Horizons: What are phase blades?

1. Out of universe
Out of universe, Phaseblades are just poorly disguised Lightsabers. Because I really like Lightsabers and wanted a simaller energy weapon to add to mine.

2. Original Phaseblades
The first Phaseblades were created by the war era Guardians for use against Hon-Ton's forces. Encased in a twenty inch hilt, Phaseblades consisted of a recharger, generator, field projector and emitter.  The generator produced a beam of nadion energy, which was than contained by a projected  containment field. The weapon was unstable and could only remain activated for 60 seconds, before it had to be plugged in to a larger generator for the recharger to recharge it. In addition, the energy weapons weren't any more effective than a sword, so they were mostly regulated for providing light while fighting in a darkened environment.

3. Modern Phaseblades
When Fredrick first discovered the hidden collection of Guardian artifacts & knowledge on Edriua, he was fascinated by the details for an energy weapon known as a Phaseblade. When he discovered a fully functional  model on Serd, he decided to create a more effective device and, with the help of spirits of ancient Guardians (I will explain that later on) and Mike Sanders he succeeded in the creation of a much more effective weapon. The experiment was enough of a success that the weapon became a standard tool not only for the Guardians and there allies but also for many other intergalactic travelers, such as the Terrorists, War droid empire, Second guild and many others.

4. Technical aspects
The very first Guardian of Zion created the order of intergalactic mercenary after discovering a revolutionary engine system. By "gathering threads" from the fabric of space itself (attempting to gather threads from the fabric of time lead to paradoxes.) the engines propelled the Guardians starships through the universe at many sexdecilion's (Yes, that is a real word.) times the speed of light. To create the modern Phaseblades, Fredrick decided to replicate this on a much smaller scale. The now significantly smaller "Gatherer" collected two subatomic particles and combined them. This created a blade of energy which was directed out the end of the device, creating a purely colored blade. This was than encased in a hilt, which could be aesthetically molded by the owner, creating a weapon practically identical  to the original design, but now in a casing shorter than twenty inches. Technically however, the weapon was much more advanced, lasting for twenty four hours turned on before fading, and could be recharged by simply turning it off. The Guardians were preferred to most other melee weapons, because they were smaller, lighter and there energy blades could be used to deflect kinetic and energy projectiles. Although original Phaseblades only emitted beams of misty white, the modern ones, based off of what particles they were designed to gather, could produce blades of almost any colors.