff, it's manageable, but the longer ones look stupid.) Which MMO, and which ones have you acquired?

I’m talking about SWTOR too and wish they showed the staffs more love or at least got cutscenes to work right with them. Seriously the amount of times my Shadow would have stabbed herself is ridiculous...
Agreed on size issues especially because my characters are all Body Type 1 but the back mounted ones sit weird on some species or look bad with certain armour sets and hairstyles because it sits more on your shoulder than back so I wish they slung across the back diagonally. All the new ones released now are back mounted too which makes me less likely to buy them :(
(Darth Vindican‘s one was datamined to be coming out soon...and it’s on your back).

I’ve got a pretty big collection so I’ll just link you to some of my favourites.
https://torf.mmo-fashion.com/resurrected-stalker-survivor-saberstaff/
Bought this one last night and I never thought I’d own it because it’s supposed to be an OPS reward and I don’t do group content. Now my characters get to fight over who will use it.

https://torf.mmo-fashion.com/occultists-polesaber-mkk-1/
Paid 10 million for this one recently because I like the hilt design and previous versions are all locked to light side so now my Assassin can use it!

https://torf.mmo-fashion.com/derelict-saberstaff/
My daily one I use mostly

https://torf.mmo-fashion.com/descendants-heirloom-dualsaber/
My first cartel market purchase I ever made was this.

https://torf.mmo-fashion.com/vindicators-saberstaff/
My most wanted item but it’s never for sale :(
Seriously it previews sooooo good with a teal crystal!

https://torf.mmo-fashion.com/zez-kai-ells-double-bladed-lightsaber-ver-2/
This looks nice with a cyan crystal, you can find cheaper non-mod versions to use when the Weapons Outfit Designer drops with 7.0 so I’d grab them and wait.

My Sentinel seemed to forget her second saber in every cutscene; I am not surprised that Shadows/Assassins would forget to light the second half of their saberstaff or stab themselves.

I wish they slung across the back diagonally.
Ooh, there's an idea! It probably wouldn't work that well with Togruta and Nautolans, though. Perhaps they could do something similar to the robes that have hood up and hood down versions, and give multiple weapons with different holstering options? 2-3 of back (vertical), back (diagonal), and hip?

Thank you for the recs! I'll look at the Derelict Saberstaff and Vindicator's Saberstaff and see how they sit on my BT2 Shadow.

ahaha same. They're just cool.

What are your thoughts on "mood ring" lightsabers? I'm extremely conflicted. On one hand, I'm always like "ugh, another lengthy passage about this" but at the same time, MC rebuilding their lightsaber as a sign of personal growth, yes please!

My thoughts are that if someone's going to Ilum and getting a new crystal, then that crystal can be a new color. I think TCW sort of canonized personality detection lightsabers, in that Anakin played around with Ahsoka's (originally green) lightsabers so much that they turned blue like his lightsaber, but something that changes color based on the wielder's mood is lol. I'm also something of a color purist, in that I accept four lightsaber colors: blue, green, red (for the Sith), and white (for Sith crystals that have been healed), of which blue and green are found naturally. Purple is acceptable if you're Mace Windu. I guess yellow is also canon? But yeah. A character getting a new chunk of kyber and this is green instead of blue, or an ever so slightly different shade of blue, or something to that effect – that's acceptable. Inventing fancy new blade colors like pink or black or "viridian core with a purplish haze that has white flames flickering in it" just makes me roll my eyes.

By "mood ring" lightsabers I mostly meant those fancy colors beside the basic blue-green-yellow :D I haven't seen one that would actually change color depending on mood, I don't think. That would be... okay I'm a little shit so my instinctive reaction is to start thinking how to pull it off, but... no. I don't think I could.

In defense of very special lightsaber colors though, that's canon as well if you count the Darksaber! XD

So that "healed Sith crystals are white" thing is from canon? I've seen it in a fic or two, but didn't care enough to go canon-checking.

