Lightsaber
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.
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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
- Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 1 (first appearance)
- Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 2
- Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 3
- Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 4
- Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 6
- Tales of the Jedi – The Sith War 1
- Tales of the Jedi – The Sith War 2
- Tales of the Jedi – The Sith War 3
- Tales of the Jedi – The Sith War 5
- The Secret Journal of Doctor Demagol
- Knights of the Old Republic 47 (in a flashback)
- Knights of the Old Republic 48
- Knights of the Old Republic 49
- Knights of the Old Republic 50
- Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Darth Plagueis (mentioned only)
- Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter (mentioned only)
- Star Wars Journal: Darth Maul (mentioned only)
- The Wrath of Darth Maul (as a hologram)
Linked from
The best-known articles that mention Exar Kun's lightsaber.
- Darth Plagueis (novel)
- Double-bladed lightsaber
- Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 1
- Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 3
- Tales of the Jedi – The Sith War 2
- Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 6
- Tales of the Jedi – The Sith War 1
- Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 2
- Knights of the Old Republic 48
- Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 4
- Tales of the Jedi – The Sith War 3
- Tales of the Jedi – The Sith War 5