Chirrut's staff

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Chirrut's staff was a flame-hardened uneti-wood staff used as a walking stick and weapon by the blind monk Chirrut Îmwe. The staff had two handles of metal. One end of the staff was capped with an enclosure for a kyber crystal sliver, offering a symbolic source of inner illumination and allowing Îmwe to better gauge where the end of the staff was through the sound of the battery and crystal harmonic.[4] During the Imperial occupation of Jedha's Holy City, Îmwe used the staff as a weapon against the Empire's stormtroopers,[2] misleading his victims into believing the staff was merely a blind man's walking stick.[1] Îmwe later went on to use the staff in the Battle of Scarif, where he was instrumental in the Rebel Alliance's successful theft of the Death Star plans.[2]

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Behind the scenes

According to Chirrut Îmwe actor Donnie Yen's interview with Apple Daily, it was he who made the suggestions for Îmwe to be blind and to use a walking staff that doubles as a weapon for fighting stormtroopers.[5]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 StarWars-DatabankII Chirrut Îmwe's Staff in the Databank (backup link)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
  3. ↑ Force Collector
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide
  5. ↑ Premium-Era-real 【專訪】拍《星戰》「整盲自己」 甄子丹：我應該收版權費 (Hong Kong Cantonese) by Apple Daily on 聞庫 (December 13, 2016) (content obsolete and backup link not available) (original link on censored news site Apple Daily irretrievable)
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