‘The Acolyte’: Why Did the Jedi Lightsabers Short Out?

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Viewers are a bit puzzled by a key element of this week’s episode. Here is the explanation that wasn’t in the show.

answered the biggest question on the show to date — namely the mysterious identity of Mae’s Sith Master. episode also raised some new questions along the way. Mainly viewers are puzzled by one recurring element of “Night”: The fact that the Jedi lightsabers keep sputtering out and malfunctioning during the battle with the Sith.

before. Lightsabers are reliable weapons. Unless someone cuts their hilt in half, they seemingly work forever with very few issues. They don’t jam. They don’t run out of ammo. But in this battle, the Jedi keep struggling to get their weapons working. doesn’t explain this detail; or at least this episode didn’t explain it. To understand what’s going on here, you have to have read previous While the Sith Master doesn’t take the time to talk about it his distinctive helmet and some of his costume’s armor is made of a special Cortosis was a metal that had a very high energy absorption rate and transmission coefficients, which allowed even the energy of a blaster bolt to be dissipated upon contact.

Essentially, cortosis is an even more powerful metal than beskar, the ultra-hard substance Mandalorians use to forge their armor, which makes them impervious to laser blasts. Cortosis is not only resistant to lightsabers, it actually causes them to backfire for a short while, which is exactly what we see happen to the Jedi on It would have been nice if there was some sort of more detailed explanation for those who haven’t read books.

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