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Re: Black Lightsaber

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i qoute from wikipedia here to prove my point on the darksaber
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The Darksaber had many unique features that distinguished it from almost all other known lightsabers. The hilt was slightly longer than the standard saber length. The blade was flattened and pointed making its general shape closer to a vibrosword in appearance. The blade color was black, which is unique in itself. However—more peculiarly—the core of the blade was black, while the outer edges glowed white. This ran opposite to all other known blade colors, where the central core was white and the edges glowed in the more recognizable color. Additionally, the edges of the blade were not flush with the emitting end of the hilt, but were slightly off-center. Along with the unusual appearance of the blade, it possessed unusual audio properties: the ignition sound, and hum the blade produced seemed to be higher pitched and softer than heard by more common lightsabers. Interestingly, unlike most sabers, when the Darksaber struck another lightsaber, it did not produce a clashing sound. Instead the blade made a "twang" or whistling sound when struck against another energy blade. It seemed that many aspects of the Darksaber were diametrically opposed to regular lightsabers
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The Darksaber had been kept in the Jedi Temple on the galactic capital world, Coruscant, until the time when the Galactic Republic suffered a collapse in power. During this event, Mandalorians from the Vizsla clan stole the Darksaber and, over time, passed it down through the clan's generations. Over the ages, it was reputed that the Darksaber was responsible for the deaths of many Jedi.
and could you plz enlighten me on atar killer because i can not find him on wookiepedia and i wish to read about him, he sounds interesting
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Re: Black Lightsaber

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I mean Star Killer...
This is noncannon starkiller as a general, but the weapon remains the same...

I love it...
It is possible to make a double ended one I wonder?


http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images ... killer.jpg
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ah yes i do recall that now XD but i was searching atar and i actually found someone XD, BUT that is just an extra to the game not an actual saber used normally. anyway point taken though.
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The crystal does exist in the X-box game.... It is the person that is an extra... Not the saber...

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Why am I arguing over this?
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Re: Black Lightsaber

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The reason the darksaber/blacklightsaber is so unique among lightsabers is the same reason lightsabers are unique among vibroswords. They aren't the same thing.

For a saber to be black, it must absorb light. Black light (not ultra violet, I mean BLACK) cannot be emitted. In a lightsaber, the "core" is a plasma arc. It's energy is extremely intense. It should always appear white. The "glow" is a force field that contains and directs the plasma. It can be any emittable color.

I don't know what the core of a darksaber is, but it probably is not plasma.
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But this is not real world physics, this is starwars... A Different place... I guess it was a sith weapon, and IT absorbes light because that is the kind of think that the Sith would do...
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Young Padawan, the Sith don't absorb light, they only use the shadow of the light the Jedi are producing. :vader2:
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... OK.. :thumbs:
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i know the crystal exists in the game. but its an extra crystal that you can find, not one that you automatically receive. anyway, your right, were straying offtopic arguing about a pointless thing but one more thing (i read nowhere that it was a sith weapon, wookiepedia said it was stored in the jedi temple on coruscant. could you enlighten me please? new knowledge is always welcome :thumbs: )
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I think all this is a bit off-topic. :wink:
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Delta-1035 wrote:I think all this is a bit off-topic. :wink:
Was about to say that. :P
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Well actualy, you say it is off topic, but it is still about black lightsabers... which it the title of this topic... I would saty it is completley on-topic personaly, but I will respect peoples wishs and stop after answering his question...

First, I beliefed it to be of sith origens for several reasons...

The weapon is, old, probably of the old republic representent your vocation as a jedi,,,

lue - Gaurdiun
Green - COnsular
Yellow - Sentinal.

There is no black crystal vocation...

Secondly, the lightsaber was invented by sith, to replace their swords... The darksaber is a cross between a sword and a lightsaber possibly a prototype?

Thirdly, it is stated that there is plesanty of jedi blood on the that saber...It takes a force sensitive person to wield a saber, and a jedi would not murder his companions without decending to the sith... This indicates that it was wielded by the sith at laest for the magority of its life...


This makes it likely that it was actualy built and used by the sith, before its user was defeated... It unique properties would have been taken to the temple to suty, possibly resulting in the creatoin of the black crystal that is used by Starkiller....

Those are my arguments...
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Yeah sure, but this is the Black Lightsaber ASSET RELEASE not a discussion on the lightsabers. :wink:
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ok last offtopic saying from me (i promise) it says that many jedi have fallen to the blade, but that was after the mandolorians stole it from teh jedi temple, and pre visla is not a force sensitive and was able to hold off kenobi for a time. also, the proto types for lightsabers were as i believe, proto sabers with which oyu had to carry an energy pack on your side to charge and use. but you are right on the account that sith made the first "modern" lightsabers.
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I kind of meant it as a prototype Modern saber...

He does not specificcaly say, "I got this blade, since then we have killed many jedi"

As for the fact that many jedi had been beaten by it, pre visla did not defeat obione, so he cant have been that good, also, Mandalorians Can Not Use Light Sabers AS Good As Sith.

Period.
Are you seriously implying that The mandelorian Clans defeated Jedi? In the mandelorian wars (The only major conflict that pitted Mandelorians against the Jedi) The Jedi Beat them hands down...They only would have won, through mines, and weight of numbers...

It is simple. A Non-force-sensitive Mandelorian could not beat a jedi in a Lightsaber dual... A Sith could.l..

That is all there is to it...
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Man that's still off-topic... :spam:
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Re: Black Lightsaber

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Offtopic: Slime615 and SAMofBIA, Please stop going offtopic, an Admin might lock the topic if you do.
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The saber is good, but it has problems...
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Darth_Spiderpig, Please fix. Thanks! :D I did everything correctly according to your tut in the readme, so i'm not sure what the problem is.
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Is that a stock-shaped blade texture? That's the only shape the black blade is meant to go with, I think.
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Post by Cerfon Rournes »

No, It is the one that came in the the folder. The new saber must have this "blacklightsabre" saber texture which Spiderpig included in the download.
Readme wrote: To get it working, add this to the unit's odf:

AnimatedAddon = "saber"
GeometryAddon = "spidey_weap_blacksaber_whateversizeyouwantiteithershortorlong:P"
AddonAttachJoint = "hp_weapons"

And change the values in the lightsaber's odf to this:

Long version:
FirePointName = "hp_fire"
LightSaberLength = "1.5"
LightSaberWidth = "0.08"
LightSaberTexture = "blacklightsabre"
LightSaberTrailColor = "255 255 255 128"

Short version:
FirePointName = "hp_fire"
LightSaberLength = "0.7"
LightSaberWidth = "0.08"
LightSaberTexture = "blacklightsabre"
LightSaberTrailColor = "255 255 255 128"
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Ok, SAMofBIA, If you have anymore questions or arguments, PM Me...
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