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the force awakens - Is Anakin's lightsaber the only one remaining from the 'Clone Wars' era?


In discussions and info surrounding The Force Awakens, it seems that a lot of the (now ancient) Jedi knowledge has been lost to time. Luke's Green lightsaber used a synthetic crystal, a practice usually resigned to Siths, and is said to be more cruder in design than the original ones. Likewise, Kylo Ren's lightsaber is said to be impure, primitive, and using a cracked crystal, resulting in a distorted blade with the need for side vents (the crossguards).


Of course, leading up to the end of the Clone Wars, most of the Jedi seem to have been wiped out, and, given Palpatine actively worked to erase all existence of the Jedi from public, one can assume that most of their weapons also followed suit. But do we know of any that have survived until the time of the Force Awakens? Other than Anakin/Luke/Rey's of course.


The only lightsabers I can remember from the original trilogy are:



  • Anakin's original (blue)


    • Taken by Obi-Wan towards the end of Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith, and is kept by him until he passes it to Luke.



  • Obi-Wan's (blue)

    • Assuming he kept his original from the end of the Clone Wars.

    • likely destroyed, either by Vader as a conclusion to their fight, or if it was left on the Death Star, exploded along with it.




  • Vader's (red)

    • I'm not entirely sure when this was crafted, but I assume it was during the conclusion of the Clone Wars or very soon after. At the very least, Anakin/Vader would've had original Jedi training on fashioning lightsabers so we can assume it's made to similar levels of quality.




Are there any other lightsabers that may have survived the Clone Wars and made it to the 'First Order' era?



Answer



Disney Canon


There is a least one - Luke comes into possession of one in the new canon book "Heir to the Jedi" (which occurs between E4 and E5)



Luke meets a Rodian named Soonta, who's uncle, Huulik, was a Jedi who fought with Kenobi during the Clone Wars. She tells Luke:



Like your father, he was betrayed. He was shot by his clone troopers who were supposed to be on his side. He made it into his ship, recorded a brief message about what happened to him with his astromech, and gave it orders to bring him back here.



Later - she takes Luke to Huulik's grave where he retrieves his lightsaber with her permission.



Huulik's lightsaber was designed for a Rodian hand and wasn't quite comfortable in my fist...it ripped into life and thrummed with energy, a brilliant amethyst blade.



Luke later disassembles this saber so as to get his first glimpse into the construction of a saber (since he was of course reluctant to disassemble his own) and discovers that there are wafer thin crystals and that construction surely requires the Force (thus he can't put it back together yet)


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