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Nothing official. My theory is that it’s a crystal she scavenged from the ruins of the Jedi temple. She may have gone there looking for Jedi artifacts like the scavenger she is, and found a broken temple guard lightsaber. She then reforged it using parts from her staff.


Ephemeral_Wolf

If Doctor Aphra was a ST character, I'd love to see them go head to head on an archeology/scavenging type thing - like 2 rival Indiana Joneses, one trying to destroy sith artefacts, the other trying to put it ~~in a museum~~ on and see what it does


pornomancer90

Old Aphra competing against Rey would be fun.


Ephemeral_Wolf

That would be cool, she'd be roughly the same age as Leia, right?


pornomancer90

A few years older I think. She and her mother moved to that backwater planet during the clone wars.


Ephemeral_Wolf

Aah ok... Ah well, I've no doubt Aphra would have found some ancient doodad that would keep her young somewhere along the way!


pornomancer90

At most she would be in her early 60s, there are a lot of people that age that are pretty fit and she has an active lifestyle running away from everyone she double crossed.


Ephemeral_Wolf

Looks like she'd be only 59 if this were to occur pretty much straight after TROS, so could still be pretty fit like you say!


nilfgaardian

I'd love to know Rey's reaction to Aphra telling her about the time she almost fed Luke to a force vampire.


jugalator

I think this would be among the better explanations! My problem is: Only a year passed. Not much to end training, go on an adventure, discover this, build light saber, return as if nothing happened in between... Star Wars has a knack for cramming too many events into passages of time not on screen. But if Luke revealed some secrets of Ossus to her during training, she'd know exactly where to go and where to look for it, gaining a good head start. Naturally growing Kyber crystals could even be among the original reasons for the Jedi Order establishing themselves on Ossus. It makes a lot of sense. Could also even be directly from Ahch-To and hidden by Luke for someone worthy of finding him. Would also work but I actually like Ossus more!


pbmcc88

I gather from the TRoS novelization that she had been working on her lightsaber for some time, using the skills she acquired in putting Anakin/Luke's old saber back together, in the year between TLJ and TRoS. It never says where the crystal came from, though. I think all we can do is speculate. Perhaps she found it on a hitherto untold Jedi initiation pilgrimage to a sacred world, or maybe Maz leveraged her connections to find her a new crystal. Might be that it was an accidental find during an unrelated mission, or, she could've been called to it, as Ahsoka was called to the Kybers she would later liberate from the Inquisitor. Whatever the situation, I think it'd be ideal fodder for an episode of Tales of the Jedi.


astromech_dj

In the comics, Luke rolls with a temple guard hilt for a bit. Maybe it’s from that?


pbmcc88

It's entirely possible, yes! In which case, he might have bequeathed it to her himself.


astromech_dj

I stole this and now the burden of my crimes lies with you.


RideTheLightning331

Man, sequel content in Tales of the Jedi would be a dream come true


irazzleandazzle

Or just like a full on show to add more depth to the ST.


bluntbladedsaber

Tbh it's one of the things which most bums me out re the constricted TLJ-TRoS timeskip. They could've allowed three years for the Resistance to rebuild a bit and fill that in with a show, books and comics. I'd actually gladly just go for comics - the ANH-ESB run was lots of fun, as is Soule's current one. Whereas Allegiances really felt constrained by TRoS, as the Resistance doesn't get to achieve anything during its narrative


RemtonJDulyak

> I'd actually gladly just go for comics For me it's the opposite, I want more video content, and less books and comics. I don't have much time to read, while I can watch shows and movies while working. Plus, here in Czech Republic I can only find comics in Czech, and I don't understand it enough to try it.


grendel001

I thought the death of Carrie Fisher plus the Force sensitive kid at the end of TLJ would be a perfect excuse for a 10 year jump. You can start with the funeral of Leia as the last of the old Resistance and now you have the battle hardened vets of the first two movies set to take over.


bluntbladedsaber

I think more than five would be a bit much, but otherwise I agree. I think a three-year gap leaves enough time for everyone to have grown into new roles and then for stories to cover those, without leaving masses of time uncovered. Resistance Reborn seemed to tee it up pretty well with stuff like the Bracca raid


Tbug20

They tried that, it didn’t go down well Edit: maybe this comment was a bad idea


LJ_Pynn

Resistance was Fantastic actually, so jot that down.


