tim (12/15/82)
Contrary to previous articles, light sabres are not powered by
the Force. You press a button on the hilt and it turns on. In
two cases, light sabres were successfully activated by people
totally untrained in the Force: Luke in the first movie ("it
was your father's") and Han in TESB (slicing open the tauntaun).
Don't try to tell me that this was "the latent Force within them"
doing it; if the Force is with Han, then a rock could activate
a light sabre.
Tim Maroney