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Every Clone Legion, Corps, Battalion and Company Explained
A unit by unit guide to the Grand Army of the Republic, from the 21st Nova Corps down to individual companies of 144 men. Covers who commanded each formation, what their armor looked like and where they fought.
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Every Force Lightning Color Explained
Force lightning is not always blue, and it is not always a Sith power. This guide covers every recorded color in Canon and Legends, who produced it, how strong it was, and how much of the standard explanation is actually confirmed.
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Every Lightsaber Color Meaning Explained
A blade color is never just decoration. It tells you how its owner touches the Force, which school they trained under, and in some cases what they did to the crystal to get that shade. This guide covers every known lightsaber color in Canon and Legends, what each one means, and who carried it.
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Every Lightsaber Combat Form Explained
A full breakdown of all seven classic lightsaber forms plus the rare styles most fans never hear about, from Shii-Cho to Trakata. Covers the body zones, marks of contact and maneuvers that sit underneath every form.
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Every Lightsaber Crystal Explained
More than sixty named lightsaber crystals exist across Canon and Legends, and most of them do something stranger than colour a blade. This guide runs through all of them, from cheap training stones to the Kaiburr crystal, and explains what each one actually did to the weapon it sat inside.
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Every Lightsaber Type and Variant Explained
Around forty distinct lightsaber designs exist across Canon and Legends, from the plain single blade every Jedi built to whips, axes, gauntlets and a suit of armour with sabers surgically fitted into its joints. This guide walks through all of them and flags which continuity each one belongs to.
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Everything Lightsabers Cannot Cut Through
A lightsaber blade burns hot enough to go through blast doors, but a short list of materials shrugs it off. This guide runs through every lightsaber-resistant substance in Canon and Legends, from armorweave capes to the quantum crystalline hull of the Sun Crusher, and explains why each one works.
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Aayla Secura: the Twi'lek Jedi who fell on Felucia
Aayla Secura was a Rutian Twi'lek Jedi Master and Clone Wars general who commanded the 327th Star Corps alongside Commander Bly. She fell on Felucia during Order 66, shot in the back by the clones she had led.
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Revan: the Prodigal Knight
Revan was a human Jedi Knight who led the Republic to victory in the Mandalorian Wars, then fell to the dark side and forged his own Sith Empire as a Dark Lord. Captured and mind-wiped, he was retrained as a Jedi, turned against the Empire he had built, and destroyed it. This entry describes the Legends continuity.
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Luminara Unduli
Luminara Unduli was a Mirialan Jedi Master who commanded the 41st Elite Corps and trained Barriss Offee. Arrested and executed after Order 66, her remains were later used by the Empire as bait to lure surviving Jedi to their deaths.
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Captain Rex
Rex was a clone trooper captain of the 501st Legion who served under Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano through the Clone Wars. He resisted his inhibitor chip during Order 66 and later joined the rebellion against the Empire.
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Palpatine
Sheev Palpatine was the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, who rose through the Galactic Senate to become Supreme Chancellor and then self-proclaimed Emperor. He orchestrated the fall of the Republic and the Jedi Order, ruled the galaxy for decades, and sought to cheat death itself.
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Darth Vader
Anakin Skywalker was the prophesied Chosen One, a Jedi Knight and hero of the Clone Wars who fell to the dark side and became the Sith Lord Darth Vader. He enforced the rule of the Galactic Empire for decades before his redemption and death at the Battle of Endor.
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Anakin Skywalker
Anakin Skywalker was a Jedi Knight of the Galactic Republic and the prophesied Chosen One destined to bring balance to the Force. He fell to the dark side and became the Sith Lord Darth Vader, then found redemption at the cost of his life by destroying the Emperor.
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Obi-Wan Kenobi
Obi-Wan Kenobi was a Jedi Master who trained Anakin Skywalker, served as a general in the Clone Wars, and survived Order 66. In hiding on Tatooine he guarded Luke Skywalker before guiding him into the Rebellion.