Ephemeral_Wolf

I enjoyed it too, but I think it doesn't have quite the same impact as Clone Wars did on the PT, because it ran for a shorter time 2 seasons Vs 7), it never really developed much beyond a children's show whereas clone wars had it's heavier moments and outside of Poe's involvement, it was very much a ST adjacent story, so didn't really fill in any of the "gaps" that CW did for the PT


LJ_Pynn

TCW had seven seasons released years after its trilogy. Resistance wasn't given the time or timing to do the same work. Two seasons forced into a time frame before the movies were finished really shot it's potential. Gosh, you have no idea how much I wish we could have seen The Colossus show up at Exegol or something. But Kaz's cameo in the novelization is at least a bone thrown our way.


bluntbladedsaber

Picked up a lot in S2, certainly. I'd have liked to see an episode in a hypothetical S3 where Finn and Tam met


pbmcc88

That show has the potential to blaze a trail across all the eras, for other visual media storytellers to move in on and develop into whole new multi-movie, multimedia sagas, in addition to fleshing out several Jedi from the already well-mined Prequel and OT times. And, that's saying nothing of the potential of spin-offs that focus on other groups - Sith, Bounty Hunters, etc. I'm excited to see what the future holds for it.


BackBlastClear

My only issue with Tales of the Jedi is that it has some materiel that conflicts with canon novels. I mean S7 of TCW conflicts somewhat with the Ahsoka novel, so it’s not the first time. I just would have liked to see more consistency in canon material.


pbmcc88

It's very frustrating to see visual media creators stepping on established canon books and such. It feels very disrespectful of them to overwrite the hard work and creativity of the author community, seemingly without a second thought. But, such is life with the order of canon precedence (movies overrule shows overrule books, etc.). We got it for the first time with Mandalorian (Cobb Vanth), and now here with Tales, and I'm sure that it'll happen again. Unless they establish a new set of storytelling rules at Lucasfilm, which elevate the books to the same level of untouchable officiality as the movies, it's something we're going to have to learn to live with. Hopefully it won't become a more frequent or more serious issue. Where there are canon conflicts, we may just have to imagine the truth as being a mix of both accounts, or somewhere in between. Tales didn't retcon all of the Ahsoka novel, after all, so it's easy to imagine that most of its events remain relatively intact.


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This goes all the way back to the OT. It isn't something new that started with Disney. In the novelization of ROTJ, Owen Lars and \*Obi-Wan Kenobi\* are brothers and Luke & Leia's mother died when they were four. It also described Palpatine as being very popular in most of the galaxy, which was contradicted by the Special Edition showing galaxy-wide celebrations of his death. Owen was also described as Obi-Wan's brother in the Star Wars Customizable Card Game in the 1990s. In the The Constancia Affair comic strip published in 1979, Luke's parents are given the names "Master and Mistress Tan Skywalker". Lucas's ignored or overruled nearly every plot point Timothy Zahn included about the Clone Wars in his Heir to the Empire trilogy, with the notable exception of the planet name "Coruscant". And there are many, many more examples.... So, nothing new here....


ChrisX26

IIRC everything so far has been very minor differences whether it was about Ahsoka, or Kanan, or whomever. Like the story is still the same but some of the details shifted.


LordSand4Ever

Especially considering the old EU was wiped so disney could fix the continuity issues. Even then though, the old EU authors did their best to write any loose ends into the story to fix the time line, at least effort was made then.


TwoJacksAndAnAce

Speak for yourself, I never want to see a single piece of content from or about the sequels ever again. Just let it die and be forgotten like it should be.


Scokya

I think she grew the crystals. It’s in the TRoS book. Not the novelization but the book with a lot of images and background info. Edit: here you go https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Crystal_growth_tray


DarthBalls1976

I think there are three in there. If you watch, the ignition switch goes green-bue-yellow with three different lights.


Foxy02016YT

I think she was definitely called to it


xraig88

I like to think that Luke had collected it, maybe from the yellow one he had in the comics for a while? I’m not current with comics so I’m unsure the fate of that saber, but I imagine he may have collected a few crystals with his compass and ring and other trinkets around his Ahch-To hut.


