>Good point. But I was using him as an example of the fact that there
>are solid weapons that can stand up to energy blades of different
>sorts. It's a big galaxy, I'm sure there are others out there.

No idea how the history of the Sith in UF compares to that in the SWEU, but in the Sith Empire there were swords made that were alchemically altered so that when they were in the hands of an adept of the Dark Side (typically Sith, of course) they were the match of any lightsaber. (The Dark Jedi who founded the Sith Empire left the Republic before lightsabers had been invented, at a time when Jedi still carried ordinary swords and reinforced them with the Force if necessary, which wasn't often since modern blasters or vibroweapons hadn't been invented yet, and the most common ranged weapon were slugthrowers. While the Jedi developed lightsabers, the Sith created their swords; by the time the Sith Empire met the Old Republic, lightsabers were still less sleek than their modern form, since they were powered by a pack worn on the belt. Lightsabers are a young technology by SW standards, only a few thousand years old in their modern form.)

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