Kylo Ren's Lightsaber

[Darth Sibilus]

I was watching the Force Awakens for the second time today, and started to think about something I noticed the first time around - the lightsaber of Kylo Ren. If you notice, the blade sparks and spits more than the usual lightsaber. Could this be the result of an unstable crystal? Or poor design? In the Force Unleashed, I remember seeing lightsabers like that - it may just be a different type of crystal than the one typically used.

What do you think?

 

[Tanith Alde]

[member="Jurs Deyi"] My bet is a noobie sith's badly made crystal

 

[Thurion Heavenshield]

[member="Jurs Deyi"]

Yes, his lightsaber is quite obviously constructed by his own hand and not as refined as the Skywalker saber that Rey uses. It's a neat way of having it be as unpredictable and flawed as its wielder.

 

[Darth Carnifex]

The kyber crystal in Kylo Ren's lightsaber is cracked, and thus it produces a rather unstable looking beam that parallels perfectly with his unstable mentality. The crossguards are actually vents that discharge excess energy given off by the cracked crystal so the whole thing doesn't explode whenever its turned on. The design of the hilt itself is a crude throwback to an ancient design dated back to the Great Scourge of Malachor.

Sadly the weapon was destroyed in the big fight between Kylo and Rey.

[member="Jurs Deyi"]

 

[Tanith Alde]

[member="Thurion Heavenshield"]

Actually in the novel Heir to the Jedi Skywalker discovers the saber that Kylo uses, just lacking a red crystal

 

[Darth Carnifex]

Naw, Kylo Ren constructed his own lightsaber.

The one found by Luke Skywalker in Heir to the Jedi was Huulik's Lightsaber.

[member="Elizabeth Verdan"]

 

[Azlyn Ike]

*hides her saber*

It is a cool one and well it seemed at first like a crossguard saber before you saw it in the movie. Still if you wanted to make one like it, crossguards are the way to go for the fun of it and instead of it being vented you can control them activating.

 

[Darth Ferus]

I liked how his Lightsaber resembled the blast from the Star Killer super weapon.

 

[Komo]

This really neat picture here shows the design of Kylo Ren's lightsaber. Yes, it does indeed house a cracked kyber crystal. The reason it sounds different is because of an unstable plasma blade matrix.

http://i.imgur.com/P4K2dVD.jpg

 

[Connor Harrison]

Nice find - I love how he has an "accusing finger".

The design is great, and proving as effective yet volatile and eager to better everything and everyone than Kylo himself is. Cracked cell; cracked mind.

 

[Seraphina Shel'tah]

This really neat picture here shows the design of Kylo Ren's lightsaber. Yes, it does indeed house a cracked kyber crystal. The reason it sounds different is because of an unstable plasma blade matrix.

http://i.imgur.com/P4K2dVD.jpg

Wouldn't this mean that at the very least Malachor and Revan were retained as canon then? It seems to suggest that.

 

[Darth Carnifex]

Not at all, [member="Seraphina Shel'tah"]

The faint mention of a Legends planet in Canon does not warrant the entire inclusion of its Legends history and character involved with it.

They may or may not decide to expand on this new canon piece, or they might not.

 

[Seraphina Shel'tah]

[member="Darth Vornskr"]

I wasn't saying that, I just meant that seeing the information shown there, them referencing the source of that material that in the very least his persona and that planet were retained, no? Which could potentially also explain partially why Kylo's mask is shaped the way it is.

Just a theory...

 

[Darth Carnifex]

Unless they specifically state anything relating to what happened in Legends, then we have to take what we get at face value.

[member="Seraphina Shel'tah"]

 

[Hamish McNair]

 

[Seraphina Shel'tah]

Well...Fine then [member="Darth Vornskr"]

 

[Darth Carnifex]

<3 <3 <3

[member="Seraphina Shel'tah"]

 

[Komo]

Wouldn't this mean that at the very least Malachor and Revan were retained as canon then? It seems to suggest that.

Not too sure. Althought that picture is from an official book called the The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary

 

[Lahi Te'ala]

While it doesn't mean KOTOR and the like are still canon, it is important to remember that Knights of the Old Republic, The Old Republic, etc are... kind of what kept the Star Wars line afloat for a long while.

They are massively popular entries, one of which is still generating tens of millions of dollars in revenue every single year. They are loved by fans, both hardcore and casual. Disney isn't going to come out and say 'this is all dumb and non-canon' about it explicitly.


Another fact is that the whole Legends designation was explicitly put up to make it so the movies could not step on any toes - it made it so there were no novels to retcon, no comics to step on the toes of, etc. KOTOR will likely never come up in that regard, because it was explicitly placed in the far past so that it couldn't conflict with the movies and what not.

 

[Darth Prazutis]

I personally think the lightsaber is kindof cool. It really reflects Kylo Ren's unstable personality with the cracked kyber crystal though. All them mixed emotions still rumbling around inside.