The long-handle lightsaber, also known as a lightsaber staff and lightsaber cane, was a variation of the traditional Jedi weapon with a handle several times longer than that of a standard lightsaber. Requiring a particular fighting style from the wielder, this weapon was easy to swing around the body, using joints of the body as fulcrums upon which the lightsaber could be levered.
However, like most double-bladed lightsabers, the long handle presumably meant that opposing duelists could target the handle itself to great effect.
History[]
A Bpfasshi Dark Jedi wielding a long-handle lightsaber.
Darth Chratis, a Sith Lord who lived during the Cold War, used a staff that could become a long-handle lightsaber.
One of the Bpfasshi Dark Jedi defeated by Jedi Master Yoda during the Clone Wars used a long-handle lightsaber made of an as-yet unknown material. Jedi Master Zao used a lightsaber with a hilt that was also a long wooden cane, which the blind Veknoid used to help him get around. Jedi Master Yarael Poof also used a long-handled lightsaber to fit his tall frame.
This type of lightsaber was favored by the Sith Lord Darth Nihl, whose lightsaber was long and staff-like in appearance. The handle seemed to be made not of metal, but almost of wood or coral (possibly of Yorik coral as in others lightsaber hilts of the One Sith). On the opposite end to the blade emitter was a ring big enough to fit Nihl's hand. Nihl used this lightsaber to cut off Wolf Sazen's right arm at the shoulder.
Appearances[]
Darth Chratis wielding his sharp long-handle lightsaber.
- The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance
- The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance audiobook
- Star Wars (1998) 33 (First appearance)
- Star Wars (1998) 34
- Star Wars (1998) 35
- † Star Wars: Republic: Trackdown
- † Star Wars: Republic: Siege of Saleucami (Vision to Tholme)
- † Star Wars: Republic: Into the Unknown
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed video game
- The Force Unleashed novelization
- † Star Wars: Legacy: Broken
- Legacy (2006) 8
- † Star Wars: Legacy: Claws of the Dragon
- Legacy (2006) 39
- Legacy (2006) 40
- Legacy (2006) 46
- † Star Wars: Legacy: Extremes
- Legacy—War 6
Sources[]
- Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force
- Legacy Era Campaign Guide (First identified as Long-handle lightsaber)
- Jedi Academy Training Manual