Approved Tech The Relentless Blade

[Cassus Akovin]

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Intent: To create an incredible and hopefully iconic weapon that shall become Triam's signature choice for battle... after considerable training of course.
Development Thread: Drinking on Christophis (Link leads to first most relevant post related to the submission) - In a bar, Triam Akovin ponders the idea of an ionic blade and is then confronted by an old friend who thinks she can help.
Let's Build a Thing - In one of Patricia's facilities, Triam begins to officially outline how this idea is probably constructed, and Patricia constructs it. Testing ensues afterwards, where corrections to the design are accounted for. (Ten posts)

Will produce another Development Thread on request.
Manufacturer: A.S.Co. with help from Reclaimer Arms & Industrial
Model: Auto-Tràkata Enabled Ionized Lightfoil Prototype
Affiliation: Triam Akovin, and a few others
Modularity: Exterior Components such as hilt covering, pummel caps, and other associated additions to the device are possible, while an internal modification is extremely difficult and liable to destroy the effectiveness of the device under uncareful untrained hands.
Production: Semi-unique (Constructed on Request)
Material: Modified Ion Blaster Components, Lightsaber/Lightfoil Components, circuitry, basic materials, field sensors
Classification: Sword
Size: One-handed or Two-handed
Length: 1.5 meters (Blade length included)
Weight: 1kg
Special Features:

• Lightfoil: It's usable by any NFU trained to use it correctly, and can be replicated perfectly by an NFU should they attempt to reverse engineer it.
• Ionized Blade: Using Ssi-ruuvi Ion Paddle Beamer technology, the silver thread ion stream is captured by an electromagnetic field found in lightsabers. Significantly stripped back of its power, contact with the blade immediately numbs a target by disrupting its central nervous system, and repeated strikes will cause paralysis for hours and/or unconscious depending on targeted area (such as the head). It also has a minor damage rate on technological constructs (such as droids). Also due to its very specific ionic nature, it is capable of passing through conventional armors and shields not tasked with specifically defending against ionic attacks of this particular variety. It does not however, have the iconic ability to pass through lightsabers.
• Automatic-Tràkata Switch: Putting more faith into technology than her own personal skill, Triam Akovin has developed a unique sensor system that can detect when the lightfoil's blade is meeting resistance by an energy surge that matches that of lightsaber contact... and rapidly deactivate and reactivate the blade as a result of that contact. In order to block lightsabers of course, this switch can be toggled off, but is otherwise a surprising loop around her previous failures in attempting to engineer something that was physically impossible.

Description: In the most layman of terms, the Relentless Blade is a lightfoil with an ionized plasma blade that can numb a struck target, even through conventional armors. The weapon can quickly deplete shields and cause extensive damage to electronics, like any other ion weapon. Repeated blows by this weapon can eventually cause temporary paralysis and a direct blow to the head or upper spine can cause unconsciousness. Additionally, the blade comes with comes with a switch that causes the blade of this weapon to automatically deactivate and reactivate when it comes into contact with a lightsaber blade, in the Tràkata fashion. This switch can be enabled or disabled

Strengths:

• NFU Usable: As a lightfoil, no force sensitivity is needed to wield the device, and is entirely reverse engineerable as well.
• Bypass Conventional Armor/Shielding: Given its particular ionic state, anything that specifically does not defend against ion attacks is vulnerable to being attacked.
• Non-lethal: Numbs target on contact, temporary paralysis for hours after repeated blows, or unconsciousness after a direct blow to the head or upper spine.
• Minor damage to electronics: Self explanatory, as an ion weapon, it has a higher proficiency to damage electronics it comes into contact with.
• Tràkata Weapon: Possess an automated Tràkata style switch, a togglable option

Weaknesses:

• 
  Requires Extensive Training: While anyone can pick up the blade and use it, even an NFU, they really need specialized training in order to effectively use the blade to defend from lightsaber attacks. Then there is also adding in the Tràkata layer of complexity to consider, as while the blade is capable of performing such a setting automatically, the wielder being able to understand the mechanics of the technique is crucial to its proficiency.
  
• Exclusively Close Quarters: Unlike other ion equipment, this device requires that the user get up close and personal with the intended target, which may or may not be a good thing for the wielder depending on who they are facing.
• Initial Lag: For unknown reasons, probably due to the inferior build of Lightfoils in comparison to the artisanship and engineering of lightsabers, the initial activation of the blade is much slower than a typical lightsaber or lightfoil. Once its automated Tràkata style switch is activated however, the lag subsides into nonexistence to allow its responsive rapid deactivation and reactivation. However, if that Tràkata switch is toggled off, and the blade is deactivated, the initial lag is present in the blade. Either way, this means hasty defensive maneuvers with this blade, is unlikely when initially deactivated.

