What is the name of the sword-like weapon Anakin Skywalker uses?

nirmalya_b

The Lightsaber http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightsaber Jun 02 09, 11:14 PM

star_gazer

This is technically Anakin’s third lightsaber. He built it after his second lightsaber was chopped in half by a droid-factory machine on Geonosis. That lightsaber had been built by Anakin while he was in a “trance,” deep in a cave of the ice planet Ilum. Apparently some sinister presence manifested itself to the young Anakin in that cave and helped him to create the saber. He was quite young at the time, so it’s likely that the “presence” was just a bad-ass imaginary friend of sorts. There is less known about this particular lightsaber other than the fact that it was the last one Anakin carried before becoming the dread Sith, Darth Vader. He lost this saber to his master, Obi Wan Kenobi on Mustafar. Obi Wan Kenobi, out of spite, gave it to Darth Vader’s son and started talking trash about the Sith lord. Vader got the last laugh, though. He killed Obi Wan and chopped his son’s hand off, sending the lightsaber down into a nearly bottomless abyss on Cloud City. How ya like them apples, Obi? Lightsabers are probably the oldest of the known sword types. Yes, that's right, oldest. They were, after all, created a long time ago, in a gala... ahem. Well, you get the point (please excuse that last sentence and what was, perhaps, the worst pun ever jotted down onto this website). http://www.strongblade.com/history/lightsaber_anakin.html Jun 02 09, 11:58 PM