A blue-bladed lightsaber was carried by Jedi Master Mace Windu during his membership of the High Council of the Jedi Order. An unexceptionally constructed weapon, the lightsaber had a metallic gray ribbed hilt with a conical segment of radiator casing on its pommel, and a red length adjuster for its blue blade.
Windu constructed the saber prior to his creation of another electrum-finshed, purple-bladed lightsaber in the years preceding the Clone Wars, and wielded the blue weapon during the Yinchorri Uprising of 33 BBY. In the following year, during the Invasion of Naboo, the Jedi Master alternated between the blue- and purple-bladed weapons. By the invasion's end, Windu carried fellow Jedi Councilor Eeth Koth's lightsaber, for which he had exchanged his blue saber in the Concordance of Fealty, a Jedi ceremony demonstrating mutual trust. Eeth Koth returned the lightsaber to Windu shortly before the latter embarked on a diplomatic mission for the Galactic Republic to negotiate peace between the Red Iaro terrorists and the prince of the Lannik people on the Mid Rim world of Malastare.
Although the 2000 Dark Horse Comics series Jedi Council: Acts of War shows Mace Windu to wield a blue-bladed lightsaber during the Yinchorri Uprising, an image of the event in Kevin J. Anderson and Daniel Wallace's 2005 reference book The New Essential Chronology depicts Windu's lightsaber with a purple blade. Similarly, the blue-bladed saber's appearances in the 22nd and 23rd issues of the Star Wars comic book series were recolored purple when reprinted in 2010's Star Wars Omnibus: Quinlan Vos: Jedi in Darkness.
The lightsaber carried by Mace Windu in the Star Wars Tales 13 comic story "Children of the Force" has a purple blade, but a hilt resembling that of Windu's blue-bladed weapon.
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