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Posted by: chotato
smart, interesting, seems out of place.
Official fan of Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, (Problem with that?) Halo, and Bungie, also a total gaming junkie.
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Posted by: Cheeto666
I think in First Strike when he's fighting the shipmaster, the blade gets close to his shields and it flares them and raises the internal temperature. Not sure, I haven't read them in a while. But I do remember in one of the books someone saying something about the intense heat.
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Posted by: JDYeash937 MkII
It uses an electromagnetic shield in order to shape the plasma. EM fields are capable of protecting the metal walls of Tokomak[sp?]-type fusion reactors from tens of millions of degrees of heat. Thus, it protects the user's hand quite well.
Surely a better point to question is how people close to the blade feel heat at all, it should only do damage on contact.
This, I don't recall any of the books stating that anyone feels intense heat next to it.
You are correct, perhaps it was overlooked or maybe the EM shield was purposefully made weaker at the tip for that specific reason.
I remember people saying how their skin cracked and boiled whenever they were close to it. Read the books 'gain, you obviously overlooked something.