SPECULATION Rey's staff. Just a staff? More than just a staff?

Which is why Rey's weapon doesn't need to be epic; low-tech staff and blaster will do nicely. That is also what the evidence, scarce as it is, points to so far; and a low-tech staff fighter would be an interesting and rather new thing for SW, which suits a new hero well, IMHO.

 

This could be wrong and I'm just throwing this out here. We have seen throughout the entire Star Wars continuum that blaster fire does not penetrate a lot of different types of metal. We also see characters capable with the force be able to block blaster fire with thin bladed lightsabers. To me it would not be out of the realm of STAR WARS possibility that a force sensitive/adept Rey who scaveges downs Imperial military crafts and vehicles to have a staff that is strong enough to withstand blaster fire and the ability to deflect it using the staff. That would not require the staff to be any more than a piece of metal and she still could "bring a staff to a blaster fight"

 

Main hero, melee, force sensitive type of main hero without some kind of lightsaber (in long run) is blasphemy. Said hero without lightsaber in first part of trilogy is fine (personal opinion).

Now, back to the staff.

I wouldn't mind staff being metal rod, if marketing was different. It focusing on Rey's staff very heavily. Dudes in Disney PR pretty much are saying "look at this thing it's important". Such exposition for normal piece of metal would have as much sense as giving Rey a rock and show said rock on every piece of marketing.

 

It is being marketed heavily as it is her main weapon. The one she is most skilled with. When the movie comes out we are likely to see her bust some heads and kick some ass using that weapon. Rey is also supposed to be very agile and we may see her using it in other ways such as using to pole vault. Her staff is likely a multiuse tool in her life of a scavenger including a weapon. It is like another part of her that helps her survive in the rough and tumble world of Jakku. I suspect we will get a sense of that in the movie. That is why they are marketing it the way they are.

Her proficient use of her staff may lead to her having a unique lightsaber moving forward. That would not surprise me. It is also a possibility that she ends up fighting with a traditional saber in VII and IX. It will be fun to see what she ends up with but until then I suspect she has just a staff.

 

I think the biggest reason its not a light sabre is its length. If it was a sabre like Maul's, it would be about 18 inches and the blades would shoot out the ends. This staff is taller than Rey if blades came out of either end it would be far taller than the pike with the Plagueis figure or the Jedi Temple guards.

This leaves metal rod, some sort of animal prod (PIG POKER), or a powered staff of some kind.

In some countries here on Earth there are children other poor folks who live/work in refuse centers. The gather food but also they are scavengers who turn in items for recycling. It might be that Jakku is one big prison camp or junk yard were people fend for themselves via scavenging. Weapons like anything else would be made from salvage. In such a place working tech might not be as valuable as water or your next meal. Those we have seen on Jakku with weapons might not be locals.

 

It have perfect size for a pike like weapon.

Jedi Temple Guards were using a double bladed variant, thus shorter "body".



Also we have to keep in mind, that size of polearms often differ even in between examples belonging to one subfamily of those weapons.

 

It shows how desperate this forum is for new stuff that this thread has 9 pages...

 

You are right about the Temple Guards but if you look at the Plagueis pike it is only chest high. The staff rey carries is taller than she is. Which is what I would expect from some kind of electro pike or mundane pike but I would don't think its fitting for a light sabre pike.

 

That assumes that we are talking about THE Pike of Plagueis and not a light sabre pike.

We can go on and on I guess. Those who want Plagueis see the Pike. Like Abe Lincon burned on toast or the blessed virgin in the rust pattern on the back of a road sign.

 

First of all, this visualisation of Plagueis is not canon. Second of all if we support our arguments with non canonical examples, meet them





To be honest only canonical info we have about lightsaber pike is from Jedi Temple Guards.

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I assumed we were talking about this.

 

You are right the Plagueis novel and there fore the figure based on it is not cannon but if we are worried about cannon why is Darth Plagueis and his Light Sabre Pike even coming up? Unless Tarkin refers to him wielding a light pike which I do not know.

Perhaps I am making the assumption that people who assume it is a light sabre pike are all of the Plaguean Inquisition.

But look at your first pic. That pike without the blade is shorter than the wielder. Your second pic again without the blade its shorter than the human sized wielder. So when I see Rey with a staff taller than her my assumptions are not any kind of light sabre.

 

As far as I'm aware, nobody in this thread was talking about staff in context of Plagueis.

I believe, you do.

Those picture meant to show, that off canon lightsaber pike length in relation to user varied quite a lot. So there is no one set proportion. As I said before, length of the staff in relation to Rey fits right into historical polearms.

 

I'd be fine seeing her just use her regular staff and go with a 'mix-n-match' style like the combos in the Force Unleashed game (toned down of course) using the staff, force powers, and acrobatics. Or do stuff like Neo in the playground of Matrix Reloaded where he used the post to run around in a circle kicking everyone in the face.



or you know.. like any Kung-Fu movie from the 70s to the present

 

i'm still hung up on the fact that it is balanced more like a polearm than a staff, it is too heavy on one end. she also carries it more like a pike or spear, always favoring the larger end.

 

If you google staff and pike stances at least in eastern styles they are very much identical. I am just not seeing pike. I think its likely confirmation bias at this point but hey.