Yet another trailer released, this time on ABC

[Candlelight]

Ignore the first 25 seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27TiaemuExo

Stormtroopers blocking lightsabres. Interesting.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

"You might need this."

Awesome!

Also, there's a President Snow sighting in the "Rebel" War Room.

 

[sttngfan1701d]

It seems the stormtroopers have anti-lightsaber staff weapons now. Weren't those on one of the games?

 

[comsol]

It seems the stormtroopers have anti-lightsaber staff weapons now. Weren't those on one of the games?

Weren't those in Revenge of the Sith?

 

[Candlelight]

Oh and admiral ackbar. Must be a trap.

 

[sttngfan1701d]

It seems the stormtroopers have anti-lightsaber staff weapons now. Weren't those on one of the games?

Weren't those in Revenge of the Sith?

Quite possibly. Not sure. But I'm pretty sure they were featured in at least one of the recent-ish Star Wars games. I don't play video games any more, but that memory sticks out from a Youtube gameplay video I watched.

 

[Candlelight]

It seems the stormtroopers have anti-lightsaber staff weapons now. Weren't those on one of the games?

Weren't those in Revenge of the Sith?

Quite possibly. Not sure.

They were. The guards of General Grievous had them.

 

[Set Harth]

It seems the stormtroopers have anti-lightsaber staff weapons now. Weren't those on one of the games?

Weren't those in Revenge of the Sith?

And The Clone Wars.

 

[Tulin]

Never heard of those!

How does that even work?

 

[Nightowl1701]

Made of cortosis, a rare metal that can somehow stand up to a lightsaber blade (or in some cases short the blade out). It's been a EU trope going all the way back to the video game 'Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight' (to give you an opponent you couldn't instantly slash in half). Don't know it works in the DU though, or if they've gone in a totally new direction with it.

 

[Jedi_Master]

That new musical score....

 

[Rincewiend]

It seems the stormtroopers have anti-lightsaber staff weapons now. Weren't those on one of the games?

KOTOR...

Vibroswords/blades:

A vibroblade could be fitted with cortosis-weave, allowing it to parry the blows of lightsabers and energy swords. The cortosis-weave became less common when the probability of fighting a lightsaber-wielding opponent decreased. By the time of the Galactic Civil War, knowledge of the cortosis-weave had faded, and the cortosis mineral itself had become exceedingly rare. A highly adaptable variant of the vibroblade, the prototype vibroblade, could be fitted with a number of weapon enhancements.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Vibroblade

 

[Set Harth]

Made of cortosis, a rare metal that can somehow stand up to a lightsaber blade (or in some cases short the blade out).

The Grievous guards' weapons are supposed to be made of phrik, which basically works the same as cortosis.

Weren't those on one of the games?

I know they appeared in Republic Commando, the ROTS game, and the Force Unleashed games.

 

[USS Triumphant]

Never revealed so obviously not canon, but it really seems like the staves used by the Republic / Imperial Guard would have had that property, too, no?