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Warning ! This clause bear spoilers for Star Wars # 34Emperor Palpatine ’s unparalleled villainy withinStar Warscanon truly knows no bounds , as he is willing to commit the most flagitious atrocities in the name of powerfulness , include destroying an integral ancient Jedi skill for the interest of creating the ultimate weapon of cosmic evil : the Death Star .
The Death Star was the main focus of the Rebellionleading into the original trilogy , as it was a artillery that could decimate an entire planet with a single blast . The Rebels were obsessed with get their hands on the Death Star plans to envision out how to ruin it . While they were finally successful , the Rebels did n’t hold on the Death Star in time to save the home satellite of Princess Leia , Alderaan . The loss of Alderaan was unparalleled , and still keep back significance inStar Warslore to this day . But , as it turns out , the Death Star ’s ability to destroy entire planets was n’t the only rootage of its evil . Just creating something so moody and monstrous as the Death Star acquire a price on many seemingly unexpected facets of the galaxy , let in one that is linked directly to the Jedi : the skill behind Kyber Crystals .
Palpatine Erased the Study of Kyber Crystals
InStar Wars#34 by Charles Soule and Madibek Musabekov , Luke Skywalker is whirl after his yellow lightsaber was destroyed during his team ’s mission in No - outer space to retrieve fuel jail cell for the Rebellion . While the mission was a success , Luke was left without a lightsaber , as it was crush in the hand of a Kill - Droid . So , Luke decides it ’s metre he built a lightsaber himself , and to do that , he knew he needed to find somewhere that had Kyber Crystals . Kyber Crystals are what power the lightsaber . During the time of the Jedi Order , each Jedi would choose their Kyber Crystal through the Force ( or , rather , the Kyber Crystal would opt them ) , and they ’d build a lightsaber that complemented the accurate character of Force - substance abuser they are – hence the dissimilar colored blade . Unfortunately , during the age of the Galactic Civil War , the Emperor made all Kyber Crystal trade illegal , which intend no surviving or arising Jedi could progress any more lightsabers . However , that was n’t the only reason the anti - Kyber legislation was passed , as Palpatine did something far more sinister .
Palpatine Scoured the Galaxy of Jedi Culture
The Death Star ’s optical maser is so powerful because it is made up of Kyber , meaning the green blast fans find in A New Hope might as well have been a elephantine lightsaber poke into the planet before becoming unstable and explode . to pull this off , Palpatine recruited every Kyber expert in the galaxy to shape on the Death Star , and those who refused were murdered . Of course , those who accepted were later kill as well , either by the Empire or when both Death Stars were destroyed by the Rebels . By collecting everyone in the galaxy link up with Kyber , and killing those who refused him , Palpatine single - handedly obliterated the entireness of Kyber report in the wandflower , as now there is hardly anyone leave to pass on the knowledge to future generations .
This revelation is truly a horrendous one as it expands upon just how great of an evil bearing the Death Star had on the galaxy . Not only did the Death Star have the mogul to obliterate planets when it was to the full built , but the process of building it alone wipe out an integral aspect of the galaxy ’s history , effectively destroy an ancient Jedi skill – and it was all so Emperor Palpatine could have his perfect , threatening weapon .
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