How do lightsabers work underwater

However, many of them require proper material in order to ensure they can still function in these locations. This is due to a lightsaber modification that, at least in Legends Canon, Kit Fisto himself invented.

It's called the Bifurcating cyclical-ignition pulse. This augmentation uses two crystals to create a waterproof casing to protect the lightsaber from water. Otherwise, the circuits would short-circuit, causing the blade to dissipate. Because Kit Fisto's homeworld, Glee Anselm, is primarily a water-based planet, it makes sense that Kit Fisto made such an augmentation to his lightsaber.

Several other planets are also mainly aquatic, which makes it necessary to have weapons that can function underwater. In the Darth Vader comic series , the Sith Lord himself had to draw his lightsaber underwater on Naboo.

In this case, we see that Luke's new generation of Jedi all design their lightsabers with the Bifurcating cyclical-ignition pulse already installed, as opposed to prior generations of Jedi who included it voluntarily. Without this design, the lightsaber would short-circut. As for the plasma beam itself, it is possible that the water might cool the plasma.

Captain SEX lightsabers work underwater the same reason plasma cutters do. They literally boil the water around them into steam. Captain REX Lightsabers have to be modified to work underwater.

A deleted scene in TPM addressed this, and lightsabers shut off in the Jedi Knight games when put fully underwater. The blade can work underwater, as long as the hilt doesn't join it.

Rain isn't enough water to bugger with a lightsaber. Then that means Mace Windu can take out an entire army of droids by himself with his bare hands? I don't think so, doesn't matter how powerful he is, he couldn't do that. Show 5 more comments. Valorum k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. How is it answer? If you have two sacs of water bound together and you try to insert a hot magnetic field in between them would rip them apart from the field, and burn the sac.

That's what's happening to the cells in the human body when a lightsabre slices through it like a hot knife through butter. Heat transfer isn't limited to touch. No it's not, but the convection and radiation I am assuming to minimal. Show 6 more comments. We should get a physicist to calculate the numbers. Raphael Raphael 1, 1 1 gold badge 12 12 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. Even below boiling temperature, you can find bubbles in water.

Lightsabers are big things to deal if water wants to ignore heat fully.. This will create a huge pressure difference to trap cool water molecules.

Water from top try to come below with equal speed, but air from middle will push them up to equalize pressure. It creates vertex to create whirlpool. Due to this whirlpool, same level water will join its flow to make whirlpool bigger and powerful. Raphael The effect I mentioned in question is called Thermolysis : en. And, Mike is wrong with degree Celsius. Its degree Celsius for pure water. I didn't mention temperature because it varies based on impurities.

Raphael More diet to your curious mind: Oxy-Acetylene cutter torch operates between to degrees C. As lightsabers cut faster, its safe to assume its temperature higher than which is greater than to do Thermolysis.

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