History: The idea for an ionized blade first spawned within Triam Akovin’s head, and as she traveled around she toyed with the idea unseriously as she drew up "schematics" on napkins in a bar. Despite the original lack of seriousness about the idea, she had put in considerable research into its construction, that only grew as her failures to produce results mounted. She went to her employee first, Crol H'hurut, who had direct experience with lightsabers, and asked if he had ever heard of an ionized blade. Of course, he hadn't.

Additionally, she had learned that some types of ionic medical tools could bypass conventional armor and shielding to mess with a targets neural network to cause temporary paralysis in extremities or unconsciousness with direct hits to the head or upper spine. Naturally, this brought her back to the idea of lightsabers, and asked Crol another question. She pressed further, wondering if lightsabers interacted with ionic energy. As it turned out, he did recollect that the frequency of the lightsabers energy field (the one that contained the plasma from escaping), could be adjusted to do so for particle attacks... but he didn't know how to do so himself.

This pondering continued for a while in a very small degree of seriousness... until while in a bar after a pitstop from a long work day, Triam encountered an old bar buddy... who happened to be ironically very successful in life and business. Radical change aside, they hit it off once again, and Triam decided to tell her regained friend of this idea she had. Patricia took it to heart, and decided to take the project on, suggesting they should move to one of her facilities on Relovian.

As they did so, Triam began to outline serious schematics of her intended weapon through a holographic projection device. Her reasoning behind the weapon was that there were distinct similarities between the two pieces of technology. Namely, the power required a similar power cell, a beam emitter, and some form of focusing mechanism. Then she isolated the parts that were different from each other that needed to be present in the design, naming the ion acceleration chamber, cooling vent, and discharge nozzle, as well as the lightsaber focusing lense, emitter matrix, and the containment field that they produced and adjusted them respectively.

As such, in her designs, she fit in an acceleration chamber, a cooling exhaust vent near the pommel cap where the diatium energy cell is located, a lightsaber beam emitter for the containment field, a focusing lense wrapped in ion focusing coils (focusing lense modified to amplify ion focusing coils rather than produce plasma from energy) in order to hybridize the system, and an adjusted containment field frequency toggle switch within the emitter matrix to contain ion particles on command. Later, after the initial prototypes failed, she added in a modified the Discharge Nozzle to recycle ionic energy to prevent the reflected Ion beam particles from destroying the device.

In her head, this is how she visualized the device:

• Containment Field (Saber Component)
• Discharge Nozzle (Ion Component) [Uniquely Constructed to recycle reflected Ion Beam energy within its containment field, so as to prevent the device's destruction]
• Beam Emitter (Hybrid Component)
• Modified Emitter Matrix (Ion-Adjusted Saber Component)
• Hybridized Focusing Lense/Ion Focusing Coil System (Hybrid Component)
• Saber Crystal (Saber Component)
• Acceleration Chamber
• Diatium Energy Cell (Hybrid Component)
• Cooling Vent (Ion Component)

The weapon was then constructed several times in the facility with its various machines, each new variant being tested for its feasibility as a weapon. Most, upon activation, detonated, as the quirks of the weapon were not "hammered out" so to speak, and adjustments were needed.

However, given that the initial design of her weapon using an electromagnetic field adjusted to a specific frequency that allowed to pass through lightsabers and reflect ion streams monumentally failed in large explosive contact with another lightsaber... because it was physically impossible, despite her inaccurately assumed hypotheses, Triam Akovin had to go back to the drawing board and figure out a different solution to her problem. She tried as many frequency field configurations you could think of, from attempting to make it selectively permeable, to having a gradually strengthening field that capped the blade at the end, with a very weak field in the center capable of letting stronger fields to pass through. However, these conceptions did not seem to operate correctly.

She was about ready to give up on the entire concept itself... when she got the simple idea... to merely:

Turn off the blade.
Then turn it on again.

This epiphany hit her like a freighter ship, and she felt incredibly stupid upon its discovery. The highly efficient but complicated skill of strategically deactivating and rapidly activating the blade due to its unique capability to be turned off and on, was what finally told her, the device she had been secretly obsessing over was actually possible... just not in the way she initially imagined.

Generating her own unique sensors, she was able to measure the specific power surges typically found when two lightsabers came into extended resistance with one another, she was able to program into the blade a setting by which it could automatically do as she desired.

