Star Wars Episode 3

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Actually, I get my information from old books, and comic books, from long ago in the 80s.

Jedi use all manner of blades. Yellow, blue, greens, purples, reds, pink, but I have never seen orange. Most of them are just colours. Some do have secondary function. Electrum has some secondary function, as does red. Yellow in particular was interesting. It acted more like a bolt of lightning rather than a focused blade. Or at least I remember it being so in the comic books and graphic novels. Not all lightsabres are straight edged either... Some have curved blades due to clever design.

I should have made my statement more clear. It is the first time in the Star Wars movie history that two Jedi face off with the same colours. In all six films, this has never happened before.

The physics of a lightsabre are interesting to ponder, and in theory they could really be made. A lab in Australia managed to push a small object with a special type of laser. Once they figure out how they did it, and can reproduce the results on a regular basis, we will be a lot closer to making a lightsabre type weapon a reality.
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Hmm...strange the kinds of things they did with the older serials, espically since I havent seen any of that carry over into the expanded universe book catalogue, from Truce at Bakura to the New Jedi Order.

A normal lightsaber has only a single focusing crystal, that must be precisely cut and finished to serve as a proper focus. Personal preference is the only thing that determines what kind of crystal a Jedi will use to create his/her lightsaber, and each crystal yeilds varying effects.

Then there are Dual-Phase Lighsabres. One of the earliest uses of these that I can remember was in the hands of Exar Kun - a dreaded Sith warlord who enslaved the native peoples of Yavin IV and nearly took over the galaxy. He weilded a Double-Bladed Dual-Phase Sabre, so with a simple twist of his hands he was able to control both of the blades length and how much force they could exert over another blade. He won many battles by changing his blades around in this way: switching lengths then dialing down the resistance so the incoming jedi's blade passed harmlessly through his own while opening up a good killing strike area.

Darth Vader also created a dual-phase saber for himself, though it was never really shown off in the origional movies; and Corran Horn, son of the man who chased Han Solo to the Imperial Training Base on Cordata, crafted one for himself as well. With a standard Dual-Phase you have 2 crystals: your Main crystal that always recieves power, and your secondary that comes into play when you activate it. By pushing the 2nd crystal into place the blade is focused even tighter, springing from a standard length of roughly 133cm to 300cm. The slight cost of this is that the blade itself looses girth, and really unless your trying to cause a lot of collateral damage or suprise your enemies there isnt a lot you can realisticaly do with a blade that long.

Heh, never thought my total nerdity when dealing with the SW universe would actually be useful sometime.