Tuden Sal’s Sith lightsaber

Tuden Sal’s Sith lightsaber is a weapon kept in hiding aboard the Laranth/Corsair, first associated with Jax Pavan’s turbulent past and later with Sacha Swiftbird’s tentative experimentation. Its story is less about who owns it than about what happens when it becomes visible: exposed amid the wreckage of Jax’s quarters, it is discovered in a planter, then quietly taken up by Sacha. The blade’s pull and its unsettling power make it a material reminder that a weapon’s history and alignment do not settle what its next wielder will do with it.

A weapon concealed with the tree

The lightsaber first becomes conspicuous at a moment when Jax has lost his usual command of himself. After an overwhelming surge of emotion tears through his quarters, the room is left devastated and the miisai tree that Laranth had given him lies exposed, its roots half crushed by the broken planter. Jax gathers the debris, restores the tree as best he can, and feeds it with water and energy from his own life force. The Sith weapon, meanwhile, lies gleaming on the deck. The contrast places a means of violence beside an object Jax urgently tries to preserve: both have been caught in the same destructive upheaval, but he responds to them differently.

The lightsaber’s hiding place is a drawer concealed in the planter’s casing. Sacha finds it while checking that the tree’s water-to-food ratio is right. That practical act of care uncovers a weapon that was not meant to be seen; the discovery turns the planter from an ordinary container into a hiding place with a dangerous secret. Sacha tells Den Dhur and I-Five what she has found, and Den’s laughter briefly confuses her: to her, a Sith weapon is plainly a sign of the dark side and the enemy, not an amusing surprise. The mismatch shows how differently the group reads the object and how abruptly it forces its buried history into the open.

Jax’s history with the blade

I-Five explains that Jax received the lightsaber from an anonymous source before confronting Aurra Sing. Jax suspected it might have belonged to Sing, but when they faced one another she carried a Jedi weapon; the account leaves the possible exchange unresolved. What is clear is that Jax’s own lightsaber had been destroyed, and he used the Sith weapon until he and Laranth could build a replacement. Its presence aboard ship therefore records a practical improvisation under pressure, not evidence that Jax had simply adopted Sith allegiance.

Jax nevertheless kept the weapon after he no longer needed it. The plan was to find a new crystal for its hilt and remake it for a future Padawan, but that intention was never carried out. Its continued concealment makes the distinction between keeping a dangerous object and using it consequential: Jax preserves the possibility of a different future for the weapon, but never completes the work that would give that possibility form. The lightsaber is left in the planter, available to be rediscovered rather than returned to active use or remade.

Sacha’s encounter with its power

After the Laranth/Corsair has reached Keldabe, refueled, arranged cargo delivery, and taken on small arms, Sacha finds her attention repeatedly returning to the weapon in Jax’s quarters. She initially puts it back in the hidden compartment, but within hours brings it out again and props it beside the miisai tree in a wall niche, out of sight from the doorway. She turns the hilt in her hand and wonders whether it might have belonged to a woman because it fits her grip so well. The hilt’s physical fit offers a point of curiosity distinct from the weapon’s frightening reputation.

Alone aboard while Den and I-Five oversee cargo loading, Sacha activates the lightsaber and switches it off seconds later. The power seems to connect her hand, arm, and body to the weapon, an experience she finds overwhelming, unsettling, and exhilarating. She has been near Inquisitors and believes she recognizes evil, yet she also considers whether the Force itself is morally neutral and whether moral difference lies in the person wielding it. The weapon sharpens that uncertainty: its Sith identity matters, but the question of what its power means cannot be answered by the hilt alone.

The next time she activates it, Sacha holds her ground despite trembling hands, vibrating bones, and an itching sensation in her brain. She moves with the blade gingerly, then ventures into the larger engineering bay and pretends to fight. Its balance feels more natural to her than any blaster she has owned. This attraction does not erase her unease; it makes the choice to keep holding the weapon more charged. When voices approach, she deactivates it and tucks it into the front of her jacket just before I-Five enters and calls the situation peculiar.

An object whose meaning remains open

The lightsaber passes through several distinct states: hidden inside a planter, exposed in Jax’s ruined cabin, discovered by Sacha, and finally activated in her hands. Each change in its visibility also changes its role. In Jax’s quarters it is an unwelcome gleam amid the wreckage; in Sacha’s private exploration it becomes a source of bodily sensation and skilled movement. The weapon is not merely a remnant of an earlier confrontation, because Sacha’s response creates a new and unresolved relationship to it.

Its significance lies in the tension between inherited association and present use. Jax had used a Sith weapon when his own was gone, kept it with a proposed future Padawan in mind, and left that plan unfinished. Sacha, aware of its dark reputation, discovers that its grip and balance appeal to her even as its power unsettles her. The narrative does not resolve whether she will use it again or what she will make of its history. Instead, the concealed blade leaves that question materially present: a dangerous object can be preserved, hidden, and passed within reach, but its next meaning depends on the person who chooses to wield it.