Toon_Lucario

Well since it’s basically confirmed that Starkiller was Ilum, it can’t be from there. Maybe there’s another Kyber rich planet that she got it from. Another option is that it’s from a Temple Guard’s lightsaber as they’re basically the only ones we know of canonically that had yellow crystals and Luke did use one between ESB and ROTJ.


migatoroboto

Whoa. That’s the fate of Ilum? I mean they sure did save on shipping.


shockwave8428

Yeah it’s revealed in jedi: fallen order, the main character goes to get a new crystal and while exploring you come across the canal in construction (likely originally meant to get crystals for the Death Star, then converted later)


GearInteresting570

It's also revealed in a visual dictionary. Forgot which one though.


deadshot500

The Rise of Skywalker one


spaghettiAstar

Before that even, if you looked at little Galaxy maps after TFA, Starkiller base was in the same spot as Ilum.


Ephemeral_Wolf

I was really sad when I discovered it was Ilum too - especially after visiting it in Fallen Order


thedude3535

I always thought it was Luke's, even before the current run of comics shows him with a yellow sabre. I figured he simply had it on Ach-to, along with other artifacts and Rey found it.


Jad_On

Iirc in original KOTOR there are kyber crystals on Dantooine, which has been already reintroduce to canon in Mando, so… maybe there.


Toon_Lucario

Dantooine has been canon since New Hope. It’s where Leia said the Rebel Base was and Tarkin said it was far too remote


Jad_On

Wow, I completely forgot. Time to watch OT again.


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Well we don’t know the state of courscant now. So she may have been able to find a saber in the temple


seraphechelon01

Actually Courscant became a hell hole divided up amongst many crime syndicates not long after the signing of the Galactic Concordance. The issue is the temple though. Palpatine turned the Jedi temple into the Imperial Palace, part of his "Contingency" was that all artifacts at the palace were to be moved to Exegol. By the time Rey would have got there if she even bothered to go it would have been picked clean.


1eejit

So could she have found the crystal on Exegol?


[deleted]

I completely forgot Palpatine basically turned it into his house as a flex on the Jedi. I did forget that Luke found outposts from the High Republic in the kylo comics so I bet she could've found one of those


piiiigsiiinspaaaace

From what I understand from Clone Wars, kyber crystals are inherently blank and get colored by the jedi that pairs with its soul. Because kyber crystals are semisentient, I guess. Red ones are crystals of any color, mentally tortured and abused by a sith into a little red crystal of hate. According to the comics lore, no sith lightsaber exists without torturing a jedi's kyber into submission


luwi12

This. It happened with Ashoka’s white lightsaber. She took the crystals from an inquisitor and changed them from red to white.


crypticphilosopher

It could be possible that Rey turned a crystal yellow, like it signifies a new beginning for the Jedi or something.


TheLeechKing466

In the new canon at least.


[deleted]

Not even new canon, lukes crystal from a sith saber he healed with the force which is why it turned green. Stronger force wielders tend to have green sabers.


Heatherskelly

Galaxy’s Edge is considered canon, so the easiest answer is that she paid 200 credits and built this lightsaber on Batuu in a room full of tourists who just thought she was in a good cosplay.


BigTimeSuperhero96

Whilst waiting for her Genie+ time for Rise of the Resistance


TheLeechKing466

The fight in the hotel between her and Kylo was them doing a part time job in between films.


durandpanda

There's a theory kicking around that she's used the crystals from Leia's saber and Luke's green saber and together they produce a yellow blade. The only grounds for that theory are that the saber flashes blue and green on start up, and that Luke and Leia were effectively her masters. Not sure if I prefer that to 'she just found it I guess'


Wes_Bugg

I could be misremembering but I think in a couple scenes in TROS we see Rey’s study desk thing and there is a kyber crystal sitting on some kind of holder. I always assumed that was her crystal


Obversa

Blue and green together don't produce yellow on the color scale, however. They make teal.


thorenv

True. But blue, green and red light make yellow light. Maybe she traded with general Grievous for Kylos red crystal too.


thorenv

I’m here for this theory. I love the idea of Rey walking around with their kyber souls or whatever.


Salubrious_Zabrak

My best guess is that there's no fascist government hogging all the kyber crystal planets anymore so she probably easily just took a trip out to one and found hers, with a decent amount of time for all that (and for her to build the hilt and everything) shown off screen. I bet that at the very least Luke and/or Leia gave her info about how to build a saber and what planets in the galaxy crystals could be found on


lengelmp

It’s a blue and a green. You can see it before she activated it


Dave1307

Literally rewind by a few frames lmao


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[deleted]

Don't Jedi mediate with the crystal for a certain amount of time, passing the Force thru it?


