Kylo Ren’s redemption in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker “re coming” thanks to Luke Skywalker’s green lightsaber. The Skywalker Saga is nearing its end with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the third entry in Disney’s Star Wars trilogy, bringing together the original, prequel, and sequel trilogies. The tale began in 1977 with the movie now known as Star Wars: A New Hope, and has been expanding ever since not only in cinema but too video, literature, and more.

Disney’s sequel trilogy began in 2015 with Star Wars: The Force Awakens and acquainted followers to a new generation of heroes and criminals, among those Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron, Supreme Leader Snoke, and Kylo Ren. This last one has been a connecting link between the original and sequel trilogy, as he’s Leia and Han Solo’s son, as well as Luke’s onetime Padawan who turned to the dark side- just like his grandpa, Anakin Skywalker/ Darth Vader, did.

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The sequels have included numerous cites to the original and prequel cinemas, along with objectives that have become emblem of the Star Wars universe. Among those is Luke’s green lightsaber, which has been one of the conspicuous needs in the sequel trilogy. The lightsaber was ensure once in a flashback scene in Star Wars: The Last-place Jedi and its current locating is unknown. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is the last chance to explain where it is and, hopefully, creating it back into the story- and what better than as part of Kylo Ren’s redemption.

The green lightsaber was Luke’s second lightsaber and was set up by him to replace his father’s blue lightsaber, as it was lost after their encounter in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Luke use the weapon while rescuing Han Solo and likewise during the Battle of Endor. When combating his father in Star Wars: Return of the Jediand nearly killing him, Luke recognise what he was becoming and propelled the lightsaber apart, testifying himself a Jedi. Following the Emperor’s “death” at the pass of Darth Vader, Luke recovered the lightsaber.

Luke was almost completely absent in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and merely sounded briefly in dreams and at the very end of the cinema, so the green lightsaber had no place in it. As mentioned above, the only time sees have encountered the lightsaber in the sequels was in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, in a flashback scene that depicted when Luke smelt the darkness in Ben Solo/ Kylo Ren and approached him with the lightsaber activated in order to defend himself. After that, and in recognition of the fact that Kylo Ren destroyed the Jedi synagogue after ensure his employer ready to attack him while he slept, it’s unknown what happened to the green lightsaber.

It seems curious that Luke’s second lightsaber hasn’t performed hitherto, more so after the blue one showed up in The Force Awakens and has been used by Rey since. The Rise of Skywalker is the last chance to solve the mystery of the green lightsaber and make it part of the floor, further connecting the original and sequel trilogies, while also adding more maudlin elements to this final film.

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Like with every other mystery in the Star Wars sequels, supporters have come up with thoughts on where the green lightsaber could be and what happened to it. Among the most popular speculations is one that says R2-D 2 has been disguising the green lightsaber. This is supported by R2-D 2 showing in Return of the Jedi that it has a storage compartment where it continued the lightsaber. R2-D2 was with Luke in the Jedi Temple when Kylo Ren destroyed it, so the hypothesi says that R2-D 2 grabbed the lightsaber at some moment during the course of its chaos and has been disguising it in its chamber ever since. Perhaps R2-D 2 is waiting for the right moment and person to make use of the green lightsaber, and that person could be Kylo Ren as part of his redemption journey.

Speaking of Kylo Ren, there’s another theory that connects the lightsaber with his signature red, crossguard artillery. This one suggests that Kylo took the green lightsaber and used the kyber crystal in it to build his lightsaber. Because the Sith can’t connect with kyber crystals like the Jedi do, the process to use them in their artilleries is quite different and is called “bleeding”. The method used corresponds on swarm all their hate, fright, and other negative excitements into the crystal, generating it to “bleed” and turn red. It’s confirmed that the kyber in Kylo’s lightsaber is cracked, hence why the blades have that shaky and serrated form. “Bleeding” the kyber in Luke’s lightsaber to use it in his own would attain Kylo’s weapon even more significant and would also represent his relationship with his uncle and onetime lord, together with the abhor that drove him to the dark side. On the other hand, it’s also possible that Kylo “bled” the kyber in his blue lightsaber.

However, in The Last Jedi novelization, it’s mentioned that the Caretakers on Ach-To made Luke’s “weapon, his virtuoso compass, and his strange other paraphernalium to the repository”. Of trend, the lack of specificity on the “weapon” makes it possible for it to not be the green lightsaber and instead be something completely different that Luke used as weapon when living under Ach-To( to defend himself from … porgs ?) or something the Caretakers believe to be a weapon.

The flashback in The Last-place Jedi showed what happened between Luke and Kylo Ren during his Jedi training and what caused Kylo to fully turn to the dark side- and the green lightsaber toy a very important role. When approaching Kylo while he slept, Luke triggered the lightsaber out of instinct, but Kylo woke up and thoughts his lord was about to attack him. Kylo then destroyed the temple and killed the students that refused to join him. The lightsaber, activated in the mitts of Luke, was the push he needed to turn to the dark side, and it can also be what returns him back.

Supposing it wasn’t destroyed( and the kyber wasn’t used for the crossguard lightsaber ), the green lightsaber would be the perfect way to represent Kylo’s redemption and return to the light side, especially if he can get a hold of it like he expected to with the blue lightsaber in The Force Awakens. Even if numerous supporters trust Kylo Ren can’t be redeemed, Star Wars has a biography with alterations in final films. Anakin Skywalker turned to the dark side and became Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, and Darth Vader was redeemed and went back to being Anakin in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi( which is why his Force Ghost materializes at the end as Anakin ). With that in mind, there’s no reason to believe Kylo Ren can’t get his redemption time in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and if Luke’s green lightsaber play games a part in it, it’s nearly guaranteed to be a very emotional moment for love of the saga- and it would further cure raising the sequels, original films, and prequels together. Who knows, he might even use it to kill Palpatine, offsetting the artillery even more important in the Star Wars universe.

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