How do you guys feel about people other than Jedi using lightsabers? Ben describes the lightsaber as "the weapon of a Jedi Knight." But to me that doesn't necessarily mean that Jedi were to only ones to use that weapon. I've started to liken it to a sword to an actual knight. Yes, it's their weapon of choice, but it's also the main weapon used by most armies. If you look at early concept art for Star Wars, you see images of Stormtroopers fighting with lightsabers and that's what kind of inspired the concept. The idea would be to have the Clone Wars taking place at a time not long after the invention of the blaster. You would see the gradual shift from armies fighting with lightsabers and other futuristic forms of ancient weapons to the various kinds of blasters you see in the OT. We would see the shift in there being a romantic sense of honor in fighting to a very mechanical, less humanized, modern sense of war. "An elegant weapon of a more civilized age."