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I thought of something the other day:

In Clones when Obi-wan hands Anakin his lightsabre back and says "This weapon is your life, try not to lose it."

I can't help but think this statement will have something to do with Anakin giving his blue blade to Obi-wan (to give to Luke). Perhaps this is Anakins last good deed, knowing that he is damned to the darkside.

who says he GIVES it?

i'm sure obi doesn't just steal it.

what if Anakin didn't listen like always and looses his weapon?

'Damned to the Dark Side' is very obscure when it is a personal choice. Nothing can force him to do it. If he's going to be doing good deeds then he wouldn't fall at all.

I am pretty sure that Obi-Wan takes 'Anakin's' sabre after their final duel and hands it to Luke knowing that if the Anakin he had known had had a son and had died, he would have wanted his son to have it.

Either he takes it like that or Anakin simply abandons his old one, as presumably Dooku did as well.

possibly....3 more years and we'll find out

perhaps not, perhaps only two with some spy reports

Ah, that old chestnut again, eh?

the lightsabre-happening should be marked is some way at least, he cant just throw it away, and obi finds it...well maybe if thats done good

i'm partial to obi wan taking it after he kicked anakin's ass.....
Maybe anaking gasps something about it from the boiling lava

It would be pretty Lame for Obi-Wan to just take the sabre without more significance, and as we all know GL would not do anything lame, would he?

there were some lame dialogues in ep. II And obi taking the saber wouldn't be lame. He would probably question his right to own a JEDI lightsaber

There probably won't be any explination at all. Boy would that boil my blood.

unless we make GL read this thread

But GL already reads all of these threads.....doesn't he?

dunno...i hope i won't have to go by his place again...just to let him know

maybe Obi Wan just built a new one for when Luke would come of age

but that would be lying? no?

yes..and i wouldn't count on it

from your point of view

Obi-Wan would not lie to Luke.

he would, he definitly would

Do you really think so?

it well could be actually

luke's saber is not made by obi and pretended to be anakin's. period

oh how sure you are, can you tell me why?

*in best Mace Windu voice*
it's not in his character

I have to agree with Yerssot on that one

i'm tellin ya...that saber belonged to anakin. The force itself told me

Or maybe Anakin abandoned it at some point before he became Vader. Whatever, I am pretty sure that it WAS Anakin's, and obviously the didn't LITERALLY give it to Obi-Wan to give to Luke but the point remains that Anakin WOULD have wanted Obi-Wan to do that.

Not that Vader seemed to mind when he sent it falling down the chute at Bespin, mind.

hmmm, well he might retrive the sabre after their alleged volcano battle.
And I guess Anakin goes by the name of Darth Vader by then, but then again he should have had a red saber...........
Hmmm (again) Obi will retrive it at some other point then..... or ..

Thinking on further what Ush said about Vader not minding when the lightsabre when falling down the chute at Bespin. Maybe when Anakin starts to turn to the dark side he creates a new Lightsabre, because a lightsabre is supposed to hold part of the characteristics of the Jedi themselves, in the changes that come about Anakin he may feel it necessary to build the new sabre, he then gives the old Sabre to Obi-Wan for him to pass onto his unborn child, I think that Vader may know that Padme is pregnant because he is quite shocked when Luke unwittingly lets his guard down and lets his emotions reveal he has a twin yet at no point is he found to be shocked at having a son.

Well, we don't know if he was shocked because he found out between ANH and ESB. It would also be odd if Vader knew but the Emperor didn't, and you would have thought that his obsessive search would have started earlier if he had known... but it is still possible.

All interesting points. But I still think Obi-wan's comments in Clones will have something to do with the sabre Luke gets.

"This weapon is your life, try not to lose it." Try not to lose your life, so give your life to your son. Give the sabre to your son? I don't know.

and I am sure Anakin knows nothing of any offsprings, not as Anakin nor as Vader.
Obi said, in ROTJ, "the Emperor knew as I did if Anakin was to have any offsprings they would become a treath to him".

Either Obi picks up a saber that belonged to Anakin or he makes it himself.

A great thing too have:

I think Obi Wan will take it from amongst Anakins' things left at the Temple whenever Anakin turns and abandons the order. I bet its one of the very last scenes.

possibly..but what would anakin fight obi with?

maybe he'll build a new one....you know a spare....(persona;lly I doubt the possibility as well)

Maybe it's a gift from sidious..that put's an end to things. Naaah....too complicated.
I think obi pics it after he kicks his pdawan butt

Wouldn't it be a buzzkill if the issue was never delt with?

don't even think the thought!

I can go for that

a lightsaber is very handy as a weapon, but I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say "this weapon is your life...."

well, you can't just quit the order... sure, you can run away though

uh does anyone know what he was talking about?

yerssot is drunk again.

"This weapon is your life" HAS to do with Obi-wan later giving the sabre to Luke. It would be stupid if it didn't. George Lucas needs to tie the trillogies together more.

It doesn't have to be that at all! It's just a point about the importance of a sabre to a Jedi. I think they are pretty well tied as they are.

Maybe.

why tie them.....they're so different and that's a good thing

Maybe when obi-wan knocks Anakin into the lava, when he is retrieved from the lava he tells Obi-Wan to give the saber to his son. Which would connect with "This saber is your life". But then again it could be anything else.

I dont think he would have a family chat with obi after being retreived from the lava. I belive Obi wan made a saber for Luke, I dont think Vader was awere of any children before after the Yavin battle

anakin from hot boiling lava
g..give...cchhhh.....give this *gasps* saber...t...to my son. quick ...quick man, before it melts.

Like I have said before, Obi-Wan knew that Anakin would have wanted any son of his to have his sabre, even if this request was not actually made in person, for obvious reasons. I believe the sabre IS Anakin's.

So do I. Although.... I did find that Anakin's sabre in AOTC looked very much like Vader's in the OT and less like Luke's in ANH.

I think Obi makes it for Luke

Well, he has been known to be a liar.... so why not.

yeah

While we're talking about giving lightsabers away . . . What happened to Qui-Gon's green lightsaber? Obi-Wan kept at the end of TPM, yet he has a blue lightsaber at the beginning of AOTC.

he made his own, guess that is about the pride of a jedi to make your own saber

And put QGJ's sabre in his personal museum.

or his utility drawer

All those rumours about Luke's ROTJ sabre, of course...

what rumours

Yeah, what rumours?

It's an AGE old fan rumour that Luke's sabre in ROTJ is green because he built it out of QGJ's old one, found in Obi-Wan's hut.

Many fans insist that Luke's green lightsaber wasn't Qui-Gon's because Shadows of the Empire has Luke building his own lightsaber in it. SOTE is EU and that means it isn't written in stone. I just think it would suck if some future (EU) novel has Obi-Wan losing Qui-Gon's green lightsaber or having it get destroyed.

You can actually argue that as the sabre-building but was in the radio play, it has come claim to canonicity. But in any case the sabres are not the same, clearly- the idea is that it was built with the PARTS from QGJ's.

Hmmmm.... well, who knows. A bit lame, but ok.

very lame

Yup

extremly lame

Yup again.

I'd buy that! That's not really lame,if one takes a moment to reflect on this statement from Ushgarak:If it is widely excepted that the events in Shadows of the Empire are correct in explaining Luke Skywalker's new sabre in "Return of the Jedi",then why not go further and say he used parts from Qui-Gon Jinn's sabre,which Ob-Wan kept all these years? I think that is as good an explanation as any,my friends.

When anakin falls into the lava, or whatever. obi-wan thinks he is dead so he picks up his lightsaber and keeps it until Luke is old enough.

Both thoughts are equally plausible, I think.