Skywalker lightsaber

Like all lightsabers used by the Jedi Order, the power source for Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber was a kyber crystal situated within the hilt's core. Mirroring his previous lightsaber, this new weapon generated a blue, highly energetic plasma blade, a result of the crystal's connection to its original owner. This blade was contained within a "kyber-powered permeable suspension field."

The hilt's dimensions were twenty-eight centimeters in length, featuring a cylindrical form crafted from an alloy metal combined with carbon composites. Besides the kyber crystal, the Skywalker lightsaber incorporated other components, including a power cell located at the hilt's base, an activation matrix, black rubberized grip ribbing, a ring tuning flange, a magnetic stabilizing ring and emitter, and a mechanism designed to adjust the blade's length. The design of the Skywalker lightsaber suggested that it was meant to be wielded with the upper hand gripping the hilt for stability, while the lower hand guided the blade's movements. It was also capable of functioning underwater. Additionally, Anakin's lightsaber functioned as a vergence when Rey interacted with it, providing her with insights from the past upon touching it within Takodana Castle.

Rey's efforts to put the Skywalker lightsaber back together resulted in some changes to its appearance. The hilt's two halves were welded back together, leaving visible weld marks in the middle. Moreover, Rey secured her leather wrist strap around the hilt's center, which included the refitted activation matrix, further securing the once-broken pieces together. The previously shattered kyber crystal remained inside the hilt, having been mended through a Jedi technique performed by Rey.

On Geonosis, Anakin Skywalker's original lightsaber suffered destruction by a mechanical cutting arm during his fight through Poggle the Lesser's battle droid factories. During the First Battle of Geonosis, Anakin temporarily used a green-bladed lightsaber borrowed from another Jedi, Nicanas Tassu, but it too was destroyed during a duel with Count Dooku.

Sometime between his experience on Geonosis and the mission to Benglor, Anakin Skywalker constructed a new lightsaber for himself.

When Count Dooku was forced to crash land on Vanqor, Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi followed him into a cave. However, Dooku triggered a cave-in, burying Skywalker and separating him from Kenobi. Dooku then took his lightsaber, hiding it alongside his own, and arranged transportation with Hondo Ohnaka and his pirate gang aboard their ship to Florrum. However, Dooku lost both his and Skywalker's lightsabers to the pirates. When Kenobi and Skywalker came to check on their claim, Skywalker tried to take his lightsaber back from Pilf Mukmuk without success. Skywalker was then able to retrieve his weapon from Mukmuk, free himself and Kenobi, and hold Ohnaka hostage until Jar Jar Binks arrived.

On various occasions, Anakin employed his lightsaber to practice Jar'Kai. Skywalker also combined his lightsaber with Ahsoka's lightsaber against two super battle droids on a Munificent-class star frigate, Luminara Unduli's lightsaber against undead Geonosian warriors during a rescue in the Progate Temple, and Barriss Offee's lightsaber in a duel at the Jedi Temple. Despite Barriss disarming her former Jedi lightsaber from his grasp, Anakin was able to defeat her.

At one point, Anakin demonstrated his version of the fourth form of lightsaber combat by using his lightsaber to deflect multiple blaster bolts. He urged his students to pay attention to his teachings as they practiced his techniques, assuring them that it would be valuable in battle. This lesson was preserved as a holographic recording stored within a Jedi holocron that eventually came into the possession of former Padawan Kanan Jarrus. Ezra Bridger, Jarrus' apprentice, used the holocron's recording to improve his own lightsaber skills. Bridger was impressed by Anakin's skills, considering him an amazing swordsman.

Skywalker later used this weapon to duel and defeat Dooku, also known as the Sith Lord Darth Tyranus, during the Battle of Coruscant. Along with Dooku's own lightsaber, Anakin used it to kill the Sith Lord by cutting off his head. Anakin later lost the weapon when captured during the rescue of Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine to an OOM command battle droid aboard General Grievous's flagship, the Invisible Hand. The weapon was then given by droid to Grievous, who briefly added it to his collection, but Kenobi used a trick of the Force with the help of a distraction from R2-D2 to recover it and returned it to Anakin. He would wield this weapon when he chose Darth Sidious over Mace Windu, resulting in Sidious murdering Windu.

