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Tobar
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Rogue One * Spoilers * Thread
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31-Mar-2017, 7:34 PM

Alderaan said:

oojason said:

I’m not 100% sure what you are referring to in your post?

Sorry, I thought my post was more clear. The magic crystal thing is not Star Wars. You won’t find **** like that in the original three movies. Some creatively challenged animated TV-writer of limited ability, or some creatively challenged EU author of limited writing ability, came up with it out of his ***, and Disney’s creatively bankrupt hacks decided to borrow it, as they are accustomed to doing.

Well…

The Force is all around us. It can be collected and transmitted through the use of a Kiber Crystal. It’s the only way to amplify the power of the Force within you. - Ben Kenobi, in “The Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Starkiller, Third-Draft, August 1975”

The idea of the Kaiburr crystal can be traced to the earliest incarnations of the script for Star Wars; specifically, the May 1, 1975 “Story Synopsis and Typed Outline” from “The Adventures of Luke Starkiller (episode one) ‘The Star Wars’.” There it was spelled as a “Kiber Crystal” and acted as a MacGuffin, or device driving the story, for the heroes to capture. Ben Kenobi was intended to explain to Luke Skywalker how the Kiber Crystal collected the Force and allowed the wielder to use it. Eventually, in a later edition of the draft, “The Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Starkiller, Third-Draft, August 1975,” the plot was expanded to include Kenobi attempting to capture his personal Kiber Crystal from the “Crystal Chamber” on the Imperial throne world of Alderaan. The elder Jedi would explain how it had been taken from him during the Battle of Condawn—the same battle in which Skywalker’s father died—by one of Kenobi’s disciples. The few crystals that remained were held in the Alderaanian Crystal Chamber. Later, Skywalker was to utilize the crystal in his fight with Darth Vader.

Pretty simple really.