Lightsabre Crystals

[Ashin Varanin]

This guidelines page offers commentary on this list of lightsabre crystals and assorted others. Tech judges often refuse to recognize the video-game-derived 'special powers' of certain lightsabre crystals. In these cases, using a crystal of that name is generally fine, as long as you don't expect that special power. In fairness to you guys, some of the judges whipped up an unofficial list of lightsabre crystals and what generally gets allowed, denied, or nerfed. This is about as 'fluff' as it gets. All we're trying to do is stem potential abuses and fix bad information that's gotten passed on by word of mouth. These things aren't set in stone, and if you're going to get up in arms over your favorite crystal getting nerfed because your lightsabre can apparently freeze people on contact...don't.

Unrecognized powers generally fall into two categories: Irrational damage, and improved speed/dexterity bonuses. A lightsabre deals one kind of damage (not cold, not acid, not electricity, not dripping lava) and its blade is effectively weightless. Additionally, although many crystals are said to enhance their wielder's Force connection, that happens with any properly attuned focusing crystal in any properly constructed lightsabre. If a crystal's Wook entry mentions a 'more powerful' blade, it generally refers to cutting power and thus cutting speed, though these are not huge differentials. A 'basic' lightsabre, using a low-end Adegan crystal like kathracite, or any normal gemstone, can still cut blast doors just fine.

As some lightsabres contain more than one crystal, note that similar effects are not necessarily cumulative, and judges reserve the right to deny overpowered or nonsensical stacking of special qualities. Development threads help.

Adegan Crystal: Vanilla. In order of increasing rarity and value: kathracite, relacite, danite, mephite, pontite. A high-end Adegan crystal will make cutting easier. An extremely rare pontite crystal is so connected to the Force that it becomes easier to remain calm in the crystal's presence.
Allya's Exile - Flame effect not recognized (VERY RARE, BORDERLINE UNIQUE)
Allya's Redemption - Acid effect not recognized (VERY RARE, BORDERLINE UNIQUE)
Ankarres Sapphire - Can only be used by a Lightsider, healing aid, contact with the jewel can burn a Darksider (UNIQUE)
Baas' Wisdom - Cold effect not recognized (VERY RARE, BORDERLINE UNIQUE)
Bane's Heart - Electrical effect recognized; lightsabre blades can be charged with electricity (VERY RARE, BORDERLINE UNIQUE)
Barab Ingot - Flame effect not recognized
Blackwing Crystal - Vanilla
Bnar's Sacrifice - Can only be used by the sabre's maker (VERY RARE, BORDERLINE UNIQUE)
Bondar - Stun effect not recognized
Bondara's Folly - Can only be used by the sabre's maker (VERY RARE, BORDERLINE UNIQUE)
Corusca Gem - Vanilla
Corrosion - Corrosive effect not recognized
Damind - Can create a wider blade, useful for deflection
Dantari - Can reduce fatigue brought on by using the Force
Dawn of Dagobah - Acid effect not recognized (VERY RARE, BORDERLINE UNIQUE)
Dragite - Sonic damage effect not recognized, though louder blade 'sound effects' may be distracting or disorienting
Durindfire - Vanilla
Enhancement Jewel - Vanilla
Eralam - Vanilla
Firkrann - Electrical effect recognized; lightsabre blades can be charged with electricity
'Focus' - Stun effect not recognized
Heart of the Guardian - Enhances the abilities of other crystals in the lightsabre (UNIQUE)
Horn's Future - Vanilla (VERY RARE, BORDERLINE UNIQUE)
Hurrikaine - Better against energy fields; cold damage effect not recognized
Ilum Crystal - Vanilla, interchangeable with Adegan crystals
Impact Crystal - Kinetic damage effect not recognized
Incineration - Flame effect not recognized
Jenruax - Speed/maneuverability benefit not recognized
Kaiburr Shard - Force Push boost effect not recognized; on Mimban, can aid in clarity of Force senses (VERY RARE, BORDERLINE UNIQUE)
Kasha - Can help clear wielder's mind of distractions
Katak - Force Drain effect not recognized
Kenobi's Legacy - Can only be used by the sabre's maker (VERY RARE, BORDERLINE UNIQUE)
Krayt Dragon Pearl - Vanilla. Difficult to install.
Kun's Blood - Vanilla (VERY RARE, BORDERLINE UNIQUE)
Lambent - Read the Wookieepedia entry carefully
Lava Crystal - LAVA DRIP EFFECT NOT RECOGNIZED
Life Drain Crystal - Force Drain effect not recognized
Lignan Crystal - Dark Side users only. Can cut more quickly than most lightsabres.
Lorrdian Gemstone - Improvement to awareness of opponent's movements
Luxum - Ionization/anti-droid effect; lightsabre blades can be charged with electricity
Mantle of the Force - See 'Heart of the Guardian' (UNIQUE)
Marilite - Vanilla
Meditation Crystal - Life drain/energy regain effect not recognized
Meetra Surik Crystal - Could only be used by Surik; not valid for player use (UNIQUE)
Mestare Crystal - Blade curving and anti-cortosis effects not recognized, as they contradict major canon sources
Nextor - Volatility property: The yellow 'splash' of released energy, when sabres hit sabres, is slightly larger and brighter
Opila - Some improved cutting power
Permafrost - Cold effect not recognized; sabre can only be used by its maker
Phond - Vanilla
Prowess of Plo Koon - Vanilla (VERY RARE, BORDERLINE UNIQUE)
Qixoni Crystal - Can only be used by a Darksider; some improved cutting power; some improvement to Force strength
Rainbow Gems - Alive, non-sentient, not hurt by use as a lightsabre crystal, no special properties
Rol Stone - Vanilla
Rubat - Sharper visual appearance. Speed benefit not recognized.
Ruusan Crystal - Vanilla
Sapith - Ease of control benefit recognized
Sigil - Improved cutting power
Sith 'Bloodshine' Crystal - The standard artificial Sith crystal, found in many Sith Lords' lightsabres. Has a very small chance of 'breaking' an enemy blade in undefined ways (maybe deactivation, etc. - best to leave that up to your opponent).
Solari Crystal - Will cease to function if wielder falls to the Dark Side; makes a wider blade, good for blaster deflection
Stygium - Force stealth boost effect not recognized
Sunrider's Destiny - Can only be used by the sabre's maker (VERY RARE, BORDERLINE UNIQUE)
Tsil - Sentient crystalline lifeform from Nam Chorios, known in canon to be very vulnerable to pain/'lobotomization' through energy passage - on this board, a tsil has been used as a lightsabre crystal, in constant and extreme pain - the light of a tsil, and thus the light from this sort of sabre, would repel drochs (a very rare insect from Nam Chorios)
Ulic's Redemption - Vanilla (VERY RARE, BORDERLINE UNIQUE)
Ultima Pearl - Difficult to install
Upari - Ambiguous effects not recognized unless carefully defined.
Velmorite - Creates a narrow, precise blade
Vexxtal - Corruption effect not recognized
Viridian Crystal - Vanilla
Windu's Guile - See 'Hurrikaine' - can only be used by the sabre's maker (VERY RARE, BORDERLINE UNIQUE)

