A Jedi's Weapon

This article is about the Legends comic story "A Jedi's Weapon". You may be looking for the canon novel The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure and it's comic adaptions.

"A Jedi's Weapon" is a comic story featured in Free Comic Book Day 2002 Special and Star Wars Tales 12.

Plot summary

The story chronicles a diplomatic mission of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. On Coruscant, they meet King Sha-Mar Ma-dred from Kashir who wishes to join the Republic, and his four (dramatically attractive) wives. After the initial meeting, Anakin remarks that the Kashirim seem very friendly, and he doesn't know why Obi-Wan warned him to be on his guard. Obi-Wan archly informs him that Kashirim are renowned throughout the galaxy for their expertise at thievery, which they regard as an important social skill. While Ma-Dred's wives exit the room where the negotiations take place, Anakin is distracted by the wives' and his lightsaber is stolen.

Anakin embarks on a mission to recover the lightsaber before Obi-Wan finds out about it. He is led from the first three wives to the last one, Ashala, who is next to the sleeping king in his room. She reveals that she lost it shortly after the theft, but Anakin is forced to dangle out a nearby window when guards intrude inside the room. Eventually, Anakin gives up and begins to trudge back to his room when he finds Kenobi. The Jedi Master lectures Anakin about the importance of his lightsaber, and hands it back. After he witnessed the wife's theft, he gently used the Force to recover it. Taken aback, Anakin asks why Obi-Wan didn't say anything, and Obi-Wan lectures that it is just as important for there to be candor and trust between a Master and his Padawan. Obi-Wan was only waiting for Anakin to come back and admit that he'd lost his lightsaber. In the same spirit of candor, Anakin uncomfortably starts to confess the lengths he went to to retrieve his lightsaber, and Obi-Wan is predictably outraged.

Continuity

Though this is a Star Wars Tales story that was released before Star Wars Tales 21 and was therefore originally considered Infinities, a reference in Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide places the basic storyline into the main canon.

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ The Free Comic Book Day 2002 Special was published on Free Comic Book Day in 2002, which was held in May 4 according to Premium-Era-real Home Page - Free Comic Book Day by Diamond Comic Distributors on www.freecomicbookday.com (backup link archived on January 20, 2002).
  2. ↑ Per The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. II, p. 201 ("Kashir") and The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 371 ("Groshim"), the events of "A Jedi's Weapon" took place during the Separatist Crisis and shortly before the First Battle of Geonosis, which corresponds to some point between 24 BBY and 22 BBY (closer to the latter) per The New Essential Chronology.
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