As Darth Vader, he subsequently employed the weapon to murder numerous Jedi during the execution of Order 66 and the siege of the Jedi Temple; among the victims were Cin Drallig, Whie Malreaux, Shaak Ti, and an entire group of younglings. Following this, he used the saber to assassinate the entire Separatist Council during his Mission to Mustafar. He then used the weapon to duel his former master on Mustafar. However, Vader lost the weapon when he was defeated and crippled, the lightsaber falling from his hand to the ashy shores. Reluctantly leaving his former apprentice to burn in the lava, Kenobi retrieved the lightsaber and took it with him.

However shortly after being reconstructed into a cyborg, Vader manage to replace it with using another lightsaber and bleed its kyber crystal from green to red. Vader used the curved-hilt lightsaber until it was subsequently destroyed during an attempt on Vader's life on Cabarria, during which the hilt was shattered by the combined strain of a tractor rifle and Vader's pulling it back with the Force. Salvaging the crystal, Vader soon craft a new hilt for it that also contained a dual-phase feature.

After the duel on Mustafar, Anakin's lightsaber was buried alongside Kenobi's lightsaber in a chest out in the desert of Tatooine to both avoid using them and hide Kenobi's identity as a Jedi. However, when Senator Bail Organa begged him to leave Tatooine to save his daughter Leia Organa, Kenobi uncovered the chest. After Kenobi returned to Tatooine, he took the chest with him when moving to a new home.

Anakin's lightsaber stayed in Obi-Wan's keeping for nineteen years, until he had the chance to give it to Luke, Anakin's son, after saving the young Skywalker from a Tusken Raider attack. At his home, Kenobi gave Skywalker his father's lightsaber, explaining that his father wanted him to have it when he was old enough, but his uncle Owen Lars wouldn't allow it, fearing that Skywalker would follow in his father's footsteps and join Kenobi on some "damn fool idealistic crusade."

After the death of his aunt and uncle, Skywalker became Kenobi's apprentice and began learning the ways of the Jedi. During his voyage to Alderaan, Skywalker began training with the weapon onboard the Millennium Falcon, using the Jedi form of Form I to deflect blaster bolts from a training remote. While rescuing Princess Leia Organa from the Death Star battle station, Skywalker had his father's weapon clipped onto his belt and used an E-11 medium blaster rifle for the remainder of the escape.

Sometime after the Battle of Yavin, Skywalker, along with R2-D2, traveled to the planet Hradreek to collect a credit chip. After acquiring the chip, the he felt a disturbance in the Force and entered a room where he discovered an old lightsaber. Luke then used the weapon to slaughter a squad of Imperial stormtroopers who discovered him with the corpses. To avoid more Imperial forces Skywalker stole a podracer, which he eventually crashed. After evading the Empire, Skywalker decided that the lightsaber was too dangerous to be kept in one piece, and used his blue-bladed lightsaber to destroy the weapon.

Following Kenobi's untimely demise at the hands of Darth Vader and the subsequent Battle of Yavin, Skywalker began to teach himself how to wield his father's weapon. On the moon of Cymoon 1, Skywalker participated in an assault to infiltrate and destroy the Weapons Factory Alpha. After the Force guided Skywalker to a cage filled with Imperial slaves, he was confronted by a guard. Skywalker first attempted to use a Jedi mind trick to ward the guard off, but when that failed, Skywalker ignited his lightsaber and sliced the guard's hand off, allowing Skywalker to break the slaves out of their cage and lead them to the other Rebels.

When he found out that Darth Vader had arrived on the moon, Skywalker searched for him in the facility, as he still believed that Vader was the man who killed his father. As Skywalker approached the Dark Lord, he had his lightsaber drawn and activated as he came face to face with his father's so-called killer.

Vader mocked Luke for his lack of training in lightsaber combat, and he easily pulled the lightsaber out of Luke's grasp through the Force. However, before Vader could strike the unarmed Luke down, he suddenly recognized Luke's lightsaber as his own former weapon. Luke managed to escape from Vader after Han Solo and Leia Organa broke through the wall with a stolen AT-AT, while Vader used Luke's lightsaber to kill several escaped slaves. Luke was able to retrieve the weapon when Vader was shot at using the walker's guns, and continued to use it, but the encounter left Vader eager to convert Luke to his side.