Of course, she had no idea what implications this would place on her training in figuring out how to use the weapon, but she was simply elated to figure out a problem that had been nagging at her for at least five months while in the Relovian labs.

Primary Source(s):
Ssi-ruuvi Ion Paddle Beamer
Ssi-ruuvi Ion Paddle Beamer Schematics
Lightsaber
Lightfoil
Tràkata

EDIT: The entire concept has been overhauled into something that is physically possible. Ready for review.

 

[Hailyn]

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[Allyson Locke]

[member="Triam Akovin"]

 

[Cassus Akovin]

[member="Lily Kirsche Kuhn"] Second Dev completed. Any other edits or consideration needed?

 

[Hailyn]

Under Review

 

[Hailyn]

It is also possible however, to launch an Ion Beam in the middle of the Defense Stage, but the beam will not be contained, and will fire an ion stream like an ion blaster much like a Ssi-Ruuvi Paddle Beamer, but this drains the energy cell considerably, and is liable to break the device if over used as a strategy.

How does this work? Does the saber double as a blaster, too?

I would like an explanation, in the submission description, detailing how one of these are constructed. I suggest using the diagram available on the lightsaber wookiepedia page for reference.

 

[Cassus Akovin]

[member="Lily Kirsche Kuhn"] The idea is, that when in the Defense Stage is attuned to block lightsabers, it can no longer block the ion stream that happens to be coming from within.

My reasoning is that the field is attuned for deflecting ion streams in the Ion Stage (where the ion stream is contained), but it is incapable of blocking blaster bolts (as described in the Ssi-Ruuvi Ion Paddle Beamer wookiepedia entry). I extended this idea, and also hypothesized it would not be able to block a lightsaber either.

So when in the Defense Stage it is using a standard lightsaber field to block blaster bolts and lightsabers, but it cannot block the ion stream that the device is capable of producing.

That is why that quoted piece is present within the submission.

 

[Hailyn]

[member="Triam Akovin"]
The barrier which contains the plasma within the blade is the diatium energy field, which means that by it being present you would both block lightsabers and contain any plasma (or ionized plasma, in this case) from within. In order to unleash this stream of plasma you would need to remove such a field otherwise it would be contained as it would in its ion state. Being that a combination of a blaster and a lightsaber exist in canon, I would suggest a separate portion of the hilt being used to unleash this ion bolt.

Defenseless: Though the blade comes with the advantage of being able to pass through virtually anything to hit its target, it's incapable of preventing retaliation without switching to a Defense State. This means it cannot deflect blaster bolts, or fend off from a retaliatory saber strike, where the lightsaber will pass directly through the blade towards the wielder.

Does the ion state lack the containment field? If so this may be the case, but it would also be unable to contain the ion energy within. Assuming it does not, it would be just as capable of deflecting blaster bolts and physically connecting with other objects as it is the containment field which stops other objects from passing through while allowing a lightsaber's plasma rod to "cut" the objects. While this obviously lacks the cutting power, it would still be capable of deflecting objects and blaster bolts, as well as lightsabers.

 

[Cassus Akovin]

[member="Lily Kirsche Kuhn"] I will simply remove mention of that particular strategy, if it is desired, as that is not at all what is meant in the design of this weapon.

To simplify my weapon as much as I can for greater clarity of what you are dealing with, let me explain each stage and what is is doing in relation to the diatium energy field.

The Defense State is nothing but a standard lightsaber diatium energy field, with no plasma of any kind. Its an empty shell that cannot reflect ion streams as described in the Ssi-Ruuvi Ion Paddle Beamer wookiepedia entry, but is capable of stopping a lightsaber blade upon contact with its diatium energy field, and hypothetically deflecting blaster bolts if it was used to counter them in this state.

The Ion State is a modified diatium energy field attuned to specifically reflect and contain an ion stream originating from the device, but due to this it is rendered unable to deflect blaster bolts if it was hypothetically used for this purpose. I then created the hypothesis that if such an attuned field was unable to deflect blaster bolts, it would likewise be unable to stop a lightsaber field from passing through.

 

[Hailyn]

it would likewise be unable to stop a lightsaber field from passing through.

That would mean the lightsabers that have altered frequencies to deal with paddle beams would be unable to contain their own plasma flow, so that would not be the case. I can understand the inability to block a blaster bolt, but it would not make the blade itself incorporeal. It would still meet resistance striking physical objects.

 

[Cassus Akovin]

[member="Lily Kirsche Kuhn"] Hmm, that does make sense that you've pointed that out, and the rest of the submission becomes a moot point now that this has become apparent. I'm not ready to give this up though.

