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In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 7 months ago by DeepThought42 to c/showerthoughts
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[–] rtxn 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"But hey, at least it's not a bat'leth!" (entire classroom breaks out in laughter)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If someone attacked me with that, I feel I could defeat them with basically any other weapon...

[–] Boozilla 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I don't know much about weapons, but to me, the bat'leth always looked like it was intentionally designed to harm the person wielding it. Like they put it on the wall as a booby trap.

[–] Blaster_M 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] rtxn 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's the "Cow Tools" of melee weapons. It might work to an extent, but we've had millenia to perfect bladed and spiked weapons, and somehow never arrived at anything close to the bat'leth.

[–] Blaster_M 1 points 7 months ago

True, weapons designed for reach. Bat'leth is much better as a CQ weapon when tight spaces are a problem for long weapons. Of course, knives...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

In fact, Worf doesn't use it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Bat'leth saber for the real tryhards out there

EDIT: I guess it would actually be called a light bat'leth