When Skywalker returned to Tatooine to learn more about the ways of the Jedi, Skywalker used his lightsaber to defend himself against Tusken Raiders that were raiding Kenobi's home, managing to scare them off. He also used it against the bounty hunter Boba Fett, who was sent by Vader to capture and learn more about Skywalker. Though Luke managed to escape from Fett, the bounty hunter was still able to inform Vader of Luke's surname, which would make Vader even more obsessed with finding young Skywalker.

After escaping Tatooine, Luke felt that he had to visit the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. To find someone that would take him safely to Coruscant, he traveled to Nar Shaddaa. After entering a bar, the Zabrak bartender ordered the bar's patrons to kill him. As he was about to be attacked by the mob of customers, Luke ignited his lightsaber in defense. The bartender stopped, and offered to sneak him onto Coruscant in return for the lightsaber. Skywalker declined the offer, so the bartender once again told his customers to kill him. Luke tried to defend himself, but the lightsaber was stolen by a thief, who ran off with it.

Luke chased after the thief, who leapt off a roof and grabbed onto a passing ship. Luke leapt after him, knocking both the thief and his lightsaber to the ground. After landing, Luke retrieved his lightsaber, but turned around to find Grakkus the Hutt behind him, declaring the lightsaber his property. Luke refused, and Grakkus sent two IG-100 MagnaGuards after him. He tried to fight back, but one of the droids struck him with its electrostaff, knocking him to the ground. Grakkus knocked Skywalker out, taking both him and his lightsaber to his palace. Once at Grakkus' palace, Luke was sent to face off against a man known as "the Gamemaster," who returned his lightsaber to him. At first, Luke was unsuccessful in defending himself against the Gamemaster, who managed to knock him down onto the ground. Luke continued to duel, both against the Gamemaster, and then against several more MagnaGuards. Grakkus then put Luke up against "Kongo the Disembowler," but gave him a green-bladed lightsaber that was not his own.

While engaged in combat with the roggwart, R2-D2 located Luke's lightsaber and delivered it to him. At the time, Luke was being forcibly removed by several TIE fighter pilots. After recovering his weapon, Luke dispatched the pilots. However, he then faced the Gamemaster, who revealed himself to be an Imperial stormtrooper. Grakkus intervened before the Gamemaster could capture Luke, and Luke, having escaped the Gamemaster, was rescued by his companions.

Skywalker, still in pursuit of Jedi knowledge, journeyed to Vrogas Vas and discovered the existence of a Jedi Temple there. With the aid of Doctor Aphra, Vader located Luke on Vrogas Vas. Luke subsequently crashed his X-wing into Vader's TIE Advanced, resulting in both ships crash-landing on the planet. Aphra, who had been tailing Vader, managed to abduct Luke with assistance from the protocol droid 0-0-0. Han Solo and Chewbacca also arrived on Vrogas Vas and encountered Aphra. Chewbacca tore off one of Triple-Zero's arms, enabling Luke to break free. Luke then activated his lightsaber, severing the droid's remaining arm before impaling Triple-Zero's torso. Although Triple-Zero survived, the injuries slowed him down, allowing Luke, Han, Chewbacca, and R2-D2 to escape.

During the Rebel Alliance's attempt to commandeer the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer known as the Harbinger, SCAR Squadron, led by Sergeant Kreel (whom Luke had previously encountered as the Gamemaster on Nar Shaddaa), boarded the Star Destroyer. Luke and Kreel engaged in a duel, with Luke defending himself using his lightsaber. As they fought, Darth Vader arrived above Tureen VII and instructed Kreel to keep Luke alive. Kreel managed to knock Luke down while Luke's attention was diverted by Vader's presence, but Luke retaliated, trapping Kreel under a pile of debris.

After examining a journal entry penned by Kenobi, Luke traveled to a planet within the Vagadarr system. There, he encountered Garro, a former Rockhawker who had instructed Yoda in the ways of the stonepower. Garro, needing Luke's life force to eliminate the remnants of the giants who once inhabited the planet, attacked Luke with several knives crafted from blue stone. Luke responded by igniting his lightsaber, informing Garro that he preferred to let the creatures live. After deflecting multiple knives thrown by Garro, Garro understood what he needed to do and sacrificed himself to restore life to the planet. Subsequently, Luke utilized his lightsaber as a light source while exploring the caves of the great mountain.