Is it possible to find and modify a field frequency until it is selectively permeable? Or perhaps, a mechanism where the field destabilizes momentarily when in contact with another lightsaber field, that grants it this incorporeal effect?

 

[Hailyn]

[member="Triam Akovin"]
Once the field would cease to be cohesive, so would the blade.

 

[Cassus Akovin]

[member="Lily Kirsche Kuhn"] But only momentarily. Considering that this option is more possible than the original inception of the design, I would ask that you consider it as a possibility.

Alternatively, I've thought up another solution that may or may not be possible.

What if I created a Diatium field that grew strong the closer to the tip it became, so that the blade length itself would hardly be there at all and incorporeal, but at the tip it is strong enough to stop and reflect the beam back to its source, to be recycled into an infinite loop similar to a lightsaber.

That way the striking portion of the blade would be capable of passing through lightsabers and whatever else, and the ion beam would be contained. Of course, whenever it did pass through an object, it would lose some of the ion stream, but this is an acceptable loss for me.

 

[Hailyn]

[member="Lily Kirsche Kuhn"] But only momentarily. Considering that this option is more possible than the original inception of the design, I would ask that you consider it as a possibility.

Alternatively, I've thought up another solution that may or may not be possible.

What if I created a Diatium field that grew strong the closer to the tip it became, so that the blade length itself would hardly be there at all and incorporeal, but at the tip it is strong enough to stop and reflect the beam back to its source, to be recycled into an infinite loop similar to a lightsaber.

That way the striking portion of the blade would be capable of passing through lightsabers and whatever else, and the ion beam would be contained. Of course, whenever it did pass through an object, it would lose some of the ion stream, but this is an acceptable loss for me.

Plasma, being a state of matter, is what makes up a lightsaber. Ion beams, bolts, etc, are ionized plasma or particles, generally leaning towards plasma, and act the same way as the plasma that is held within the diatium field surrounding a lightsaber utilizing "frozen blaster technology" (how lightsabers and such keep a defined shape when fired). By removing the electromagnetic field (diatium circuit field) you remove what keeps the plasma, or in this case ion stream, contained. Like gas, which is the previous state of matter prior to plasma, the plasma or ionized plasma would seek a way out immediately upon being pushed into its containment field, i.e; the diatium circuit field that surrounds the blade. Once you introduce a lack of cohesion and removal of portions of the blade you introduce a way for that plasma, or ionized plasma, to escape and thus dissipate the blade. This would theoretically be highly volatile, as I'm sure being essentially splashed with plasma or ionized plasma/particles isn't exactly the most comfortable feeling in the world, but the point is that by ridding portions of the blade's cohesion you remove the blade itself. Unlike a laser, a lightsaber isn't formed by light nor are plasma or ion particles and thus having a tip to confine the blade wouldn't work without the whole containment field in place.

 

[Cassus Akovin]

[member="Lily Kirsche Kuhn"] There wouldn't be a part of the blade that was "missing" however. It would simply be weak enough that the resistance provided to another diatium energy field coming into contact with it would be so little as to allow it to pass through after a moment of contact. The material inside however, would be contained until that point where only a brief lapse in cohesion at that point of the blade would allow any of it to escape.

Essentially, it would be the normal sparks that we see from lightsaber combat when two blades are interlocked. It wouldn't suddenly escape or explode the way you've described it, as if it was atmosphere from a spaceship leaking out into vacuum indefinitely.

I imagine that the field being strong enough to contain its contents, but not strong enough to resist and deflect a more powerful field. There would be a brief moment during contact where there are two energy fields intermingling with each other, and their contents briefly mixing, before the strong blade passed through. It wouldn't even need to collapse, and hardly if any material would actually escape the field.

Does this make sense the way that I am imagining it and describing it back to you?

 

[Hailyn]

[member="Triam Akovin"]
As it has been explained, what has been presented in this submission does not work with the technology and methods provided. This will be marked as denied, with a suggestion to look over this submission and its contents and make changes that might support the intent of this weapon. You may, and I suggest doing so, request a second chance in the Factory's Second Chance request thread.

 

[Allyson Locke]

Second Chance Granted [member="War Hydra"] can you look over this or [member="Popo"]

 

[War Hydra]

[member="Spencer Jacobs"]

On it.

*reads all of the words*

 

[War Hydra]

[member="Triam Akovin"]


Alright, so I've been reading this and several wookieepedia articles, as well as some of our approved and denied submissions here at SW Chaos.

For transparency, here are the hyperlinks to the canon and SW canon technologies I've been researching.

