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Well just finished half of my finals yesterday, and have to wait a week for my last one, so I finally have time to be on for a bit again, glad I did becausei WOUld've missed the new thread haha.
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Starting a news emester of college, taking a little bit to get used to the schedule, Don't smite me!
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Finals week...Nuff said...
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I was, and I just finished my paper for one of my classes, so I don't blame anyone for not being around much since finals are coming up. Mine are next week personally so yeah haha.
Haha, I could quite possibly be guilty as charged on that one...
Well that was a fun read!
Wow...I had a day with friends...And came back to all of this lol. Well I don't even know the damn difference so I have no input at this time! Now to go look at my PM!
WEll someone is on top of things at least haha. (Working on mine in a PM right now haha)
While that sounds cool, not sure I'd be any good with something like that honestly.
@knighthawk Hmmm...I'm definitely going away from the saber so don't worry about that part, though I'm still thinking about the double sided scythe, as mentioned in the video at the end with the pole arm (Believe that's what it is) it adds a bit of variety and it's got a few more tricks up its sleeve, plus with using the force to enhance the weapon and ones self the challenges should be easier to over come, or at least I believe that would be the case. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong about any of this.
Oh also, if there are any other weapons that might be better for a double sided similar to the pole arm that you might suggest I'm all ears! Perhaps a trident? Or lance? I dunno suggestions are welcome, though the trident sounds kinda fun haha.
Oh also, if there are any other weapons that might be better for a double sided similar to the pole arm that you might suggest I'm all ears! Perhaps a trident? Or lance? I dunno suggestions are welcome, though the trident sounds kinda fun haha.
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having a violent nature above and beyond the usual for jedi could be a reason to fail the test of spirit.
Lightsabers are usually an act performed while a padawan and part of the transformation to jedi knight. Until then, younglingslike in the temple were using what is called a training saber and padawans basically borrow a functional saber from their masters. Sometimes the master will build the lightsaber in front of the padawan to show them what to prepare for and then hand the child the one the adult made as a gift.
So if she never even made it to youngling, no saber at all. if she made it to youngling but not padawan, then a practice saber. if a padawan and her master died at order 66, then a functional lightsaber.
But remember, Makutai dont use lightsabers, they use Wan-shen. A pole-arm weapon that is often imbued with the force to resist lightsaber strikes, but only defined as 'a 2 meter pole with a blade on the end'. I've seen this interpreted lots of ways. Some people think of a glaive or naginata others say the image is clearly an axe like a halberd and I once saw a player claim the blade on the end of a stick as a scythe.
When this gets off the ground, the wookiee's is going to be using his Ryyk blade retooled into this weapon with a collapsible handle as a snap out baton, a lot like a [ulr=ep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-87491460501412/jap.. on the end of a stick[/url]. Your character could do something like take the lightsaber components from their old saber and introduce the pieces into the construction of the wan-shen to give it a second life as something new just like she would use her limited jedi training to build upon her makutai training.
Carrying around a saber is an invitation to stupidity if even an 8 year old slave can recognize an unignighted laser sword on the hip. If it is not dismantled into something like the golden gun (james bond movie staring count dooku ironically, a disassemblable golden handgun made of a gold cigarette case, gold cigarette lighter, gold fountain pen and gold cufflink as the gun's trigger.), which till takes time to assemble, unless you are thinking of the jedi from star wars rebels where he keeps just one piece unattached and snaps them together which takes less time but still identifiable as lightsaber parts.
Not shooting it down, just ideas and information
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Haha don't worry about it. I appreciate all the help. I kind of like the scythe one though...That sounds pretty cool actually. What about a scythe with a blacde at each end? Or if we go with the mix of staff and saber could I give it a unique form or would it just be a blade at the end of the staff?
