Tech Review Bio Organic Lightsabers

[Maple Harte]

• Intent: Create a Semi Unique Living Lightsaber Sub

• Image Source: https://www.deviantart.com/darthhell/art/Darth-Talon-s-Saber-140280529
• Canon Link: N/A
• Permissions: N/A
• Primary Source: Lightsaber

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Jedi Order, Sith Order
• Affiliation: Jedi Order, Sith Order (Or whichever PC figures out the creation process and is Force Sensitive)
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: N/A
• Modularity: Yes (Can be grown in different lengths)
• Production: Semi Unique
• Material: Amphistaff Tissue

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Lightsaber
• Size: Average
• Weight: Light

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Organic Lightsabers that come in multiple varieties
• All Organic Lightsabers have Dual phase function
• Capable of Cutting through nearly any Conventional material and deflecting blaster bolts
• Senses and obeys owner.
• Photosynthetic and Capable of Self Repair

STRENGTHS

• Rip and Tear: Lightsaber blades are able to cut through almost any material save another Lightsaber or Alchemized objects. These are no different, their power created by an organ serving the same function as a Kyber Crystal. This organ tissue is very similar to the properties of a Lambent
• Polyp-Source: Unlike other Lightsabers there isn't a mechanical part to be found amongst them. They extend from Polyps like normal Amphistaffs, The Polyps that such weapons normally come from being meditated on and imbued with the Force before they have matured to the point Amphistaffs come out of them. They are Photosynthetic and heal and recharge by being left in the sun or by syphoning off Force Energy from their owner in extremely minute amounts
• Attunement: Once fully matured, they are incredibly loyal, refusing to activate for any but their owner, and they can sense each other from farther away than normal Lightsabers, the creature tuning the color of its blade to best reflect the owner's nature, and is more easily manipulated through telekinesis. They also coil around the user's wrist or waist for easy transport. If created by a Dark Side User They take on the properties of mechanical Lightsabers with Synthetic Crystals--they become slower to swing, but have a slightly increased chance of breaking the blades of Bio Organic Sabers not attuned as they are, as well as the blades of mechanical sabers with natural crystals, while lacking the spontaneous short out risk of a synth blade. (Dark Side Attuned bio sabers however, are still vulnerable to being broken by synthetic powered Lightsaber blades in mechanical hilts)
• Variety: Such Weapons can be grown in a number of ways (Note: Hilt and blade thickness of each variant are random but matching. A spear may have the hilt and blade thickness of a lightfoil, or the Lightsaber shoto might be in permanently curved status, or the lightfoil may have a double length hilt, and it's blade the length of a great Lightsaber. On extremely rare occasions, the standard blade creation might accidentally result in a light whip variant, which can have random permutations in hilt and blade thickness)

Standard length hilt (Can curl it's lower half to act like a curved hilt Lightsaber)
Lightsaber Shoto
Long Handle Lightsaber
Lightsaber Pike/Spear
Great Lightsaber
Lightfoil
Light Whip (Extremely Rare Mutation)

Fight Anywhere: Like mechanical Lightsabers, These can operate in space, and special organs in their body take the place of bifurcating cyclical ignition pulses, allowing them to operate underwater also.
Deflector: Bio Organic Lightsaber blades can deflect blaster bolts just like normal ones
Snake bite: The hilt will secrete mild doses of Amphistaff venom if another attempts to pick it up with their bare flesh who isn't an owner
Resilience: Due to having mini versions of Amphistaff Power Glands, the hilts are difficult to destroy with Lightsabers
Dual Phase: Special organs in these creatures allow them to mimic the properties of dual phase machinery in mechanical hilts.
Re-attunement Strengths: Should a Jedi re-attune a Bio Organic Blade made by a Dark Side user, that blade becomes far easier to channel the Force through, allowing potentially for more increased cutting power over that of even a synthetically powered blade. If a Sith re-attunes one made by a Jedi, it becomes vastly easier to control with telekinesis, making two or even three excellent for telekinetic Lightsaber Combat
Flexibility: Even a standard, single blade has great tactical flexibility, it's lower half able to bend to create a curved hilts, and the pommel can wrap around one belonging to another mechanical Lightsaber or another bio Organic Lightsaber, creating a sort of Ad-Hoc double bladed lightsaber. This blade can be combined with other variants, mechanical or bio Organic, allowing for interesting strategies to be employed. If the length of a polearm or spear, the hilt can be swung about in a flexible, whip like fashion with a Lightsaber blade on the other end.



