Questions tagged [lightsaber]
An energy blade weapon from the Star Wars franchise often wielded like a sword or pike. Use this tag for questions about the properties of lightsabers, how they are constructed, etc. Do not use for questions that mention lightsabers but aren't actually about them. Use this tag with the [star-wars] tag.
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What started the smoke or fire behind Darth Maul?
In Episode 1, when Darth Maul and Obi-Wan Kenobi are fighting, Obi-Wan cuts off one blade of Maul's double-bladed lightsaber, and it looks like smoke or fire starts in the corner behind Darth Maul. ...
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Lightsaber claws in Expanded Universe?
This may be a bit of a weird question, but here goes; have any notable Sith or Jedi used 'lightsaber claws' in the expanded Star Wars universe?
The reason why I asked this is because I remember an ...
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Could Chirrut Îmwe have constructed a lightsaber out of Jyn’s kyber crystal?
In Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Chirrut Îmwe and Jyn Erso have a conversation where they explain that kyber crystals power a lightsaber.
Chirrut: What do you know of kyber crystals?
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Why don't Kylo Ren's lightsaber vents ignite before the blade?
I know why the lightsaber needs vents, but why don't the vents ignite first? (Is ignite the right word?).
I'm clearly no engineer, and I've clearly never made a lightsaber before, so I'm just ...
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Are actual lightsaber crossguards effective?
Referring to Useless cross-guard on a lightsaber? fans here should be very familiar with the crossguard debate when Kylo Ren's lightsaber was first revealed. However, we've since proven that those are ...
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Are some lightsabers "stronger"?
Kylo Ren has a seemingly "crude" lightsaber. This is due to a lot of things, but it seems to hold up pretty well, even against a lightsaber made by a Jedi (almost) Master. But throughout the movies, ...
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Why didn't Kenobi turn Grievous Lightsabers off? [duplicate]
As I read, Jedi learn early on to 'force shield' themselves so that another Jedi cannot turn their Lightsaber off during battle.
Is there a in-universe explanation as to why Obi-wan Kenobi didn't do ...
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How was Kylo Ren able to push his opponent to the ground with his lightsaber?
From everything I've seen about lightsabers, they slice pretty handily through most materials (especially human limbs), but for some reason, in The Rise of Skywalker trailer, he bears his opponent to ...
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Why is count Dooku's lightsaber red?
It has recently been revealed that the act of a sith building a lightsaber will turn the crystal red. A Jedi turning Sith will not in itself turn the blade red. This is why the Skywalker saber is ...
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What advantage did a red light saber blade have for Sith?
Making a lightsaber with a red blade is seemingly more effort ("bleeding" the kyber crystal) than making one in the common Jedi colors of blue or green.
Obviously, the red blade is a form of ...
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Does the kyber crystal used in a lightsaber have an effect on the user?
Is there any evidence of a force user using a kyber crystal that is wrong for them in their lightsaber and this having an effect on their ability to use it? How does it impact them?
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What happened to Darth Tyranus' Lightsaber?
When Anakin incapicated Dooku on the Invisible Hand, He(Anakin) cuts off the both hands of the Sith Lord. As a result, Dooku loses his lightsaber to Anakin.
The Sith Lord is dead.
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How does a lightsaber behave in a confined space?
Imagine I place a lightsaber hilt upright on the ground, in a room with a very very low ceiling which is to some extent impervious to lightsabers (or at least which takes some time to be melted into ...
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Can a lightsaber hilt be made out of cortosis?
Let's say I'm a Jedi.
If I constructed a lightsaber hilt out of Cortosis, would the lightsaber work? If it did, could I then hit another lightsaber-wielder's blade with my hilt, short out that ...
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Why do Jedi practice lightsaber dueling, and not blaster fire deflection techniques?
I recall reading somewhere that many of the Jedi practice lightsaber techniques that are specifically for dueling with other lightsabers. It went on to say the fact that they utilized fencing ...
