Sephiroth
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Can a Lightsaber?If you threw somebody into a wall about ten feet in the air and impaled them with a saber, will it keep them attached to the wall? Or will they start to slide down because the saber is desintegrating all that it's touching? I know this is a weird question, but I wanted to know because of something I wanted to put in a fanfiction. You know, impale someone on the wall with their own lightsaber.
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Anakin
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Their flesh and bone would eventually get melted and burned from the lightsaber and the body would easily slide through the blade like a knife through butter.
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Rive Caedo
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Right, they'd be split from the impact point up.
Although in most Star Wars stories and certainly anything visual, what would actually happen is that the body would be held up for a brief moment and then the lightsaber would deactivate. Then the hilt and the body (with just a simple hole) would fall to the ground together.
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Jiub
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I would think that it would burn through them pretty fast.
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Darth Samuel
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Or, you know, you could just hold their body up with the force while the lightsaber is still activated. 
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Jiub
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I thought that too, but it would be kind of useless to do that unless there are other people around and you are trying to make a point or something. I think that this scenario is either an unintended consequence or doing it because it is necessary to make the kill.
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Sephiroth
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I see. Well, I figured that's what would happen. I just like the idea of killing someone like that, as was mentioned, it creates a visual affect that makes a point. But, I will take this info into account.
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Darth Samuel
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Or you could grab little knives and stick them up there. And then break each of their toes with the force. Working your way up, you break every bone up to the waist. Then you break the spine so that they are paralyzed. Then you induce a hemorrhage, and then they are trapped. Wai,t what were we talking about? 
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Anakin
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| Rive Caedo wrote: | Right, they'd be split from the impact point up.
Although in most Star Wars stories and certainly anything visual, what would actually happen is that the body would be held up for a brief moment and then the lightsaber would deactivate. Then the hilt and the body (with just a simple hole) would fall to the ground together. |
Unless they didn't have the safety deactivation on or put into their lightsaber.
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Menwyn Ironsides
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If you try to impale them by throwing your lightsaber at them, wouldn't the lightsaber just go through the wall? If you threw it hard enough anyway.
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Jiub
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I think that in this case the hilt was jammed into the wall and the blade is sticking out, unless it is a double bladed saber.
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Sirak Sazen
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The lightsaber would stick into the wall untill it reached the hilt. Then, depending on the type of crystal, design, etc., it would either turn off or slide out.
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Rive Caedo
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| Menwyn Ironsides wrote: | | If you try to impale them by throwing your lightsaber at them, wouldn't the lightsaber just go through the wall? If you threw it hard enough anyway. |
Only if the hilt was designed in such a way that the emitted blade was wider than the widest part of the hilt - not many lightsabers are designed that way (most of them have a "lip" that goes around where the blade is emitted from).
And even then, you'd need to throw it perfectly into the wall. Otherwise it would happen like Sirak just said. The hilt would impact against the wall (or the body) and stop the penetration. At which point the blade would fall out of the wall (lightsabers can cut through pretty much anything, but have difficulty with dense materials like walls. So the hilt would fall at a faster rate than the blade in the wall - causing it to "spin" out of the wall).
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