
Everyone knows that when you get stabbed with a lightsaber in Star Wars canon, you will almost certainly no longer be alive. But, what Ahsoka presupposes is, that perhaps, lightsaber wounds aren’t as deadly as they used to be. At the end of the first episode of Ahsoka, one shocking battle wound is quickly repaired in the second episode. Does this make sense? And have lightsabers changed? Here’s the slippery, nitty-gritty of the relative deadliness of lightsabers in Star Wars canon.