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| Sep 3, 2025 at 9:16 | vote | accept | Jason Blake | ||
| Sep 3, 2025 at 9:16 | comment | added | Jason Blake | Sorry for the confusion about blades. I had forgotten that I had designed the edges that way. The way it really works is that the blades are all metal, and just the outside cutting edges are hard light. I also changed the tags to science-fiction. | |
| Sep 3, 2025 at 9:11 | history | edited | Jason Blake |
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| Sep 3, 2025 at 1:48 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Sep 2, 2025 at 21:21 | comment | added | JBH | @PhoenixDuck If the OP is open to that choice.... | |
| Sep 2, 2025 at 21:10 | comment | added | Phoenix Duck | @JBH That sounds more like a case of removing the offending tag rather than voting to close. Even if the weapon is just plain bad, that's an answer that can be given and not a reason to close. | |
| Sep 2, 2025 at 21:00 | answer | added | Phoenix Duck | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 2, 2025 at 17:53 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 2, 2025 at 17:34 | comment | added | JBH | VTC:Not About Worldbuilding. I can use a rubber ball to catch a melee weapon, it's just not particularly efficient. Worse, the science-based tag requires us to point out the weapon wouldn't ever exist other than as a decorative ceremonial weapon. The "lightsaber"-esque design from the original question means, as others have said, this can't trap anything. But above all, what problem are you trying to solve? Are you just looking for someone to agree with you that it could be used that way? Because the weapon is nearly useless in real combat (science-based!). | |
| Sep 2, 2025 at 15:49 | answer | added | Michael Richardson | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 2, 2025 at 15:46 | answer | added | Ted Wrigley | timeline score: 13 | |
| Sep 2, 2025 at 15:09 | comment | added | Robert Rapplean | I'm with HSharp on this. I thought the blades were made of focused energy. As such, you couldn't use it to snag anything. | |
| Sep 2, 2025 at 13:36 | comment | added | Neil | While I wouldn't say it is impossible on this alone, the fact that no such weapons exist or have ever existed is a strong indicator of the impracticality of this possibility. If it were possible to have traps for swords meant to easily disarm, someone somewhere would have figured out a way to make a semi-practical design. My intuition tells me it wouldn't work because of leverage. Also getting your opponent's sword stuck in yours doesn't mean you're free either. | |
| Sep 2, 2025 at 12:33 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 2, 2025 at 11:16 | answer | added | Richard Kirk | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 2, 2025 at 9:49 | comment | added | HSharp | Isn't your light-spear a laser? It would cut through melee weapons. In regards to lightsabers they use "The Force" so I don't think you can break the "blade". This doesn't seem anywhere in the realm of science based though. | |
| Sep 2, 2025 at 9:36 | comment | added | KerrAvon2055 | I suggest that we need a better illustration of a single weapon with the gaps clearly identified - I'm guessing that maybe you are saying that what looks like patterning on the shaft is actually holes, but questions need to be clear enough that we should not have to guess. We also need dimensions and materials - I would have assumed that the spear shaft was only a couple of cm in diameter, which makes the maybe-holes tiny enough that only a narrow stiletto could fit into them. | |
| Sep 2, 2025 at 9:06 | history | asked | Jason Blake | CC BY-SA 4.0 |