Mara Jade's lightsaber

Ok, yesterday I spent a ton of time looking at Mara's wookie page, but I'm still confused about the color of her lightsaber. Obviously she had a red one when she was a Hand, but then there are pictures with her with what looks like a purple lightsaber later on, and I read things about her having Luke's (blue?) lightsaber. I always thought that she had her own lightsaber that was blue because of the Sacrifice cover, but I know that the cover art can't always be trusted. Did I miss something on the wookie page? Can someone shed some light on this for me?

 

This is an interesting post
I think like you said, Mara Jade has a red lightsaber as the emperor's hand. Later on she has a blue lightsaber, like in heir to the empire, and also a purple bladed lightsaber.
Since she is the emperor's hand, who is skilled with a variety of weapons, she may have more than one lightsaber

As a massive Darth Bane fan I know that there are questions about what colour his lightsaber is.
So far he has had a curved hilt red bladed lightsaber, a standard hilt red bladed lightsaber and a standard hilt purple bladed lightsaber.
I kind of like the idea of a curved hilt lightsaber though

 

She actually has a purple-bladed lightsaber while she's a Hand, and she hangs onto it after being booted out of the Empire for a year or two before losing it, though I don't recall how. Later on Luke gives her Anakin's old 'saber-- the one Luke lost at Bespin-- after he recovers it from Mount Tantiss. A year or so later she's carrying a purple-blader 'saber again, this one presumably constructed while training with Kyle Katarn.

After marrying Luke and taking up Jedi-ing full time, she seems to favor Anakin's, although she might also use her own on occasion.

 

^Yep. She's weilding Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber on the cover of Sacrifice.

 

Me too. Like Dooku's.

Ok thanks! So there's a blue one and a purple one. Interesting. I always wonder if the color of your blade indicates certain traits about you, but I don't know if connections like that can be made.

 

Palpatine gave her a purple lightsaber, which she used when she was a Hand. She lost it in a duel with Lumiya a few years after the Emperor died, was without a lightsaber until Luke gave her Anakin Skywalker's (blue) at the end of TTT. She eventually made a purple one when she was training with Kyle Katarn. But like others have said, she tended to switch between the two.

Colors had some significance in the Old Republic, but in Luke's era, it seems to be pretty random. It makes sense since Palpatine destroyed most deposits of lightsaber crystals, so Jedi in the new era had to take what they could find.

 

I always thought Mara's lightsaber in Mara Jade: By The Emperor's Hand was pink instead of purple. Are people around here just afraid to say "pink"?

 

FWIW: Here's one interpretation of the history of Mara's sabers, based mostly on pictures (comics, cover art) it seems.

The hilt on her bed at the beginning of BTEH does look like Vader's; and the hilt in the interior of Union is different from the hilt (Anakin/Luke's) on the cover of issue #1.

 

I read somewhere on the internet - but I can't remember where - that the purple crystal of Mara's saber came from Mace Windu's? Is this just speculation/fanon or has there really been a hint in that direction?

 

No, Tim Zahn said in an interview that he wanted to make her crystal Windu's when he was writing Allegiance, but he couldn't because it contradicted previous continuity.

 

Ah, thanks for clearing that up for me.

 

I think it's more of a magenta.

 

So where is Anakin's saber these days? Did Luke get it back after she died?

 

I would assume he got it back. Jacen wouldn't take something like that from the scene and risk getting caught with it as it sometimes Jedi can sense their lightsabers or have a connection with it of sorts that could expose his involvement with Mara's death..

 

This is pretty far from canon, but I'd like to think that he gave/will give it to Ben.

 

I think in Fury (IIRC) Luke told Ben that he can build his own lightsaber now. Well, wth?? What lightsaber was he using before?

And pink as MJ's lighsaber color is awesome :] I like that better than purple

 

What continuity would have been broke if Mara had Mace Windu's Lightsaber? It does seem like something Sids would do.

 

Aaaactually, I once proposed the idea in a Retcon week before Allegiance came out, but as it's a pretty obvious connection, I don't assume that Zahn got it from me.

Also, did he really say that it contradicted anything? I thought LFL just didn't allow it and Zahn then wrote it without going into details so that the reader could still go with the Windu theory.

 

Apparently, Mara's lightsaber origin had already been determined in a game or short story or article or...something. Zahn said what it was in the interview (that I can't find), but I'd never heard of it before.

 

Also, Mace Windu's lightsaber ended up in the curiosity collection of Senator Sano Sauro... At least, it was there about one or two years after RotS (Source: Last of the Jedi).

 

Which I think would make it even more likely that Sidious got hold of it sooner or later. He might not bother searching half a block of Coruscant to find one saber but if he heard that some random senator had a stash of them he most likely wouldn't let that continue...

 

I am but a humble practioner of effusive interest, but I speak to you as one gentleman to another with the expectation of discretion of all that entails, and so ask I shall, what's so fascinating about Mara's stick?

 

The arm that holds it, and the connection of that arm to other points of interest. Also... the skill with which she wields said stick... her own, or the hand-me-down Skywalker stick... may be an indicator of how well she handles another sort of Skywalker stick.