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How Did Anakin Survive Mustafar?
Obi-Wan left Anakin Skywalker legless, armless and on fire beside a lava river on Mustafar. He lived because Palpatine sensed he was in danger and got to him in time, and because the dark side kept him going long enough to be rebuilt as Darth Vader.
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Why Did Anakin Turn to the Dark Side?
Anakin Skywalker turned to the dark side because he was terrified of losing Padmé, and Palpatine convinced him only the Sith could save her. Here is how the films and The Clone Wars build that fall, from his mother's death to the night he knelt to Darth Sidious.
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Why Did Anakin Kill the Younglings?
Anakin killed the younglings because Palpatine told him it was the price of the power to save Padmé. Here is what Revenge of the Sith actually shows of that night at the Jedi Temple, how the others found out, and why he went through with it.
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Why Is Anakin the Chosen One?
Anakin Skywalker is the Chosen One because he fits a Jedi prophecy: a child born without a father, stronger in the Force than anyone, who will bring balance to the Force. Here is what the films say about it, how he fulfils it, and what stays open.
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Darth Vader
Anakin Skywalker was the prophesied Chosen One, a Jedi Knight and hero of the Clone Wars who fell to the dark side and became the Sith Lord Darth Vader. He enforced the rule of the Galactic Empire for decades before his redemption and death at the Battle of Endor.
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Anakin Skywalker
Anakin Skywalker was a Jedi Knight of the Galactic Republic and the prophesied Chosen One destined to bring balance to the Force. He fell to the dark side and became the Sith Lord Darth Vader, then found redemption at the cost of his life by destroying the Emperor.
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Obi-Wan Kenobi
Obi-Wan Kenobi was a Jedi Master who trained Anakin Skywalker, served as a general in the Clone Wars, and survived Order 66. In hiding on Tatooine he guarded Luke Skywalker before guiding him into the Rebellion.
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Luke Skywalker
Luke Skywalker was a Tatooine farm boy who became the central Jedi of his age. He destroyed the first Death Star, redeemed his father Darth Vader, and founded a new Jedi Order before dying on Ahch-To.
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Sith
The Sith were an ancient religious order of Force-wielders devoted to the dark side, driven by hate, anger, and the pursuit of power. Born from a schism in the Jedi Order, they warred with their rivals for millennia, reached the height of their power under Darth Sidious, and were finally destroyed at the hands of Anakin Skywalker and Rey.
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Palpatine
Sheev Palpatine was the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, who rose through the Galactic Senate to become Supreme Chancellor and then self-proclaimed Emperor. He orchestrated the fall of the Republic and the Jedi Order, ruled the galaxy for decades, and sought to cheat death itself.
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Darth Vader
Anakin Skywalker was the prophesied Chosen One, a Jedi Knight and hero of the Clone Wars who fell to the dark side and became the Sith Lord Darth Vader. He enforced the rule of the Galactic Empire for decades before his redemption and death at the Battle of Endor.
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Anakin Skywalker
Anakin Skywalker was a Jedi Knight of the Galactic Republic and the prophesied Chosen One destined to bring balance to the Force. He fell to the dark side and became the Sith Lord Darth Vader, then found redemption at the cost of his life by destroying the Emperor.
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Clone Wars
The Clone Wars was a galaxy-spanning conflict fought from 22 to 19 BBY between the Galactic Republic and the breakaway Confederacy of Independent Systems. Secretly engineered on both sides by the Sith, it ended with the Jedi purged and the Republic reformed into the Galactic Empire.
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Jedi Order
The Jedi Order was a monastic, nontheistic religious order devoted to the light side of the Force, serving for over a thousand generations as the guardians of peace and justice in the Galactic Republic. Nearly annihilated by Order 66, the Order endured through scattered survivors and was rebuilt, however briefly, by Luke Skywalker.
