Light Saber

Current 4th Generation

A light saber is a technological device that works by pushing super-heated plasma energy into a shape contained by a powerful force field. The result is the formation of a super-heated "blade" of sorts. The first light saber was encountered by the USS Rising Sun (NCC-465) under the command of Admiral Lance Thomas. The weapon was encountered during an early testing of the Time Displacement Equipment during development.

The incident is documented in Cartwheel Galaxy Jump via T.D.E., though the information is highly classified.

Availability

Light sabers are not widely available, if available at all, even within Solas Tempus as they are difficult to use and can seriously hurt the person using it. Even so, there are a few out there.

Operation

The blade has very little or no mass. A standard swordsman would have difficulty using the blade without doing serious injury to themselves. Additionally using the blade requires the person to provide the strength behind the blade. A traditional sword the blades weight gives it force, especially in very large swords, this is not the case with a light saber. Special training is required and the blades are very difficult to effectively wield.

It has been suggested that its use seems to be designed for someone with mild abilities of precognition.

The energy blade also has the ability to deflect blasts of energy, however, doing so is difficult to do, the blade can be moved into position extremely quickly but knowing the exact position of an energy blast at the right time is not easy and requires considerable skill and focus.

Design

Admiral Thomas brought back only one example of this rather incredible weapon. Gold Team began the initial investigation into the device and when they had sufficient information on its design, they handed the information over to Green Team for engineering.

While the power source of the original model is not fully understood, Green Team developed a cartridge style device which uses a pair of subatomic fissures in space-time to draw in high energy plasma from the subspace phase transition layers interacting between the two fissures. The reaction is tightly controlled via a fusion battery. The saber can sustain power for significant periods of time and uses very little power while the fissures are dampened and the blade force field is not in operation.

Other Designs

The design of the device has changed quickly over time from the initial prototype to the current 4th generation.

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  Original

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  Initial Prototype

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  2nd Generation

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  3rd Generation

Development

During development of the original prototypes Animas Tempus acquired one of the prototypes of the device and related its function and strong resemblance to a series of artifacts which had been in their possession for some time. The Energy Hilt works in similar, though unexplained, ways and Animas Tempus holds that wherever Admiral Thomas acquired the technological device, is perhaps the originating location of the artifacts. The exact methods of transportation to the Cartwheel Galaxy is not on file, at least, in any way known to Animas Tempus and repeated attempts to gain access to the method of transport there for research has been rebuffed.