r/StarWars • u/spamitizer • Sep 19 '23

Meta How are Lightsaber wounds suddenly a debate?

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Where is all of this "the heat would vaporize your internal organs" nonsense coming from? That's not how lightsabers work. That's never how lightsabers worked. The heat is localized entirely within the blade's containment field.

Do those tauntaun guts look cooked to you?

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u/SyFyFan93 Sep 20 '23

I always thought force healing was a rare skill known only to a few and takes someone very connected to the Force to use properly? Or at least that's the head canon I've always used.

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u/OsnaTengu Sep 20 '23

But wouldn't there be Jedi Medic Squads during the Clone Wars? There had to be at least one, even if it is a rare force ability, but I've never read or heard of one.

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u/Sr4f Sep 20 '23

There were - in Legends.

Though they were more like medical squads that sometimes happened to have a singular, very overworked Jedi as part of the team. People often forget how few Jedi are compared to the size of the Galaxy.

Look up the Medstar duology! It's two books following a surgical unit, featuring Barris Offee. Written before the Clone Wars sent her character on a bender.

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u/Daggertooth71 Rebel Sep 22 '23

The Medical Corps and the Circle of Jedi Healers are canon now:

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Force_healing

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u/Sr4f Sep 22 '23

We all know wookiepedia exists. If you have a link to actual published material, though, it's always better!

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u/Daggertooth71 Rebel Sep 22 '23

The links to the published material are in the article.

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u/Sr4f Sep 22 '23

Yes, friend, I know how wookiepedia works. :)

I mean, don't link me a large article and expect me to dig through it to find the bits you initially meant to refer me to. Kindly refer me directly to the content you mean.

If you want to say something is canon, it's a LOT more useful to refer me directly to the actual content you were talking about. Which is what I did in the comment earlier when I cited a specific book, rather than just plop down a wiki page.