Lightsaber

**Lightsabers**, called **laserswords** by those unfamiliar with them, were weapons commonly used by the Jedi, Sith, and other Force-sensitives. Their blade was plasma, colored in many different ways according to which power crystal they were using: but all of those crystals were subsets of the kyber crystal. These kyber crystals bonded with whomever discovered them, and the Force was used to construct a lightsaber using this crystal, and the lightsaber would be constructed according to the wielder's connection to the Force in meditation.

Lightsabers were used for both offense and defense, and the plasma blade created by the crystal was capable of cutting through most materials, including blast doors. Other plasma and energy-based weapons could block lightsabers, and cortosis could depower them entirely, but lightsabers were also capable of deflecting blaster bolts. Lightsabers came in a variety of different appearances, with some having more than one plasma blade, some blades shorter in length than others, and even some in a whip form.

## Description

No two lightsabers were the same, and their description varied based on the culture of whoever built and wielded them, or the materials they had access to. Generally, the lightsaber had a cylindrical hilt, a kyber cell for housing the crystal, a focusing lens which created the blade itself, and a blade emitter which prevented excess energies from causing issues with the blade. The color of the blade varied from person to person, as did the kyber crystal, although the most commonly used ones were the Ilum crystals. Sith crystals were almost always red in color, due to the bleeding practice, and the cleansing of this crystal would give the blade a white color.

## History

The first lightsabers were constructed by the early members of the Jedi Order, when twelve members of the Order found themselves bonding to thirteen crystals in the Tythonian wilderness—one member was Jara'altu who created the practice Jar'Kai—and through the guidance of the Force they constructed lightsabers out of scrap metals and these crystals. At some point long after, Jedi hyperspace scouts discovered the kyber-rich planet of Ilum, where Jedi Initiates would travel to create their first lightsabers for thousands of generations afterwards.

## Appearances

* *Star Wars Jedi*: *Ki-Adi-Mundi* 1 (Mentioned only)
* *The Queen of Rattatak*
* *The Quest for Anakin Skywalker's Birthday*
* *The Rite of the Crystal* (In statue)
* "Hidden Worlds" (In statue form)
* "Huntress and Prey"
* *The Clone Wars Retold* – "Supply Lines"
* *Reticence*
* *Secrets Revealed* Chapter I — *Trial and Sacrifice*
* *Secrets Revealed* Chapter II — *Decisions*
* *Secrets Revealed* Chapter III — *Darkness Falls*
* "Disillusionment" (Mentioned only)
* *Secrets Revealed* Chapter IV — *Plans*
* *Secrets Revealed* Chapter V — *Sith*
* *Secrets Revealed* Epilogue (In statue form)
* *Survivors* 1: *Secura*
* *Survivors* 2: *The Garden of Cophrigin*
* *Passageways*
* *Survivors* 3: *Unlikely Allies*
* "Ghost in the Mountain"
* "Altered State" (Appears in flashback(s))
* *Vergences and Conduits*
* *Coalescence*
* *Survivors* 5: *Keeper of Vows*
* *Survivors* 6: *Acolyte*
* *Secrets of Salekelahn*
* *Soul Searching* Rachi I — *Allies*
* *Soul Searching* Obi-Wan I — *Rebellion's Beginnings*
* *Soul Searching* Obi-Wan II — *Dawn*
* *Soul Searching* Yoda I — *Understanding*
* *Soul Searching* Ahsoka I — *Voices*
* *Soul Searching* Ahsoka II — *Old Friends*
* *Soul Searching* Obi-Wan III — *Interrupted Moments*
* *Soul Searching* Darth Vader — *Freeing the Mind*
* *The Deep*
* *Soul Searching* The Liberator — *Freeing the Body*
* *Soul Searching* Anakin III — *How A Revolution Begins*
* *Burning Galaxies* I — *The First Signs of Storm*
* *Burning Galaxies* II — *Family Matters*

## Sources

* *The Skywalker Saga Supplement*
* *Expanding the Unexpanded*
* *Mysteries of the Force*

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 *The Skywalker Saga Supplement*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 *Expanding the Unexpanded*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 *Secrets Revealed* Chapter I — *Trial and Sacrifice*