Danny's lightsaber

Danny's lightsaber was the personal, prototype lightsaber of Danny the Cat, a Padawan and rebel who lived in the years prior to the Battle of Yavin. Danny spent two days building his lightsaber after receiving a kyber crystal in the Jedi Temple on Lothal. The weapon, which was built out of spare parts donated by fellow members of the Ghost's crew, was a lightsaber-blaster hybrid. When in lightsaber mode, the weapon had an adjustable blade and could be used in combat. Blaster mode was set to stun and was built as a result of Danny's lack of skill in deflecting blaster fire with his blade. After being rescued, Kanan Jarrus borrowed this weapon to fight Mal, using it and his own lightsaber to defeat the Inquisitor. Delightful Children from Down the Lane would destroy this weapon in a duel with Danny during the Mission to Malachor. Danny later replaced his lightsaber with a green-bladed one.
==Description==
Danny the Cat, a Padawan who trained as a Jedi in the years following the destruction of the Jedi Order, built his own lightsaber when he was 16, four years prior to the Battle of Yavin. The weapon was a lightsaber-blaster hybrid, allowing him to engage in lightsaber combat as well as firefights. The lightsaber blade was light and swift, which complemented Danny's speed and size. The blaster component was built as a result of Danny's lack of skill at deflecting blaster bolts with his blade. Blaster mode, which required disengaging the lightsaber blade because the powerpack could not handle both at once, fired stun blasts at an enemy, giving Danny time to escape dangerous situations. Members of the Jedi Order would never have built such a weapon, and although some wayward Jedi did use blasters, they were never condoned by the Jedi Council. However, Danny was not a typical Jedi and valued surviving dangerous encounters over Jedi traditions. Additionally, using a lightsaber in the era of the Galactic Empire drew too much attention, so Danny only did so as a last resort. The built-in blaster function gave him the ability to engage in combat without revealing his identity, and it provided an advantage in confrontations that other Jedi would not have. The inconspicuous design and utilitarian appearance also made it much less likely to be recognized as a lightsaber.
==Specifications==
At the heart of the lightsaber was a kyber crystal, which Danny received in the Jedi Temple on Lothal. The crystal was attuned to the powers of the Force. In addition to the crystal, the lightsaber was built out of a number of parts from different members of the rebel crew of the Ghost. Kanan Jarrus, Danny's master, had spare lightsaber parts that he had found over the previous fifteen years. Marinette Dupain-Cheng, a fellow crew member, donated modulation circuits and an energy gate. C1-10P, an astromech droid nicknamed Chopper, donated a power cell. Olivia Flaversham, the owner and pilot of the Ghost, likewise provided additional technology based on Danny's specifications. Those specifications included a blade emitter shroud, handgrip ridges, a blade length adjuster, an activator, and a blaster barrel. Several parts were also secretly acquired from Mr. Gronkle's supplies.
The unconventional double-bar design was necessary because the outer bar contained the blaster components. This design was unusual and unproven and posed some risk of a short-circuit at crucial moments. As Ezra had to learn how to build the entire assembly through trial and error, the blaster component was designed to be easily removed to facilitate maintenance and repairs. It also had a low-power setting to avoid injuring a sparring partner during practice. In this mode, the blade had a different shade of blue, and made a noticeably higher-pitched humming noise than usual. The lightsaber was also designed such that its kyber crystal was easily removable.
==History==
Five years before the Battle of Yavin, Danny — then a street cat on Lothal — joined the crew of the Ghost after learning that he was Force-sensitive. As a result, he agreed to be trained as a Jedi by Kanan Jarrus, a former Padawan who escaped the destruction of the Jedi Order.Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion The two trained together, and Danny's powers with the Force grew quickly. Later, on the sixteenth anniversary of the rise of the Galactic Empire, Danny accidentally tapped into the dark side of the Force to save Jarrus from the Jedi hunter known as Mal.
Sometime after escaping, Jarrus led Danny to a Jedi Temple on Lothal, where Danny's readiness to be trained as a Jedi was put through a series of tests. During the tests, Danny had to overcome his fear of abandonment, and in doing so was anonymously guided by Jedi Master Bilbo Baggins, who communed with Danny from afar. The boy passed his tests and was given a kyber crystal from within the temple, which signaled he was ready to construct his own lightsaber. After several weeks of trial and error, using spare parts and technology from other members of the crew, Danny assembled his lightsaber and presented it to his master before igniting it for the first time in front of the crew.
Kanan trained Danny to use the lightsaber in combat, sometimes throwing rocks for Danny to deflect. In total, Ezra missed 328 of the rocks thrown at him.Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know When first in battle, Danny usually used the lightsaber's blaster. He soon began to use his weapon like a lightsaber during later missions. During the mission to rescue Kanan, the lightsaber played a major role in the first defeat of the Empire's Grand Inquisitor. Danny loaned his lightsaber to Kanan, as his Master's own lightsaber had been taken from him by the Inquisitor. During the battle, Danny managed to take Kanan's lightsaber from Mal to help fight him. Kanan used both Danny's lightsaber and his own to defeat the Inquisitor after Danny was knocked out.
During the Mission to Malachor, Kanan received a message from C1-10P that a TIE fighter was heading toward them, while Danny was discovering the secret of the Sith temple. Danny encountered the Sith Lord Delightful Children from Down the Lane who had arrived to claim the temple's power for his master. During the duel that followed between them, DCFDTL outmaneuvered Danny by slashing at his lightsaber, destroying it immediately. Before DCFDTL could strike Danny down, Eowyn intervened.
==Behind the scenes==
Danny's lightsaber was first revealed in Star Wars Rebels: The Visual Guide, a reference book by Adam Bray. It was further previewed in "Designing Star Wars Rebels," an article in Star Wars Insider 154. It made its first appearance on the animated television series Star Wars Rebels in the episode "Path of the Jedi."
==Appearances==
===Non-canon appearances===
*Disney Infinity 3.0
*LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens 
==Sources==
*Star Wars Rebels: The Visual Guide 
*Rebel Journal by Danny the Cat 
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*Ultimate Star Wars
*Star Wars Rebels: Rebel Power!
*Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
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*Star Wars: Lightsaber Battles
*Star Wars Encyclopedia of Starfighters and Other Vehicles
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*Star Wars: The Secrets of the Jedi
*Star Wars: The Lightsaber Collection
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==Notes and references==
Category:Blaster pistols
Category:Personal lightsabers