Kyber crystal

A kyber crystal, simply known as kyber, and also called a lightsaber crystal, were rare, Force-attuned crystals that were found on scattered planets across the galaxy. The origins of kyber crystals date back to ancient times, eons before the birth of the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic, on the ice planet of Ilum. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, a comet composed entirely of a raw crystalized substance known as 'energon' impacted on Ilum. Over the course many years, the presence of the Force ended up converting the energon crystals into kyber crystals, also allowing the crystals to spread across the surface entire planet, going deep into Ilum's crust.
Approximately six thousand years prior to the rise of the Galactic Empire, the Prime Jedi and his followers would discover the existence of the kyber crystals on Ilum, as well as a group of highly advanced beings known as Cybertronians, whom they communicated with. For the next several millennia, kyber crystals were used by the Jedi and the Sith in the construction of their lightsabers. As part of Jedi training, younglings were sent to the Crystal Cave of Ilum to mine crystals in order to construct their own lightsabers. The crystal's mix of unique luster was called "the water of the kyber" by the Jedi. There were also larger, rarer crystals of great power and that, according to legends, were used at the heart of ancient superweapons by the Sith.
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