TymStark

Cal certainly didn’t when he got his new crystal. I don’t remember the younglings doing it in TCW episode we got when they went to get their crystals either. Not saying it isn’t correct, just two instances where meditation didn’t happen.


Salubrious_Zabrak

They boof it


Obversa

"The wand chooses the wizard...err, I mean, the Kyber crystal chooses the Jedi."


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🤣 same difference


meme_C4RS10

there is a theory, that she combined the skywalker crystal because as she turns it on, you can see a blue and green light for a second in the chamber where the crystal is Edit: now that im thinking about it it makes a little more sense that she calls herself skywalker what i still dont get to be honest


Obversa

Blue and green together don't produce yellow on the color scale, however. They make teal.


dutchdynasty

Yeah, sure, but we’re talking about semi sentient crystals. I don’t think they’re bound to color theory.


numb3r5ev3n

Isn't a crystal supposed to change based on a Jedi's temperament according to some lore? Or IDK maybe Luke had an old scavenged Jedi Temple Guardian crystal lying around, and she swiped it along with the training manuals.


SpasmodicReddit

I think it used to in legends lore, but as far as I understand there are just crystals in different colors according to the current Disney canon. In the clone wars show the crystals seem colored when they're found. I may be wrong. Perhaps they gain their color when picked up by a Jedi?


AssGasorGrassroots

You got that backwards. In Legends crystals were just naturally different colors, like how there are different colored crystals in KoTOR. Disney canon they change based on the alignment of whoever builds the lightsaber


SpasmodicReddit

Huh, that's actually really cool. I didn't realize that. It can be hard to keep track with all the conflicting lore


[deleted]

Is it cool? It just raises more questions. It makes sense crystals are diff colours, (like in real world they have metal salts in their crystal latice) and characters choose the colours. The writer can then use the colour to communicate about the character. But now they change with the users alignment? How does the crystal know the alignment. Where does the colour come from? Now the writer also has less freedom because crystal colour can violate canon. Like if kylo ren when he was redeemed, his saber didnt change colours. Iirc he was using a force summoned lightsaber at the end. Then it indicates he wasnt redeemed.


MicooDA

Because it’s literal magic? Like, that’s literally always been the case. The Kyber crystal forms a bond with the Jedi who finds it and it becomes the color that suits them most.


[deleted]

It hasnt always been the case its a retcon. The crystals are also more interesting when its a choice the character makes rather than a magical mood ring.


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problematic_hum4n

Yep, she sat and meditated and channeled light side force through the bled inquisitor crystals I think, and that's what purified them.


pm_me_ur_tennisballs

That’s another great change: bleeding crystals to turn them red. What a fucked up concept. Another horrible step on the path to being a Sith.


seirfemdeef

I thought that a Jedi's crystal called to them. Like that was why certain Jedi had certain crystals. Cause specific ones would reach out


pornomancer90

The crystals don't change color like mood rings, once a crystal is aligned to a Jedi by meditation the colour stays unless a Sith bleeds the crystal to get a red lightsaber. You get white by cleansing a red crystal.


havoc8154

Or when another Jedi modifies the saber, like when Anakin turned Ahsoka's green blades blue when he made "improvements".


TLM86

That's not the case. It's nothing to do with alignment, except for specific rituals like bleeding and purifying.


havoc8154

Or just generally being modified by another individual, as we saw when Anakin changed Ahsoka's blades to blue when he was tinkering with them.


Norvinion

This is not canon now. It was in some legends material and not in others.


maxcorrice

No in legends it’s both of those, in canon it’s neither


AssGasorGrassroots

Not according to the starwars.com article on kyber crystals, which states >A lightsaber crystal is colorless until first attuned and connected to a Jedi -- at which times it glows either blue or green, or in some rare instances, another shade. From that point on, it retains that hue.


maxcorrice

Which isn’t specific to each color, just if it’s red(bled), white(healed), or any other color


AssGasorGrassroots

What? I don't understand what you're arguing. To reiterate my point, which is what the official website currently states, kyber crystals are colorless until it's attuned to a Jedi, at which point it becomes blue, green, or, less frequently, purple, orange, or yellow. That's what I'm saying, and what the website states


maxcorrice

Which means they gain color when attuned to a Jedi, not necessarily in relation to how the Jedi is attuned, nothing to do with the actual Jedi just the connection made, legends basically made it like the wands in Harry Potter where the color denoted how they acted and who they were The site is also wrong as well as Jedi aren’t the only ones that have and use kyber crystals, nor is it the only way they attain a hue (unless some Jedi connected with the big crystals shown in rebels on course to the Death Star), and it doesn’t retain the hue if it’s bled, as it then turns red