WEAKNESSES

• Cortosis: Most Lightsaber Blades shut off when exposed to pure Cortosis. These are no different. In addition, the weapon will be heavily stunned, and must have a few minutes wrapped around the owner or be left out in the sun for a few minutes to recover properly.
• Slugthrowers: Bullets splash against these blades, melting and potentially causing splash damage
• Force Voids: While they can still move, they cannot activate their blades in Force Voids
• Sonics: Sonic bolts bend around most Lightsaber blades
• Paddle Beams: Paddle beams can bend around most Lightsaber blades
• Anti Vong: Weapons that harm Vong Tissue, such as Alpha Red or Baffer Pollen are an immense threat, Alpha Red causing total necrosis within one hour unless cure is applied within the first 14 Minutes. Baffer Pollen flat out causes them to deactivate until it's cured of it or washed off
• Separation Anxiety: Bio Organic Lightsabers start to go feral and break down if away from their owner too long, partly because they are attuned so immensely to the owner's life force. When the Owner dies of natural causes, it goes into a state of advanced hibernation until someone else comes along and attunes it to themselves. If the Owner dies suddenly and violently, the shock could drive it mad or even kill it. Either way it's unusable unless significant efforts are made to rectify the issues mentioned
• Re-attunment Weakness: If a Sith or Dark Jedi Created Bio Organic Lightsaber is re-attuned by a Jedi, it's blade is rendered permanently white, like a bled kyber that has been healed in a standard blade. It becomes slightly faster to swing than a synthetically powered blade in a mechanical hilt but never quite the speed of a a Lightsaber being swung with a natural crystal powering it, or a Bio-Organic Lightsaber created in the traditional method. If a Sith or Dark Jedi "bleeds" one made by a Jedi like how you do in a mechanical hilt, it becomes much slower to swing than even a mechanical hilt with a synthetic blade or a bio Organic Lightsaber created by a Sith.
• Random Colors, Random Variants, Random thickness: Due to the quirks of how they are created when using the Jedi Method, the color of a given blade is often completely random. A Jedi might end up with a blue, green, yellow, even a red blade (Note: If the blade is red, it is often a lighter red than that of a Sith Blade, though there are rare exceptions, with some being the exact color of a Sith blade or even redder than what most Sith use. Blades made by inexperienced creator's often typically have colors that are paler variations of what are used in standard Jedi sabers, and have slightly weaker cutting power, while more experienced users with typically have standard colors). Even a Sith cannot typically control what the color of the blade will be (If in colors other than Sith Red, they are typically darker shades of the colors used by Jedi Blades. The final nature of the product can also not be determined--will it be a standard size hilt or something like a polearm or shoto hilt? The "thickness" of the blade and hilt made also occasionally vary, from a blade as thin as a pen, with a hilt to match, or something like a Great Lightsaber hilt and a suitably large blade. Jedi Tradition for the creation process accepts the final product as given, and try to learn how to use it to the best of their Abilities, while Sith will often destroy a final product they don't like and start over until they get what they want

DESCRIPTION

Bio Organic Lightsabers have become more commonplace in the modern era due to reliable development of the technology (NOTE: "Reliable" in the sense the final product will definitely function as a Lightsaber), which was developed during the Gulag Era as an alternative to resource intensive machinery or looking for caves full of natural crystals. Capable of all the feats of a normal Lightsaber, with the added bonus of being easier to care for than normal. Bonding more tightly to their owners, the user of Bio Sabers enjoy quality, a life long bond, and a glimpse into the future.

