I have a katana, a gift from my father, as well. It's just a model/display item but it could be used for practice in a pinch
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And I've taken it out, swing it around, and even if the blade were sharpened I can't imagine how I could wound myself. Someone else, maybe
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In any case, oldcanon was all "Han was just doing a task that required no skill and he still got lucky he didn't cut his arm off"
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But nuCanon seems to firmly maintain that everyone has some Force abilities and that those correlate with saber skill only >
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> insofar as a strong link to the Force makes you better at everything. And Finn is likely like Han -no "powers" but "the Force is with him"
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Also, canonically, he's trained to use a variety of weapons.
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Yeah but his melee training is minimal. Like my dad, who was trained to use a marine K bar knife in melee - for like a day
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But my dad was trained in riflemanship and long range rockets, and would always choose one of those in combat
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Similar to Finn, who only fights with the lightsaber until he can find a E-11 that he actually has mastered
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Poe tries to reassure him that occupying the gunner position of a fighter is, in principle, the same as using a rifle
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(Like, yeah, in principle)
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