My wife bought a book breaking down every aspect of how Vaders mechanical/physical body was built after Anakin's fall. It was for the kids, but I read through it first. A lot of detail in there, then I came across this page...
Uhhhh...cut through a green or blue lightsaber blade? Mind blown! Ok, you'll have to forgive me as I am not well read with the EU novels and I had never heard of this before. I had read that a red synth-crystal blade had more power behind it's strike but the natural crystal blades were quicker and more easily maneuverable...not this other jazz!
*On a side note, look at how exact Vader's emitter is to his first ever lightsaber. I never noticed that before until this picture.*
So I took to the web(it knows stuff) and hit up Wookieepedia and found out more that was new to me...this is an excerpt:
"A standard synthetic crystal was created through the successful replication of the geological structure of natural crystals. Standard crystals set the baseline for synthetic crystals in general; they generated a more powerful lightsaber blade than natural crystals, and often demonstrated a red coloration, though that was easily controlled.[3] In fact, synth-crystal blades were so powerful that they had the rare potential to "break the blade" of standard lightsabers by overloading the energy matrix and instantly burning out the other lightsaber. Though this happened extremely rarely, it was a known and frightening possibility in combat.[5]
However, synth-crystal generated lightsaber blades were in general less maneuverable than the blades generated by natural crystals, and were generally more unstable.[5]"
^ There's the part of a red blade harder to handle as I had read before. But then I found out this...another excerpt:
"Conversely, the Jedi frowned on the creation and use of synth-crystals among their initiates, associating this with taking the quick and easy path, as they believed they should rely on crystals found naturally.[3] However, sometimes Jedi were forced to create synth-crystals when a weapon was needed and no naturally occurring crystals were accessible. Notable examples include Luke Skywalker, who used a synth-crystal for his first lightsaber, because he had no knowledge of the natural crystals at that point, and his niece Jaina Solo. Synth-crystals made by the Jedi usually had colors other than red, to avoid similarities with the Sith. Skywalker created a green crystal, while Solo produced a violet one.[5]"
^ This makes sense to me, how after loosing Anakin's what choice did Luke have? But it shows an interesting knowledge of the Force that I don't see portrayed in the OT, but is obviously touched upon in later years as the EU grew. And of course there's much more detail in Wookieepedia.
How incredible would it be to see this on screen?! I am so curious as to what you think? Is this new to you as it was to me? Had you some knowledge of this before? In what or where did you learn this "secret"
knowledge?
