![]() The end result is a bold, beautiful new take on the lightsaber. So after some more sketches and some back and forth with Lucasfilm, it was decided that the crossguard would activate as opposed to always being open, which would give the saber the slimmer silhouette while holstered and would lend itself to some great visuals when activating.” Perhaps it could activate or deactivate with the saber. “What would a lightsaber version of Excalibur look like? I started sketching and came up with a silhouette I really liked, but the practicality of holstering/sheathing it nagged at me until I had the idea that the crossguard didn't have to be stationary. ![]() That's where Excalibur came into play,” Thomas says. “With the High Republic, we wanted to implement a more traditional crossguard, but I still wanted to include the saber-blade into the crossguard design, so that Stellan would be able to defend himself against saber attacks. Thomas took special note of Kylo Ren’s cross-saber design as something befitting the era, but found it didn’t quite work for what he hoped to achieve. “He needed an iconic weapon that could stand beside the other famous lightsabers, but at the same time be unique to him and evoke the time period of the High Republic.” “When designing Stellan’s lightsaber, I looked at the iconic lightsabers that have already been established,” Thomas says. Thomas further developed Stellan’s lightsaber hilt. But fans can get their first look at the lightsaber of Stellan Gios, a Jedi Master during the High Republic era, here on with this exclusive preview from Insight Editions’ The Lightsaber Collection, a compendium coming October 20 and available for pre-order now.įollowing early explorations with artist Grant Griffin, Disney Publishing illustration manager Jeff R. Star Wars: The High Republic, a storytelling epic that kicks off in January 2021, will tell stories set centuries prior to Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, during the very peak of the Jedi Order. “Internally, we often refer to the Jedi of this era as ‘the Jedi Knights of the Round Table.’ Taking that idea one step further, their sabers can be viewed as their own versions of Excalibur.” ![]() "We wanted to make the Jedi distinctive and instantly recognizable as Jedi Knights of the High Republic, and that applies not only to their clothing but to their lightsabers, as well,” says Michael Siglain, Lucasfilm Publishing’s creative director. So they took inspiration from one of the most legendary swords in storytelling. When it came to designing lightsabers for the High Republic era, Lucasfilm knew that they had to be special - elegant weapons for a more civilized age, as Obi-Wan Kenobi might say. From the pages of The Lightsaber Collection, see Master Stellan Gios’s Jedi weapon.
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