I’d be far from the first person to point out that the shot the planet killer beam right past a couple of operators with no guardrails or anything. It isn’t even clear how they got up there in the first place, frankly. You can even see them flinch when the beam goes past them.

Clearly the Star Wars universe has never been big on health and safety.

In Jedi Survivor, Cal Kestis basically mirrors

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

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.

Alright, so this is one of those things where I keep reminding people that Star Wars movie canon and Star Wars franchise canon barely overlap.

The reason Obi Wan gives Luke for lightsabers in the first place is just cool factor, too. Lightsabers just seem classy. Nobody says it’s particularly powerful, just that they’re old fashioned and “less random and clumsy” than blasters. Luke handles his like a toy, Obi Wan pretty much gives it to him as a memento, he says he “almost forgot” he had it stashed because Luke’s dad wanted to hand it to him but his uncle didn’t let him. Obi Wan uses one in plain view of people and nobody even goes “Hey, look, a Jedi, I thought they were gone”. Hell, they sit down for a pint and a bit of bartering with Han immediately after that. The Empire officers, who at this point clearly don’t particularly respect Vader, seem to think he looks like a goofball waving that thing around and making grandiose claims about the power of the Force when they’re literally sitting inside a showstopper doomsday device.

All the justifications for how little sense lightsabers make and why only Jedi seem to carry them is after the fact retconning of the barely-coherent implications of the original movie.

“Perfectly fucking vertical…!”

“Don’t worry Anikin, I’ve set my saber to ‘joy buzzer’ strength.”