Other than the lightsaber, the only weapons I can se a Jedi using are either particular to that Jedi's culture (in Tales of the Jedi, there's an awesome scene of A Jedi [Odan-Urr, IIRC] gutting someone with a pair of small curved knives) or nonlethal.

In the SW Universe, nonlethal weapons include (but are not limited to) stun-blasters, stun grenades, glop grenades, tangle-guns, "deck-sweepers" (wide-bore stun blasters), stun staves, and force pikes.

I'd still like to see a Witch of Dathomir using a Xena-esque Chakram. http://www.jediknight.net/mboard/biggrin.gif)

This is, of course, all in addition to the classic hand-to-hand battling and Force powers (In 'Splinter of the Mind's Eye,' a Kinetite is a sort of focussed telekinetic attack right out of DragonBall Z http://www.jediknight.net/mboard/smile.gif) )

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"The Beasts know much that we do not." -Ancient Jedi proverb

Intriguing. I'm going to have to pass judgement on DBZ-type Force energy attacks in real life as not happening. Yes, you can attack psychically, but it isn't exactly a lightning-bolt type phenomenon. Otherwise, I don't think the Chinese takeover of Tibet would have been so one-sided... http://www.jediknight.net/mboard/wink.gif)

I can say from personal experience, though, that the use of the Force when aiming a projectile weapon can be helpful. I'm a pretty good shot myself, and it has nothing to do with a steady hand. Focusing my mind on my breathing is a thing I do when I meditate, and coincidentally enough, breath control is the key to straight shooting.

My technique is fairly straight forward. Breathe in and hold...sight down the barrel to the target and 'become one' with it. Breathe out and hold...reach out with the gun and bang! When you breathe out, your body is at its steadiest--it's also at this time when chi is in the process of flowing into the body, so the reaching out part is easiest as well.

So I suppose that a Jedi would naturally be an excellent shot...unless one had stubby little Yoda-fingers that couldn't wrap around the handle. http://www.jediknight.net/mboard/smile.gif)



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"The entire universe is simply the fractal chaos boundary between intersecting domains of high and low energy."

Another Jedi weapon: the sling. (I'm talking about the biblical David-and-Goliath weapon, not the modern sling-shot.)

These are fairly easy to make, being just a leather pouch with two long strings off either end. Tie a loop in one end and a knot in the other. To fire it, you take a lead shot (say, a large fishing weight), place it in the pouch and swing it overhead until it gains momentum. Then you let go of the knotted end, and the shot zings off in the general direction you're pointing when you let go.

...In theory. http://www.jediknight.net/mboard/frown.gif) In real life practice, it's the least accurate weapon I've ever used; the shot is likely to go just about anywhere there's a window. Only a Jedi could use the Force well enough to actually hit the target with one. http://www.jediknight.net/mboard/wink.gif)

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"The entire universe is simply the fractal chaos boundary between intersecting domains of high and low energy."