 

[Garza]

What if a Lightsaber was made before the Judges deemed them not recognizable and it used one of these abilities? Will it still keep it or no?

 

[Ashin Varanin]

[member="Nickolas Imura"] - Some things, like lightsabres that drip lava or freeze people, have always been strongly discouraged. Does that answer your question?

 

[Garza]

[member="Rasho the Hutt"] yes it does, thank you.

 

[Darth Kentarch]

and if you're going to get up in arms over your favorite crystal getting nerfed because your lightsabre can apparently freeze people on contact...don't.

*Pouts and wants his Permafrost crystal to be able to freeze people.*

 

[Nyxie]

Two things I just wanted to point out. It says in the Ankarres Sapphire page it can be reversed? Second - and this is more of a general statement if anything - Darc and I began a thing to attain it quite a ways back. Obviously, he's retired now, but I still want to continue the quest to attain it (assuming the plot is worth anything at all to the FJ's), especially since it kinda fell off and became forgotten.

Does it still retain effects or not? That's my only question. I wasn't certain by the way it's listed. If not, that's cool too, still a nifty trophy keepsake.

 

[Ashin Varanin]

*Pouts and wants his Permafrost crystal to be able to freeze people.*

"But my sabre has the Baas' Wisdom crystal, the Windu's Guile crystal, and a permafrost crystal!"

"Yes. Feel free to own incredibly rare antiques and install them in your blade of ten-thousand-degree plasma so you can freeze people. Do that."

 

[Ashin Varanin]

[member="Ashe the Reaper"] - the Ankares Sapphire is well substantiated beyond game tech, so yes. Clarified the listing to reflect that.

 

[Bolt]

...Darkestnite crystal ftw...

 

[Darth Kentarch]

"But my sabre has the Baas' Wisdom crystal, the Windu's Guile crystal, and a permafrost crystal!"

Its funny you say that cause I would stack a Lignan, Qixoni, and Opila in sites where I could get away with that. Yeah, that lightsaber would cut anything.

 

[Ashin Varanin]

Its funny you say that cause I would stack a Lignan, Qixoni, and Opila in sites where I could get away with that. Yeah, that lightsaber would cut anything.

Someone comes to me and says 'I've got a crystal combo that'll boost cutting power through the roof and let me cut restricted metal X,' I'm going to do four things.

• Check their rank. That ain't something a Knight could build.
• Check that they got each gem with an individual thread of some substance. And, preferably, a dev thread for the weapon itself.
• Say 'if this is approved, you can cut it SLOWLY'.
• Have a conversation with factory admins and other judges before stamping it, if it gets stamped.

 

[Matreya]

Wait...we can stack crystals? I was told that was a nono

 

[Garza]

[member="Kasamann"] Not liked, and not allowed for apprentice lightsabers. Gets too complicated and they would need alot of power and time to make the saber for that. MAYBE if they did alot of dev threads for it. But I think that I have made only one lightsaber out of all my characters have more than one crystal.

 

[Lord Ghoul]

Stacking crystals = bad.

Also, way easier to bump it out of alignment and cause the saber to explode in your hand. Especially if someone gives it a telekinetic nudge.

 

[Garza]

Alright I was wrong. Oh well?

 

[Matreya]

I attempted so roughly the time I achieved Master, and was denied.

 

[Ashin Varanin]

[member="Kasamann"] - At a guess, that might have had something to do with the combination you were after, or the fact that the last time you ran a lightsabre through the factory, it had a crystal that could turn shadows corporeal.

 

[Shinju]

[member="Rasho the Hutt"]

the one Velok gave me will still count right? With the screaming being I get to feed off of?

 

[Ashin Varanin]

[member="Lady Exedō"] - Yup. I'll toss in a note.

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

and for the Dark'chyld crystal. A sentient lightsaber crystal is very unique and really does nothing but insult people