The sophisticated weapon of the Jedi and the Sith, unlike the barbaric blaster guns.
You might call it a laser sword.
What makes Star Wars better than Star Trek
The lightsaber is the super-powered high frequency laser beam weapon of the Star Wars universe. It first appeared it Star Wars: A New Hope when Obi-Wan gave Luke Anakin's old lightsaber. It is possibly the most famous weapon in movies of the past century. Frequently children are spotted with rulers or sticks playing a lightsaber duel. Don't we all wish that we could instantaneously hack someone's limbs off, cut through any material, or threaten somebody's life? The amazing futuristic tool of the lightsaber has changed everybody's life, dreams, or imagination in some way.
Jar Jar turns around. Obi-Wan ignites his lightsaber. Blue flash, sizzles, Gungan screams.
Obi-Wan: This is for the Republic!
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Lightsaber
according to the Star Wars "the Essential guide to Weapons and Technology" the lightsaber is a melee weapon which emitts a tight parallel beam that is a closed energy loop
Weapon used by a civilization so advanced that it colonized space, but so primitive that it couldn't figure out that a small-calibre handgun works a million times better.
