let's not forget the target audience here. My jedi powers forsee a toy in development.
Those Amazing Young Inquisitors and their Flying...Lightsabers!?
[...] magnificent men...those they cut down with said lightsabers.
Valid point!
I really hated seeing those sabercopters. But then the comments about target age had me thinking of my own ability to shrug stuff off at a younger age. I had zero problem with Ewoks taking out stormtroopers. In fact, as a kid, I thought the Ewoks were badass and cool. Toy sales have helped Star Wars last this long, so I guess I can't complain too much 
.
Things happen in the narrative for narrative reasons. It happens at the table all the time... "this blue twi'leks are not rare on this planet, because I decided and it's important/good for the story/plot we tell"...
Wait - blue twi'leks are rare? Really? Or was this just a random example you pulled out of the air?
Things happen in the narrative for narrative reasons. It happens at the table all the time... "this blue twi'leks are not rare on this planet, because I decided and it's important/good for the story/plot we tell"...
Wait - blue twi'leks are rare? Really? Or was this just a random example you pulled out of the air?
Oh totally. They're like, the twi'lek equivalent of gingers. A dying breed! .... 
....I have no idea actually
Things happen in the narrative for narrative reasons. It happens at the table all the time... "this blue twi'leks are not rare on this planet, because I decided and it's important/good for the story/plot we tell"...
Wait - blue twi'leks are rare? Really? Or was this just a random example you pulled out of the air?
Exaggeration for example sake. Like a lightsaber cutting through a bulkhead blast door like butter in one stroke.
So yeah, a settlement full of Rutians (which are the twi'leks with the rare blue skin hue) is somewhat a deviation from cannon, for narrative reasons.
I was just wondering how much of an exaggeration - my new (well, new-ish) character is a twi'lek, and I went "Oh, what color should she be. How about. . . . BLUE!"* without any notion that blue was super rare.
*Although she thinks of herself more as teal than blue.
That opens up a couple cool new avenues of game play. Suddenly Lo Pan is sending The Three Storms after my poor engineer! I'll have to point that out to the GM when next we meet.
Wouldn't that be Darth Pan the undead Sith Sorceror who knows a unique marriage ritual involving the sacrifice of blue skinned women to bring him back to life as an Immortal Force God?
I am with superarppis and the others that think "its just for cools" and wouldnt allow it in my game as GM, if i were a player and another player started doing it i would sunder his saber on principal! i remember feeling like shmendrek tied to the douglas fir when it comes alive and saying "oh gawd im engaged to a douglas fir! help help!" 
when i saw those guys coptering around. it was pretty rediculus. anyways we could do rocket boots or a boba fette/jango fette jetpack and do the same thing right?!?! right!?!? uugggh. sorry if this post seems somewhat grouchy but it wasnt intended, except for the next part:
cudos for the spoiler about hoodie guy being darth maul.
Edited by oriondeanI would totally allow it. See telling your players no isn't the best way to handle the situation.
I would wait until they helicopter up to extreme range then shoot the lightsaber right out of their hands
and laugh as they fall to the ground....
Rebels shows you exactly why this is a bad idea...
oh i know! that one...sibling 8 guy tries to copter away on his broken saber and it breaks some more and he falls to his death! classic! 
ezra, hoodie guy, asoka and cain are all like "i am not impressed" then walk away.
Yeah I was trying to avoid spoilers about the episode calling him "hoodie guy".
My brain shot to my layman's understanding of physics when I saw the sabercopters. The blades aren't wide enough to catch enough air for good lift to keep anyone aloft but they do have something that mundane helicopter blades do not have: superheated plasma. By spinning a superheated plasma blade through the air fast enough I can reasonably expect some small amount of lift to be generated in the way that the newly heated air mixing with the cooler natural air would create a sort of cyclone effect. But the amount of heat needed to lift an adult (especially one of the Fifth Brother's size) is likely to fry anyone holding onto the rotor so that's still no good. This is all in addition to using the Force to enhance movement.
If I ran into a player who honestly wanted to do this in my game I would be hard pressed to say no to it, even with my logical thinking on this problem. I'd be hard pressed to say no unless it was clearly going to break the game and spoil the mood, in which case I'd try to find a compromise.
According to Physics anyone using a lightsaber is gonna get fried by it when it hits anything.