After Darth Vader lost the blue bladed lightsaber that he used throughout the final months of
the Clones Wars in his fight with Obi-Wan Kenobi on Mustafar, he was forced to create
a new one to continue his service of Darth Sidious.
When a Lightsaber crystal is collected from a place like Ilum, the crystal attunes its
color to the personality and force connection of the user, but can never naturally turn
red.
So, I’m going to break down exactly how Darth Vader turned his lightsaber Red and
made his kyber crystal bleed.
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Also let me know down below if you want to see how Darth Vader got his second red lightsaber,
since the one he uses in Rebels, Rogue One and a New Hope is actually his second one.
After the intense battle with his former Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader’s lightsaber
was left on the lavabanks of Mustafar, where Obi-Wan collected it to later hand down to
Vader’s son, Luke Skywalker.
To obtain his new weapon, Darth Vader travels to the River Moon of Al’Doleem where he
has received reports of a Jedi fugitive hiding out, after surviving Order 66 and the Great
Jedi Purge.
Darth Vader eventually manages to track down the hiding Jedi, named Kirak Infil’a as
he is training his lightsaber combat skills with his droid.
Vader brutally shreds Kirak Infina’s droid to pieces, angering the former Jedi enough
for him to draw his flickering green lightsaber.
Vader enters combat with the Jedi fugitive, but because he of course doesn’t have a
lightsaber at this point, he is forced to use the training pike from the droid he just
killed.
The two enter a ferocious battle, swinging their blades wildly until Kirak Infil’a
eventually gets the upper hand on Darth Vader, force pushing him off the cliff that they
were just fighting on, sending him plummeting towards the hard, rocky ground.
At this point, Infil’a believes he has dealt with the threat of the Dark Lord and put an
end to his reign of terror.
And let me know down below if you want me to cover the full story of Kirak Infil’a
and how he survived the great Jedi Purge, all the way up to his encounter with Darth
Vader.
Of course, Infila is completely wrong about this, and Vader has survived the incredibly
high fall, losing only his left mechanical leg.
He is quickly able to repair his horribly damaged cybernetic leg, before swiftly tracking
Kirak Infil’a down to Am’balaar City.
Once Vader arrives in the city, Infila’ Draws his curved green lightsaber, vowing
to end the darkness of Darth Vader once and for all.
Even just using a training pike, Darth Vader is able to hold off the strong advances from
the Jedi fugitive, until a new strategy enters his head.
Vader turns away from the intense battle with Kirak Infil’a, and begins to crush the water
storage facilities in Am’balaar city to pieces, causing the city’s streets to be
rapidly flooded with water.
This brutal action forces Kirak Infil’a to switch his attention to stopping the rapid
flow of water, and lose focus of the Dark Lord standing behind him.
This allows Vader to quickly use the force to pull Infil’a’s curved lightsaber hilt
away from him, claiming it as his own new Sith Lightsaber.
After stealing the green blade from the former Jedi Master, Darth Vader holds his unarmed
body high above the city streets and horrifically force chokes him to death, sending his lifeless
body plunging into the flooded city below.
As Vader is travelling back to Coruscant to show his Sith master the enormous victory
he had achieved, he receives an automated hologram transmission from Darth Sidious,
telling Vader that his ship has been automatically redirected to Mustafar, so that he can embrace
his deep connection to the dark side, while re experiencing all of his horrid memories
from the Lava planet.
Sidous believes that The combination of this intense hate and anger will allow Vader to
turn the luminous Green Jedi Lightsaber he has just collected into a deep, blood red
Sith blade.
Sidious informs his apprentice that deep below the surface of mustafar, there is a nexus
of Dark Side power, where Vader will be able to reclaim himself from his greatest defeat,
and rise up again, stronger than ever in the Dark side of the force.
Sidious tells Vader that although he has gathered the lightsaber of a fallen Jedi, the kyber
crystal that it contains does not yet belong to him.
Each lightsaber crystal is a potent thing which is alive and connected to the force.
Palpatine tells Vader that he will need to fully draw upon the dark side energy of Mustafar,
and combine it with his own hatred, anger and feat to deeply corrupt the Kyber crystal
to its core, making it bleed.
Vader happily accepts this task from his master, believing that it will further his journey
to becoming a true Lord of the Sith.
