Star Wars Reveals What Happened to Luke's Lightsaber After Empire
by Spencer MullenWARNING: The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, in theaters now, and Star Wars #2 by Charles Soule, Jesús Saiz, Arif Prianto, VC's Clayton Cowles, R.B Silva & GURU-eFX, on sale now.
While Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker tried to address several long-standing mysteries, fans were disappointed when the final film in the Skywalker Saga failed to answer how Maz Kanata came to possess Luke Skywalker’s blue lightsaber. Rey eventually buried the weapon on Tatooine, its journey from its loss in The Empire Strikes Back to its reappearance in The Force Awakens has never been revealed. However, the second issue of Marvel’s Star Wars offers the first clue.
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The new volume of the Marvel comic series picks up immediately after Luke's duel with Darth Vader in Cloud City, at the end of The Empire Strikes Back, and thrusts the young Jedi into a predicament: If he couldn't beat Vader, then he's not a Jedi ... so what is he? At the end of this issue, Lando Calrissian approaches Luke and claims to know where his missing lightsaber is. That prompts a vision in which Luke sees his falling hand and lightsaber; a a hooded figure catches the weapon, and calls out for Luke to follow his destiny.
Fans are already speculating the hooded figure could be a Force ghost, with the prime suspects being either Obi-Wan Kenobi or Qui-Gon Jinn. While Maz Kanata is certainly not the hooded figure, Ezra Bridger or Ahsoka Tano are among the contenders. However, there is one other bizarre prospect, as a hooded figure wearing wielded Luke's lightsaber in Legends lore: Luke's clone, Luuke.
Although The Last Command was among those works removed from canon in 2014, following Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm, the Thrawn Trilogy novel revealed that Luke’s lightsaber and hand were discovered on Bespin by an Imperial search team. Before his apparent demise at the hands of his protege Darth Vader, the Emperor stored them in a treasure house on Mount Tantiss.
Years after the fall of the Empire, genetic samples were taken from Luke’s hand by a mentally unstable Jedi master named Jorus C'baoth, who created a clone of Luke Skywalker named Luuke. Luke dueled his clone, who was also equipped with Luke’s former weapon. In Legends, Luke later gave the blade to Mara Jade, who eventually became his wife.
It was reported the original opening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens depicted Luke’s lightsaber and hand drifting through space, only to end up on Jakku.
Star Wars fans won't have too long to wait for the canonical explanation, however, as February's Issue 3 brings the heroes back to Cloud City specifically in search of the lightsaber.
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