Doctor Aphra, seeking to persuade the Queen of Ktath'atn to activate her Rur crystal, journeyed to Ktath'atn alongside Luke Skywalker, hoping that the Queen would exchange him for the crystal's activation. However, the Queen had no intention of providing anything in return, instead unleashing Abersyn symbiotes upon them. As Luke and Aphra fled through the Citadel of Ktath'atn, Luke paused, drawing his lightsaber to fend off a swarm of possessed zombies. Before he could act, Han Solo crashed Aphra's ship, the Ark Angel II, nearby. Sana Starros, who was aboard the ship, fired at Aphra, but Luke intercepted the shot with his lightsaber. They were then compelled to flee from the Queen's servants, with Luke continuously using his lightsaber to deflect their blaster fire.

After the Queen captured Luke, intending to consume his Jedi energy, his lightsaber was confiscated and placed on a nearby table. Luke managed to escape the machine holding him, retrieved his lightsaber, and brandished it at the Queen. The Queen vanished and reappeared nearby. Before she could attack, Aphra triggered an explosion, breaching the wall. An Abersyn symbiote infected Luke, and he confronted the Queen. With the assistance of Eternal Rur, Luke broke free from the parasite and struck down the Queen with his lightsaber.

Following a crash landing with Leia on an ocean planet, Luke was compelled to employ his lightsaber in combat against indigenous wildlife, such as the spikeshark. Three weeks after the crash, they discovered an aquatic species native to the planet. Upon their initial encounter, Luke activated his lightsaber but deactivated it upon realizing the creatures were harmless. Understanding that their presence endangered the species, they inadvertently attracted the Empire, who had been searching for them, to the island where they were stranded. The Imperials launched an assault on the island using walkers and shoretroopers, and Luke employed his lightsaber to eliminate several troopers. Luke and Leia successfully repelled the Imperial forces and escaped the planet.

On the moon of Jedha, Luke wielded his lightsaber to shield several members of the Partisans from a contingent of snowtroopers. During their escape on a spamel, Luke deflected blaster fire from a patrol transport, enabling them to reach the Millennium Falcon unharmed. While in the settlement of Ai-jed, Luke observed stormtroopers incinerating the inhabitants. Without hesitation, Luke activated his lightsaber and attacked the stormtroopers, eliminating the entire group. This incident deepened Luke's understanding of the stakes on Jedha, and he resolved to do more to help.

Benthic escorted Luke to a drill citadel deployed by the Empire on the moon for the purpose of destroying it. Luke used his lightsaber to create an opening in the drill, allowing them to enter. Following the destruction of the drill citadel, Luke accompanied Chulco Gi to visit the shrine of the Central Isopter. En route to the shrine, they were attacked by a sand slug, which Luke dispatched with his lightsaber. They were then confronted by several cultists, who engaged them in conversation. Gi succumbed to the dark side of the Force and attacked Luke. With no alternative, Luke killed Gi with his lightsaber. Luke subsequently used his lightsaber to escape from a storage crate on the Leviathan. Once aboard the crawler, he confronted Kanchar and engaged him in combat. Kanchar utilized his cybernetic arm for defense, using a flamethrower to knock Luke back. Luke disabled Kanchar's cybernetics with an ion torpedo, allowing him to render the officer unconscious.

As part of the Rebel Alliance's mission to enlist the Mon Cala Mercantile Fleet, Leia led a team to liberate the changeling Tunga Arpagion from the Dex Acquisitions Depot on Meor Ain. When R2-D2 was unable to unlock the cell door, Luke employed his lightsaber to cut out the panel, enabling Chewbacca to break it down.

Their mission later led them to Strokill Prime, where the Mon Calamari king, Lee-Char, had been imprisoned. Once underwater, their submersible was attacked by an opee sea killer. Luke exited the craft, instructing Han to extinguish its lights. After swimming away, Luke activated his lightsaber, drawing the creature away from the submersible. As the creature moved to attack Luke, Chewbacca intervened, attempting to communicate that Luke should deactivate his lightsaber. Unable to comprehend Chewbacca, Luke kept the lightsaber activated, and Han had to translate Chewbacca's warning. Luke then deactivated his lightsaber, causing the opee sea killer to collide with a nearby rock wall.

