Lightsaber



A lightsaber is a mêlée weapon from Star Wars, where it is the preferred weapon of most Force-using orders. When activated, it produces a fixed-length beam of glowing energy that can cut through most substances. Many Agents have them, too, even some not in Star Wars. Agents acquiring lightsabers are required to view the training video Your Lightsaber and You.

In Badfic
Lightsabers are pretty awesome, but badfic authors (also George Lucas) seem determined to make them even more awesome than they already are. While the energy blade can cut through nearly anything, there are several canon materials that resist a lightsaber, most notably forcefields, anything infused with Force energy, or Yuuzhan Vong technology. A lightsaber that successfully goes through such materials is being affected by Suefluence, or a Suvian artifact itself.

Due to their surprising weightlessness and potential lethality, lightsabers require heavy training, upper body strength and careful manipulation to wield correctly. Force users have a particular advantage in this department, but those not Force-sensitive can still learn to use them properly with sufficient practice, such as the aforementioned agents and the canon character General Grievous. This is a long-winded way of saying that the untrained Padawan Sue who picks up a lightsaber for the first time and is instantly proficient in its use is doing it wrong, and probably should have lost at least one limb as a result of that moment's recklessness.

Lightsabers can come in a range of colors based on the type of crystal used in their creation. However, many of the known colors are unique to particular canon characters, like Mace Windu's purple blade or Pre Vizsla's black blade. Using such colors may be a Suvian trait just as Speshul Eyes are. Typically, Jedi use blue or green lightsaber blades, depending on the time period, while Sith use red blades. However, the presence of the unique lightsabers shows that other options do exist; if the Sue shows the work of obtaining a different crystal and building a lightsaber out of it, it probably shouldn't show up in a charge list.