Mace Windu's blue-bladed lightsaber

This article is about the lightsaber wielded by Mace Windu prior to the Clone Wars. You may be looking for the lightsaber given by Windu to a student of the Almas Academy.

"When I lent you that weapon, you lent me your own, as is our tradition."

―Eeth Koth, undergoing the Concordance of Fealty with Mace Windu^[3]

A blue-bladed lightsaber was carried by Jedi Master Mace Windu during his membership of the High Council of the Jedi Order.^[4] An unexceptionally constructed weapon, the lightsaber had a metallic gray ribbed hilt with a conical segment of radiator casing on its pommel, and a red length adjuster for its blue blade.^[1]

History

Windu with blue-bladed lightsaber ignited.

Windu constructed the blue-bladed lightsaber prior to the creation of his other electrum-finished, purple-bladed one in the years preceding the Clone Wars,^[1] and wielded the blue weapon during the Yinchorri Uprising^[5] of 33 BBY. In the following year,^[6] the Jedi Master alternated between the blue- and purple-bladed weapons.^[4]

By the end of the Naboo Invasion, Windu carried fellow Jedi Councilor Eeth Koth's lightsaber,^[7] for which he had exchanged his blue saber in the Concordance of Fealty, a Jedi ceremony demonstrating mutual trust. Eeth Koth returned the lightsaber to Windu shortly before the latter embarked on a diplomatic mission for the Galactic Republic to negotiate peace between the Red Iaro terrorists and the prince of the Lannik people on the Mid Rim world of Malastare.^[3]

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Behind the scenes

In Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, Mace Windu carries a briefly-glimpsed lightsaber hilt, whose appearance is used for the action figure created during the film's production,^[8] but differs from the radiator-casing version shown in reference materials released afterwards.^[9]^[10] This discrepancy is explained in the 1999 Dark Horse Comics series Emissaries to Malastare, as being a result of Windu having exchanged his lightsaber with Eeth Koth's during the time of the film's events, in the Concordance of Fealty ritual.^[3]

Although the 2000 Dark Horse Comics series Jedi Council: Acts of War shows Mace Windu to wield a blue-bladed lightsaber during the Yinchorri Uprising,^[5] an image of the event in Kevin J. Anderson and Daniel Wallace's 2005 reference book The New Essential Chronology depicts Windu's lightsaber with a purple blade.^[6] Similarly, the blue-bladed saber's appearances in the 22nd^[11] and 23rd issues of the Star Wars comic book series^[12] were recolored purple when reprinted in 2010's Star Wars Omnibus: Quinlan Vos: Jedi in Darkness.^[13] In the same Omnibus, the reprinted 41st issue also recolors the saber to purple, but only in its retelling of events post-Yinchorri Crisis, while maintaining the blue blade as originally portrayed during said event.^[13]

The lightsaber carried by Mace Windu in the Star Wars Tales 13 comic story "Children of the Force" has a purple blade, but a hilt resembling that of Windu's blue-bladed weapon.^[14]