SW: Chaos
Senshi Teima, Sasori Beamer, SG-WD-02 'The Annihilator', HW-CW05 Deck Cannon,

Canon
Paddle Beamer, Lightsaber, Lightfoil, Diatium Power Cell, Flak Gun, Ion cannon, Turbolaser, Plasma Cannon, Yaret-Kor,

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The Ion State is essentially an empty lightsaber blade where plasma is replaced with an ion stream capable of passing through conventional shields, armor, and other lightsaber blades, which is contained within a Electromagnetic Field attuned to repel against charged particles, like an ion stream. However, this field offers no other effects, thus rendering it capable of passing through most conventional shielding including lightsaber Diatium Energy fields. This tightly compacted Ion Stream though, would be stopped only by an objected with a specific Electromagnetic charge, meaning it isn't entirely intangible at all times. This ion stream will paralyze the contacted area of flesh, and will damage electronics moderately.

According to the Ion Cannon page, "Large negative-ion pulses were charged in a turbine generator then channeled into a plasma charge or released as a large pulse towards a target."
Based on this, your above statement would be profoundly inaccurate. In order for this weapon to work, the blade must contain plasma energy at all times. For the sake of clarity, we can refer to it as Ionized Plasma, but it is still plasma being contained within an Electromagnetic field.

Secondly, there is no such thing as a Diatium Energy Field. You are incorrectly merging Diatium Power Cells and the Electromagnetic Fields that contain a Lightsaber's plasma blade.

According to the Ion Paddle Beamer page, the blade does not pass through a Lightsaber. The beam of energy created by the paddle beamer... well, think of it like a water balloon. You throw the water balloon, then someone tries to block it with their hand. The water balloon flexes and smushes around their hand before it pops and gets them wet anyway. Here, imagine that the beam of energy is like... the long balloons that clowns tie into animals and such. But it's filled with water. When it gets thrown at someone, and another person tries to block it, the back end whips around and hits them anyway.

That's probably a horrible description, but the impression I get from the Ssi-Ruuvi Ion Paddle Beamer is that the beam bends around the lightsaber, not that the beam goes "through" the lightsaber.



What you're looking to do here is take a Stun Round, like a low-power Blaster Bolt, and make a Lightsaber Blade out of it.... Instead of creating a blade out of, say, the high-power plasma of a plasma cannon round.
They both use plasma, but one causes non-lethal stunning damage and the other kills people and cuts things in half.

Mechanically, what you're attempting to create here would have to function identically to a Lightsaber, but without the cutting power and only capable of doing non-lethal damage.


It would not bypass a shield, but it would cause a great deal of damage to a shield, much like any other Ion Weapon.
It would fry electronics and circuits that it was used against.
It would numb a biological being wherever it impacted them, and may render them unconscious if you hit them in the head or the upper spine, but that's the limit.

Causing the numbing effect and possible unconsciousness through armor when you strike them?
Maybe. But Cap-Drains and other EMP/Ion defenses would mitigate this.

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The Defense State is essentially an empty lightsaber blade, where there is nothing contained within the diatium energy field found in lightsabers, which is the responsible feature that allows lightsaber blades to connect without passing through. If in the hands of a force user, it could be used to deflect ion weaponry like Ssi-Ruuvi Paddle Beamers, but not blaster bolts.

All this is... is an empty Electromagnetic Field.
Due to my above statements about Electromagnetic Fields, Lightsabers, and the nature of Paddle Beamers and their effects, there is no reason to believe that an empty Electromagnetic Field would be able to stop a Paddle Beamer's bolt any better than a lightsaber blade.

In all honesty, I can't see any reason for this setting, nor can I see any reason why it would provide any benefit not already provided by the first power setting.

If you utilize my first suggestion and alter this into using Ionized Plasma, I'll allow the weapon to deflect normal Ion Bolts the same way it could deflect Blaster Bolts, since it's the same basic technology. However, Paddle Beamers are a special case and would still bypass this weapon unless it was specifically calibrated (manually) for those weapons. Which is something any lightsaber is capable of doing. If you want a second "standard frequency setting" that you can switch to quickly, that is fine. But the "empty lightsaber blade" nonsense makes no sense.

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The Hybrid State is merely when the two states are activated together, where an ion stream is produced inside of the specially attuned Diatium Energy Field. This state though, offers no unique level of intangibility, and will be stopped by another lightsaber blade, or conventional shielding strong enough to deflect lightsabers.

Basically, I guess what I'm saying, is that the only "state" you'll be capable of getting approved here is the Hybrid State. None of the other "states" you've created here make sense, nor do they conform to Star Wars Canon. And not conforming with SW canon is reason enough for a denial.

