Chat corner 35: Weapons

[annathecrow]

Welcome to this week’s chat corner!

Optional prompt

This week’s topic is “weapons”. Star Wars has a good amount of iconic weapons, from the personal to the planet-killing. Some of them are iconic even in general culture (“that’s no moon”), others… less so (the embarrassingly long list of “Death Star but bigger” from the SW books).

Do you have favorites? Or not-favorites?

Comments

[extrapenguin]

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.

[kittywhite]

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)

[annathecrow]

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.)

[extrapenguin]

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.