As Vader lands on the lava world of Mustafar, he travels into a nearby cave, with lava flowing
beside him, and ancient markings inscribed into the walls.
Vader then places Kirak Infila’s Jedi lightsaber down on a stone table, removing it’s backplating
to expose the living green kyber crystal.
The green lightsaber crystal is pulsating in the force with light side energy, because
of it’s attunement to Infil’a.
Vader then removes the green crystal from the curved hilt of the lightsaber, before
reaching his mechanical arm out in the force, attempting to begin the dark and harsh bleeding
process.
Vader suspends the green lightsaber crystal in the air next to him, attempting to channel
all of his hate, anger and sorrow into the living kyber.
He uses all of his might and every single bit of hatred in his mostly mechanical body,
fiercely trying to channel the dark side into the crystal, but is unable to.
His connection to the dark side of the force is simply not strong enough at this point.
Vader is completely shocked that he is unable to harness the full power of the dark side,
even after committing such horrific acts as slaughtering the younglings, brutally killing
many Jedi masters inside of the temple and obliterating the entire separatist council
on the planet where he is now standing.
Anakin’s blue eyes begin to show, because he is closer to the light than the dark in
this moment.
Because of this, Vader inspects the Green lightsaber crystal before placing it back
inside of Infila’s curved hilt, and reconstructing the blade.
Following this, Vader experiences a vivid force vision where he returns to his Master
on Coruscant to seek guidance on how to more deeply attune himself to the darkside.
Sidious asks to see his apprentice’s new blade, to which Vader shows him the bright
green blade of Kirak Infil’a.
Sidious takes this as a sign that his apprentice has returned to the light side and turned
against him, sending more flashbacks rushing to Vader’s mind, closely mirroring Sidious’s
leap through the air at the three Jedi Masters in Revenge of the Sith.
The Master and Apprentice quickly lock their bright lightsaber blades, before Palpatine
continues to taunt Vader for his decision.
Palpatine then ferociously swings his Red blade towards Vader, as his anger and rage
begin to overflow.
Vader is then finally able to overpower his master, knocking his red bladed lightsaber
out of his hand, brutally killing him, before walking away with Sidious dead body left on
the ground of his office.
Vader’s vision then quickly snaps to Obi-Wan sitting alone on a grassy world, in silence.
When Obi-Wan notices Vader's presence, he quickly ignites his lightsaber with a stern,
disappointed look on his face.
Vader’s mind enters a deep turmoil as he realizes that he has let his old master down,
before dropping to his knees and begging for Kenobi’s forgiveness.
Kenobi is about to strike his former apprentice down, but quickly switches off his blue blade,
calling out the old name of his apprentice, Anakin.
This sends Vader’s mind into a deep rage as he snaps back into reality, placing Kirak
Infil’as green crystal back onto the stone table, while refusing to let his past enter
his mind any further.
Vader then channels the full, immense power of the dark side, while recalling everything
that had gone wrong in his past, from the landing on mustafar, to the battle with obi-Wan,
all the way back to the death of his mother, his loss of Padme, and finally to the man
who has caused all of it.
His mentor, Darth Sidious.
The pain and suffering of all of his past failures and mistakes rushing back to him,
allows Vader to fully channel the dark side of the force into the green kyber crystal,
creating a vibrant burst of energy, illuminating the area with red light, as the crystal finally
submits to Vader’s will and begins to bleed.
Following his success in bleeding his lightsaber crystal, Vader rushes back to the imperial
Palace on Coruscant, where Mas Amedda and Tarkin are discussing the construction of
the death star by Director Krennic.
When Vader arrives, he brutally slams the two Royal Guards surrounding Palpatine into
the window behind them, almost causing them to have the same fate as Mace Windu.
Tarkin and Mas Amedda are shocked at the savage behaviour of Vader, but the Emperor orders
the two out, in order to speak alone with his apprentice.
As one of the royal guards lays lifeless on the ground next to the two, Darth Vader pulls
his newly bled lightsaber from his belt and displays it proudly to his master, showing
that he has finally embraced the dark side of the force enough to bleed a kyber crystal.
So that is exactly how Darth Vader turned his lightsaber Red after stealing a green
kyber crystal from Order 66 survivor, Kirak Infila.
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