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

[annathecrow]

The customary Dark Side post link, for your grumblings.

[extrapenguin]

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.

[annathecrow]

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

[astromech1138]

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.

[yourlibrarian]

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.

[fleurviolette]

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.