Combat stick

A combat stick was a type of handheld melee weapon. Soft-coat sticks were a type of combat stick and, while they maintained the same weight and balance as real combat sticks, were mainly used for training and sparring purposes. Between 39 BBY and 37 BBY, the Chiss cadets Mitth'raw'nuruodo, core name "Thrawn," and Irizi'ar'alani, core name "Ziara," sparred with soft-coat sticks at a dojo on the Chiss Ascendancy planet of Naporar.

In 2 BBY, the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader and Thrawn, who had since become a Grand Admiral of the Galactic Empire, visited a cantina in Black Spire Outpost on the planet Batuu. While in the cantina, several Darshi warriors passed tan-colored combat sticks among themselves before they used them to attack the pair. The Sith Lord and the Chiss quickly defeated the Darshi, killing and neutralizing them.

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