A Star Wars Question...

[athersgeo]

And a rather gory one at that: Does anyone know whether a vibroblade would retain any form of blood stains?

Comments

[dicea.livejournal.com]

only if you got the blood on the handle.

I think that the super fast vibration of the blade would shake it off fairly fast.

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Mm. That's what I thought, though the SW.com databank DOES say that it's only the edge that vibrates, but still. Hm.

Thanks :)

[cmar-wingnut.livejournal.com]

Interesting question. Depends on the degree of vibration, I would think. A high rate of low-amplitude vibration (the most likely senario) would probably give you a thin, spreading film of blood while it's wet. When the blood is dry, assuming the blade is solid metal I would assume it would just come off when the vibration starts. Tomorrow I can try asking one of the engineers here.

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about it too much - though it'd be interesting to see what your engineers say - I've got round the problem/potential problem by having the hand be the blood covered object. (With apologies for that rather gross mental image - it'll all make sense when the next installment of Isard's Grip goes up...)