Silly Star Wars Question

[Riff Moonraker]

This has probably been asked before, and may even cause many of you to roll your eyes at the stupidity of the question, but I'm curious damnit so I'm asking anyway.

We were talking about this briefly on campus last night and never really landed on a solid answer, so I figured why not ask the Internet. So, say you had two lightsabers, right? Now take both of them and push them together so that the end that the beam exits on both blades are facing each other. What would happen if you turned them on?

Clearly the two blades can't occupy the same space, so would they explode? I figured the hilt would melt and the crystals would be destroyed. Just curious what you guys think would happen.

Edit: This is the primary thread, the second one is some weird spawn created by campus internet.

Seeing as how they use them to fight each other, and the blades repel each other, then I would assume that they would push the hilts right out of your hand, and possibly cause some severe limb damage. There is one small variable, though. Red lightsabers have an ever-so-slight chance to cause disruptions in other color lightsabers, so if it were say... a red and a blue lightsaber, then there might be a .0001 percent chance the red blade disrupts the blue, and it would go through the blues hilt and destroy it. Very slight though.

*EDIT* I need to elaborate slightly, I dont mean red in general, I am referring to a particular type of crystal used for the red lightsabers only, but I cannot remember the name of the crystal.

 

[Riff Moonraker]

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They'd probably break if you did that. The blades may well be nigh-indestructible energy beams, but the handles are just metal. They'd crumple or break and be unable to maintain the beam, shutting it down. They might explode or throw beam-energy around as they fail, so you probably wouldn't want to be in the same room.

Alternatively, if the handles didn't break, the batteries would probably just run down as they try to force the beams out against each other's resistance. The handles might become hot to dissipate energy or maybe the blades can do that.

While I agree with the first part, I never thought they had batteries in the first place. Are you makeing this up or is there some evidence to this?

Because I thought (aside from the Crystal Color idea) that the color might be an indicator of their lifespan. The Sith always uses their Lightsabers to decapitate foes and thus their energy runs low, turning to red, while the Jedis mostly used these gayish Mind Tricks and avoid lightsaber combat thus their colors are blue (for almost full battery) and green for pristinely charged as good as new.

The battery/energy source things was mentioned in the EU (novels and 'technical manuals'), but weren't mentioned in the movies.
And the crystal color was brought up, I think, in the EU as well. The Sith had red blades because they typically used mass produced crystals whereas the Jedi (or non-Sith) used either naturally formed crystals or ones they forged themselves.


As for the original question, I think that when the lightsabers were switched on, they'd overload and detonate (or burnout) both power cells.

Yep, and they also pick and choose their handles accordingly. For example, Tenel-Ka's first lightsaber had a hilt made out of a Rancor tooth, which fit seeing as how she was from their homeplanet of Dathomir.

 

[Riff Moonraker]

Unrelated: Crap now I want to play KOTOR

I'd go with they would reproduce, that's how lightsabers are made right?

No. Jedi and Sith pick out their crystals to focus and shape using the force. Jedi through calm, meditative procedures, and Sith focus anger and hatred to shape their crystals. During the Old Republic years, before Darth Bane established the "only two Sith, one master, one student" ideal, the Sith were very populous. I believe, like someone else here said, that they mass produced the particular crystal they used to develop their lightsabers, but as far as anything I have ever read, Jedi always determine and choose their own crystal, and personalize their lightsabers completely. Its alot more of a rite of passage to them, versus more of a means to an end in a majority of cases with the Sith. Also, in some novels you will hear mention of powercells used to help power the sabers, too, much like the blasters and such.

 

[PureIrony]

They get all tangled up and the situation becomes really awkward.