Ah yeah, I wasn't sure how literal you were being with the mood ring lightsabers! I can see an actual mood ring lightsaber (and how to make it stop) being a cool plot for a comedy fic, but, uh, not for anything serious. And I the Darksaber is ... well, uh, I have some vague Dark Side post thoughts about how people keep trying to make the Mandalorians the most supremely coolest by giving them Jedi stuff, like a lightsaber, instead of having the ritual item of their leader be a helmet or something else more suitable. So I'm a color purist!

So that "healed Sith crystals are white" thing is from canon? I've seen it in a fic or two, but didn't care enough to go canon-checking.
Just for you, I went and checked Wookieepedia, and it's from the Ahsoka novel! She took an Inquisitor's crystals and healed them, turning them white.

The white crystals show up again in the new High Republic books again too which makes them feel a little bit less special now that 2 Jedi so far in the first few books have them.
I’m not fond on the red crystals equal bled, because I think that would mean Sith should start showing individual colour crystals (like how Exar Kun kept his Cyan one) if it’s just down to nature now. (Previously Red was synthetic so all Sith had them regardless)

So I might have written a thing. XD

I don't know if it's any good, but it IS a color-changing lightsaber used in a serious story! Well, of the "hahaha oh fuck" variety, but still, ha.

(Also, I'm keeping an eye for that Dark Side post about the Darksaber, that sounds intriguing.)

I saw! And yes "hahaha oh fuck" is the perfect encapsulation.

My thoughts are vague and, well, vague, but I might put them up later this week.

Purple is now canon for other users due to the High Republic as is Yellow. (Yellow showed up for Temple Guards previously I think too)
High Republic also has variations of colour, Main Waifu Avar Kriss has a Sea Green colour one for example.
Magenta was an old canon colour so you could kind of have Pink.
(My Sith Sorcerer uses that one so I’m biased ;) )

Ha, I am an immense purist so my Jedi use blue, my Sorc uses red, and my special snowflake Warrior (at max LS points) has purple. And yeah, the Temple Guards had yellow saberstaves in TCW. Whenever I come across a random Jedi (in text) with a lightsaber that's not blue or green I mentally recolor it, lol.

Definitely lightsabers! They make me want to learn how to fence :p

I have to admit Ahsoka's double lightsabers were a revelation on The Mandalorian (I haven't seen Clone Wars yet). SO COOL.

If I had a lightsaber prop I'd just spin it around making lightsaber noises. Apparently this was a problem with the actors too, lol.

Ahsoka starts out with a single lightsaber but picks up her second one a season or so into TCW, and continues dual-wielding all the way through Rebels. TCW has at least one other regular dual wielder, and of course General Grievous with his four lightsabers.

If I had a lightsaber prop I'd just spin it around making lightsaber noises. Apparently this was a problem with the actors too, lol.

Hard same :D

I need to watch TCW, at least for Ahsoka, which I've heard are the best parts. She was so great on Mandalorian!

OHHH, I almost forgot! :D These are not related to the topic, but to the season:

Star Wars: Imperial March x Carol of The Bells

Star Wars: The Mandalorian Theme x Carol of The Bells

I have that Mandalorian one from last year, it's part of my Christmas playlist!

I think my least favorite is the Darksaber from Kevin Anderson's novel of the same name. Phew that was a stinker. Just the summary from the Wookieepedia is enough to make me LOL: The Darksaber attempts to fire its superlaser and make an escape, but the weapon fails and the ship is destroyed by two large asteroids.

Oh lol. Wah wah wah waaaaah.

I don't know that this is a favorite but the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the question was to think of the Arrowhead in the LEGO Freemaker Adventures. The second thing was force lightning (maybe more of a skill than a weapon, but certainly used as one). I can never forget how Palpatine refers to it as the "zappity, zappity" in the LEGO stories. My partner and I always call it that now.

"zappity, zappity"

oh no, that's absolutely gonna end up in my fanfic outlines from now on XD

I’d like either a purple lightsaber or a purple laser crossbow like Omega’s in The Bad Batch.

Or just using the force is cool enough.

Oooh, those laser crossbows are cool. The Nightsisters had pink-plasma bows, those were nice too.

And yeah, obviously, the Force itself is probably the coolest "weapon" of them all.

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