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Exar Kun's lightsaber

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Legends. This article is part of Legends: the expanded-universe stories that Lucasfilm set apart from canon in 2014.

The lightsaber of Jedi Knight Exar Kun was a device that was initially created to produce a single beam of blue-white energy. However, upon his ascension to Dark Lord of the Sith, Kun redesigned his lightsaber based on instructions hidden within an antiquated Sith holocron. The finished product was a double-bladed weapon imbued with dark side energy, from which sapphire blades materialized up to 1.5 meters from either end of the hilt.

Kun wielded the single-bladed version of his lightsaber during his time as a student of Jedi Master Vodo-Siosk Baas, and with it, he earned a reputation as one of the galaxy's greatest lightsaber duelists. The modified, double-bladed saber that heralded his rise as Dark Lord of the Sith was revealed a year later, when Kun confronted and slew his former Master with it on the floor of the Galactic Senate Hall on Coruscant. With Kun's own defeat at the end of the Great Sith War, his lightsaber was lost on Yavin 4, only to be rediscovered decades later by an agent of a secret covenant of Jedi bent on the eradication of all things Sith. Quarantined and preserved for a time in the Sanctum of the Exalted on the planet Odryn, Kun's infamous lightsaber was among the Sith artifacts pillaged by the bounty-hunting Moomo Brothers, and it changed owners several times before it was eventually returned to the protection of the Jedi Council.

Text and facts from the “Exar Kun's lightsaber/Legends” article on Wookieepedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Modified for this site.

Facts

Model
Sith lightsaber
Culture
Jedi (initially)
Sith (ultimately)
Creator
Exar Kun
Created
3997 BBY (single blade)
3996 BBY (double blade)
Discovered
Double-blade revealed in 3996 BBY
Rediscovered by Celeste Morne in 3963 BBY
Owners
Exar Kun
Jedi Covenant
Demagol
Jarael
Jedi Order
Hilt shape
Cylindrical, straight
Blade type
Dual-phase
Color
Blue
Blade length
0.5–1.5 meters
Mods
Second emitter matrix installed at base of hilt
Blade intensity and length adjustment controls
Protection
Nullification resin
Capacity
Light-emitting diode at lowest setting
Full-powered lightsaber at highest setting
Purpose
Lightsaber combat
Affiliations
Jedi Order
Brotherhood of the Sith

Appearances

19 works, in story order
  1. Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 1 (first appearance)
  2. Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 2
  3. Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 3
  4. Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 4
  5. Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 6
  6. Tales of the Jedi – The Sith War 1
  7. Tales of the Jedi – The Sith War 2
  8. Tales of the Jedi – The Sith War 3
  9. Tales of the Jedi – The Sith War 5
  10. The Secret Journal of Doctor Demagol
  11. Knights of the Old Republic 47 (in a flashback)
  12. Knights of the Old Republic 48
  13. Knights of the Old Republic 49
  14. Knights of the Old Republic 50
  15. Star Wars: The Old Republic
  16. Darth Plagueis (mentioned only)
  17. Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter (mentioned only)
  18. Star Wars Journal: Darth Maul (mentioned only)
  19. The Wrath of Darth Maul (as a hologram)

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