So... no different than the risk of carrying an identicard or credit cube.Jardo Snow said:I'm more than willing to answer. I believe that a lightsaber is fine to carry around friends and those you trust. What I think people are forgetting is the amount of thieves around. Carrying a lightsaber in public is a massive risk, a risk people seem to forget exists. A blaster is something that can be bought, they are replaceable. A lightsaber is a hella lot harder to replace than a blaster, that's what I think people seem to forget, and that's why I think they shouldn't be openly carried in public.
And what a wonderful roleplay opportunity you present. I, for one, welcome someone to come into an open thread with one of my FUs and attempt to pickpocket, steal, or rob him of his lightsaber. Didn't the Clone Wars make an episode out of Ahsoka losing her lightsaber?
The point you make actually touches on Boo Chiyo's origin story. As a starving, homeless orphan living in a pack of street kids who pickpocketed for change with which to eat or survive on, he stole from a Sith Lord who then caught the boy and decided to make him pay for his crime by becoming his slave.
But, I'd hardly see that as a motivation to hide the lightsaber. It presumes an attachment to the lightsaber akin to Golem's obsession with the ring, and Jedi are supposed to be without attachments (a lightsaber can be replaced, after all). Especially in the case of the Obsidian Order, where the lightsaber is a stock item and not unique to the individual.