It ought to go without announcing that lightsabers are a large part of Star Wars lore. On this one reality, the Sith and Jedi can agree. For the Force-wielders, lightsabers are one the most important things are like helmets to Mandalorians or a bowcaster to a Wookiee. It suffices to say that they’re important.

Over the direction of the nine centre Skywalker Saga movies (and the extra Star Wars universe), audiences have tracked some of one of a kind lightsabers. Jedi Masters like Yoda, Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Mace Windu hold their saber lore close to the vest, however they do their share of passing on safety suggestions and mindfulness on the subject of combat. The Sith Lords have the one-up here in the Style category (except for Windu’s pink blade) on the grounds that their remarkably crimson lightsabers say it all; but wherein colour is consistent for the Dark Side, saber fashion changes up, as visible in grips and crosspieces for Count Dooku, Darth Maul, and, to a lesser extent, Kylo Ren. But the main lightsaber of the Skywalker Saga belongs to, fittingly, Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader himself. (We’ll take a ride through memory lane, however if you want to recognise especially about Rey’s lightsaber, bypass on down to the very last paragraphs.)

This laser-sword is set as mythical as Excalibur at this point inside the franchise. A young Anakin Skywalker made his first saber with a blue plasma blade and signature grip with a black band around the base. The hassle is, that blade changed into destroyed at some stage in the Clone Wars, necessitating Anakin to build a brand new one. This is the weapon that has been handed down through the maximum hands inside the Skywalker tale. Anakin used the lightsaber at some point of his transition into Darth Vader; it’s taken each the lives of Jedi younglings and members of the Separatist Council whilst in Anakin’s fingers. The burgeoning Darth Vader might lose the weapon to a successful Obi-Wan Kenobi in a disastrous duel for the growing Sith Lord.

It surpassed from Obi-Wan’s hands into those of younger Luke Skywalker, that is while most audiences saw the Jedi weapon for the first time. Luke might wield it at some point of his personal training in the approaches of the Force till his own father Darth Vader severed his weapon hand, sending the own family kin spinning into depths. Somehow, it got here into the possession of Maz Kanata inside the intervening decades, who kept it in accurately hidden away in her castle. When younger Rey visited Maz with the Resistance, the lightsaber known as to her, but she refuses to apply it, opting to depend on her blaster and workforce instead. It’s virtually lately defected Stormtrooper Finn who makes use of it (alternatively well, honestly) to fend off no longer handiest his former Stormtrooper pals, but also the vastly greater effective Kylo Ren. It’s while Finn is seriously injured and manifestly outmatched that Rey makes use of the Force to summon the lightsaber and war Kylo Ren.

With Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber in hand, together with newly received location records at the reclusive Jedi Master, Rey seeks his guidance on Ahch-To, presenting him his antique lightsaber by manner of a gesture of properly will. He tosses it aside, refusing it. Though Rey retrieves it, it’s later taken from her by way of Supreme Leader Snoke, only to have Kylo Ren turn the weapon on Snoke himself. Another warfare of wills takes location between Rey and Kylo Ren, every vying for manipulate of the Skywalker lightsaber via the use of the Force.

But that’s where The Rise of Skywalker comes in (so here’s your closing spoiler warning). In the ultimate movie in the Skywalker Saga, Rey has reconstructed that damaged lightsaber, much like the manner The Rise of Skywalker reconstructed the whole thing that Rian Johnson‘s The Last Jedi had deconstructed. It’s uncertain while or how precisely Rey did this, however the lightsaber serves her nicely in her continued training. It aids her in more than one clashes towards Kylo Ren and permits her to climate the attacks with the aid of the revived Emperor Palpatine … but there’s another.

It’s discovered that Luke educated Leia in the methods of the Force within the past. She wielded her personal green-bladed lightsaber however gave it up for suitable once she glimpsed a possible future of the violence it’d cause. Force Ghost Luke gives it to Rey after saving his own lightsaber from being tossed into the fiery wreckage of Kylo Ren’s Tie Fighter, also by using Rey (it’s a long tale however she became basically ready to burn it all down). Rey briefly Force-passes one lightsaber to Kylo Ren who wishes a weapon to warfare towards the Knights of Ren after throwing his personal corrupted lightsaber into the raging sea. Together, they’re capable of fight back against Emperor Palpatine, but while Kylo Ren, now Ben Solo, is released right into a pit, it’s Rey who is capable of use both lightsabers in the classic X role to power Palpatine’s Force Lightning back upon him, sooner or later killing him; that’s also thank you in part to the guide lent to her by 1,000 generations of Jedi.

So Rey and Ben every have their personal lightsabers now and can educate a brand new generation of Jedi together, right? No, no longer precisely. Because Rey exhausted her power in killing Palpatine, and because Ben used the final of his energy in reviving Rey, she’s left on her very own with Skywalker lightsabers. But rather than present them to a brand new technology, she takes them to Luke’s aunt and uncle’s abode on Tatooine and buries them deep inside the wilderness sand. But she has a weapon of her very own. As she ignites the lightsaber, you’ll be aware a golden yellow colour to the blade. The shock of that moment, a blade rarely visible in Star Wars canon, would possibly have distracted you from the reality that Rey apparently transformed her personnel into her new lightsaber; best touch.

But about that yellow lightsaber. Traditionally, and in canon, the yellow blades were originally seen in the double-bladed body of pike or the Jedi Temple Guard. (I don’t understand if Rey broke her vintage workforce down completely or if she turned it right into a version of the pike.) These guards were sworn to protect the Jedi Order at the temple on Coruscant, but were extensively utilised to preserve the peace on other occasions in the course of the Clone Wars. The anonymous sentinels had been chosen from the ranks of Jedi Knights. Other Jedi who used a yellow-bladed lightsaber had been Tosan, who wielded a double-bladed personnel, and Count Dooku’s apprentice, Ventress.

It’s viable that Rey adopted the yellow-bladed lightsaber (or possibly the kyber crystal conjured a yellow blade based totally on the modifications within its wielder) in honour of these emotionally indifferent sentinels tasked with guarding the Jedi Order. I like to think that she’s taking on the mantle of the 1,000 generations of Jedi who got here before her and that she sees herself as the final closing sentinel who must pass those teachings on. Or maybe Disney simply desired to sell greater yellow lightsabers. Either manner, the Skywalker Saga as we recognise it may be over, however the Star Wars tale will surely continue.