I get what you're trying to do. You want to turn the effects of a gun into a melee weapon. But please keep in mind that guns designed to shoot lightsaber blades at people are denied on concept for not conforming to SW Canon. Doing the opposite, making a Lightsaber that produces the effects of a specific gun, would also fit under the grounds of "not conforming with SW canon" and be expected to be denied.

You want a Lightsaber with an Ionized Plasma Blade instead of a regular Plasma Blade?

Cool. I can work with that.

But everything you have here either doesn't work (mechanically), or is power-gamy.

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Description:
Strengths

Ion State:

• 
  NFU Usable: As a lightfoil, it is usable by non force sensitives.
  
• 
  Phantom: The ion stream may pass through conventional shields, armors, and even bends around conventional lightsabers, due to it using an alternative energy field in combination with an ion stream.
  
• 
  Paralytic: A glancing blow could render an extremity numb for hours, while a direct hit could cause unconsciousness.
  
• 
  Relatively non-lethal: Since the original prototypes, the power setting of the ion streams have since been stripped back, the reason being that close ranged targets (the exclusive range of the blade) had a significant chance to be lethal, especially if the head was targeted. The head is still a high-probability of causing death, but otherwise the blade is harmless to organics aside from numbing them.
  
• 
  Moderately Damages Tech: The blade, being an ion weapon, naturally has a higher affinity to destroying anything electrical, however the silver thread like ion stream has been repurposed to affect primarily the central nervous system of organics. Though, that does not prevent it from messing with targeted electrical systems.
  
• 
  May Activate Defense State: Unlike the original design of the original prototypes (which failed), this one is capable of producing a hybrid state, where the blade regains tangibility to lightsabers, but remains capable of paralyzing targets should it come into contact with one. However, due to the use of a Diatium energy field, it does not possess the ability to phase through conventional shielding.
  

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Description:
Strengths

Defense State:

• 
  NFU Usable: As a lightfoil, it is usable by non force sensitives.
  
• 
  Tangible: The energy field in this state, is the typical diatium energy field found in most lightsabers, though attuned to contain ion streams should it be fired in this state. It is capable of connecting with other lightsabers and resisting them, and could theoretically be used to deflect other ion streams if in the hands of a force user.
  
• 
  Totally non-lethal: Normally, devoid of contained plasma or ions, the Defense State has a zero percent chance of harming an individual with the blade.
  
• 
  May Fire Ion Beam: Despite the blade not holding the Ion State’s intangible qualities, the Defense State is capable of acting as a containment field for the ion stream should for whatever reason the wielder need to block lightsabers and paralyze a target should the opportunity arise. Or perhaps, for training purposes they simply need to see the blade. However, this hybrid state does not posses the ability to phase through conventional shielding, due to the use of a Diatium energy field.
  
• 
  Essentially Invisible: Due to the Defense State ordinarily containing nothing within its Diatium energy field, the magnetic barrier is essentially invisible to the naked eye, which could potentially make it difficult for the enemy to render where it is, and may cause slight confusion. Even more so, if the enemy does not realize the blade is harmless in this state.
  

The Phantom Effect alone is reason enough for a denial. This must be removed.
Essentially Invisible also needs to be removed.

Paralytic... Only a direct blow to the head or upper spine would cause unconsciousness.

Remove the different "states" and combing this into a single list of strengths. This weapon needs to only produce one state. Ionized Plasma.
If you want different "frequency settings", that's fine. But it only ever functions as a Lightsaber Analog.

The "relatively non-lethal" and "totally non-lethal" need to be merged together. Yes, it is an energy weapon. But it causes non-lethal only damage.

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Weaknesses

Ion State:

• 
  Defenseless: Though the blade comes with the advantage of being able to pass through virtually anything to hit its target, it's incapable of preventing retaliation without switching to a Defense State, or initiating a Hybrid State blade. This means it cannot deflect blaster bolts, or fend off from a retaliatory saber strike, where the lightsaber will pass directly through the blade towards the wielder.
  
• 
  Exclusively Close Quarters: Unlike other ion equipment, this device requires that the user get up close and personal with the intended target, which may or may not be a good thing for the wielder depending on who they are facing.
  
• 
  Requires Speed: Since the wielder has (almost) no means to defend themselves while in this state, the wielder must be incredibly agile in order to use the weapon effectively, in order to dodge incoming attacks.
  
• 
  Charged Fields/Objects: Due to the Electromagnetic Field generated being an unconventional means to grant the blade near intangible capabilities, it does have one specific weakness involved with it. Due to the field only influencing charged particles or objects, when coming into contact with them, or attempting to pass through them, the field will repel against them. Meaning anything that is protected by either a positive or a negative charge, will become an effective means to deflect the blade.
  

