I'm so on board.
Real life Jurassic Park without the danger the robots might escape and breed.
Also, the opportunity for real ballers to buy a saber tooth tiger to roam around at parties off leash! Woo hoo!
I wanna ride a mastodon.
They could even replace big game hunting, just make them capable of reacting to being shot and boom, time hunts.
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Really more of a proto-saber, but it's a start:
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Protosaber

Beat Saber is pretty stinking fun.

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Curious how they didn't show operation of a light saber. I thought that would be an obvious win for such amputees.

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Damnit... I love rhythm games, and who hasn't wanted to practice wielding a light saber? Looks like I'm going to need to invest in a VR rig at some point.

From what I remember, that first saber fight used actual glowing prop swords that were in danger of breaking if swung to hard.
In the subsequent films they switched to adding the glow in post production.

"BMF" and the purple saber was his request. I didn't know that!

Not bad as light sabers' cutting of body parts.

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There is supposed to be more info released in August at QuakeCon. I have been lurking in the Quakelive dev channel for a couple of years now, that team has also been working on this. It's being developed with Saber Interactive(providing the engine). I believe since the new Doom engine doesn't support strafe jumping or rocket jumping.

When I watched the first Star Wars movies, it always seemed that the Jedi were just extremely long lived due to the Force and that the Empire had been in power for such a long time people had forgotten about the republic. Even Yoda mentioned he was many hundreds of years old.

It wasn't until the horrible prequels that this was shown to be incorrect and that it had only been a couple of decades. Of course the prequels also introduced other stupid crap like midichlorians (sp?), ship and vehicle designs that seemed far more advanced than anything the empire had 20 years later, tech like robot sized force fields that block light sabers, the Emperor's face being caused by force lightning (instead of just being ancient), etc etc.

Plus, it wasn't just Han Solo who felt this way. For instance:

Tarkin: The Jedi are extinct. Their fire has gone out of the universe. You, my friend, are all that's left of their religion.

Motti: Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, Lord Vader. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes or given you clairvoyance enough to find the Rebels' hidden fort-(begin force choke).

So, to be fair, either the Jedi should have had very little presence in the Republic in the prequels (like to the point that nobody really believed in them beyond 'that's a bunch of hokum), or it should have been many years between the fall and the rebellion. Of course, that means that Luke and Leia would have to have been like great great great grandkids of Vader's, but either way would have made more sense. Having them basically 'running' the Republic's military and people seeing them use the Force all the time just doesn't fit.