Shaddi
King of Shawken
Image Source: I googled superheated sword
Intent: To create a blade functioning on heat and strength.
Development Thread:
Will add if needed.
Model: Heater Blade
Modularity: No
Production: Minor
Material: technological components, A unique Tungsten/Tantalum/Titanium/Quadanium steel/Dallorian alloy blend for the blade
Classification: Sword
Size: One-handed/Two-handed
Length: Blade: 120 cm Hilt: 40 cm
Weight: 6 kg
Special Features:
Heating mechanism that heats the blade up to 3100° C
Vibro mechanism
Strengths:
Smelter: Capable of producing extreme heats able to cut through some materials like a hot knife through butter. (Materials like Iron)
Strong: The blended metal is extremely strong and durable able to withstand punishment.
Vibro-weapon: This weapon is a vibro weapon and as such is capable of vibrating at extreme frequencies to the point of allowing this mechanism to help the weapon cut through materials.
Strength and weakness
Magnetic containment: While using a similar containment to lightsabers to hold the heat against the blade failed to keep the heat contained properly there is an added side effect of causing blaster bolts to swerve away from the blade and therefore the wielder, offering a small modicum of protection from such weaponry.
Weaknesses:
Heat: The Extreme heat that pours of the blade requires the wielder to wear special protection when using it.
Use: Requires as special form of training to use these weapons.
Description:
With the idea of a lightsaber being a contained plasma blade an idea came to one scientists head to make as hot a blade as possible while still making a solid blade. Thus came the idea of the Heater blade, a blade made up of a unique Tungsten/Tantalum/Titanium/Quadanium steel/Dallorian alloy blend called Tanaidum alloy which is able to stay hard, tough and solid even at 2500° C as it's melting point is at 5485° C and as such is perfect for what the heater blade actually is. A blade with such a high melting point and creeping tolerance that it can be used effectively at these heats.
With cooling vents along the back of the blade to keep it at and around 2000-2100° C for the most effective use. However there isn't away to hold the heat contained and as such the blade radiates the heat of off it in waves that normal skin or armor cannot protect the wielder from. While using the same magnetic containment that is used for Lightsabers on the heater blade, the containment causes blaster weaponry and even some Ballistics to swerve or turn to slight angles away from it but the blade is by no means able to accurately deflect blaster fire. This same magnetic field is also melded with a form of weak stasis field used to hold the blade whole, so as to force the blade to retain it's shape at the extreme heats it's currently in.
The thought on this deflection is as follows, blaster bolts are either plasma or high energy particles held in place by a magnetic bubble. When they strike a target, that bubble dissipates, releasing its contents to "splash" the target with the plasma/particles. Similarly a lightsaber is plasma held in place by a magnetic field. When it strikes a target, that magnetic field is selectively disrupted at the point of impact and heat of the plasma is released.
When a blaster bolt strikes a lightsaber, the magnetic bubble of the blaster bolt and the magnetic field of the lightsaber have a fully elastic collision, so neither the bolt nor the lightsaber are disrupted. Both bounce back from the collision. However since the momentum involved is fairly low (momentum = velocity * mass and the mass involved is incredibly low), the bounce back of the lightsaber is easily compensated for by the muscles of the wielder, while the bolt is reflected back at the shooter or another target guided by a combination of physics and the force.
Ray shielding works against blasters in a very similar fashion. The magnetic bubble of the blaster bounces off the magnetic field of the shield.
Due to the extreme heat that rolls of the blade special equipment is required for it's use as well as special training in these weapons as a vibro mechanism has been implemented to allow the heater blades to cut better through materials. The ability to fight lightsabers effectively isn't there but an unprotected Lightsaber wielder would suffer severe burns, at best, just being in it's presence as well as to aid it in cutting through some materials. By those first instructed in it's use the blade has been dubbed the "Dragons blade" for the fiery trail it leaves in it's wake as it's swung.