As for the age thing, I finally looked up the whole initiate thing and what not so now all I need to know is how many years after the war it is and I can finally set the age and also he will probably have failed the initiate trials and use the scythe I mentioned, unless it's not that long after the war and she would be a padawan, I have to look up Mirialan age stuff first as well but that's my next thing I'm about to work on.
having a violent nature above and beyond the usual for jedi could be a reason to fail the test of spirit.
Lightsabers are usually an act performed while a padawan and part of the transformation to jedi knight. Until then, younglingslike in the temple were using what is called a training saber and padawans basically borrow a functional saber from their masters. Sometimes the master will build the lightsaber in front of the padawan to show them what to prepare for and then hand the child the one the adult made as a gift.
So if she never even made it to youngling, no saber at all. if she made it to youngling but not padawan, then a practice saber. if a padawan and her master died at order 66, then a functional lightsaber.
But remember, Makutai dont use lightsabers, they use Wan-shen. A pole-arm weapon that is often imbued with the force to resist lightsaber strikes, but only defined as 'a 2 meter pole with a blade on the end'. I've seen this interpreted lots of ways. Some people think of a glaive or naginata others say the image is clearly an axe like a halberd and I once saw a player claim the blade on the end of a stick as a scythe.
When this gets off the ground, the wookiee's is going to be using his Ryyk blade retooled into this weapon with a collapsible handle as a snap out baton, a lot like a [ulr=ep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-87491460501412/jap.. on the end of a stick[/url]. Your character could do something like take the lightsaber components from their old saber and introduce the pieces into the construction of the wan-shen to give it a second life as something new just like she would use her limited jedi training to build upon her makutai training.
Carrying around a saber is an invitation to stupidity if even an 8 year old slave can recognize an unignighted laser sword on the hip. If it is not dismantled into something like the golden gun (james bond movie staring count dooku ironically, a disassemblable golden handgun made of a gold cigarette case, gold cigarette lighter, gold fountain pen and gold cufflink as the gun's trigger.), which till takes time to assemble, unless you are thinking of the jedi from star wars rebels where he keeps just one piece unattached and snaps them together which takes less time but still identifiable as lightsaber parts.
Not shooting it down, just ideas and information
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Haha don't worry about it. I appreciate all the help. I kind of like the scythe one though...That sounds pretty cool actually. What about a scythe with a blacde at each end? Or if we go with the mix of staff and saber could I give it a unique form or would it just be a blade at the end of the staff?
As for the age thing, I finally looked up the whole initiate thing and what not so now all I need to know is how many years after the war it is and I can finally set the age and also he will probably have failed the initiate trials and use the scythe I mentioned, unless it's not that long after the war and she would be a padawan, I have to look up Mirialan age stuff first as well but that's my next thing I'm about to work on.
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As is a repeated commonality, the 'initiate trials' are often a test of mind, body and spirit. Failing any of these usually hedges out even the younglings before they become padawans, then again at the padawan stage before a knight may select a student to teach them. the enclave in KOTOR 1 is an example of the padawan trials where he has to build his lightsber by going to the cave for the crystals is testing the body by combat, then performing the code from memory is a reflection of the mind and last to figure out the disturbace to the north where you meet juhani. saving her from her own darkness is the trial of spirit.
Another example of the trials is anakin seeing what is on the datapad, either by seeing into the force for remote viewing or reading the mind to know the answer would both be acceptable tests of the mind.
So I suppose for her I would have to say she probably failed the trial of spirit I would think. So the question at that point would be, would she have gotten a lightsaber/made a lightsaber? If so would she have forsaken it after joining the Matukai? Or perhaps modified the Matukai weapon so the blade is that of a saber instead of material? Perhaps even neither? I dunno, I'm just thinking out loud at this point haha.
As for age, again I'm not sure on when initiates are entered or how long it's been though.
For the life debt idea, I just thought about that one a bit more as I was writing. Would that still be with her being a failed initiate? Or would that be her being born after Order 66 or not old enough to go to the temple yet?
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