In order to create one traditionally, Force Users, particularly Jedi, must locate a very young Vong Polyp in a very very early stage of development and immediately began meditating, using the power of the Force to slowly but surely alter it genetically over a course of two days of Nonstop meditation, This Polyp will mutate and eventually Amphistaffs will emerge from it as normal. If the effort was successful, at least one creature growing from the Polyp in addition to Ampistaff's still attached to it will be a Bio Organic Lightsaber, with the others being normal Amphistaffs, its organs all completely altered to serve as the power source and means to form and hold the blade.

Sith and sometimes others create them alternately by taking a Polyp and constantly injecting Sith Alchemical Products into the Polyp as it matures while meditating as a Jedi does, with the rest of the process continuing as it does in the Jedi Method. Blades created this way can be reattuned by others but will lose whatever properties they previously had.

Bio Organic Lightsabers can come in any color, but the color, like the blade thickness, hilt thickness, and hilt length is completely random no matter who is making it. (Note: Final product, as always, is determined by PC for convenience)

 

[Krass Wyms]

Maple Harte

plays rocky theme Alright lets get to this.

Amphistaff Tissue

This is going to have to be explained more, I read the description and it makes even less sense. This comes off like taking some of its tissue only not an entire serpent. This will possibly depending on your explanation require an additional sub. Perhaps even two as this reads more like trying to shoe horn in a new species.

All Organic Lightsabers have Dual phase function

How based on how this reads

Variety: Such Weapons can be grown in a number of ways (Note: Hilt and blade thickness of each variant are random but matching. A spear may have the hilt and blade thickness of a lightfoil, or the Lightsaber shoto might be in permanently curved status, or the lightfoil may have a double length hilt, and it's blade the length of a great Lightsaber. On extremely rare occasions, the standard blade creation might accidentally result in a light whip variant, which can have random permutations in hilt and blade thickness)

Everything about them are random and barely able to be controlled... but this suddenly has a level of control. This requires more explanation. Truthfully I would recommend getting rid of it and just try for a base model with potential to be in different styles.

Rip and Tear: Lightsaber blades are able to cut through almost any material save another Lightsaber or Alchemized objects. These are no different, their power created by an organ serving the same function as a Kyber Crystal. This organ tissue is very similar to the properties of a Lambent

A lambent and amphistaff were two different things. both created by the vong yes but not in any way similar. So which is it.

Amphistaff Tissue

Polyp-Source: Unlike other Lightsabers there isn't a mechanical part to be found amongst them. They extend from Polyps like normal Amphistaffs, The Polyps that such weapons normally come from being meditated on and imbued with the Force before they have matured to the point Amphistaffs come out of them. They are Photosynthetic and heal and recharge by being left in the sun or by syphoning off Force Energy from their owner in extremely minute amounts

Vong biots are generally like the vong and force dead so meditating upon them does little. It could be done to gain vongsense so you could detect them but what you are doing is trying to force two very different things together. I recommend rewording or removing this as if it is force dead tissue at best you have a creature you amputated from its main body and are keeping alive which would likely be a form of torture. Not very jedi like.

Attunement: Once fully matured, they are incredibly loyal, refusing to activate for any but their owner, and they can sense each other from farther away than normal Lightsabers, the creature tuning the color of its blade to best reflect the owner's nature, and is more easily manipulated through telekinesis. They also coil around the user's wrist or waist for easy transport. If created by a Dark Side User They take on the properties of mechanical Lightsabers with Synthetic Crystals--they become slower to swing, but have a slightly increased chance of breaking the blades of Bio Organic Sabers not attuned as they are, as well as the blades of mechanical sabers with natural crystals, while lacking the spontaneous short out risk of a synth blade. (Dark Side Attuned bio sabers however, are still vulnerable to being broken by synthetic powered Lightsaber blades in mechanical hilts)

Again vong biots are force dead so this does not make much sense and these are taken off of amphistaffs before they are mature to make a new species... but it maintains its sentience? This is overly complicated to the point not one will see it making much sense... and how does it suddenly copy crystals? Amphistaffs weren't known to replicate components and things like crystals either natural or synthetic. This would require extensive explanation and honestly even then it would stretch things to the point of breaking. I would if I could deny on this concept alone and can only say remove it.

