Board Thread:Random RP/@comment-25356210-20161017014908/@comment-26444332-20161023201950

Well, there's actually some interesting (and real-life) science that might apply. They use electromagnetic fields on the ITER reactor, for instance, to keep the plasma in a specific bound, without having it touch any matter (which would cool it to the point of not being a plasma). So I imagine a lightsaber has an electromagnetic field along a certain length (far easier to accomplish) and simply fills that space with plasma. The crystal is for passing highly concentrated light through to heat the core material to the point of being a plasma.