- Intent: To create a pair of Shoto/Tonfa Lightsabers to compliment Danielle Mueller's close quarters combatant style.
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- Canon Link: N/A.
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- Primary Source: Guard Shoto.
- Manufacturer: Danielle Mueller.
- Affiliation: Danielle Mueller.
- Model: Guard Shoto / Lightsaber Tonfa.
- Modularity: Yes.
- Crystals can be swapped.
- Lightsaber components can be replaced.
- Production: Unique.
- Material:
- Vylmiran Crystals.
- Songsteel.
- Cortosis Weave.
- Electrum.
- Lightsaber Components.
- Classification: Dual Shoto/Tonfa.
- Size: Average.
- Weight: Light.
- Vylmiran Crystals: Acquired through the Knights Obsidian of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Force Sensitive Crystals attuned to Danielle Mueller through meditation practices. The Crystals special ability provides a two second state of absolute concealment in which it freezes the last visual moment of the user, allowing them to move completely undetected for those short moments before their visual illusion catches up to them.
- Cortosis Weave Hilt Overlay: Providing a counter-deterrent to lightsaber combat while utilizing the Tonfa as blunt force melee weapons, empowered to short out the blades of opponents. The Cortosis Weave ends just shy of the Blade Emitters, to ensure Danielle's own weapons remain uninhibited.
- Electrum Capped Blade Emitter Rings: Helping to protect the blades of the Tonfa from the Cortosis overlay while also looking exceptionally stylish.
- Songsteel base: The primary metal used in the construction of the Lightsabers ensuring high durability with the intention of being used in heavy melee combat.
- Blunt Force Alternative: The Tonfa Lightsabers can be an alternative means of close quarters combat in which the blades do not need to be activated for the weapon to be effectively used within battle.
- Highly Durable and Light: The use of alloys such as Songsteel and Cortosis Mesh provide an exceptional resistance and durability against a variety of damage types, while also retaining the weapons light weight practice.
- Illusive Concealment: The Vylmiran Crystals special ability provide the user with a two second illusion in which their visual image is frozen and their movements are rendered in complete concealment until the two seconds have passed, and the illusion ends.
- Close Quarters: The Tonfa Lightsabers (Otherwise known as Shoto) reach only half as far as the length of a standard Lightsaber Hilt and blade, meaning that for the combatant to be effective, requires risking close quarter encounters in order to strike back at the opponent.
- Weight Of Conscience: Due to the presence and use of the Vylmiran Crystals, while Danielle isn't inherently a Dark Side affiliated user, the nature of the Crystals that she has bonded with will provoke her more negative emotions and may influence her actions in the heat of the moment.
- Life Drain: The Vylmiran Crystals special ability to manipulate the physical and visual presence of the user costs a heavy toll on the wielder over time, feeding from the lifeforce of the practitioner in every use of the state of total concealment. The act itself only lasts for 2 seconds, making it a last resort method for escape or evasion.
The decision to utilize the Guard Shoto, otherwise known as the Tonfa Lightsabers, has been made to compliment Danielle Muellers mixed martial arts and close quarters style of fighting, providing her with a blunt force defensive weapon while also being able to ignite the blades in preparation for saber combat against other Force Users. In the hands of a skilled practitioner, the Tonfa are a fast and light weight alternative to the standard single saber forms, in this case used as a pair of weapons combining the practices of Lightsaber forms taught over time, most notably the application of jar'kai forms of fighting.
However, in contrast to Danielle's usually pleasant and positive attitude, the weight of her Force attunement and bond to the Vylmiran Crystals and their continued use within the Tonfa carry a burden that will become more and more debilitating over time, leading her to make some questionable choices and often landing her in some morally conflicted situations in which she must consistently fight between the influence of the dark and the light sides of the Force.
As far as the design and make of the two weapons are concerned, Danielle has chosen to prioritize their use as blunt force weapons during the initial planning of the construction, utilizing cortosis weave as an overlay casing around the hilts in order to provide the weapon with a counter-effect against lightsabers when used to block the strikes of her opponents. Due to the nature of cortosis and it's ability to short out energy based weaponry, the overlay does not cover the blade emitters themselves, wanting to ensure that the activation of her own weapons aren't impaired by the material cover.
The application of Songsteel has been used for the weapons base alloy and spans the majority of the Tonfa sabers mass, a highly durable and lightweight material with a strong resistance to lightsaber combat itself, this was an obvious choice for the base material, wanting to be capable of defending and attacking against as large a variety of foes that might threaten Dani or any others fighting by her side.
The use of electrum has been applied for decorative purpose more so than any actual beneficial effects. Most notably the rings of the blade emitter have been capped, as well as the conjoining spaces between individual parts of the hilt. In simple terms, it looked pretty and Dee wanted it.
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