8 Star Wars Questions That Always Confused You

A Jedi's weapon is extremely sacred. As relayed via The Clone Wars, we know that all Jedi Younglings would take a ceremonial trip to Ilum where they would find their kyber crystal and construct their own lightsaber. But how does a Jedi decide what kind of lightsaber they want to wield, and how do they go about getting another crystal if the process is so sacred?

We actually got some of the answers to this question in the Ahsoka novel by E. K. Johnston. It goes into a little more detail about how a Jedi would connect to a kyber crystal, how it would be invisible to anyone but them when arriving on Ilum, and then they would retrieve it, but they could also connect to a crystal already in use, which is how Ahsoka attains her white lightsabers before Star Wars Rebels.

This is all fine and dandy for those Jedi who were seeking replacement lightsabers, but it doesn't explain exactly how or why one would decide to own two lightsabers, or even wield a double-bladed weapon. So, what's the deal?

The current canon is yet to lay out the specifics of how a Jedi would develop their own style of combat, keeping discussion focused instead on the different forms and some of the styles they adopted, and how a master could have an influence on their apprentice to pursue a particular one, but nothing so specific that would lay out the exact process of how a Jedi would switch from one blade to two, for instance.

The High Republic has provided some clarification on this issue, with Charles Soule's Light of the Jedi revealing that the Knights of the era often changed up their weapons based on how their fighting style developed, or even if they wanted something a little more stylish, but it's still unclear how the practice evolved by the time of the Prequels.