• Sundray@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 days ago

    I’ve always thought a Jedi could do amazing things with a blaster. If they have to have a light saber, then just put the blaster in their other hand. Best of both worlds?

    (Or just stop your enemy’s heart with your mind. Or use your super-fast running abilities to jab a fork in your enemy’s eye or something.)

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      9 days ago

      In Jedi Survivor, Cal Kestis basically mirrors

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      Bode Akuna (a fallen Jedi turned imperial agent)

      who fights exclusively with blasters and a saber, and you can utilize a blaster/saber hybrid stance. So if the game is Canon, then a jedi using a blaster combined with a saber is a new form of combat formed after the fall of the jedi

      Edit: realized I put a spoiler in even though the game was released two years ago

    • MudMan@fedia.io
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      10 days ago

      In the semi-alternate reality of the original movie they sure seem like they do. I mean, Obi Wan King Kais from the afterlife specifically to tell Luke to use the Force to torpedo the exhaust port. And to be clear, that’s because the automated targeting system wasn’t getting a lock, so that’s some superhuman nonsense shot to freehand.

      And he may find blasters “uncivilized”, but he claims Luke’s dad was a great combat pilot, so they clearly weren’t above a good ole strafing run.

      Honestly, a big part of why Star Wars used to be fun is the lore makes no sense whatsoever and is mostly left offscreen to operate under sheer dream logic.