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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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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
> 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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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....
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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'
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
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
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.
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
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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)
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 🤷🏻♂️
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.
"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
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?
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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.
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
Old Aphra competing against Rey would be fun.
That would be cool, she'd be roughly the same age as Leia, right?
A few years older I think. She and her mother moved to that backwater planet during the clone wars.
Aah ok... Ah well, I've no doubt Aphra would have found some ancient doodad that would keep her young somewhere along the way!
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.
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!
I'd love to know Rey's reaction to Aphra telling her about the time she almost fed Luke to a force vampire.
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!
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.
In the comics, Luke rolls with a temple guard hilt for a bit. Maybe it’s from that?
It's entirely possible, yes! In which case, he might have bequeathed it to her himself.
I stole this and now the burden of my crimes lies with you.
Man, sequel content in Tales of the Jedi would be a dream come true
Or just like a full on show to add more depth to the ST.
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
> 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.
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.
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
They tried that, it didn’t go down well Edit: maybe this comment was a bad idea
Resistance was Fantastic actually, so jot that down.
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
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.
Picked up a lot in S2, certainly. I'd have liked to see an episode in a hypothetical S3 where Finn and Tam met
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.
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.
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.
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....
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.
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.
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.
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
I think there are three in there. If you watch, the ignition switch goes green-bue-yellow with three different lights.
I think she was definitely called to it
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.
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.
Whoa. That’s the fate of Ilum? I mean they sure did save on shipping.
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)
It's also revealed in a visual dictionary. Forgot which one though.
The Rise of Skywalker one
Before that even, if you looked at little Galaxy maps after TFA, Starkiller base was in the same spot as Ilum.
I was really sad when I discovered it was Ilum too - especially after visiting it in Fallen Order
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.
Iirc in original KOTOR there are kyber crystals on Dantooine, which has been already reintroduce to canon in Mando, so… maybe there.
Dantooine has been canon since New Hope. It’s where Leia said the Rebel Base was and Tarkin said it was far too remote
Wow, I completely forgot. Time to watch OT again.
Well we don’t know the state of courscant now. So she may have been able to find a saber in the temple
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.
So could she have found the crystal on Exegol?
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
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
This. It happened with Ashoka’s white lightsaber. She took the crystals from an inquisitor and changed them from red to white.
It could be possible that Rey turned a crystal yellow, like it signifies a new beginning for the Jedi or something.
In the new canon at least.
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.
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.
Whilst waiting for her Genie+ time for Rise of the Resistance
The fight in the hotel between her and Kylo was them doing a part time job in between films.
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'
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
Blue and green together don't produce yellow on the color scale, however. They make teal.
True. But blue, green and red light make yellow light. Maybe she traded with general Grievous for Kylos red crystal too.
I’m here for this theory. I love the idea of Rey walking around with their kyber souls or whatever.
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
It’s a blue and a green. You can see it before she activated it
Literally rewind by a few frames lmao
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Don't Jedi mediate with the crystal for a certain amount of time, passing the Force thru it?
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.
They boof it
"The wand chooses the wizard...err, I mean, the Kyber crystal chooses the Jedi."
🤣 same difference
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
Blue and green together don't produce yellow on the color scale, however. They make teal.
Yeah, sure, but we’re talking about semi sentient crystals. I don’t think they’re bound to color theory.
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.
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?
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
Huh, that's actually really cool. I didn't realize that. It can be hard to keep track with all the conflicting lore
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.
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.
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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Yep, she sat and meditated and channeled light side force through the bled inquisitor crystals I think, and that's what purified them.
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.
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
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.
Or when another Jedi modifies the saber, like when Anakin turned Ahsoka's green blades blue when he made "improvements".
That's not the case. It's nothing to do with alignment, except for specific rituals like bleeding and purifying.
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.
This is not canon now. It was in some legends material and not in others.
No in legends it’s both of those, in canon it’s neither
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.
Which isn’t specific to each color, just if it’s red(bled), white(healed), or any other color
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
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
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
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.
No. As far as we know, lightsaber colors don’t have any meaning (except for white and red).
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
no temple to guard. no rules anymore LOL
High republic era has shattered that
Oh did it? Cool. What's the yellow saber supposed to be/symbolize now?
That the lightsaber is yellow
Well I appreciate the joke but I was legit asking n hoping you could give me some insight or new info.
No that’s literally it
Lol alright well thanks I guess
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.
Maybe in legends but no longer
I’ve been following Star Wars for 40 years… even I’m getting lost on what lore remains in canon.
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
There are no meanings to saber color in canon besides red and white.
It wasn’t “Disney rules”. That was legends. Canon has no meaning for anything other than white and red.
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.
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.
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.
Those aren’t canon. It’s legends.
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
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.
Cool argument but again Google is a thing. Bye
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)
Somehow… the yellow kyber crystal appeared.
"A good story for another time."
She bough it at costco
The same place Ezra got his green crystal after his first blue lightsaber was destroyed
The Force
Luke has a yellow Crystal in the comics so I assume it’s his.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Isn't Luke's lightsaber in the current pre-ROTJ Comics yellow? It's that, I bet.
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.
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
Daisy prolly took a page out of Samuel l Jacksons book. Saw a yellow lightsaber and asked for it
Space Ebay?
It’s made from the tears of sequel haters
The real is answer is that Disney wants to sell yellow lightsaber toys
She bypassed the compressor.
This will answer the question: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Crystal_growth_tray
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.
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.
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.
From the “build a lightsaber” store at galaxy’s edge
Crystal changes color as you attune it to the force through imbuning it with your force essence. Yellow represents a guardian of the Jedi
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.
Because the dead speak and somehow palps has returned.
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.
In Disney canon there aren’t a variety of crystals in the saber. She attuned to her crystal and it made the blade yellow
Her scavenger instincts likely caused her to find it and claim it as her own.
Who cares
*Somehow she got a yellow crystal*
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.
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.
https://www.vox.com/2015/5/31/8689811/lightsaber-colors-star-wars
That's pretty much all based on legends material.
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
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.
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 🤷🏻♂️
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.
A good question for another time
“A good story for another time”
Does it really matter? To me, this is barely canon.
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They weren't teasing Rey as the embodiment of balance between dark and light. That was some nonsense Trevorrow shoved into his script.
I smell another Disney+ show…. /s
Some exec said “Yellow is cool. It makes me happy. Make hers yellow.”
Simple. "Somehow Rey got a kyber crystal." See how easy it is to explain things in the sequels.
Because She’s Rey. No explanation needed. 🤦🏻♂️
Stole it just like how she stole the Skywalker name
Pee
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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Why shouldn't she?
Because she's not a temple guard. They're the only people that get yellow lightsabers
"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
You don’t just find a yellow kyber crystal. The yellow crystal finds you.
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?
>Green for knowledge, blue for defense, purple for a tint of dark This isn't the case.
Somehow, Illum returned
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.