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Post #891987

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DominicCobb
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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * SPOILER THREAD *
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31-Dec-2015, 6:20 PM

joefavs said:

The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that Kylo Ren was able to murder the rest of the Jedi students so effectively because he was the only one who had a lightsaber. I’m thinking Luke didn’t want to pass on that knowledge right away, but Snoke showed Ben/Kylo as a seduction tactic. The companion books refer to both Snoke and the design of the cross guard saber as “ancient”, so it wouldn’t be out of place for those instructions to come from him. I figure if Kylo learned from Luke, he’d have built a more conventional saber, and if Kylo didn’t learn from Luke, there’s no reason to think anyone else did. It would also justify his unimpressive performance against Rey, since in this scenario he wouldn’t need to have been a particularly skilled duelist to wipe out Luke’s academy or whatever he called it (Praxeum? 😉).

I agree. The thought had occurred to me when I was writing a post here a few days ago. Makes perfect sense to me.

I guess the question you ask is, how long was Ben training under Luke? A lot of things are unclear at this point, unfortunately, but it sounds like Ben went off to train with Luke before he was a full grown adult and hasn’t been seen by his parents since. Sounds to me like he could have been a teenager. I suspect it’s been about ten years since his purge of Luke’s academy so he probably wouldn’t have been a student for too long so not having a lightsaber is not inconceivable.

I think it’s possible Luke was avoiding teaching them how to build a lightsaber because he didn’t think it would be necessary. “A Jedi uses his power for knowledge and defense, never attack.”