Variety: Such Weapons can be grown in a number of ways (Note: Hilt and blade thickness of each variant are random but matching. A spear may have the hilt and blade thickness of a lightfoil, or the Lightsaber shoto might be in permanently curved status, or the lightfoil may have a double length hilt, and it's blade the length of a great Lightsaber. On extremely rare occasions, the standard blade creation might accidentally result in a light whip variant, which can have random permutations in hilt and blade thickness)

Standard length hilt (Can curl it's lower half to act like a curved hilt Lightsaber)
Lightsaber Shoto
Long Handle Lightsaber
Lightsaber Pike/Spear
Great Lightsaber
Lightfoil
Light Whip (Extremely Rare Mutation)

How are they grown? THey are harvested per your description and taken from what they need to grow. This will require extensive detail and how it is done because just getting one hilt style and function should be next to impossible... getting hundreds of possible premutations would just make it that much harder.

Fight Anywhere: Like mechanical Lightsabers, These can operate in space, and special organs in their body take the place of bifurcating cyclical ignition pulses, allowing them to operate underwater also.

You are going to have to explain how it is able to copy in addition to kyber and synthetic crystals, focusing lens, power cell also components that were not always standard in a lightsaber.

Snake bite: The hilt will secrete mild doses of Amphistaff venom if another attempts to pick it up with their bare flesh who isn't an owner

Amphistaff Tissue

Resilience: Due to having mini versions of Amphistaff Power Glands, the hilts are difficult to destroy with Lightsabers

These all go together as if you are taking the tissue of the amphistaff and not the creature it shouldn't have all of the organs and taking it before it is mature for those to be developed enough.

Re-attunement Strengths: Should a Jedi re-attune a Bio Organic Blade made by a Dark Side user, that blade becomes far easier to channel the Force through, allowing potentially for more increased cutting power over that of even a synthetically powered blade. If a Sith re-attunes one made by a Jedi, it becomes vastly easier to control with telekinesis, making two or even three excellent for telekinetic Lightsaber Combat
Flexibility: Even a standard, single blade has great tactical flexibility, it's lower half able to bend to create a curved hilts, and the pommel can wrap around one belonging to another mechanical Lightsaber or another bio Organic Lightsaber, creating a sort of Ad-Hoc double bladed lightsaber. This blade can be combined with other variants, mechanical or bio Organic, allowing for interesting strategies to be employed. If the length of a polearm or spear, the hilt can be swung about in a flexible, whip like fashion with a Lightsaber blade on the other end.

The force did not determine cutting power of a lightsaber. that would be the power cell. This makes for an over complicated word salad that makes the sub not something to follow. It also opens the potential for abuse as you could in theory just play pass the blade to have all of the bonuses by giving it a semi long history which you have these as having existed since the Gulag plague so the chance one could have passed from jedi to sith to jedi and gets all of the bonuses screams abuse potential.

Force Voids: While they can still move, they cannot activate their blades in Force Voids

Given that vong biots are generally force dead they are their own voids.

Anti Vong: Weapons that harm Vong Tissue, such as Alpha Red or Baffer Pollen are an immense threat, Alpha Red causing total necrosis within one hour unless cure is applied within the first 14 Minutes. Baffer Pollen flat out causes them to deactivate until it's cured of it or washed off

Baffor pollen wasn't just like cortosis dust you could wash off. It constricted the biots and effectively suffocated it. Having it become a small inconvenience unless you dust it off is not a weakness.

Separation Anxiety: Bio Organic Lightsabers start to go feral and break down if away from their owner too long, partly because they are attuned so immensely to the owner's life force. When the Owner dies of natural causes, it goes into a state of advanced hibernation until someone else comes along and attunes it to themselves. If the Owner dies suddenly and violently, the shock could drive it mad or even kill it. Either way it's unusable unless significant efforts are made to rectify the issues mentioned

You are going to have to explain how sentient an amputated part of a creature can be. Since this is not an amphistaff it is just the tissue.. are you trying to have it be like a flatworm where cutting it in sections each part will survive? That makes this sound like it requires a codex sub.