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Weaknesses

Defense State:

• 
  Harmless: It literally is completely defensive, and cannot harm anything no matter how hard you try (Unless it becomes a hybrid state, where it is mostly harmless).
  
• 
  Requires Training: While anyone can pick up the blade and use it, even an NFU, they really need specialized training in order to effectively use the blade to defend from lightsaber attacks. Then there is also adding in the Ion State layer of complexity to consider.
  
• 
  Lightsaber Defense Only: Since the blade has a zero percent chance of causing damage due to an empty energy field, any object that is not protected by a shield or similar energy field will pass through it. Thus, a swordsmen with a physical blade will bypass the Defense State completely.
  
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  Essentially Invisible: Due to the Defense State containing (typically) nothing within its Diatium energy field, the magnetic barrier is essentially invisible to the naked eye, which makes it particularly difficult for an inexperienced user to render where it is, and will cause great confusion. This is where training becomes a requirement, in order to adjust the wielder to hoisting a weapon they can't see, and putting trust into muscle memory instead.
  
• 
  Hybrid State Lag: Due to the Hybrid State essentially being the Defense State with an Ion Stream, it takes a moment longer for it to transition into the Ion State, due to the need to activate the Electromagnetic field prior to deactivating the Diatium energy field. This lag though is momentary and brief, but without it designed into the blade, the ion stream would explode outwards with nothing containing it when the Diatium Energy field was deactivated.
  

Defenseless... needs to go.
Harmless needs to go.
Essentially Invisible needs to go.
Lightsaber Defense Only needs to go.


Requires Training can stay.
Exclusively Close Quarters can stay.
Hybrid State Lag can stay. Having this weapon take longer to "turn on" than a regular lightsaber seems like a reasonable weakness.


Requires Speed... is a given aspect of melee combat, especially with lightsabers. Please remove it from the list of weaknesses for this particular weapon.

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The idea for an ionized blade first spawned within Triam Akovin’s head, and as she traveled around she toyed with the idea unseriously as she drew up "schematics" on napkins in a bar. Despite the original lack of seriousness about the idea, she had put in considerable research into its construction. She went to her employee, Crol H'hurut, who had direct experience with lightsabers, and asked if he had ever heard of an ionized blade. Of course, he hadn't.

Additionally, she had learned that some types of ionic tools could bypass conventional armor and shielding. Naturally, this brought her back to the idea of lightsabers, and asked Crol another question. She pressed further, wondering if lightsabers interacted with ionic energy. As it turned out, he did recollect that the frequency of the lightsabers energy field (the one that contained the plasma from escaping), could be adjusted to do so for particle attacks... but he didn't know how to do so himself.

This pondering continued for a while in a very small degree of seriousness... until while in a bar after a pitstop from a long work day, Triam encountered an old bar buddy... who happened to be ironically very successful in life and business. Radical change aside, they hit it off once again, and Triam decided to tell her regained friend of this idea she had. Patricia took it to heart, and decided to take the project on, suggesting they should move to one of her facilities on Relovian.

As they did so, Triam began to outline serious schematics of her intended weapon through a holographic projection device. Her reasoning behind the weapon was that there were distinct similarities between the two pieces of technology. Namely, the power required a similar power cell, a beam emitter, and some form of focusing mechanism. Then she isolated the parts that were different from each other that needed to be present in the design, naming the ion acceleration chamber, cooling vent, and discharge nozzle, as well as the lightsaber focusing lense, emitter matrix, and the containment field that they produced and adjusted them respectively.

As such, in her designs, she fit in an acceleration chamber, a cooling exhaust vent near the pommel cap where the diatium energy cell is located, a lightsaber beam emitter for the containment field, a focusing lense wrapped in ion focusing coils (focusing lense modified to amplify ion focusing coils rather than produce plasma from energy) in order to hybridize the system, and an adjusted containment field frequency toggle switch within the emitter matrix to contain ion particles on command. Later, after the initial prototypes failed, she added in an Electromagnetic Field Generator in tandem with the ordinary containment field, as well as modified the Discharge Nozzle to recycle ionic energy to prevent the reflect Ion beam particles from destroying the device.

This reads a lot more like a history that a description. Please relabel this section as history.