Seeking a new operational base for the Rebellion, Luke visited the planet of Crait alongside Leia, Han, Chewbacca, and other rebels. Their guide, Trusk Berinato, betrayed them by alerting the Empire, who dispatched Kreel's SCAR Squadron to engage the rebels. During combat with stormtroopers on V-4X-D ski speeders, Luke was shot down, and his speeder crashed. Kreel confronted him, brandishing his lightsaber. Luke activated his own lightsaber, defending himself against Kreel. As they fought, several aggressive worms emerged from the ground, ensnaring Kreel. While Kreel was distracted by the worms, Luke destroyed Kreel's lightsaber with a swing of his own. However, Kreel survived the duel and fled the planet.

After Skywalker was captured by a wampa, a native creature of the ice planet Hoth, he found himself suspended upside down from the ceiling of the wampa's cave. Spotting his lightsaber on the ground, he used the Force to summon the weapon, freeing himself and severing one of the wampa's arms to facilitate his escape.

When Solo discovered Skywalker near death from exposure, he used the lightsaber to disembowel his dead tauntaun and shelter Skywalker from the elements while he constructed a shelter.

During the Battle of Hoth, Skywalker combined a grappling device with his lightsaber to breach a hatch on the underside of an Imperial AT-AT walker before depositing an explosive device to destroy it.

During his training with Jedi Master Yoda on the planet Dagobah, Skywalker entered a cave strong with the dark side as a test set by Yoda. Inside, Skywalker experienced a vision in which he confronted Darth Vader, the Dark Lord of the Sith. As Skywalker decapitated Vader with a lightsaber strike, the illusory Sith Lord's helmeted head rolled on the floor, and the face shield fractured, revealing the young Jedi's own face behind the mask.

Following his duel in the dark side cave, Skywalker received a Force vision indicating that his friends were in peril on Cloud City on Bespin. There, he faced Darth Vader in a lightsaber duel, where Skywalker showcased his newfound proficiency with the weapon, impressing even the former wielder. However, Vader ultimately prevailed, severing Skywalker's hand, which held his lightsaber. The lightsaber fell into the depths of Cloud City, leaving Luke defenseless.

After recovering from his injuries and replacing his severed hand with a synthetic one, Luke returned to Cloud City to recover his weapon. He ventured to one of the smelting chambers and enlisted the aid of the station's Ugnaught population to locate his lost weapon among the vast amount of refuse in the chamber. Luke provided a description to the Ugnaught workers, but the search proved unsuccessful as none of them recognized it. Uncertain of what else to do, Luke reached out with the Force and experienced a vision of events he had or would encounter. He realized Leia was in danger and rushed to rescue her. The vision also helped him understand that a Jedi was more than their weapon and that a lightsaber was merely a tool, leading him to abandon his search. Shortly after, one of the Ugnaught workers discovered the weapon.

For a time, he used a damaged lightsaber pike he discovered in a High Republic Jedi outpost. A year later, Skywalker constructed a new lightsaber to replace the lost one, which he subsequently used to win his rematch against Vader.

Although presumed lost in Cloud City, the lightsaber was recovered from the mining colony's industrial depths and eventually came into the possession of Maz Kanata. However, the old spacer was tight-lipped about how she acquired it. The lightsaber resurfaced approximately thirty years later on the planet Takodana when Rey, Finn, BB-8, and Han Solo visited Takodana Castle. The lightsaber awakened and called out to Rey, who entered the castle's basement and found it inside Maz's curio box. Upon touching it, she experienced a series of visions. The lightsaber acted as a vergence, providing her with insights into past events. She recoiled in horror, rejecting Kanata's offer to give her the lightsaber. Han, a close friend of Luke's, inquired about the weapon's origin, but Maz demurred, saying it was a story for another time. Finn later took it for safekeeping. Shortly after, the First Order attacked, having been informed of BB-8's presence. Although armed with an EL-16 blaster rifle, Finn used the lightsaber in the battle, killing at least one trooper by impaling him with the blade. He then fought against FN-2199, who nearly defeated him with a Z6 riot control baton before Han Solo intervened. Following the attack on Takodana, the Resistance launched an attack on Starkiller Base to prevent the First Order from firing its primary weapon at the Resistance base on D'Qar. Finn used the lightsaber again during a confrontation with Kylo Ren on Starkiller Base, taunting the dark knight to "Come get it" after Ren demanded he hand over the lightsaber. Despite his lack of formal lightsaber combat training and the inherent dangers of wielding a lightsaber, Finn put up a decent fight but was ultimately defeated and struck across the back, though not before hitting Ren's shoulder.