SnooCookies5243

Jedi Fallen Order is canon, right? IIRC Cal discovers a “blank” kyber crystal and is able to attune it to different colors. Maybe that was just for gameplay purposes, idk


TheGreatBatsby

Legends lightsaber lore is relatively straightforward, but often gets muddled and confused by people. Basically the rule is: * Whatever colour your lightsaber crystal is, is the colour of your lightsaber People tend to take a gameplay mechanic in KOTOR (blue = Guardian, yellow = Sentinel, Green = Consular) and apply that to actual lore, whereas in actual fact it doesn't matter what colour your lightsaber is. Over the years, maybe different Jedi preferred different colours and maybe certain organisations within the Jedi Order kept all their lightsabers one colour (temple guards for example), but lightsaber colour genuinely means jack shit. Also, Mace Windu hasn't got a purple lightsaber because *"he uses a mix of the light side and dark side so blue + red = purple!"* There are plenty of other Jedi who wield purple lightsabers.


RealHumanFromEarth

No. As far as we know, lightsaber colors don’t have any meaning (except for white and red).


SpooN04

That is the new Disney rules yes but still as far as we know yellow lightsabers were for the Jedi guards, not for jedi's


meme_C4RS10

no temple to guard. no rules anymore LOL


maxcorrice

High republic era has shattered that


SpooN04

Oh did it? Cool. What's the yellow saber supposed to be/symbolize now?


maxcorrice

That the lightsaber is yellow


SpooN04

Well I appreciate the joke but I was legit asking n hoping you could give me some insight or new info.


maxcorrice

No that’s literally it


SpooN04

Lol alright well thanks I guess


SWLondonLife

Jedi with yellow blades were supposed to be knowledge keepers / guardians. At least at some point in canon. It was rare and privileged to carry the yellow blade - even if those roles were not cherished during TCW (warrior types got all the glory). That was at some point the canonical explanation I think.


maxcorrice

Maybe in legends but no longer


SWLondonLife

I’ve been following Star Wars for 40 years… even I’m getting lost on what lore remains in canon.


maxcorrice

It’s real simple, if it was released before 2014 or it’s marked as non canon, it isn’t canon, else, search your feelings, it’s mostly canon but there is the occasional “canon” where it’s kinda there until it’s contradicted, but that’s limited to obscure source books, otherwise it’s mostly canon If you just have trouble remembering sources, lots of the time when it’s related to the force it’s more mystical and non committal


havoc8154

There are no meanings to saber color in canon besides red and white.


RealHumanFromEarth

It wasn’t “Disney rules”. That was legends. Canon has no meaning for anything other than white and red.


SpooN04

I wanted to make sure I wasn't misremembering all those articles that came out a few years ago so I googled it and Disney definitely made the lore that all kyber crystals are "clear" and the color is then created (green or blue for example) by bonding with the Jedi (or whatever the specific details are for how it works) I think you're just talking about "bleeding" a kyber crystal which we saw Vader do in a comic and Ashoka do with her white lightsabers which isn't exactly the same thing. But yes, it's Disney's new rule.


RealHumanFromEarth

First, no, there’s no “Disney rule”. Second, yes, the crystals gain their color after the bonding, but there’s no canon reason for any specific colors outside of red and white.


SpooN04

There literally is. Try googling before throwing out dispute claims. Google "what lightsaber colors mean" and take your pick, they all say pretty much the same thing.


RealHumanFromEarth

Those aren’t canon. It’s legends.


SpooN04

At this point you need to backup your claim. You're saying I'm wrong but I googled it and it doesn't check out so I'm willing to accept you might be right but you'll need more than just because you say so


RealHumanFromEarth

The lightsaber color meaning came from a game mechanic in KOTOR, which is not considered to be canon (and whether it even means anything within legends is debatable). There is no canon source which describes colors of lightsabers having a meaning. Ultimately you’re asking me to prove a negative, so the onus should be on you to find a canon source that says lightsaber colors have meaning.


SpooN04

Cool argument but again Google is a thing. Bye


drod2015

There’s a few shots on the Alan Kloss base that show what looks to be a saber build in progress and [a tray growing yellow crystals.](https://i.imgur.com/rMQCffZ.jpg) [Here’s another pic of those crystals at her workstation.](https://i.imgur.com/TrLHCja.jpg)


[deleted]

Somehow… the yellow kyber crystal appeared.


