After Luke Skywalker’s blue lightsaber was split in half in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Rey (Daisy Ridley) apparently fixed and continue using it for the most part of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Here’s how she’s able to put it back together.
Rey debuted her very own lightsaber at the end of J.J. Abrams’ The Rise of Skywalker - a yellow bladed weapon. As cool as it was, however, we never got the chance to see her use it as she primarily used Luke’s lightsaber in the film, eventually coupled with Leia’s secret one during her climactic battle against her grandfather, Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid). Rey first came into contact with the saber in Star Wars: The Force Awakens when she and Han Solo visited Maz Kanata’s (Lupita Nyong’o) castle in Takodana. The said weapon called to her and had been in her possession ever since. She tried to return it to Luke, but the Jedi Master never really wielded it again. Essentially as a Skywalker family heirloom being the lightsaber of Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) during his Jedi days, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) was understandably interested in it. The broken blue lightsaber was left with Rey after it was subjected to a Force tug-of-war between her and Kylo Ren.
When The Rise of Skywalker picked up a year after the events of its predecessor, we see the lightsaber fully functioning. Rey used it to train with Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) in the jungle moon of Ajan Kloss. The film didn’t explain how it was fixed considering its state the last time we saw it at the end of The Last Jedi, but Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Visual Dictionary provides us with some answers on how she exactly mended the weapon. Apparently, she bounded the two fragments together with the use of the leather wrist strap. Meanwhile, she healed its broken kyber crystal with the help of the sacred Jedi texts that she smuggled from Luke in Ahch-To.
It’s an understatement to say that The Rise of Skywalker had a lot of plot lines to tackle, and with just a two-hour runtime, it was always going to be a tight squeeze addressing all of them. However, the movie also glossed over a lot of pertinent details that were eventually answered using other Star Wars materials, including the visual dictionary. Aside from how Luke’s blue lightsaber was fixed, it also clarified elements including the mystery surrounding the Knights of Ren and Allegiant General Pryde (Richard E. Grant).
In the end of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the Skywalker lightsaber’s resting place is Tatooine and it has remained intact from where Rey mended it following its destruction in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. After the Resistance’s successful defeat of the First Order and Emperor Palpatine, Rey traveled to the sand planet and buried Luke’s blue lightsaber alongside Leia’s near Anakin’s old house which has already been abandoned. It’s curious if we’ll ever see the weapon again in any of the upcoming Star Wars movies or TV shows, but let it not be forgotten that up until now, it’s still unclear how it ended up in Maz’s hands. Perhaps the next tie-in book from the franchise can finally provide some answers… Another time.
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