Lightsabers

WHAT IT DOES

It adds a new weapon, the Prototype Lightsaber. In fact, it adds 9: red, green, blue, azure (closer to the movie blue than the blue one IMHO), yellow, orange, purple, cyan, and silver (white.) Plus another 9 in the same colours, but double bladed, a.k.a., "polesabers" in SWTOR lingo.

The blade is very durable compared to the vanilla game items. (If you point a laser pointer at someone, does your pointer get damaged?) Though it's not indestructible, and will eventually wear down too. I figure the electronics and optics can still overheat or wear out eventually, but it will take a long time.

The base damage IS high, it is reasonably fast, it has +100% crit damage bonus instead of +50%, it has a double crit chance, and it does double damage to limbs (removing a hand is a SW specialty, after all.) Basically it's a very powerful weapon, but not very much more so than what's already in the game and the DLCs. It's not a cheat weapon. Well, maybe a little. The double blades are slower than the single-handers but do more damage per hit, so it works out to about the same dps.

Of course, I also realize that everyone has their different ideas about game balance and design, and there are other mods out there which change the other weapons to do more or less damage. If you disaggree with my value in either direction, you can just open it in FOMM or the GECK and set it to whichever damage value you prefer.

It can be repaired with laser pistols, laser rifles, or other lightsabers. Honestly, there is no "right" way to repair something like this with Earth tech. You'll have to jurry-rig it from whatever parts fit from other energy weapons.

As of 1. 04, it was added to the following lists, by script:

- Holdout Weapons (the casino guards will probably think you have a flashlight on your belt)

- Energy Weapons (obviously)

- Laser Commander (a lightsaber blade IS a very short laser beam)

- The Professional perk (a Sith Assassin stealth attack with these should hurt a lot)

- Melee Wepons (used by super-slam perk)

- VATS Melee Weapons (I think it's unused, though)

Note 1: I know my sounds suck, but it's the best I can do myself, and I'm not about to steal and distribute sounds from someone else work (e.g., the LucasArts sounds.) But if it bothers you too much, there is a FO3 mod to my mod which replaces the sounds with better ones. It should still work with the New Vegas version too.

Note 2: the handles are anodized aluminium. It doesn't need to be iron, since there aren't some tremendous forces to withstand, and aluminium is better for dissipating heat. I.e., don't ask for rusty handles, aluminium doesn't rust.

Note 3: yes, it's not canon. Not even for Star Wars :p

Note 4: the do