From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!dsd!atd!avsdS:steve
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: re: light saber
Article-I.D.: avsdS.245
Posted: Mon Dec 13 13:02:42 1982
Received: Tue Dec 14 05:18:09 1982

how about simply believing Obi Wan when he said that the light saber was
a more elegant weapon for a more civilized time?  It seems throughout
history that the hand weapon is usually replaced by the "NEW and IMPROVED"
versions of projectile weapons as they are developed( the long bow by the
cross-bow, the Springfield by the M-1, etc...). 

Current military customs usually provide for the wearing of the dress sword
only on special occasions. How practicle would a sword (or even a light
saber) be in stopping an opponent at 50 yards?

I would appear that Darth Vader took on Obi Wan as a matter of pride.
The sensible thing to do would have been to stay back and lay waste to
the corridor, including Obi Wan, with a suitable weapon. That, however,
never seems to happen (the bad guys never take the easy way out--they like
to gloat!).

How to obtain a new light saber?  Check out the local antique gun shoppe.
I'm sure someone's grandfather had one at one time but it outlived it's
usefulness and was traded-in for something more appropriate. (you gots to
look at realities (?)).  If not, well, the plans coulden't have all been lost.
(After all, it was THE WEAPON of the Jedi for a thousand generations!!!).
Just run down tho the local smithy.l

Besides, if you can still get battries for it, there must be some, somewhere.

If you gots to get caught up in the story, you gots to start believing more 
and stop putting in so much sweats over the unessential.