After incapacitating Finn, Ren attempted to summon the lightsaber to himself, regarding it as his rightful possession due to its history. However, to their mutual surprise, it instead flew past him into Rey's outstretched hand, the girl having instinctively used her powers to call it to her. Armed with the legendary lightsaber, Rey dueled and overpowered Ren with the aid of the Force. Rey and Finn were then rescued by Chewbacca aboard the Millennium Falcon. Rey took the lightsaber, along with her quarterstaff and her NN-14 blaster pistol, given to her by Solo. After discovering the planet where Luke Skywalker was hiding, Rey, accompanied by Chewbacca and R2-D2, traveled to the planet aboard the Millennium Falcon, eventually finding Luke and presenting him with his father's lightsaber.

Luke accepted the weapon from Rey, examined it briefly, and then casually discarded it over his shoulder. The lightsaber was examined by curious porgs, avians native to Ahch-To, who nearly activated it before Rey intervened and retrieved it. She kept it with her for the duration of her stay on Ahch-To. Later, she briefly used the lightsaber to train and refine her skills while Skywalker observed. Rey's strikes became increasingly faster and more aggressive until she sliced apart a rock pillar. The pillar then rolled down the hill and destroyed a wheelbarrow being pushed by native Lanai Caretakers, who were displeased.

At another point in her training, as Rey practiced telekinesis, she kept the lightsaber by her bag. However, an inquisitive porg began searching through her belongings and snatched it, attempting to flee into the ocean with it before Rey used the Force to pull the fleeing bird back to her and retrieve the weapon. The incident served as a teaching moment for Rey, who had been able to focus on the power of telekinesis to retrieve the porg.

After a fateful connection with Kylo Ren, Rey attacked Luke with her quarterstaff, demanding to know the truth about what transpired between the Jedi Master and his apprentice, Ben Solo, on the night of the Jedi temple's destruction. When Luke disarmed Rey of her melee weapon, she summoned the Skywalker lightsaber through telekinesis. Luke retreated as Rey moved into an attack position, and the scavenger lowered the lightsaber while continuing to demand the truth. After his confession, Rey offered Luke his old lightsaber once more, imploring him to join the fight against the First Order.

Disillusioned by Luke's inaction, Rey departed from Ahch-To without him. She kept the Skywalker lightsaber and brought it with her to the Supremacy, flagship of Supreme Leader Snoke, where she confronted Kylo Ren in person. Upon seeing it in her hands, he ordered Rey to surrender the lightsaber to him, asserting that it belonged to him. Although she mocked the dark warrior, recalling how the weapon had called to her instead of him, she relinquished it before his stormtroopers secured her as a prisoner of the First Order.

Ren escorted Rey to Snoke's throne room, with the lightsaber in his possession. Upon their entrance, the Supreme Leader used the Force to take the weapon from Ren, briefly admiring its design before setting the Jedi weapon down on the armrest of his throne. Rey's attempt to prevent the dark side master from probing her mind for Luke's location was unsuccessful. She then tried to reclaim the lightsaber using the Force, but Snoke overpowered her control, causing the weapon to strike her in the head before returning to his side. Snoke, using his powers to immobilize Rey, commanded Ren, his apprentice, to kill the scavenger. As he sensed Ren's thoughts with the Force, he failed to notice the Skywalker lightsaber shifting towards him due to Ren's subtle manipulation. Instead of using his own lightsaber to kill Rey, Ren activated the lightsaber that was next to Snoke, slicing him in half at the waist. Snoke's grip on Rey was lost, and in his dying moments, he could only gaze at the blue plasma blade that was cutting through him before casting a final glance at his apprentice.

As the lightsaber floated into Rey's hand, guided by Ren's Force pull, the upper portion of Snoke's body tumbled to the floor, leaving the lower half still seated on the throne. Wielding their lightsabers, they joined forces to battle the Elite Praetorian Guards. With all but one guard defeated, Rey tossed the Skywalker lightsaber to Ren, who finished off the last guard by driving the ignited blade through the Praetorian's helmet.

