Skill: Charge Sword (can use lightsaber at -3D
penalty)
Damage: 4D+1
Cost: Not available for sale
A primitive ancestor of the Lightsaber, the Charge Sword
appears to be fencing blade of some sort, with a long thin central
rod emerging from a thicker handle. The guard of the sword
contains a number of small energy projectors at the edge. When the
power of the sword is activated, an energy field covers the blade,
giving the sword immense power. Not as precise as lightsabers,
Charge Swords cannot have their damage controlled, even by jedi.
They also cannot be used to parry blaster bolts, as those bolts
disrupt the energy fields.
Charge Swords have not been used in combat for almost twenty
thousand years. Those few that survive have rested in museums, or
have lain where they fell from the hands of dying proto-jedi.
These have great value to collectors, and to those that want to
reawaken the glory of the early jedi, for whatever purposes.