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Mara Jade's Father
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Like I said in prior posts, the use as a slang term is possible. But it is also possible it might be a category type of weapon. As in through history of SWU, there were other sword-like weapons that used an energy blades and that a term to describe these type of weapons including lightsaber is laser sword.
FYI: when calling the police/911 during a situation like an active shooting, they want you to use the terms long gun or short gun to describe the weapons as opposed accidentally reporting a type of weapon that may or may not be on the scene.
Also.. here are some slang for glock...
Slang for Glock (Related Terms) - Urban Thesaurus
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Mara Jade's Father
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a saber is a type of sword.
Definition of SABER
a cavalry sword with a curved blade, thick back, and guard; a light fencing or dueling sword having an arched guard that covers the back of the hand and a tapering flexible blade with a full cutting edge along one side and a partial cutting edge on the back at the tip… See the full definition
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Mara Jade's Father
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Not only has Luke used this term, but also Kanan
Joek3rr
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Right. A lightsaber is not a one handed curved sword. It is a two handed straight longsword. Which is what I was trying to say. In my defense I was up late and I haven't had my coffee yeta saber is a type of sword.
Definition of SABER
a cavalry sword with a curved blade, thick back, and guard; a light fencing or dueling sword having an arched guard that covers the back of the hand and a tapering flexible blade with a full cutting edge along one side and a partial cutting edge on the back at the tip… See the full definition
Mara Jade's Father
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Not as elegant as “illuminated rapier”.
CT1138
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In a way, you can still see this in ANH in rhe final film. The colored in blade has a flat quality to it.
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Well I either don't remember, or I didn't have as good of an imagination as I thought!
I was only 6 when ROTJ came out so that's my excuse! I can clearly remember acting like I was deflecting lasers with it, but no Force usage. I think a year or two after ROTJ came out we were on to just playing with toy guns.
harrisonp
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I’m reading Aftermath right now, and boy is this a messy book for being canon. Multiple instances of mistaken alien species (an Abednedo gets called a Rodian twice in the authors own descriptions) and I’m pretty sure he thinks Madine is Dodonna because he describes the former as having a “prodigious white beard” and deep lines in his face.
RedheadKevin
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GASP!!! OH the horror!
Just kidding, a little. That's a pretty significant mistake that someone from the Story Group should have caught. That's the kind of thing I was talking about when I was saying how messy having One True Canon is going to be when everything has to fall in line.
harrisonp
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Oh I realize it is nit picky, I was just utterly confused when a Rodian was suddenly present and “doubled over laughing”
I’m actually having a decent time reading the book overall, seems like the New EU is full of things that should have, I don’t know, been in the movies.
Joek3rr
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Jan Dodonna died a year after Yavin.
harrisonp
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And Crix Madine doesn’t have a prodigious white beard, but the author might not know either of those things if he thinks one is the other.
Joek3rr
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Remind me, what's of the time frame of Aftermath?
CT1138
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Early New Republic era, I believe.
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