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TOPIC: Cosplay/Character Help (For a newbie)
Cosplay/Character Help (For a newbie) 21 hours 15 minutes ago #17049
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The old school Mandalorians used Beskar in armoring their ships as well. But keep in mind by the time of the Clone Wars Mandalorean culture had changed Drasticaly. As a society they had become nonviolent pacifists and were no longer the conglomerate horde that had been a scourge upon the Old Republic. Under the Rule of Dutchess Satine Kryze there was dissatisfaction in some of the peoe and those formed the Death Watch group. They felt they were True Mandaloreans. Under the leadership of Pre Vizsla, they reopened some of the abandoned mines on Mandalore's moon Concordia. So it may be possible to find a source of Beskar
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Cosplay/Character Help (For a newbie) 19 hours 11 minutes ago #17052
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Faethien, thanks for the input. I think we almost have different view of the trauma Rekon felt during order 66. I feel like it would only intensify the anger already present in him. Although initially, this may feel overwhelming to him, I think that after a certain amount of time (he has ~20 years of isolation and training) he would learn to control them. He isn't killing empire supporters because his anger makes him, rather he is killing them because he wants to. As Terry Pratchet once wrote: "If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word."
Duokun, thank you for the advice. It might be possible to find Beskar, but I feel like it is too difficult (to write, that is). I was having a hard time finding a reason that someone, whether a family, miner, or someone else, would give some valuable metal like beskar to an almost complete stranger. I have decided to stick with a durasteel/obsidian lightsaber for now. |
Cosplay/Character Help (For a newbie) 16 hours 49 minutes ago #17060
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Dark Jedi Zero wrote:
I have decided to stick with a durasteel/obsidian lightsaber for now.
No worries mate, my pleasure. However, I don't want to overstep but if you want some kind of out of the ordinary metal for your hilt, really do consider cortosis 
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Cosplay/Character Help (For a newbie) 15 hours 30 minutes ago #17063
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I agree that cortosis would be cool, but isn't it brittle?
I wouldn't have to make it out of pure cortosis, because apparently it can be mixed with other materials to make them lightsaber resistant, but I'm still running into the same problem: Why would a group of people give an almost complete stranger a very valuable material? If Rekon finds it on his own, where would he get it, and how would he mix it with whatever material (probably durasteel)? These are legitimate questions that I would like help answering. For now, I'm just working past the lightsaber-building section of the story, but I can (and probably will) easily go back and edit it. As always, thanks so much for the help! |
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