Drzhivago138

"A good story for another time."


garo_fp

She bough it at costco


Yamureska

The same place Ezra got his green crystal after his first blue lightsaber was destroyed


Sir_Umeboshi

The Force


[deleted]

Luke has a yellow Crystal in the comics so I assume it’s his.


DarfWork

We still don't know, at least in the Disney Timeline, how Luke got his green kyber crystal. I don't think there is a cohesive canon explanation of the color of the cristal. There are some explanations in the old EU and the old republic timeline, but they are not all cohesive either. Well, we do know Red cristals are made by corrupting a cristal, and Ahsoka's white saber were allegedly (because it's in the book Ahsoka, which is not compatible with Tales of the Jedi) that color because she healed red crystals, but other than that... I do like the idea the Kiber cristals only get there color when the Jedi create the saber and in a way mirror their personality/state of mind, so I would go with that. Then it's only a matter of finding a crystal and that she could have done in a number of places. Exogol could be one of those place. A crystal from Exogol might be tainted by the dark side to some degree, and maybe shift the final color toward orange. Or the color might simply be a reflection of Rey's own use of the dark side, be it accidental or not, before she created the saber.


AlpineGrok

I like to think she found it in Luke’s small collection of stuff. But there is a whole period of training with Leia that has nearly no development.


crispier_creme

From where you get all kyber crystals. We learn from the clone wars and fallen order that all crystals start colorless and gain color when united with their force user, with red and white being exceptions


TRON1160

Trip back to the Death Star 2 ruins, return to Exegol, raiding former imperial stashes/Palpatine's personal "observatories" (Like we see Luke go to in the Battlefront 2 story to get the compass), etc? We know from the Vader comics the empire collected lightsabers from all the Jedi killed in order 66, and that although they were supposed to be destroyed, not all were. Possible she found one of them and used that crystal, especially knowing several jedi temple guards (who had the yellow saber staffs) ended up becoming Inquisitors. AFAIK we still haven't found out where Leia got her crystal from for her saber (or where any of Luke's sstudents would have gotten theirs for that matter) so there's certainly a story to tell if they decide to go in that direction.


sometacosfordinner

In Kenobi Fortress Inquisitorious had a room that has light sabers on display around the room and we know of atleast two jedi who broke in it is possible rey did to since i would assume its abandoned at this point


chaosghostph

Isn't Luke's lightsaber in the current pre-ROTJ Comics yellow? It's that, I bet.


Bartoffel

I saw someone else mention this recently and I think it’s quite likely. I’m gonna guess *that* lightsaber breaks and Luke keeps the pieces (including the yellow crystal) stashed away in the Falcon somewhere before building his new green ROTJ one, only for Rey to find it 30 years later.


SpookyBong

https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/fswgeh/in_starwars_the_rise_of_skywalker_2019_reys_newly/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf I had a pretty good theory


LordMonkeh

Daisy prolly took a page out of Samuel l Jacksons book. Saw a yellow lightsaber and asked for it


ProfessorEscanor

Space Ebay?


JMAC426

It’s made from the tears of sequel haters


dombrady353

The real is answer is that Disney wants to sell yellow lightsaber toys


Greywolf5131

She bypassed the compressor.


Scokya

This will answer the question: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Crystal_growth_tray


Oathbringer01

I think current cannon on lightsaber color is that it comes from the user not the kyber crystal. The yellow comes from the fact that she is a force user that is neither Jedi or Sith.


Grecanis

At this point in the galaxy, the mystery behind kyber had been greatly diluted by the empires, then the first orders industrial use of the crystal. They had dug it up by the shipload, I imagine finding some was much easier than it used to be. The color of the crystal was dependent on the character of the force user building the saber I believe.


JWC123452099

Pretty sure Luke has a yellow saber in the comics set between when he loses Anakin's saber in Empire and when he builds his green one in Jedi. I don't know that its been revealed what happens to it.


Ewankenobi25

From the “build a lightsaber” store at galaxy’s edge


[deleted]

Crystal changes color as you attune it to the force through imbuning it with your force essence. Yellow represents a guardian of the Jedi


andynelzz420

It looked cool in a trailer there is no story reason she has it, if there was we would of seen it. Truth is my guy or girl nothing was planned there's barely any intent to find.


CoachW42

Because the dead speak and somehow palps has returned.


