Happy Star Wars! God be with you force

God be with you The Power, IT-Jedi. Today, bright day for all fans Skywalker family, including Chornogo Lord Darth Vader, various exotic aliens and the Death Star. In other words, today Star Wars Day. Just in case: day series fiction films. By the way, nothing is grinning, still there are people (from generation thirty years!), Saw not a single series!

May 4 was a day of Star Wars, not because in this day someone was born. Neither the director nor the actors, nor even any of the characters. It's all about the game of words. Let's go back to the very beginning of this post: "God be with you strength." In the film, the phrase is pronounced "May the force be with you". This почти indistinguishable from "May the fourth be with you". As you know, fourth means "fourth." A word may mean as "May" and "empty", which translates into a literary "may peace be upon».

It's hard to say how quickly the fans of "Star Wars" have started to use this pun. But probably soon after the first series. In any case, May 4 long is a complete treat for all fans Lightsaber and R2D2. On this day, usually held various cosplay, theme parties and other festive events.



Incidentally, the lightsaber. Here are 13 facts that do not even know many fans of "Star Wars»:

1) Lightsabers were created Dark Side Adepts. B>
First protomech called forcesaber (sword force). It was a directed stream of dark energy (not to be confused with dark matter), formed in the blade using crystals and alchemy. Therefore, if a Jedi picked up a sword, it was a big risk for his immediate transfer to the dark side. Therefore, the Jedi have created their own version of a lightsaber to counter weapons of evil.

2) Lightsabers use compact sources of energy. B>
The first swords were not built-in power source. The owners were forced to wear a reserve battery in backpacks or belts connected by a cable with a sword. First to create a compact built-in power source for lightsabers were Sith.

3) At first they were called "laser swords» (lazersword). B>
In the first draft of the script George Lucas used this term.

4) Swords of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader were made of flashes for the camera. B>
A sword hilt of Obi-Wan was made from parts of a jet engine Rolls-Royce Derwent Mk.8 / Mk.9



5) Lightsaber can be any color. B>
The color of the blade is determined by the crystal, the focusing power. Sith weapon attached red, Jedi - blue and green as they used crystals from the planet Ilum (Ilum), which are found naturally only these two colors.

6) Lightsaber maybe even black. B>
There is only one instance, Darksaber (Dark Sword). This ancient weapon of the Jedi, which was stolen Mandalore. Dark Blade Sword follows the shape of the steel weapons - it thins towards the edges. Thus the blade is slightly curved, as drafts, and its upper edge is Serrated blade (somehow ...).

7) Green sword Luke in "Return of the Jedi" was supposed to be blue. B>
However, Lucas during the filming decided to make it green, because during the fight in the Sarlacc (Sarlacc) blue blade was hard to see against the sky.

8) Empire lightsabers were illegal weapons. B>
In addition to the desire to destroy the Jedi, Emperor Palpatine put possession lightsabers outlawed. It was not even allowed to trade crystals to make them. Darth Vader was given special permission to own lightsaber.

9) Animation blades lightsabers appeared due to imperfect effects 70. B>
First tried to make swords of long triangular retroreflective rods. Rods rotate around the axis of the motor, and their flickering was to merge in a long luminescence. In practice, it looked disgusting, so I had to add the animation. Then Lucas decided that the blades must be of different colors, although originally intended to make them white.

10) Lightsabers are not the only weapon that uses a similar principle. B>
From lightsabers can produce peaks, put them on long poles. This weapon was used Jedi guardians, and then borrowed the idea of ​​the guards of the emperor. One of the assassins in the service of the emperor, Lyumiya (Lumiya), use light pl & n, whose deadly beam had a few degrees of freedom. Also there were swords tonfa, which had a special handle. Bilateral swords could sever into two separate swords connected by a cord to give light nunchuck. There were even light clubs, is simply a huge swords.

11) There are seven fighting styles using lightsabers. B>
1) Shii-Cho, or "Way of the Sarlacc";
2) Makashi, or "Path Yasalamiri (Ysalamiri)»:
3) Soresu, or "Path Mynock (Mynock)»;
4) Ataru, or "Way of Hawk-Bat (Hawk-Bat)»;
5) Shien / Djem So, or "Way of the Dragon Krayt (Krayt Dragon)»;
6) Niman, or "Way of Rancor (Rancor)»;
7) Juyo / Vaapad, or "Path Vornskra (Vornskr)».

12) The lightsaber can not cut everything in the world. B>
There are several materials that can not be blade lightsaber. They are often used to create a protective armor. The most popular material - kortosis. Unfortunately, natural kortosis deadly to humans and requires pre-treatment. Also hide some things, like the lava dragon, is not subject to destruction lightsaber. Well, how can you not remember the Goblin with his "bronezhiletkoy of skins with ... ops dragon».



13) Shutting off someone else's hands is the lightsaber combat techniques. B>
It's called Cho Mai, and its essence consists in cutting off a significant part of the enemy's limbs, usually of a hand holding a sword. Technique Mou Kei designed for cutting off the limbs of several of the enemy in a single attack.

Some fans prefer to celebrate the saga Star Wars Day on May 25 because on this day in 1977, the premiere episode 4. However, in our opinion, is too simple and trivial approach. We are for May 4, and be with you Cila!

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