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In her head, this is how she visualized the device:

• Containment Field (Saber Component)
• Electromagnetic Field Generator (Unique Component) [Added on after initial failure]
• Discharge Nozzle (Ion Component) [Uniquely Constructed to recycle reflected Ion Beam energy within its containment field, so as to prevent the device's destruction]
• Beam Emitter (Hybrid Component)
• Modified Emitter Matrix (Ion-Adjusted Saber Component)
• Hybridized Focusing Lense/Ion Focusing Coil System (Hybrid Component)
• Saber Crystal (Saber Component)
• Acceleration Chamber
• Diatium Energy Cell (Hybrid Component)
• Cooling Vent (Ion Component)

Electromagnetic Field Generators are a standard part of lightsaber design. It's what keeps the plasma from the Diatium Energy Cell from bleeding out, radiating heat, and draining itself.

Cooling Vent? This thing is going to be in your hand. Where is the cooling vent and how does it work if your smothering it with your palm/fingers?
Even if it doesn't get smothered, how are you going to put an exhaust on this thing without burning the hand of whoever is using it?

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The weapon was then constructed several times in the facility with its various machines, each new variant being tested for its feasibility as a weapon. Some, upon activation, detonated, as the quirks of the weapon were not "hammered out" so to speak, and adjustments were needed.

However, given that the initial design of her weapon using a Diatium Energy field adjusted to a specific frequency that allowed to pass through lightsabers and reflect ion streams monumentally failed in large explosive contact with another lightsaber, Triam Akovin had to go back to the drawing board and figure out a different solution to her problem. She tried as many frequency field configurations you could think of, from attempting to make it selectively permeable, to having a gradually strengthening field that capped the blade at the end, with a very weak field in the center capable of letting stronger fields to pass through. However, these conceptions did not seem to operate correctly.

Instead she opted to attempt the same experiment again, but with a different energy field to contain the ion streams she was producing. Rather than use a Diatium Energy field, she opted to use in its place a specific iteration of an Electromagnetic field which affected charged objects in its vicinity. After measuring the charge of the ion stream, she modified her field generator to produce this specific Electromagnetic field to repel the specific charge of the ion stream produced with an incredible amount of force.

In essence, the entire length of the ion beam was tightly compressed into blade form, but entirely incorporeal to foreign energy fields. This gave it the two properties that she desired out of the weapon, as it was now capable of bypassing a lightsaber defense, in order to paralyze a being it comes into contact with, ignoring conventional shielding, and armor. There was nothing the blade could relent to (unless encountering other charged objects)

However, she did see the need to be capable of blocking incoming enemy attacks, and decided that the blade would have a dual phase effect. The second phase, the Defense State, would produce a Diatium Energy field that could wrap around the Electromagnetic field she produced, but was also modified and attuned to reflect ion streams, so that in order to save energy the Electromagnetic field could be deactivated during this Defense State. Also to save energy, the capability of turning off the Ion Stream during the Defense State was designed into the system, thus creating a hollow blade that could react with other lightsabers, but being otherwise invisible. The Defense State could also be activated independent of the Ion State, to make full advantage of its surprisingly tangible capabilities.

Primary Source(s):
Ssi-ruuvi Ion Paddle Beamer
Ssi-ruuvi Ion Paddle Beamer Schematics
Lightsaber
Lightfoil

EDIT: Redrawn Submission has been inserted into this post for Judge review.

Again... There's no such thing as a Diatium Energy Field. Diatium Energy Cell is a type of battery that produces a Lightsaber's plasma. The Electromagnetic Field sends that plasma back into the battery instead of allowing it to bleed out, which would generate massive amounts of heat, rapidly drain the battery, and produce... something a little more akin to a roman candle than a blade.


Also... Like I said a moment ago, a great deal of your description reads like the history of the weapon's development. Which is fine. There can be a place for that. But I'm going to need you to re-label it as a History and create a secondary area for a Description. There, I would like to see a simple and strait forward description of how the weapon functions similarly and differently from a lightsaber. Treat this like a bit of a summery. When people have to research this weapon because it's being used against them, they're going to skip down to the Description to try and get the quickest, most basic understanding of what they are dealing with.

So... yeah. I need the description to facilitate that. As opposed to telling the tale of the weapon's creation.

 

[Cassus Akovin]

*sigh* Damn, I agree with all of that. Though I disagree that a lightsaber containing the effects of a particular gun should be denied on concept. So, for that, I have just one last idea before I let this thing die.

If you'll allow me to, I'm going to redraw the submission one last time, and tag you for final judgement.

Should that fail (and probably will ), I will make a new submission under a different name (since it would relent to a lot of things ) with the much simpler concept of an ionized blade.

Or maybe, I'll just let this idea die after that, and never make a melee weapon again

What do you say, [member="War Hydra"]?