Following the confrontation, Ren proposed to Rey that she join him as the new Supreme Leader of the First Order, an offer she declined. She then attempted to retrieve her lightsaber using the Force. Both individuals simultaneously pulled on the weapon, creating a stalemate as they exerted their Force abilities to claim it. The pressure eventually caused the kyber crystal inside to fracture, releasing a burst of energy that sent them both flying backward, knocking Ren unconscious and shattering the lightsaber. Rey made her escape with the fragments of the relic, which was over half a century old, and brought them with her to the Battle of Crait.

During the conflict, Luke Skywalker appeared on the battlefield, seemingly wielding his father's lightsaber against Kylo Ren. However, this was merely a Force projection sent by Skywalker from Ahch-To, utilizing the power of the Force. The actual lightsaber fragments remained on the Falcon with Rey. After Leia's words of encouragement, telling Rey that "They had all they needed," Rey, as the last of the Jedi, felt inspired to repair the lightsaber.

Eventually, in 34 ABY, Rey successfully repaired the lightsaber. She accomplished this by binding the two broken pieces together with a leather strap and utilizing healing techniques learned from the sacred Jedi texts to restore the damaged kyber crystal. Rey and Kylo Ren engaged in another duel aboard the Halcyon Star Cruiser, during which Ren briefly regained possession of the Skywalker lightsaber as his birthright before Rey reclaimed it and fled. With Organa as her mentor, a training exercise devised by Organa involved Rey capturing colored ribbons tied to trees that were defended by a trio of color-coded remotes. These training remotes challenged Rey's skills in evasion and deflection by flying around her on repulsorfields, firing sting-beams to distract her. The red remote was the most persistent, and therefore the most challenging to Rey's temper.

Rey carried the lightsaber with her to Pasaana in order to locate the Sith wayfinder. After falling into a network of underground tunnels through quicksand, Rey used the plasma blade (along with Poe's small flashlight) to navigate the tunnels. Upon discovering Ochi's blade, they encountered a Vexis serpent, prompting Finn and Poe to aim their Glie-44 blaster pistols at it. Noticing the serpent's injury, Rey handed the weapon to Finn while she healed the creature. Rey later used the lightsaber when attacked by Kylo Ren in his TIE/wi modified interceptor, leaping over his fighter and slicing off one of its wings in passing, causing it to crash. Rey also used her saber on Kijimi to pin Zorii Bliss by the throat. Later, using the Bestoon Legacy to board the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Steadfast, Rey engaged Kylo Ren in a duel through their Force bond while he was on the planet's surface. Shortly afterward, on Kef Bir, after touching the Emperor's wayfinder and experiencing a Force vision, Rey used the lightsaber against a dark side version of herself wielding a hinged double-bladed lightsaber. She then used the weapon in battle against Kylo Ren for the final time amidst the ruins of the second Death Star on the ocean moon of Endor.

Following her confrontation with Ren and the revelation that the resurrected Darth Sidious was her grandfather, Rey, fearing her potential fall to the dark side, retreated to Ahch-To. She intended to spend her remaining days there in self-imposed exile, as Skywalker had done before. During this time, Rey destroyed Kylo Ren's TIE whisper, burning it on the shores of Ahch-To. She also planned to discard her saber into the flames, but the Force spirit of Luke Skywalker intervened, returning the weapon to her and reminding her of the respect it deserved. Rey then took the lightsaber, along with Leia's lightsaber, to Exegol in his old X-wing.

Using Vader's wayfinder, Rey and Sidious faced each other during the Battle of Exegol. The fallen Emperor, his spirit trapped in an imperfect clone, urged his granddaughter to kill him with her Jedi lightsaber and assume his position on the Throne of the Sith as "Empress Palpatine." This would ensure the transfer of the Sith Lord's essence into Rey, allowing him to possess her body and renew the Sith Eternal to rule a new Sith Empire. Initially, Rey refused her grandfather's offer, holding firm to the Jedi path, until Sidious threatened to destroy the Resistance, breaking her resolve. The ritual began with Sidious declaring the death of the Jedi Order as Rey raised her saber toward him. However, instead of delivering the final blow, the lightsaber vanished from her grasp and reappeared in the hands of Ben Solo.