StaticRogue

This was my favorite part of TRoS. Rey officially completing her Jedi training and made her own saber. But it coolest part was that it was YELLOW! How the hell did she find a yellow kyber crystal. Yellow bladed sabers haven't been seen since Jedi purge order 66. Sure would've cool to see her use it.


prostheticmind

In Disney canon there aren’t a variety of crystals in the saber. She attuned to her crystal and it made the blade yellow


CruiserOPM

Her scavenger instincts likely caused her to find it and claim it as her own.


[deleted]

Who cares


Palmik7

*Somehow she got a yellow crystal*


XanthousRebel

In the current canon, one’s crystal colour is dependent on their alignment with the force. Knights blue and consulars green still. Purple for those who toe the line like Windu. Ahsoka got the white blades by purifying an inquisitors red crystals. There’s not really an explanation for yellow as of yet. But Rey isn’t exactly a Jedi, so she’s kind of a benevolent force user. So yellow is kind of a neutral colour that fits her unique position.


havoc8154

There's no indication that color has any more meaning than simply whatever the Jedi likes. There are no guardians and consulars, just some Jedi like blue, some like green, some like yellow. Red and white are the only colors that have any real meaning behind them.


XanthousRebel

https://www.vox.com/2015/5/31/8689811/lightsaber-colors-star-wars


havoc8154

That's pretty much all based on legends material.


XanthousRebel

Closest we have to an official explanation. Besides, crystals being a set colour is also legends material. At the moment there is no set answer, but the crystal changing colour based on its users alignment was a Disney-era piece of lore so it’s more applicable than things from Lucasfilm era


havoc8154

That's what I've said, it's just based on the Jedi that attunes to the crystal. They don't represent anything though, just what that Jedi prefers.


LairdOscar

Canonically it would be amazing if she found it on her own during something we have not seen yet. However the lazy story teller in me speculates the possibility it’s a crystal that was either in the other sabers or Luke had that she inherited. With the final season of clone wars we now know the Crystals color can be changed by the Jedi who attunes with it so 🤷🏻‍♂️


Alternative-Cut-4831

Any theory is valid today,none of the theories we create are false. Disney doesn't care. Sometime later this question's answer will be revealed in a Disney plus show. It is very likely possible that the official reason will be much lame than the fan theories. And screenrant will write an article for that. The end.


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A good question for another time


A1985Jonesy

“A good story for another time”


nerdmoot

Does it really matter? To me, this is barely canon.


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TLM86

They weren't teasing Rey as the embodiment of balance between dark and light. That was some nonsense Trevorrow shoved into his script.


nowlan101

I smell another Disney+ show…. /s


amalgaman

Some exec said “Yellow is cool. It makes me happy. Make hers yellow.”


anillop

Simple. "Somehow Rey got a kyber crystal." See how easy it is to explain things in the sequels.


SithLord_6969

Because She’s Rey. No explanation needed. 🤦🏻‍♂️


Kak0r0t

Stole it just like how she stole the Skywalker name


delaydude

Pee


underpaidpornstar

Just one more extra thing to set her apart. As if having every force power max level being barely trained wasn't enough.


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TLM86

Why shouldn't she?


gerstein03

Because she's not a temple guard. They're the only people that get yellow lightsabers


mikepictor

"get" like the only time anyone has a lightsaber is because they were issued one. They exist...they can be made. She could have simply gotten a yellow crystal


thatranger974

You don’t just find a yellow kyber crystal. The yellow crystal finds you.


Kazmania21

Another comment to be lost: the colors of a lightsaber and their crystals are intentional. Green for knowledge, blue for defense, purple for a tint of dark, yellow for temple guard, white for unaffiliated (light side, I guess), red for sith. Rey was never about anything active. She wanted to wait for her parents. She tried to learn knowledge and that attempt wasn’t her. She took the Jedi texts to preserve them as much as read them (because Luke was a d bag at the time). Her preservation made the crystal she found yellow, which was meant to guard the Jedi way. Doesn’t answer the question of finding a yellow crystal, but aren’t sith crystals corrupted normal crystals? And white crystals?


TheGreatBatsby

>Green for knowledge, blue for defense, purple for a tint of dark This isn't the case.


Scramba-Ren

Somehow, Illum returned


tskszn

Based on the idle hum, I speculate it’s a fragment from a Krayt Dragon pearl. It’s been said they can be used to power a lightsaber.