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Originally Posted by Plane
Even a million DR can be penetrated by ignores DR unless the DR is cosmic or hardened.
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Does the damage
ignoring the DR actually pass through the DR? If not then it isn't actually chewing it's way through the unstated DR of a Force Sword is it? Invoking Cosmic isn't a way to test this I think.
The authors gave the standard Stasis Web an armor divisor of 10 million commenting that it essentially has Cosmic levels of Injury Tolerance. They could have just as easily given a figure for DR to the Force weapons as well but they did not.
Now, "cannot be broken" may indeed be limited solely to parrying other weapons. Yet we are left with no upper limit to the weight of personal weapon's that may be encountered. A Galaxy-eating Giant or Elder God may be swinging a 1000 pound axe. If the Force sword blade is not going to break to that would it also survive in a half ton press? 10 tons? 20? If not, why not?
Some thoughts on adjudicating this.
1) Set an upper limit on what "cannot be broken" means. Limit it to parries or not as desired. Maybe add some pyrotechnics for when the force field strength is exceeded...
2) It really cannot be broken because {hand wave}. Mostly useful for forces perpendicular to the blade. Force on the tip in line with the blade will force the emitter against something and break it. Pyrotechnics should ensue. Remember that annihilating energy! What ever is applying force to the blade is getting TBB with a (5) AD every second. I would give it max damage to boot.
3) It
is superscience...let it have Cosmic capabilities. It's ability to resist force is tied to it's ability to transfer energy to the Universe. Have you got a Universe worth of force to bring to bear on this? Allowing different levels of Cosmic livens things up also - there may be trump for that trick.
4) Remember that the wielder is the weakest link. Just because the blade can't break doesn't mean that the user can keep it from being forced back on to himself. If an assailant is armored to the point he can take Xd(5) he can grab the thing and shake it.