Forcesaber

Forcesaber
Production information
Type	Melee weapon
Culture	Rakata
Creators	Rakata
Date created	Thousands of years before 36,453 BBY
Owners	Xesh (Xesh's Forcesaber)
Physical and technical specifications
Material(s)	Metal hilt Ebon crystal
Usage and history
Purpose	Combat
Affiliation	Infinite Empire Je'daii Order

"It's a Forcesaber, weapons of the Force Hounds of the Rakata."

―Xesh to Daegen Lok

The Forcesaber was a Rakatan invention in which powerful dark-side energy was channeled through laboratory-grown ebon crystals in glowing energy blades, able to be ignited like the much later developed lightsaber.

History

A vision experienced by Daegen Lok during his travel into the Chasm on Tython showed him a blade made of fire that had never been seen before. His dark vision saw the Je'daii Masters banish him to the moon of Bogan. Lok would only discover that the weapon was called a Forcesaber when the Force Hound Xesh had been exiled to the Tythonian moon. He would ask the Force Hound to construct a new Forcesaber in order to show it as proof of his vision to the Je'daii Order.

Description

Force Hounds were required to construct these weapons, which required the use of a special form of crystal along with the use of alchemy to shape it. The process involved the construction of a hilt and the presence of adequate resources for the task. Some Forcesabers, the ones used by Force Hounds, were like regular lightsabers, while others, used by Rakata themselves, were similar to lightsaber pikes.

Forcesabers, like later models of lightsaber, came in a variety of colors. Xesh and Daegan Lok both utilized purple, Trill a light blue. In Lok's vision, a shadowy army of warriors were seen to wield red, while in Kwa Master A'nang's and Xesh's flashbacks, Rakatan warriors seemed to favor orange. The Flesh Raiders, mutated Rakata themselves, used yellow.

The basic principles of this technology would later be developed into the prototype lightsabers used by the Jedi Order.

Appearances

• Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void (and audiobook) (Vision)
• Dawn of the Jedi: Force Storm 1 (First appearance)
• Dawn of the Jedi: Force Storm 2
• Dawn of the Jedi: Force Storm 3
• Dawn of the Jedi: Force Storm 4
• Dawn of the Jedi: Force Storm 5
• Dawn of the Jedi: The Prisoner of Bogan 1
• Dawn of the Jedi: The Prisoner of Bogan 2
• Dawn of the Jedi: The Prisoner of Bogan 3
• Dawn of the Jedi: The Prisoner of Bogan 4
• Dawn of the Jedi: The Prisoner of Bogan 5
• Dawn of the Jedi: Force War 1
• Dawn of the Jedi: Force War 2
• Dawn of the Jedi: Force War 3
• Dawn of the Jedi: Force War 4
• Dawn of the Jedi: Force War 5

Sources

• Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi 0 (First mentioned)
• "Blaster" — Star Wars Insider 138 (Picture only)
• "Blaster" — Star Wars Insider 150
• Star Wars: Force and Destiny Core Rulebook

Notes and references

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