Re-attunment Weakness: If a Sith or Dark Jedi Created Bio Organic Lightsaber is re-attuned by a Jedi, it's blade is rendered permanently white, like a bled kyber that has been healed in a standard blade. It becomes slightly faster to swing than a synthetically powered blade in a mechanical hilt but never quite the speed of a a Lightsaber being swung with a natural crystal powering it, or a Bio-Organic Lightsaber created in the traditional method. If a Sith or Dark Jedi "bleeds" one made by a Jedi like how you do in a mechanical hilt, it becomes much slower to swing than even a mechanical hilt with a synthetic blade or a bio Organic Lightsaber created by a Sith.

This ties into many of the above with how it is able to tell the difference and mirror. More repeaating of the same issues but I would recommend dropping or rewording into an actionable weakness that can be in the sub.

Random Colors, Random Variants, Random thickness: Due to the quirks of how they are created when using the Jedi Method, the color of a given blade is often completely random. A Jedi might end up with a blue, green, yellow, even a red blade (Note: If the blade is red, it is often a lighter red than that of a Sith Blade, though there are rare exceptions, with some being the exact color of a Sith blade or even redder than what most Sith use. Blades made by inexperienced creator's often typically have colors that are paler variations of what are used in standard Jedi sabers, and have slightly weaker cutting power, while more experienced users with typically have standard colors). Even a Sith cannot typically control what the color of the blade will be (If in colors other than Sith Red, they are typically darker shades of the colors used by Jedi Blades. The final nature of the product can also not be determined--will it be a standard size hilt or something like a polearm or shoto hilt? The "thickness" of the blade and hilt made also occasionally vary, from a blade as thin as a pen, with a hilt to match, or something like a Great Lightsaber hilt and a suitably large blade. Jedi Tradition for the creation process accepts the final product as given, and try to learn how to use it to the best of their Abilities, while Sith will often destroy a final product they don't like and start over until they get what they want

See above issues listed several times about how this manages to have the sentience to do any of that and determine the factors.

developed during the Gulag Era as an alternative to resource intensive machinery or looking for caves full of natural crystals. Capable of all the feats of a normal Lightsaber, with the added bonus of being easier to care for than normal. Bonding more tightly to their owners, the user of Bio Sabers enjoy quality, a life long bond, and a glimpse into the future.

Who developed this during the plague? The vong weren't ones to make technologies and jedi blades didn't really interest them as they had their own. You are going to have to explain a lot more and this pushes it more towards wanting to see a codex sub as it sounds like more and more a new species.

In order to create one traditionally, Force Users, particularly Jedi, must locate a very young Vong Polyp in a very very early stage of development and immediately began meditating, using the power of the Force to slowly but surely alter it genetically over a course of two days of Nonstop meditation, This Polyp will mutate and eventually Amphistaffs will emerge from it as normal. If the effort was successful, at least one creature growing from the Polyp in addition to Ampistaff's still attached to it will be a Bio Organic Lightsaber, with the others being normal Amphistaffs, its organs all completely altered to serve as the power source and means to form and hold the blade.

This ties back into the force dead tissue things... jedi meditating after they amputate and cut off a living creatures limbs to make a blade doesn't sound very jedi like

Sith and sometimes others create them alternately by taking a Polyp and constantly injecting Sith Alchemical Products into the Polyp as it matures while meditating as a Jedi does, with the rest of the process continuing as it does in the Jedi Method. Blades created this way can be reattuned by others but will lose whatever properties they previously had.

sith injecting it with poisons which were empowered with the force... into something force dead that nullifies the force sort of cancels each other out.

All and all this is a massive mess of a sub and needs extensive rewrites in whole sections, more then likely additional subs including a codex for the species you are trying to make and much much more explanation on the processes. Organic hilts aren't unheard of, jedi and sith have had them, using vong corel was by the one sith. What is trying to be done isn't bad but it is so overly complicated and bloated that it loses all luster and balance.

So to let you work on it I am going to kick it to the pre-factory for the work to be done.