In a recent Acolyte preview clip, we see assassin Mae (Amandla Stenberg) face off against Jedi Master Indara (Carrie-Ann Moss). While Indara resists taking out her saber until her life is threatened, Mae’s daggers and Force skills are a problem she can’t ignore. Just what makes Mae such an even match? The secret may actually lie in the daggers themselves.
In the now non-canon era of the Old Republic, millennia before the events of the Star Wars movies, Sith often fought with bladed weapons over sabers. These weren’t just any blades, but Sith swords imbued with Dark Side energy. They were developed by the ancient Sith (the species, not the Dark Side users) and were later adopted by the Jedi exiles who would become the Sith (the Dark Side users, not the species) and incorporate lightsaber combat elements in their use.
Sith blades occasionally popped up in the old canon, especially in the Old Republic era, but they soon fell out of favor over the more powerful (and more iconic) lightsabers. However, they’re quite powerful in their own right: because of the Force powers involved, Sith swords can fend off lightsabers and deflect blaster bolts, just like Beskar. And when attacked with Force lightning, these blades can store the electric energy and transfer it with a blow.
While Sith swords are usually larger, often ceremonial weapons, there is precedence for Sith daggers. Kowakian monkey-lizard Dark Jedi Picaroon C. Boodle from the video game Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II used a Sith dagger to fit his diminutive nature. Yes, that is a real character.
Could Mae’s dagger be imbued with Sith energy? There has been an effort to include more alternatives to lightsabers in modern-day canon; Ahsoka introduced the ominous green Blade of Talzin, given to Morgan Elsbeth by the Great Mothers of the Nightsisters. While not technically a Sith sword, as it’s imbued with a different kind of magic, there’s definitely room for more evil magic weaponry in the Star Wars universe.
Or they’re vibroblades? Which are already canon.
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Thank you, that’s what I was thinking the whole read. Why wouldn’t they even mention vibroblades.
I want a star wars show in a time period where Sith and Jedi are an equal number and opposing religions. All see is the Sith as this hidden threat and there’s thousands of Jedi. I want a show where there are thousands of Jedi, thousands of Sith, and lines of good and bad are blurred
It’s like you don’t even care about all of Darth Bane’s work creating the rule of two!
Speaking of which, Darth Bane would make a fantastic TV show.
Disney doesn’t care about anything Star Wars cannon so it could happen.
It’s also seperate enough from any other stories (even more years than Yoda) that you don’t have to worry about continuity.
Star Wars is a big enough fictional universe that you could make a million storylines that don’t have to be considered legacy or cannon, that wouldn’t effect continuity and could still make an enjoyable storyline.
That’s what the one animated series is. I forget what it’s called but it’s basically a bunch of different one shots that bend star wars in their own way.
Clone Wars is the only Star Wars animated series I’m familiar with.
It was basically animatrix but star wars. I remember there was a Japanese inspired one with a ronin type jedi and a person with an umbrella lightsaber thing.
Old Republic era!
Man, I thought this was about the lightsaber as a whip.
