i read x-men till psylocke died in extreme and didn't start back up until the sisterhood brought her back so i missed her exiles run and some resurrections. i pretty much get the jist of what happened during that time but what i want to know is what happened to her using the psychic katana? i would think that a psychic sword would be more efficient in battle than a psychic knife and she uses a steel katana, so what gives? why not just use a psychic one? and if her knife is considered the "focused totality of her telepathic might" then i don't see why she can't focus that same energy into the form a sword. i know there are other x-characters with what i'll call "energized" swords like illyana, so i'm hoping psylocke not using it isn't just to avoid visual confusion/redundency with characters' powers.

" i read x-men till psylocke died in extreme and didn't start back up until the sisterhood brought her back so i missed her exiles run and some resurrections. i pretty much get the jist of what happened during that time but what i want to know is what happened to her using the psychic katana? i would think that a psychic sword would be more efficient in battle than a psychic knife and she uses a steel katana, so what gives? why not just use a psychic one? and if her knife is considered the "focused totality of her telepathic might" then i don't see why she can't focus that same energy into the form a sword. i know there are other x-characters with what i'll call "energized" swords like illyana, so i'm hoping psylocke not using it isn't just to avoid visual confusion/redundency with characters' powers. "

My understanding has been that she wields the real katana utilizing her tepe/tk to induce the same affects her psi-sword/knife would. With her teke, she can strike her opponent, separating the molecules of the metal while still frying their synapses and damaging their armor with her psionic energy.

@Thunderscream said:

"My understanding has been that she wields the real katana utilizing her tepe/tk to induce the same affects her psi-sword/knife would. With her teke, she can strike her opponent, separating the molecules of the metal while still frying their synapses and damaging their armor with her psionic energy. "

Couldn't she always just turn the psychic knife into a katana, by magnifying the length of it's power and focus she put;s into it?

yes she can! from my view point it dependes on the creative team, just like the butterfly effect, it shows up how & when the artist/wrighter prefers it. i think this team just likes the knifes better. i know i do.

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@ragdollpurps: Like a lightsaber?