Lightsabers are the bread and butter of Star Wars. Even when the remainder of the story is a large number, you may often depend on the collection to make use of its signature glowing swords to fairly rousing impact. And like every thing else in Star Wars, the story behind lightsabers is filled with lore and particulars. Among the many most essential of these particulars is the lightsaber shade, and the season finale of The Acolyte gave us one in all our greatest appears ever at how the Sith sabers tackle their terrifying crimson hue.
Lightsabers are powered by kyber crystals, that are small Pressure-sensitive rocks. As soon as a Jedi builds their saber, the crystal picks up their distinctive Pressure power and transforms into one in all a wide range of colours — principally those we’re accustomed to from the reveals and flicks.
When a Sith will get a lightsaber, usually one they’ve taken from a Jedi, they pour all of their rage and hatred into the crystal, overwhelming the sunshine aspect power of the earlier proprietor. This causes the crystal to rework into the acquainted purple via a course of referred to as bleeding.
That is, it appears, what we watched occur with Osha in The Acolyte. Positive, it’s a bit of little bit of an odd method to react to being instructed that her mom was killed by Sol on accident. However it seems that after she murdered him and picked up his saber, she channeled her emotions into his kyber crystal with out even making an attempt.
On high of that, we additionally received a a lot weirder and extra biologically literal caveat: She appears to have actually bled into the kyber. It’s not likely clear that this modified something, or was an essential a part of the method, however it’s actually a extra a visible method to make the in any other case arcane and opaque course of a bit of extra literal. And, who is aware of? Contemplating what else The Acolyte has been about — possibly that is how the method of bleeding kyber crystals received its identify.
