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My friend's son asked how Luke got his green lightsaber, I sent my husband an email to ask him. In the mean time I did a search on the web to find out and I was directed to this post. My husband got back to me and told me Luke constructed it, but said that Obi-Wan is never seen taking Qui-Gon's lightsaber apart. Where did you get this idea from, we are both very curious :0).

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Kelly




Qui-Gon's lightsaber and Luke's...ONE IN THE SAME?

OK before you get ready to flame me...atleast allow me the courtesy of not quoting EU as arguements against me.

Qui-Gon is using a green lightsaber.

When Obi-Wan loses his own, he takes Qui-Gon's.

When Obi-Wan thinks he kills Anakin with that lightsaber...HE TAKES IT APART, because he doesn't want to think about killing his friend. To him, his friend is dead. Just like he tells Luke.

Now when Luke returns to rescue Han on Tattooine, he finds the crystal from Qui-Gon's lightsaber (remember Obi-Wan took it apart), and contructs his own lightsaber around it. never realizing the significance of it.

I think this would add to the continuity of the saga. And have added significance in the scene when Anakin first sees Qui-Gon's lightsaber. Remember that look on Ani's face when he first sees it?

But if you read EU or the encyclopedias well then I'm full of crap.

But if I'm right, Darth Vader will have been turned back by his Son...carrying the same lightsaber Qui-Gon had used years earlier...who FREED Anakin from slavery and FOUGHT to have him trained as a Jedi.

(So just to reiterate...Obi-Wan uses Qui-Gon's lightsaber, kills Anakin with it in Ep III, and is so disgusted by the memory that he takes the lightsaber apart...now when Luke returns to Tattooine to rescue Han he finds the crystal from Qui-Gon's lightsaber and uses it to build his own)

The irony is THIS is the moment when Anakin looks back on his life, and Qui-Gon, who believed in him so much, and when he looks back he realizes what he's done and turns back.

Darth Vader: "I see you have constructed a new lightabser."

Simple as that. He made a new saber. It has nothing to do with Qui Gon. The reason it's green is because a blue saber on a blue background (Luke on Jabba's sail barge) would not have been very effective.

That may be so, but KMS does make a valid point. But I don't remember Obi-Wan using Qui-Gons saber against Anakin, or am I missing something here?

What the hell are you guys talking about? From Episode I to III, Obi-wan uses Qui-Gon's lightsaber only once - to kill Darth Maul. That's it. From there on in, it's Obi-wan's lightsaber all the way. Luke constructs a NEW, unique lightsaber from scratch. That's why I find it ridiculous that all the Jedi are running around with all these different coloured lightsabers in the PT - Luke's green lightsaber was meant to be unique.

IGMB is long gone, which is no bad thing.

The origin of this rumour came about simply out of an attempt at logical deduction- Luke built his sabre at Obi-Wan's old hut (this was scripted but not used in the final film; it was used in the radio version), and his sabre is green, so perhaps he built the sabre out of parts of Qui-Gon's that Obi-Wan had kept and were still at his hut.

A subset of this was trying to explain why Luke's sabre was green back in the days when many people thought that Blue was for a Knight, and Green for a Master- like all attempts to explain sabre colour, that went out the window ages ago.

So there is no actual film or GL based comment on this- it was simply an attempt at logical speculation.

Originally posted by DeVi| D0do
The reason it's green is because a blue saber on a blue background (Luke on Jabba's sail barge) would not have been very effective.
I believe in one trailer of ROTJ, look is holding up a blue sabre on the sail barge actually... this is more of a note than something else cause indeed, it was not effective at all