Questions about vibroblades

I here alot about them in the NJO but I have a few questions about vibroblades that i hope somebody can answer. Okay here's my questions:

#1. Does anyone have a picture of a vibroblade? Or a picture of a character holding a vibroblade?

#2. How long are vibroblades? Can they be as long as a sword or are they short like knives?

#3. Can a vibroblade deflect an amphistaff?

 

1- Images are in the Essential Guide for Weapons and Technology. They look like knives

2- They can be both lengths. There are vibro swords and vibro knives.

3- No word. I'd assume that they might be able to. I know that they can take on a lightsaber, or some models can.

 

The only place they can take on a lightsaber is in KotOR. Supposedly they use a cortosis weave to do it, but cortosis only works like that in KotOR. In the rest of the EU, it works by shutting off lightsaber blades, not stopping them. Before the lightsaber is shut off, it still manages to cut through a centimeter or so of the ore. (This is from VotF and I, Jedi.)

I'm not sure which is the canon use of cortosis (although my leaning would be towards the one used in the books), but my guess would be that, no, vibroblades cannot stop lightsabers, or amphistaffs.

 

The cortosis in Jedi Outcast also works like the KotOR cortosis, in fact the "cortosis weave" idea originates not in KotOR but in the Dark Side Sourcebook, AFAIK (it might even have been mentioned before that). Both are canon uses - just the weave dampens the effect of cortosis.

 

Well, Cortosis ALLOY locks lightsabers. the Morgukai nd Anzati use it quite a bit

Of course in KOTOR, people's necks, gaffi sticks and droids are uncuttable...gameplay devices

 

Perhaps for completeness, we should also mention vibroaxes and vibroknucklers...from the CUSWE:


Vibroknucklers:
produced by Czerka, this was a form of vibroblade that was mounted to a grip which allowed it to be used in bare-fisted combat. The grip had four holes for each of the fingers on the human hand, and the blade was mounted across the top. A cutting blow could be made by punching out at a target.


Vibroaxes:
an axe-like weapon that uses a vibrating blade.

It also lists Vibroglaives and Vibrocutlasses.

 

But Morgukai staffs withstand sabers w/out damage...are they pure cortosis then?

 

So can a vibroblade block a amphistaff or not ?

 

My guess would be no. Vibroblades which can block lightsabers employ cortosis (I still dislike this idea, but if it's canon it's canon). Cortosis ore blocks lightsabers because it is basically the lightsaber counter. Cortosis employed against amphistaffs would not do a dang thing. The reason amphistaffs are so sharp is that the creatures have the ability to use energy fields to form the sharpest blades ever. These energy fields also have the added benefit of blocking lightsabers most of the time (a lightsaber swung hard enough can still hack an amphistaff in two). A lightsaber's blade cannot be broken or cut, so it withstands the amphistaff. A vibroblade, though, has no such immunity.

 

Sith Swords would probably defelct amphistaffs - they deflect lightsabers. These swords were constructed from alchemically altered metals that don't go dull and deflect lightsabers and blasterfire.

 

But Morgukai staffs withstand sabers w/out damage...are they pure cortosis then?

Pure cortosis, while somehow resistant to lightsabers, is not very strong, but rather brittle. While a pure cortosis staff might work against a Jedi's saber, any other melee weapon might make it break. Thus alloys of other metals and cortosis are used in making armor and weapons to fight jedi.

in the most recent issue of Republic, Quinlan Vos fights an Anzati with cortosis gauntlets.. i seem to recall that it blocked his saber more than it fizzled his saber... any one else read this?

 

The only place they can take on a lightsaber is in KotOR.

One of the guys on Jabiim took on a Jedi with a vibroblade.