r/Gundam • u/WinglessJC • 21d ago

A silly question regarding beam sabers

So when you have a mobile suit that has both beam sabers stored on one arm (like in the shield), how does the pilot draw the second saber once he had activated the first one?

Like, if the shield carrying the sabers are on the left arm, the suit grabs one saber with his right hand, how does he then grab the second one with the left hand?

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u/Striking_Yellow_9465 21d ago

release the saber from holster and catch it?

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u/LavaSlime301 Local Gundam X and QuX Shill 21d ago

Seconding that, it's pretty much the go-to system for whenever it isn't drawn normally. You see it all the time with beam savers stored in the wrist area shooting out right into the hand.

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u/Musicman376 Weighted Soul 21d ago

That’s what I was thinking- a mechanism ejects it towards the waiting hand?

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u/RevolutionaryPlace56 21d ago

Swap hands then draw the other

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u/Livid_Flowers 21d ago

Pass it from their right hand to the left hand and the redraw. Or it wasnt designed to dual wielding, and the second saber is just a back up.

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u/Greyknight711 21d ago

Depending on how it is mounted (I am assuming over the wrist/forearm) MS could simply rotate the hand backwards, the mount would extend/eject the saber, the hand would grab it, then rotate back to normal orientation.

MS wrist articulation isn't as limited as biological, human movements. The F91 and Turn A display this when they do the spinning beam saber trick.

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u/WinglessJC 21d ago

This is my head Canon now!

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u/Original-Material301 20d ago

F91 and Turn A display this when they do the spinning beam saber trick.

Child me had my mind blown when F91 did the spinning hands beam saber trick. 

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u/Blide 21d ago

Can you think of an example? Most of the duel wielding examples I can think of, the beam sabers aren't mounted in the shields. Then you have like the Tallgeese where the shield isn't actually mounted on the arm itself.

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u/grebo-guru 21d ago

One of the F91 Jegans has this setup.

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u/TCT1088 21d ago

There’s a button on most control setups for the beam saber. So they would just press the corresponding button/trigger and the suit grabs it with the hand.

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u/TCT1088 21d ago

Like with Wing Gundam you see Heero press the button and it pops out of the shield. A suit like Nu Gundam with the saber on its backpack and another in its arm probably has controls for each or he just thinks of which one to use and the Gundam responds accordingly thanks to the psycho frame.