Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20160424135023/@comment-25396609-20160520195417

No lightsaber, they are plasma in a sealed magnetic loop; NOT hardlight. We know Remnant has advanced weapons technology, but it takes an even more advanced degree to create a magnetic coil able to hold it in that shape for an extended duration. A plasma loop COULD be done, but it would burn through dust batteries like crazy and have to be quite a bit more broad, since you would have to use a much looser loop than what a lightsaber is composed of in order to form such a contained stream using the less specialized tech in Remnant.

In addition, what we have seen of hardlight in Remnant does NOT function like a lightsaber; if it did Velvet's shitty fake crescent rose would have sliced that paladin in two like BUTTER.

thermic lance, on the other hand, is childs play.