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Palpatine
Sheev Palpatine was the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, who rose through the Galactic Senate to become Supreme Chancellor and then self-proclaimed Emperor. He orchestrated the fall of the Republic and the Jedi Order, ruled the galaxy for decades, and sought to cheat death itself.
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Anakin Skywalker
Anakin Skywalker was a Jedi Knight of the Galactic Republic and the prophesied Chosen One destined to bring balance to the Force. He fell to the dark side and became the Sith Lord Darth Vader, then found redemption at the cost of his life by destroying the Emperor.
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Luke Skywalker
Luke Skywalker was a Tatooine farm boy who became the central Jedi of his age. He destroyed the first Death Star, redeemed his father Darth Vader, and founded a new Jedi Order before dying on Ahch-To.
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Ahsoka Tano
Ahsoka Tano was a Togruta Force-user, Anakin Skywalker's Padawan during the Clone Wars who left the Jedi Order after being wrongly accused of treason. She survived Order 66, became the rebel agent Fulcrum, and outlived the Empire.
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Leia Organa
Leia Organa was the adopted princess of Alderaan and secret daughter of Anakin Skywalker. She became a leader of the Rebel Alliance, a founder of the New Republic, and the general of the Resistance against the First Order.
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Galactic Civil War
The Galactic Civil War was the conflict in which the Alliance to Restore the Republic waged rebellion against the Galactic Empire. It ended with the Empire's defeat and the founding of the New Republic following the Battle of Endor.
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Did Anakin Kill Padmé?
Not with his own hands, but Revenge of the Sith makes him the cause. He choked her on Mustafar, and she died after giving birth because, in the medical droid's words, she had lost the will to live. Here is what the film shows and what it leaves to the viewer.
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How Did Anakin Become a Force Ghost?
The films never explain it. Anakin never trained in the technique Qui-Gon discovered, but StarWars.com's canon Databank says his sacrifice let Obi-Wan and Yoda preserve his spirit in the Force. Here is what the films show, what canon adds, and why he appears young.
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How Did Anakin Become Darth Vader?
In two steps, both in Revenge of the Sith. Anakin pledged himself to Darth Sidious to save Padmé and was named Darth Vader that night. Then Obi-Wan left him maimed and burning on Mustafar, and Palpatine had him rebuilt in the black armour. Here is how it happened, in canon and Legends.
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How Did Anakin Bring Balance to the Force?
By destroying the Sith. In Return of the Jedi Anakin throws Palpatine down a shaft on the second Death Star and dies himself, leaving no Sith alive, which is what the films say the prophecy meant. Here is how that works, and what Palpatine's return in The Rise of Skywalker does to it.
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How Did Anakin Get His Scar?
In canon, nobody knows: Anakin has the scar over his right eye from The Clone Wars onward, and no film or series shows how he got it. In Legends, Asajj Ventress gave it to him in a lightsaber duel on Coruscant in a 2004 Dark Horse comic. Here is what each continuity says.
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How Did Anakin Lose His Hand?
Count Dooku cut off Anakin's right arm in their duel on Geonosis at the end of Attack of the Clones, and he wore a mechanical replacement from then on. Here is how it happened, how he paid Dooku back, and how the same wound runs through his son's story.
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How Did Anakin Survive Mustafar?
Obi-Wan left Anakin Skywalker legless, armless and on fire beside a lava river on Mustafar. He lived because Palpatine sensed he was in danger and got to him in time, and because the dark side kept him going long enough to be rebuilt as Darth Vader.
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What Colour Would Your Lightsaber Be? Take the Quiz
Ten quick questions about how you fight, what you want and who you'd learn from, and we'll tell you which lightsaber colour fits. Blue, green, yellow, purple, red, white, orange or the black blade of the Darksaber.
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- What Happened to Anakin's Lightsaber?
- How Could The Pearl From A Krayt Dragon Create The Most Powerful Lightsaber?
