To Craft a Saber (Vulpesen/Josh Dragonsflame

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Vulpesen"] [member="Joshua DragonsFlame"]

The day was calm as Alexandra sat in her chambers, tailored as both a room for study, sleep, and meditation. She was waiting for two guest today that would help her with a task that she had grown to require, something that would mark her as a true knight in her own right, something that she had been forced to forgo due to the lack of one thing. A unique and personal lightsaber.

She had several different designs lain out in front of her on her desk, rotating and zooming into them. The Files that had taken months to find and gather came to this point now, design. The ancient designs of sabers like that of Vader's, Maul's, Dooku's, Nail's, and so many others that she had accumulated. But the one that held her eye at the moment was one that interested her greatly. The Sabers of Ventress, two curved hilted sabers that could be locked together and be used as a saberstaff.

This had interested her and she would have gone on without help... if she could. The problem was that she didn't know how, she had taken her saber apart enough, replaced power cells, fixed it when it became in disrepair. But she had never crafted a saber to fit what she needed, she had never made one from scratch. The saber she used was but her long dead master's sabers and now here she sat waiting for Jedi Masters Joshua Dragonsflame and Vulpesen, having gone to them through holovid and asked for their help on this project.

She had all the parts she thought she required, as well as a bit of phrik that she had acquired to be used for the hilt's covering, working off the design of the saber of Darth Sidious where she read that he had used it as a precaution against destruction from other sabers. If all went well she would have a weapon that was unique and unseen by most, a weapon that could be used in solo, together, or as a saberstaff not seen since Ventress.

To Win. (RP i got the Phrik from)

 

[Vulpesen]

Vulpesen straightened his robes as he arrived outside [member="Alexandra Cinthra"]'s home. He was supposed to come here with Jedi Master [member="Joshua DragonsFlame"], but so far, the man had yet to arrive. After a small knock, he noticed a lack of answer. Likely Alex was busy working. Opening the door, Vulpesen slipped in and made his way to Alex's presence. The force made the search rather easy and after a minute or two, Vulpesen was standing at the entrance of her chambers, this time using a larger knock to gain her attention. "Guess who."

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

She looked up, her hand halfway through her hair as she had been scratching her scalp when she looked up. "Uh... hi." She lowered her hand and sat up straight, throwing a design off to the side on a holodisplay as well as several journals and articles on various other projects. "Hows it going, good to see no one gave you trouble coming here, some of the Order isn't so welcoming as others. Guess that's what i get for encompassing light and dark... sit down sit." She looked over at a chair and sent it sliding over the floor to the table infront of her. "Dragonsflame late?"

[member="Vulpesen"] [member="Joshua DragonsFlame"]

 

[Vulpesen]

Vulpesen shrugged as he entered the room. "The order and I don't always see eye to eye. Of course, its not like your the worst company I could keep." Vulpesen grinned as he remembered the lst time he had been in a room alone with a member of the opposite sex. "Besides, I personally enjoy it more than my last time with a non-member of the order. Those two sith were quite strange in their preferences." Despite the small laugh, following the statement, Vulpesen's hand would still drift to his neck to feel the phantom scar. Shaking off the feeling, Vulpesen would return to the present. "So, what exactly do you have in mind for this new tool?"

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

"Well, i had been studying various examples of sabers, from curved hilt to the standard. Then there are the Lightpikes and clubs but those are highly impractical. No i wanted something like... this woman's." She through up a long dead Sith on the three dimensional holo projector. The Sith in question, Count Dooku's apprentice, Ventress. "Her sabers were dangerous enough alone, the curved hilts allowing for most uses of the saber to have a better flow to it as well as allow for plenty of new angles of attack. But is was their other feature that caught my eye."

She ran a simulation, the projection fighting with a Jedi now. "While both blades alone were a threat, like i use them myself, it is... this feature that caught my eye." She froze it and zoomed in, showing Ventress' blades connected to form a Saberstaff at will, not a single moment had the blades deactivated to do such. "I suspect a magnetic locking or bolt system that did that, but i assumed that you Jedi would know more... also there is another thing... ive never made a saber."

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[Vulpesen]

Vulpesen listened carefully to her words. He was quite familiar with Asajj Ventress. In fact, his time in Zarro's library had given him many insights to the Clone Wars era. He was also aware that Assajj was rejected by the sith due to the current time's rule of two, but he decided not to mention that. After all, pompous points such as that didn't go very well in friendships. As Alexandra showed him the Diagrams, Vulpesen started reaching into his robes until he could find his own saber. "Actually, Asajj used a fiber cord locking mechanism. However, I'm not too familiar with it as sued a magnetic lock triggered by twisting the hilts." With a sharp twist, Vulpesen would separate the two halves of his weapon, turning them over to show where the locking mechanism would activate once the hilts were brought together.

[member="Alexandra Cinthra"]

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

Alexandra's eyes scanned over the mechanism, studying it carefully and making sure that she had everything memorized before she looked back to @Vulpesen. "So then you will help me?" She crossed her hands on the table and slid the images out of the way to look right at Vulpesen without the obstruction of the hologram. Her fingers still tapped, the nervous habit shining true as she stood there.

 

[Vulpesen]

Vulpesen nodded and placed one saber at his hip while starting to dismantle the other in order to give his friend a better look. "Of course." As he finished taking the saber apart, he placed the pieces in separate piles. "So, what do you want to work on? We can do the locking mechanism, circuitry and crystal, or the body. Of course, this will all have to be assembled at once during the final proccess, but its a good idea to know what your doing before we move on to that,"
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[Alexandra Feanor]

"Well, the crystal and how its placement works and everything i know, ive taken a saber apart from there to remove and manipulate the crystal before... but i never went to far into the circuitry. So it is probably good to start with the most important part of the saber i assume, the things that make it actually work. Oh and uh, is it the circuitry that allows for the ability of underwater use, always good to be ready for anything?" She began tapping her hand, thinking and making mental notes, while her other hand worked and manipulated a three dimensional model on the holo projector that she had shown Vulpesen the kind of sabers she wanted to create with.

