His hilt was made from the wood of a Brylark tree, which is as strong as metal.īoth the Jedi and the Sith Order used lightsaber hilts the former regarding them as tools rather than weapons, while the latter sought to use their sabers to fuel their quest for power. There are many unique hilts, such as the lightsaber hilt of Gungi, a Jedi Initiate. Over the thousands of years that followed, power technology and indeed the construction of lightsaber hilts continued to evolve, eventually encompassing shotos, shorter hilts used in the off-hand, as well as double-bladed, curved-hilt, and dual-phase designs. Eventually these hilts evolved to only require a small belt-mounted pack, and again to a fully self-contained weapon system such designs saw service as early as 5000 BBY at the start of the Great Hyperspace War. The first hilts were produced as early as the advent of the lightsaber itself, approximately 15,500 BBY though cumbersome and requiring a backpack-mounted power source, the Jedi Order nonetheless began to embrace the technology. A combination handgrip, blade emitter, activator switch and power source, it held within the inner workings of the weapon that allowed it to produce its distinctive energy-based blade. Lightsaber hilts were the basic, all-encompassing part of a lightsaber. ' Touch the brightly-colored button up there by the pommel….' ― Obi-Wan Kenobi