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Who makes all the other lightsabers?
According to this no-longer-canon answer you don't have to be a Force user to build a Lightsaber, and this answer states that there is no outside company that builds them, so who's in charge of ...
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Do Lightsabers actually draw Blaster bolts towards themselves thereby making it easier for Jedi to redirect them?
Do lightsabers draw Blaster bolts toward their blade, thereby easing the Jedi's task of redirecting them against the enemy? Or do the Jedi redirect the bolts toward the lightsabers? If the answer is ...
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Were lightsabers ever a "commodity"?
Lightsabers seem to be somewhat labor intensive to build. And, from everything I've ever seen or read, a Jedi was responsible for creating their own. Anakin Skywalker is shown to have lost several ...
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What age do Padawans get real lightsabers?
What age do Padawans get to use their lightabers? In Clone Wars episodes we see them assembling the lightsabers after a trek into the cave.
Is there a rule about what age Padawans get real ...
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Do lightsabers absorb blaster energy?
Do lightsabers absorb any of the energy shot at them by a blaster, or is it all deflected away?
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How common are lightsaber training accidents?
A lightsaber is a pretty unforgiving weapon. Everyone cuts themselves at least once learning how to wield a sword. How common are lightsaber training accidents?
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Why does Luke have a blue lightsaber post-ROTJ in some early Legends works?
In several different early Expanded Universe works set after Return of the Jedi, Luke is shown or said to use a blue-bladed lightsaber:
Luke whipped out his lightsaber, and its brilliant blue glow ...
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Is there a case of a Force user using the Force to curve a lightsaber blade in Legends?
This is me trying to track down a vague rumor from childhood, so be warned. When I was in elementary school, somewhere in the late 1980s to the early 1990s, I remember being told that Emperor ...
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How are lightsabers digitally rendered? [duplicate]
A while ago, I thought one could use trigonometry. Simply have the actors hold the base of the light saber, and the stick part would be generated by the computer.
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Could a lightsaber be used as a cane?
I recently came across this cover art while reading through The Other Lost Missions: Rare Clone Wars Comics and Literature, Part 2, and I couldn't help but notice the way the guy in the picture, ...
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Powering lightsabers with the Force instead of a switch
Has there ever been a time in the Star Wars mythos in which lightsabers are only able to be activated and used by the power of the Force? (Not turned on by the Force by means of flipping a switch but ...
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Is there something about lightsabers that make them hard to move?
Note: I have only seen the seven movies.
In many instances people with the Force can throw things around with said Force. But a lot of times, when people are trying to retrieve a light saber, it ...
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Use of a yellow crystal in Canon Star Wars?
In the 2008 Clone Wars TV Series, we encounter the Jedi Temple Guards who protect the Temple, wielding shortened double-bladed yellow lightsabers.
Can only these Temple Guards use a yellow crystal, ...
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Why don't Force users control their lightsabers with telekinesis all the time?
They would be able to attack from a much greater distance and it would definitely decrease the risk of having their limbs chopped off by other lightsaber users.
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How much close control over physical objects is possible with the Force?
The Jedi can control objects with the mystical power called the Force without touching them.
In the movies you can see, that the Jedi or Sith are moving objects really fast and really well controlled ...
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Lightsabers with extendable hilts
Are there any examples (preferably in canon but Legends is also acceptable) of a lightsaber featuring an extending hilt? What I'm looking for is perhaps some kind of telescoping mechanism such that ...
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Can a Lightsaber cut through Laminanium?
Can a Lightsaber cut through Laminanium?
The Wikia article doesn't seem to address that, it merely says Jedi's new armour (Jedi expeditionary suit) was made of it in latter-period EU/Legends novels.
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Can a lightsaber hold someone up?
If you wedged a lightsaber between other sabers or into a material that a saber can't cut well, could you safely dangle off the handle without breaking it, like some sort of climbing spike?