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[Vulpesen]

Vulpesen took a seat and sat down next to [member="Alexandra Cinthra"] as he looked over the parts. "That's good, it means that we won't need to work on every little thing." Using the force, Vulpesen pulled over several items. "You would need integral flashback seals for that. They do come in handy so I would suggest going with them." He separated the spoken items from the others. "Energy cell, emitter matrix, insulator..." He continued speaking, moving each piece over to a different space. When he finished, each component would be in a linear pattern with the others, showing how the circuitry was to be made. "Lucky you, a lightsaber is one of the few technologies I actually know how to assemble."

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

"Lucky me indeed, otherwise i would have had to gone to the opposite side of the spectrum and asked Savan or someone for help, that wouldnt have ended well now would it mister fox." She smiled at using the word fox, knowing his affinity for the animal and making the joke to pass time as she looked among the pieces and put them to memory from what she had studied from the files. "The Energy cell ive had to change before, so thats not a new piece for me, but the insulator, how does that work with the other pieces in regard to placement of it?"

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[Vulpesen]

Vulpesen shrugged and picked up the cylinder. It had been placed just above the powercell. "Inert power insulator. It does as it says, it insulates. You can think this handy little item for not letting your saber shock you every time you turn it on." He grinned and placed it back in place before moving his hand down the line, speaking out the names of pieces as he reached them. "Insulator, conductor, vortex ring, power cell, primary crystal mount crystal activator, field energizers, and the energy modulation circuits." He turned to [member="Alexandra Cinthra"], hoping to find her awake and with her eyes bright instead of glazed over. "That makes up the inner workings of your basic light saber.."

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

"And what more is needed for the design that i have planned out and where are they in this placement of pieces... ive broken down dozens of designs for every part i could need, those being the relevant parts im talking about. The ones that i knew would be in my design including the whole underwater part you mentioned earlier... i just didn't know where they would go in the curved hilt design that i had planned out..." [member="Vulpesen"]

 

[Vulpesen]

Vulpesen picked up her blade's outer pieces and examined them. "I believe that with a few shifts in the design and angles. The seals should go about here." He placed his hand around the area of the emitter. "You'll also need a slightly wider emitter to hold the extra power of the extra crystal. It's pretty easy to do. As for aligning everything, the force should help you with that, regardless of your curve."

[member="Alexandra Cinthra"]

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

"Right ok... hmm... and the casing, is that molded through the force or through a smelting process like a blade. I mean, ive never tried to alter a metal through the force like doing such would suggest so if smelting it like a blade or the likes is how it is done that isnt something ill need your help with." She looked over at the phrik she had collected, it was split into rectangular bars for easier movement and transport so that was no worry but if had to shape it with the force that would be something far beyond her knowledge and understanding. [member="Vulpesen"]

 

[Josh Dragovalor]

Someone would appear behind the both of them, putting a hand on their shoulders as Josh DragonsFlame appeared from the White Current.

"Hey, did I miss anything?" he asked, a grin crossing his face. "Sorry I'm late, I got holed up in traffic"

[member="Alexandra Cinthra"]
[member="Vulpesen"]

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

"Just [member="Vulpesen"] here breaking all the Jedi vows and what not, learning to bring back the dead and torture people with Force Lightning like me, couldn't you tell or did that forest traffic give you a headache?" She glanced up and smiled at Josh as her and Vulpesen sat there going over the pieces of the saber and its make up, she stood though and without a single pause she walked over and hugged her friend for half a moment. "Thank you for helping me [member="Joshua DragonsFlame"], come, sit down and put in your own two sense on the topic." She walked back to where she was sitting and sat back down, letting her previous question hang in the air around them about how the handle itself is shaped and made.

 

[Josh Dragovalor]

He smirked a bit and pulled [member="Alexandra Cinthra"] into a tight hug as she came over. Or maybe it was a normal hug, because Josh's superhuman strength could be felt. After that though, he playfully smacked [member="Vulpesen"] in the back of the head, gently. "No. No torturing people" he joked with a laugh as he sat beside them and observed what they were working on.

"Anyone wanna brief me on what's going on?" he asked.

 

[Vulpesen]

Vulpesen rubbed the back of his head, sending a glance at Alex, then his fellow jedi. "Very funny." Straightening himself back up, Vulpesen set down the peices that were in his hands. "Currently, we're just going over the basic parts. It seems like Alex here wants a curves hilt with water proofing. I've had to create a few sabers in my time, but I think that your input might be a bit more welcome master Dragonsflame."

[member="Alexandra Cinthra"] [member="Joshua DragonsFlame"]

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Vulpesen"] [member="Joshua DragonsFlame"]

"That can also connect at the pommel... sorry you missed that detail Vulp. As Vulpesen said i want to make the hilts curved and able to connect at the pommel to form an effective saberstaff in an instant, thought this is more to knock people off balance in an instant and force them to switch back and forth depending on which way i use the saber... im using phrik as the hilt's actually covering and Vulpesen was just laying out the pieces and explaining each's function... ive never actually created a saber so i didn't know that part..." She rubbed her neck looking back at the pieces, speaking as she did. "We were on the topic of how the hilt coverings would get their shape, through smelting like a blade or do i manipulate the metal with the force to give its shape and band it together like i do to remove and place in different crystals like i do with my current sabers?"