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From: oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev x258)
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Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest   V10 #374
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Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 00:44:29 EDT
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> From: Bard Bloom <BARD@MIT-XX.ARPA>
> Re: Light-sabres and blasters
> Maybe light-sabres are more expensive than blasters?  Or maybe it
> costs more (money, time, talent) to train people in light-sabre than
> in blaster?
> Or perhaps light-sabres are more sporting (you can run from them, sometimes)
> and not appropriate for the Empire to use.
> Or maybe you can learn to use the Force from light-sabre training, and
> the Empire doesn't want ten billion grunts running around with 
> moderate skill in the Force.  Who knows?  Maybe one of them will be
> stronger than Darth Vader.
> 
> Bard, whom the Force is not with.
> 

It is the same as with swords and cross-bows! Here light-sabre is the
powerful weapon for hand-to-hand combat and blasters are the range weapons.