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Accidental lightsaber injuries or deaths?
Knowing that wielding lightsabers can be extremely dangerous to the uses, have there ever been any accidental, self-inflicted injuries or deaths caused to anyone?
Between the gyroscopic forces that ...
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Where did Kylo Ren learn how to make a crossguard lightsaber?
I'm aware the design is an old one, not something Kylo came up with himself, and doesn't even always correlate to a cracked crystal (the Malachor crossguard saber seemed fine).
So, where did Kylo ...
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How effectively can the vented energy from Kylo Ren's lightsaber serve as a crossguard?
Earlier questions about the effectiveness of Kylo Ren's lightsaber's design, in my opinion, is moot because they are all based on the assumption that those two side-blades are primarily intended to be ...
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Does Anakin's Lightsaber Use Electrum?
Anakin's lightsaber has gold-like pieces on it. Usually, this is Electrum when it comes to lightsabers (see Sidious and Windu's). Electrum was reserved for high-ranking Jedi/Members of the Council.
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What is the process of making a black lightsaber/Darksaber?
In Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels, we see a Black lightsaber much like a real sword or katana and it was supposedly stolen from the Jedi hundreds of years prior to the Clone Wars by ...
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Is there any type of lightsaber mace?
My friend and I were joking around about Mace Windu having a mace instead of a lightsaber and that got me wondering: is there any type of mace that uses lightsaber technology?
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How does Asajj Ventress's lightsaber go together?
We see that Asajj Ventress's lightsabers can come together to make a double-sided lightsaber, but her lightsaber hilts are curved. How would they come together in a way that would make it easy to use?
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Are lightsaber blades a different material from blaster fire?
Since they aren't just light energy (move too slowly), they are probably some kind of matter or semi-matter. It has been speculated that starship fire is of a different nature from rifle fire (...
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Would it be conceivable to create a lightsaber shield from a plethora of lightsabers arranged in an umbrella-like pattern?
Using an umbrella-based design pattern could then allow it to be folded away for ease-of-carry...?
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What color is the button bezel on Qui-Gon Jinn's lightsaber?
I've recently purchased a replica hilt for Qui-Gon Jinn's lightsaber and it comes with both a black and a silver button bezel.
Looking at various stills from The Phantom Menace it appears that the ...
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Is it ever viewable in canon where a Sith lightsaber breaks a Jedi's lightsaber?
Is it viewable anywhere in canon where a Sith's lightsaber disrupts a Jedi's lightsaber blade?
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How did Savage Opress obtain his lightsaber?
I did some research but I struggled to find an exact origin of how Savage obtained his lightsaber. I know it is Sith tradition to steal one from a Jedi and "bleed" the crystal, but there's no allusion ...
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Is there a specific encounter in Star Wars media where Darth Vader tricks or bamboozles an opponent with the dual-phase feature of his lightsaber?
There is a page on Wookieepedia that explains the nature of the Dual-phase lightsaber and how it can be used to destabilize opponents. It cites works where the weapons appears, but it seems to be just ...
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Can a blaster bolt be cut in half with a lightsaber?
A blaster "bolt" - at least from an E-11 - appears to have a length generally longer than the diameter of a lightsaber blade. If the bolt can be deflected/reflected by a lightsaber, and its length is ...
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What explains the beam color of Death Star?
In Rogue One there is a scene when Empire is plundering the Temple of the Kyber on Jedha.
From Rogue One dialogue:
"What are they bringing in?"
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Has any Jedi regularly used two or more lightsabers in Disney Canon?
It's not uncommon for us to see a Sith using two or more lightsabers. We also see that General Grievous uses four lightsabers. So, my question is do we ever see a Jedi in Disney Canon who uses more ...
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Origin of Vaapad?
So, I've read in several books -- particularly the novelization of Episode III -- that Mace Windu created the Vaapad form of lightsaber combat. However, I recently read the first two Darth Bane ...
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