- Why Are Orange Lightsabers Weak?
- Why Did Luke Skywalker Use A Sith Lightsaber Crystal?
- Why Do People In Star Wars Use Blasters Instead Of Guns?
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- Every Lightsaber Color Meaning Explained
- Every Clone Legion, Corps, Battalion and Company Explained
- Every Lightsaber Combat Form Explained
- Every Lightsaber Crystal Explained
- Every Lightsaber Type and Variant Explained
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- Every Clone Legion, Corps, Battalion and Company Explained
- Every Force Lightning Color Explained
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- Every Lightsaber Type and Variant Explained
- Everything Lightsabers Cannot Cut Through
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- How Could The Pearl From A Krayt Dragon Create The Most Powerful Lightsaber?
- How Did Anakin Become a Force Ghost?
- How Did Anakin Become Darth Vader?
- How Did Anakin Bring Balance to the Force?
- How Did Anakin Get His Scar?
- How Did Anakin Lose His Hand?
- How Did Anakin Survive Mustafar?
- How Did Coruscant Become Hell After The Fall Of The Empire?
- How Did Grievous Almost Become Force Sensitive and Dooku's Sith Apprentice?
- How Did IG-88 Almost Destroy The Star Wars Galaxy?
- How Was Cad Bane So Good At Defeating Jedi?
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- Were Regular Guns The Perfect Weapon To Defeat Jedi?
- Were There Any Sith Lords Who Used Their Powers For Good?
- What Colour Would Your Lightsaber Be? Take the Quiz
- What Excuse Did Vader Give For His Defeat By Obi-Wan Kenobi?
- What Happened to Anakin's Face?
- What Happened to Anakin's Lightsaber?
- What Happened to Anakin's Mother?
- What Happened To The Girl Who Hit On Darth Vader?
- What Happened When A Clone Commando Got A Jedi Padawan Pregnant?
- What Happened When Darth Vader Found A Picture Of Jar Jar Binks, Kenobi And Padme?
- What Was It Like To Be Hit By A Blaster Bolt?
- What Was The Devastating Ability That Only Starkiller Could Use?
- When Darth Maul Fought Darth Vader
- Who Was The Only Force User That Boba Fett Feared?
- Why Are Orange Lightsabers Weak?
- Why Couldn't The Jedi Sense That Palpatine Was A Sith Lord?
- Why Did Anakin Kill the Younglings?
- Why Did Anakin Turn to the Dark Side?
- Why Did Ancient Sith Lords Hate Palpatine And Darth Vader?
- Why Did Both The Jedi And Sith Hate This Lightsaber Variant?
- Why Did Jabba The Hutt Force His Favourite Dancer To Wear Strange Make-up?
- Why Did Luke Skywalker Use A Sith Lightsaber Crystal?
- Why Did Palpatine And The Sith Fear Qui-Gon Jinn More Than Any Other Jedi?
- Why Did Palpatine Love Maul's Lightsaber?
- Why Did The Empire Make Boba Fett's Disruptor Rifle Illegal?
- Why Didn't Darth Vader Upgrade His Suit?
- Why Didn't The CIS Make Lightsaber Resistant Battle Droids?
- Why Do People In Star Wars Use Blasters Instead Of Guns?
- Why Is Anakin the Chosen One?
- Why Plagueis Went to Meet Anakin in The Phantom Menace
- Why Was Darth Vader Terrified After His Duel With Obi-Wan Kenobi?
- Why Was General Grievous So Pathetic When He Fought Obi-Wan In Revenge Of The Sith?
- Why Was General Grievous So Weak In Revenge Of The Sith?
- Why Was Hyperspace So Terrifying?
- Why Was It So Difficult For Non-Force Sensitives To Use A Lightsaber?
- Why Was Moff Gideon So Terrified Of Luke Skywalker?
- Why Wasn't Count Dooku Deformed By The Dark Side?
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