Not as clumsy or random as a blaster, an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

Well what do you have to say about that, video games?

What, what, what, What, what, what? Hello internet.

Welcome to Game Theory where my mind has been swimming in Jedi battles and

galactic terrorism as of late which leads us to today's episode.

Because as I was researching the physics of the lightsaber,

I couldn't help but think about another iconic weapon,

one we all know and love from gaming, the HALO Energy Sword.

And once I really started thinking about it,

I couldn't shake how similar these two weapons actually are.

I mean, seriously, these aren't just

two iconic laser sword weapons.

They're more like brothers from different mothers. But as it is with all

twin brothers now that they've finally been reunited we're gonna have to decide right

here and right now which one would win in a fight right that that's a thing that siblings do I'm an only child so I don't really know I'm assuming it's a thing though and before we get too far I want to make it absolutely clear that this theory is exclusively focused on the weapons alone, not the

characters who wield them. Were we to open the door to that? Well, then we'd have to talk about

midichlorians. And no one wants to talk about midichlorians not even

Star Wars apparently so in order to start comparing the weapons and decide which one

would win in a fight we need to understand how they would potentially work in the

real world.

When it comes to the energy sword, HALO has already done most of the work for us.

According to the HALO Encyclopedia, the blades of the weapon are made of plasma,

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