I don’t remember where I heard it, but it makes sense… You “need” the force for the simple fact that accidents happen. Though unlike a normal blade, it’s a bit harder to heal from a lightsaber wound. So in theory, it’s simply too dangerous for most people to roll the dice and try to become competent without risking serious injury or death over a whole career. (although their medicine and prosthetics are crazy good too, so probably not the biggest deal outside of immediately killing oneself)
Not to say it didn’t happen in small quantities, though. Plenty of cases of people not terribly attuned at all picking them up to success, at least for individual fights/battles. Like plenty of clone troopers doing so. Also General Grievous and the like definitely existed. I doubt he had too much of a connection.
Also lightsabers are extremely rare, so… probably just risky business most people didn’t have the oportunity to even roll the dice with.
I don’t remember where I heard it, but it makes sense… You “need” the force for the simple fact that accidents happen. Though unlike a normal blade, it’s a bit harder to heal from a lightsaber wound. So in theory, it’s simply too dangerous for most people to roll the dice and try to become competent without risking serious injury or death over a whole career. (although their medicine and prosthetics are crazy good too, so probably not the biggest deal outside of immediately killing oneself)
Not to say it didn’t happen in small quantities, though. Plenty of cases of people not terribly attuned at all picking them up to success, at least for individual fights/battles. Like plenty of clone troopers doing so. Also General Grievous and the like definitely existed. I doubt he had too much of a connection.
Also lightsabers are extremely rare, so… probably just risky business most people didn’t have the oportunity to even roll the dice with.
More importantly, it’s just stupid to have a sword when other people have blasters unless you’re a space wizard that can block laser blasts.
The Darksaber was a symbol, not a real weapon. Tbf the writers lost the plot on that element when it was still in a specifically-for-children show.