Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-30994843-20170109010227/@comment-26018514-20170415054037

Sentry 616 wrote: Phantomlink959 wrote: There are a few metals in Star Wars that will block a lightsaber; off the top of my head are cortosis and beskar. make a hilt for your saber out of one of those and you're golden. In one comic, the (right variation?) of cortosis would not only withstand a lightsaber strike, but disrupt the saber's output, temporarily disabling the saber. I only recall seeing this exteme capability in that one comic though.

I forget the names beyond cortosis, but I want to say there are 5+ materials that will at least resist a glancing blow from a lightsaber. that was Legacy, far in the future beyond even where TFA would be... the MC is I believe luke's son's grandson, and the cortosis was extremely pure... which is both extremely expensive and brittle to anything other than a lightsaber's strikes... the only reason the Empire in that series used it is because there were like 3 differing  "jedi" orders, one was Jedi(Jaina's progeny and pupils), Tenel Ka's people(unless they were in the fold of the republic, idr it's been awhile)  And the republic's/rogue jedi order(luke's Son's order), not to mention the sith in that series.