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Through specialized focusing lenses and emitters, this lightsaber hilt produces a blade that is broader and flatter than a standard lightsaber's cylindrical blade, lending it a profile closer to that of a traditional metal sword. This form providesa larger overall surface for the massless plasma blade, while forgoing the advantages or a truly omnidirectional cutting edge. Broadsabers never gained much popularity among the Jedi Order. with many masters dismissing the variant as less elegant than other lightsabers. However, broadsabers lend themselves well to the techniques of Shii-Cho, grounded as those are in traditional swordplay, and so the variant found some use among masters of Form I.
This weapon's profile represents a broadsaber hilt containing an unmmodified lIum crystal (see page 197 of the F&D Core Rulebook). This crystal occupies two of the weapon's hardpoints.
When installing a lightsaber crystal into a broadsaber, increase the damage of that lightsaber crystal by 1.