Rejecting the dark side, the former Kylo Ren returned to Exegol to fight the Emperor alongside Rey. Having discarded his Sith lightsaber on Kef Bir, he was only armed with a blaster pistol and his Force abilities. He charged into Sidious' lair, swiftly eliminating several Sovereign Protectors until the Knights of Ren blocked his path. They surrounded their former master, attacking him with their weapons until Solo revealed the Skywalker lightsaber, his family's heirloom, in his hand. Sensing his presence, which now radiated pure light instead of the dark side, Rey transferred the lightsaber to Solo. He paused to savor the feeling of the lightsaber in his hand, instantly recognizing it as his own. Once again, a Skywalker wielded the lightsaber crafted by Anakin Skywalker.

Solo swiftly defeated the Knights of Ren; unlike Ren, who was ruthless, Solo sought to show mercy to his former followers by granting them swift deaths. After the last Knight fell to the Skywalker blade, Solo entered the Emperor's throne room and reunited with Rey. They stood together against Sidious, their lightsabers raised in unison as the Sith Lord proclaimed their impending demise. He overpowered both Jedi using the dark side, disarming them and forcing them to their knees as he began draining their life force to revitalize himself.

The revitalized Emperor cast Solo into a chasm, intending for the last Skywalker to perish as he had before. However, the spirits of the Jedi rallied to Rey's aid, empowering her weakened body to make a final stand against her grandfather. Wielding both Skywalker lightsabers as a shield against Sidious' Force lightning, Rey mustered her remaining strength to redirect the Emperor's attack back at him, destroying his body. Although this effort resulted in Rey's death, Solo sacrificed his own life to revive her, an act that ultimately led to his own demise as the last Skywalker. After Solo became one with the Force, Rey retrieved both lightsabers before departing from Exegol.

Following the defeat of the Final Order, Rey constructed her own yellow-bladed lightsaber using parts from her quarterstaff. Rey journeyed to the Lars homestead on Tatooine, where she laid the two Skywalker lightsabers to rest at the old moisture farm, wrapping them in cloth and burying them near the grave of Shmi Skywalker.

Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith was crafted to resemble Luke Skywalker's lightsaber from Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope and Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, as they are considered the same weapon within the canon. While both characters wielded the lightsaber, it was first identified as the "Skywalker lightsaber" in Star Wars Lightsabers: A Guide to Weapons of the Force.

The original hilt used by Mark Hamill in A New Hope was fashioned from the flash attachment of a Graflex 3 cell flash unit, a flash tube attachment commonly used on press cameras from the 1940s. The ridged grips were created by attaching sections of hard plastic T-track, typically used for cabinet sliding doors (often mistaken for wiper blades), to the bare cylinder. The switch plate was made from the LED display of an Exactra 19 or 20 calculator. Additionally, a D-ring assembly was added to the bottom. The lightsaber in The Empire Strikes Back was also based on a Graflex, but the 'T' tracks were screwed on instead of glued and numbered only 6 instead of 7. The switch plate was replaced with a circuit board fragment, the Graflex logo was covered with mylar tape, and a portion of a Kobold camera flash was used to construct the D-ring assembly.

In a blooper, Grievous is seen using Anakin's lightsaber during his duel scene on Utapau. Similarly, Sidious' lightsaber is sometimes replaced by Skywalker's lightsaber in the duel scene in Palpatine's office.

For Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, authentic Graflex flash units were utilized to create the lightsaber props. They were designed as a hybrid of the A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back versions, incorporating the "glass eye" and "beer tab" top half components from A New Hope, along with circuit boards and 'T' tracks attached via screws on the bottom half from The Empire Strikes Back. To conceal the Graflex logo, a "wrap" was created to cover most of the flash unit's clamp. The clamp appears to have a more golden hue in The Force Awakens.

The original script for The Force Awakens initially intended to open the film with the lightsaber falling through space, tracing its history and explaining how Maz Kanata acquired it. However, director J.J. Abrams decided to discard the idea, hinting that it was a story that could be explored later.

The words "Made by the Former Graflex Corp" "Rochester, New York, USA" are visible on the bottom of the lightsaber.