Why Is Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber Forbidden!? ❌

Why is Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber actually forbidden and illegal?

See, when Luke lost his first lightsaber in The Empire Strikes Back, he needed to build a new one immediately!

But Kyber Crystals were really hard to come by and since the planet Illum was emptied by the Empire in 18 BBY, Luke didn’t have a direct source to get a Kyber crystal from.

So he did what he had to do and used an ancient Sith technique that used the Force and a Blast Furnace to make a Synthetic Crystal!

Now this method was heavily frowned upon by the Jedi Order and was considered illegal to do!

But screw the Jedi Order!

Luke was all on his own at this time and could do whatever he wanted to!

And in the process of making his crystal, Luke was super nervous cuz he was opening himself to the methods of the Sith.

But even though his crystal wasn’t 100% attuned in the lightside of the Force, he was still successful in fully creating it and used it in his green lightsaber!

[mattc]

Luke making a black market modded lightsaber to defeat the Empire makes him even cooler.

[TheWretchedOwl]

“Luke, your crystal is highly frowned upon by the Jedi council.”

“I AM the council!”

[GabrielCampbell-serb]

Luke: "I want a lightsaber again so I'm gonna get it."
Yoda: "Disapprove, the council does."
Luke: "Fucking dead the council is."

[Samurai-csxo]

Who was gonna stop him ?
The jedi order ?
Last time i saw they were barbecued

[_tymk]

"This is forbidden by the law"

"I *AM* the *LAW* "

[rodrigorincongarcia]

That must be the 100th version of "how did Luke build his light saber?"

[CrowofJudgement]

Luke’s saber being synthetic is legends material ever since the Disney acquisition. Synthetic crystals don’t even exist in the Disney canon anymore

[dhunter]

Raise your hand if you're old enough to remember the original version: "he made a new crystal using instructions and tools Ben had left for him in his house."

[guywhosnamestartswithz]

I love the thought of Luke just shaking his own hand and talking to himself to allow the rule
"Hey Entire Jedi Council should we allow this technique to create a crystal"
"Why yes of course Luke"

[TheNefastor]

Luke : "I will make it legal."
Yoda : "Now wait a minute..."

[reidhirsh]

Given how the Empire all but wiped out the Jedi, destroyed the Jedi Order, and strip-mined Illum to an empty husk, any solution was better than no solution for Luke, especially since he cannot go into a battle without a weapon.

Knowledge is either good or evil depending on the hands that wield and use it, for good or ill. There's a reason the Jedi failed to achieve true balance in the force and the fear of knowledge that they were not willing to understand was one of them.

[Aquanation_OftheSaints]

“The council forbids it”

Luke: what council?

[TabacoTheGreen]

And let's be honest his cloths are kind of sith vibes too which is even more bad ass.

[rickeyb]

"I see you have constructed a new light saber. Your skills are complete! Indeed you are powerful as the Emperor has foreseen."

[AlexJones-exox]

My head canon was that he got it from obi wans hut on tattooine after returning (theres a deleted scene of him building it before going to jabbas palace) and that it was actually qui gons old saber or just the crystal that kenobi kept over the years as a memento of his old master

[jt]

Jedi Order: "It is forbidden"
Luke: "I AM THE JEDI ORDER"

[Omnipotentkami]

Original Trilogy Luke: "Forget the Jedi Order. I'm going drag my old man back to the light side of the Force. Nothing is illegal when there's no one to enforce it. 🗿"

New Trilogy Luke: "The Sacred Texts!!! 😰"

[mafia_gamer_official]

Fact that when Luke was fighting with Vader, he was using Vader's (Anakin's) lightsaber and Vader made him lose that, same as his arm.

[joelbell]

Green: the color of healing, but also the color of poison.

[virtualcolt]

It goes to show that even the most evil technique can be used for good.