At first glance, the lightsaber seems like a fairly simple piece of equipment. You have a handle where your hand goes. The handle is situated at one end of a blade-like protrusion that is used to strike your opponent. As novice fans soon learn, however, the lightsaber is more complicated than that—and here’s where a […]
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In Star Wars canon, the lightsaber is not a mass-produced accessory—far from it. Every lightsaber is constructed by, and thereafter closely linked to, a specific individual. Even in those cases when the saber eventually falls into the hands of another person, it tends to retain its association with its first owner if their identity is […]
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Lightsabers in the Star Wars universe exist in a wide variety of types. They tend to reflect the characteristics of their wielders: their combat preferences, their relationship to the Force, and maybe their plain old personal taste. Every aspect of the lightsaber has significance, in much the same way an individual’s tattoos aren’t just random […]
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