Which do you prefer, /m/? Lightsabers, where the blades are the

Blades that vibrate at specific frequencies to penetrate force fields.

>>14542878
Beam javelin > any lightsaber

>>14542878
Lightsabers. Giant robots shooting laser guns with beam swords is an acceptable break from reality, but explaining beam sabers as "minovsky particles enclosed in a looping i-field" and then show weird and wacky shapes for that i-field tends to break that immersion for me.

What gives a beam saber its colors, anyway?

>>14542895
>What gives a beam saber its colors, anyway?
The animators.

>>14542884
I still find it hilarious that Gundam had beam javelins and twin beam swords within two years of Star Wars coming out, but it took another 15 years for a double-bladed lightsaber to show up, and another 15 for a saber pike.

>>14542878
Beam sabers.

>>14542920
Don't forget beam rotors

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>>14542895
Supposedly it's plasma suspended in the field, but that doesn't explain why fed sabers are pink and zeon sabers are yellow. Or where AU green sabers come from.

But then again, I'll sooner believe a tube as big as a buick can make a big pink blade than I will that some super secret ancient hilt the size of a TV remote can make a solid black beam with white halo and etchings.

>>14543123
Different gasses in the plasma. It's the same way neon lights work.