The ONLY Lightsaber the Jedi Council Locked Away Forever - Star Wars Explained

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[Valiant]

Exar Kun is my absolute favorite Legends character. Such a BAMF - he acted with confidence, purpose, & sheer bad-assery. Walking into the Galactic Senate chamber, freezing all there, giving an epic evil monologue, then killing the supreme chancellor & his old master? Epic.

[jordaandanobrega]

A movie about these time periods would actually be so dope

[daniels]

Interestingly, Kun never had any need to "bleed" his lightsaber crystal. Hence the blue blade. That must have also terrified the Jedi Masters, since it might deceive somebody into thinking that the lightsaber itself wasn't the source of the Dark Side power surrounding it. Much like how the late-Republic Jedi knew that the Dark Side of the Force surrounded Palpatine (Mace Windu told the Council very bluntly), but they refused to believe that he was the actual Sith Lord until he did a spinning leap over his desk.

[vampirehunter]

I ran a d6 campaign were one of my characters was gifted part of the Saber as a family relic. He was chased by a cult of exar who believed that the character was the resurrection of exar. His was also being chase by a sith master for his parts. Everyone had a part but never the whole. It was a cool campaign set right after episode 6.

[Esoterrible]

In a universe where space travel is cheap and easy I'm continuously shocked by how often the solution to ancient artifacts that should never see the light of day and is inherently corrupted, is to just store it in the janitors closet rather than throwing it into a sun or a black hole.

[repoman]

I knew exactly which lightsaber you were talking about from taking one look at that thumbnail. Only one Jedi had a standard single blade length hilt with a double blade

[ndtms]

I've never understood why people that were faced with protecting a powerful "artifact" didn't simply destroy it. Most every movie or books "object of great power" is either broken into pieces/left whole and "hidden" somewhere to be found again at a later date.

Throw it into a volcanoe, blast it into space, or into a star, or black hole...It grinds my gears that no one ever addresses that easy fix for getting rid of something that is ultra dangerous. It's a true WTF!?

[BespinGuard]

It would be cool to explore a scenario in which an increasingly disillusioned Anakin (towards the end of episode 3) found or learned of the lightsaber and was curious enough to investigate it against the wishes of the other council members

[Ariapeithes_]

As soon as i saw the thumbnail i knew it was my boy Exar Kun!!

He is the Madara Uchiha of the Star Wars Universe.

[claudijatzandrapova]

so Darth Sidious takes over Coruscant, the Jedi Temple ransacked... how come he never thought to look for Kun's lightsaber at any point? It really would have cemented him in power plus amplified his own Dark Side Force powers

[marktorch]

If they hate this light saber so much why can't the Jedi bring themselves to destroy it. Send it into a Blackhole or something.

[akstar]

I can only imagine Luke going through Yoda's things "what a cool lightsaber!"

[ZeFroznne]

I wonder if General Grievous ever tried to acquire the lightsaber or knew of where it was? He did have quite the collection.

[sydneysmith]

Has anyone ever done a video on just how much Palpatine and Vader ransacked the Jedi temple?

[djnavarro]

The room where the lightsaber is kept must’ve been sealed deep under the temple that only the Jedi Council knows about. But that’s just my opinion

[granatmof]

I think you missed the part where the secret Jedi cabal was secretly lead by and manipulated by a dark side user/sith.

Also if the blood of Jedi and innocents can taint a lightsaber, then Anakin's saber the youngling Slayer 9000 should be tainted and considered one of the worst lightsabers in history.

[SwordofSlade]

Was it not possible to simply destroy it? There’s no need to keep it to study such a weapon if you already know enough to know that if it falls in to the wrong hands it would be extraordinarily bad. Just take another lightsaber and cut it in half or melt it down entirely.

[Darkhorseman]

I wonder if this had any hand in what happened to the Jedi in episodes 1-3 with the blinding of the lightside of the force on Corusant that helped Sidious to gain power and ultimately take down the Jedi?

[novazo]

Literally yes.

There's always so much great content in legends they could use for movies instead of just making them feel like a cash grab with no imagination in the story. Exar Kun, Bane, Revan, Plagueis and Sidious, Traya.

Or even actual GL content he had planned for.

[MrIndywrestler]

How could the Jedi hate it? The Jedi don’t do hate. It leads to suffering.