h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*ducks*

but it's a bullet, not a laser shot! It should have just melted.

And don't you have to be a jedi to do that?

You never asked what my religion was!

Did it ever occur to you to wonder how Jolee recharched his lightsabre during 20 years on Kashyyyk?

solar powered

Oh right, so he used all the sunlight they have, ten miles beneath Kashyyyk's canopies?

were there plants still living there? Yes thus photosynthesis thus sunlight

It seems the Dark Lords of the Sith Empire were ultimately responsible for the advancement of lightsabers, replacing the belt-mounted power pack with a power cell within the hilt. An internal superconductor was introduced, which transferred the returning looped energy from the negative-charged flux aperture back into an internal power cell. With this modification, the power cell would only expend power when the energy loop was broken, such as when the lightsaber cut something, solving the power supply problem. - Wookieepedia is great.

So, as long as he didn't cut anything it stays charged. That and he's got that Tach power plant under his hut.

Tach power plant? Is that what it sounds like? A hundred Tach on hamster wheels? And he did use it! He was fighting those fearsome quadrupeds with it when you first see him.

And Doctor, the only plants down there are the gigantic trees which are blotting out the light! Their leaves are high up in the Kashyyyk sky!

so a universe with the technological leap forwards to make space-stations hasn't managed long life batteries?

Yes, but there's a limit! A lightsabre produces a constant and perfect cutting edge! And Jolee was down there umong fiersome predators for over 20 years!

maybe it's powered by midichlorians

Blood powered lightsaber? ewwww...


(What do you mean the last post was 5 weeks ago!)

*shuffles out from behind a rock*

Gasp! People!

*puts down vial of blood and power cell*

Yes, I'm still alive, almost.

*shuffles over*
*looks at persephone cautiously*
*grabs blood vial and power cell and runs back behind the rock*

Oh No! Whatever you do, Don't drop the power cell!

*Looks at Persephone quizzically*
*Drops the power cell*

*power cell turns into a mouse and runs away*

Now I've got to catch it again

NOOOOO!!! How can I have allowed my carelessness to inconvinience others so!? I can't live on with this guilt any more!!!

*Drives sword through own chest*
*Mouse jumps into hands*

Ah dammit...