In Star Wars Galaxies , players must "tune" lightsaber crystals to themselves before they may use them in a lightsaber. Once tuned, the crystal can only be used by that player, and only in lightsabers created by that player. In Star Wars: The Old Republic , players are able to gain lightsaber crystals to use with their lightsabers. Wookieepedia Explore. Star Wars. Clone Wars Droids Ewoks. Administrators' noticeboard IRC Discord. Tutorials Editing sandbox Things to do Status article nominations Featured article nominations Good article nominations Comprehensive article nominations.
Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Lightsaber crystal. Edit source History Talk Do you like this video? Play Sound. Like the Force user, the crystal is attuned to the Force.
Without that attunement, the crystal is just a rock. And while a non-Force user could probably ignite and wield a lightsaber, the crystal is needed to be properly attuned to the Force. But for a Jedi, the lightsaber becomes more: it is a manifestation of a Jedi's connection to the Force. One important note about lightsaber wounds was that they rarely bled profusely, even when a limb had been severed.
Aside from the blade of another lightsaber, there were rare materials that could withstand a lightsaber blade:. There also existed a type of blaster known as a lightsaber rifle which was designed to be combined with lightsaber. To work, the user would insert a standard lightsaber into a slot on top of the rifle.
Once loaded, the weapon could fire powerful beams of energy that were highly destructive. The intended purpose of the lightsaber was that it was to be used to bring an end to conflicts, being designed so that they could injure no more than its wielder chose. Additionally, there was no collateral damage from lightsaber strikes [13] unless the blade happened to hit a target on accident. Even though the Jedi held themselves to these rules, [13] the groups like the Sith chose to use their lightsabers in ways that could cause suffering.
Jedi Padawan Bell Zettifar also felt that the lightsaber was designed so as to give an enemy a chance to surrender, as it was easy to spot and hear. Furthermore, he believed the blade's sound was one of training, focus, and skill; it was the sound of a Jedi's last resort and was the art of their Order. Anakin Skywalker and Darth Tyranus engaged in lightsaber combat above Coruscant. Lightsaber combat was the preferred fighting method used by lightsaber wielders.
Throughout the millennia, many combat styles were refined into the seven "classic" forms that serve as the standard, [46] and numerous other fighting methods that call for advanced levels of skill. Lightsabers were most often held with both hands during combat. Lightsabers were an integral part of the knighting ceremonies of the Jedi Order. During the ceremony, a Padawan would have his or her Padawan braid ritualistically severed by the presiding Jedi Master. Lightsabers were able to cut through most materials.
The usage of the lightsaber was originally inspired by many of the serials that George Lucas watched and enjoyed as a child, which featured many characters wielding swords. When he began conceiving Star Wars , he wished to include swords, creating the "lightsaber" to allow them to better mesh with the futuristic setting. In the early incarnations of the Star Wars storyline, lightsabers were not exclusive to the Jedi and other Force-users, but were in fact very mundane. Early concept art depicts lightsabers being wielded by Rebel and Imperial soldiers alike.
George Lucas later limited the lightsabers to exclusively the Jedi in order to make them feel more unusual, and heighten the mystique of the Jedi. Crystals first appear in Star Wars simply as an embedded decoration on the hilt in the original film's novelization. Aside from this single instance, there are no crystals mentioned in any of the movies or their novelizations. The handle grips were made with T-shaped pieces of plastic from sliding glass cabinet windows and, contrary to popular belief, were not made with rubber windshield wipers.
D-rings were attached to the bottoms of the units so that they could be worn on belts. Obi-Wan Kenobi's lightsaber was the most complex hilt at the time. Korean animator Nelson Shin , who was working for DePatie—Freleng Enterprises at the time, was asked by his manager if he could animate the lightsaber in the live action scenes of a film.
After Shin accepted the assignment, the live action footage was given to him. He drew the lightsabers with a rotoscope, an animation which was superimposed onto the footage of the physical lightsaber blade prop. Shin explained to the people from Lucasfilm that since a lightsaber is made of light, the sword should look "a little shaky" like a fluorescent tube.
He suggested inserting one frame that was much lighter than the others while printing the film on an optical printer, making the light seem to vibrate.
Shin also recommended adding a degausser sound on top of the other sounds for the weapon since the sound would be reminiscent of a magnetic field. The whole process took one week, surprising his company. Because of this, the Star Wars EU has seen a variety of lightsaber colors, such as silver, cyan, gold, viridian, bronze, and more. With many elements from the EU jumping to canon recently, it is not inconceivable that some of these lightsaber colors will also join the Star Wars canon in the near future.
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Breakfast food is life and coffee is what makes the world go round. It was great. By Adrienne Tyler Updated 3 days ago. Share Share Tweet Email 0. They remained in this form while she aided the crew of The Ghost in Star Wars: Rebels, when she faced her former Master, and when she appeared in The Mandalorian Season 2. The black lightsaber, or the Darksaber, is the only one of its kind known to exist. It features a unique black plasma blade, flat and curved like a traditional "saber" blade rather than a beam of energy, and has the ability to "draw" other lightsaber blades to it, making attacks to the wielder almost impossible.
The Darksaber allowed Vizla to become the Mand'alor, or ultimate ruler of his homeworld. After his death, the Darksaber became the property of the Jedi Temple until members of House Vizla came looking for it. It was introduced in The Mandalorian at the end of Season 1 by Moff Gideon, and because it is said only when the wielder is bested in combat may the Darksaber be relinquished, Din Djarin commands the fate of Mandalore by defeating Gideon in Season 2.
The annals of Star Wars Legends open up a wide variety of lightsaber colors, most of which are variations of canon colors with a few exceptions.
One of the most famous Legends characters, Mara Jade, wielded a rare magenta blade before being gifted Anakin's blue saber. Jade acquired the unique crystal that gave her saber its peculiar hue from Emperor Palpatine himself, a gift for her services as Emperor's Hand. She lost the blade after the Battle of Endor in a duel, and when she joined the New Jedi Order years later, she constructed a purple lightsaber to complete her trials and become a Jedi Knight. The former Imperial agent has a strong connection to the Force, and eventually trains to become a Jedi in between his covert missions against the Empire.
In the second game, Katarn wields an orange lightsaber, taken after battling the Dark Jedi Yun, and the same hue later used by the Mandalorian Knights who appear in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: War, a comic book miniseries based on the popular video games. The bronze lightsaber was an interesting choice of blade for Lowbacca, Chewbacca's nephew who joined Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy in the Young Jedi Knights book series.
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