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Kyber Staff
Affiliation: Ancient relic, dating back before the founding of the Republic. Exceedingly rare.
Usable by: Force Users only. Non-Force Users will find the staff completely inert in their hands.
Cost: A well-preserved and functioning Kyber Staff will rarely appear as a part of historic collections or private auction. Selling prices vary from 700,000-3 million credits.
Type: Pre-Jedi staff-type weapon for Force wielders.
Size: Sizes vary based on planet of origin and the specifications of the original owner - however, an average Kyber Staff will vary from 4 to 7 feet in length and vary from 2-3 inches in thickness on average.
Composition: While common varieties often use Force-hardened wood, rarer and more expensive examples of Kyber Staffs can be made of various metals, bones or even glass or crystal. A Kyber crystal is mounted at the head of the staff.
Unusual Properties: For so long as a properly attuned Kyber Crystal is mounted in the head of the staff, the weapon will take on a faint shimmer matching the attuned crystal's colour and will be as hard and as impervious to damage as Phrik. Should the user of the staff fail to be synchronised with their crystal, this hardening effect will cease, and the weapon will only be as hard as its original source material. As a result, a Kyber Staff can only be used by trained Force Users. The Kyber Crystal also stores latent Force energies, allowing the wielder to use the staff as a battery of Force energy. This does not reduce the amount of fatigue a user suffers on excessive Force user, but rather allows the Force to flow more readily, similar to a lightsaber, allowing the wielder to call upon the Force more easily in the heat of battle. A trained Force user can also release the Force energy stored in the crystal in a concussive burst of energy. While such a blast can easily knock even a heavily armored opponent clear off their feet, the user must take caution soas not to damage or even shatter the staff by channelling too much power at any given moment. While using such an attack would create a truly devestating result, it would surely destroy the staff utterly in the process.
Description: Though it seems hard to imagine now, once upon a time the Jedi Order were not the enormous force of galactic peacekeeepers they are now. In the youth of the Order, even the legendary lightsaber had not been invented, though the properties of the fabled Kyber crystal were already well documented. Though the Kyber crystal would go on to be almost exclusively used in the Jedi lightsaber, the protective properties of the crystal - as well as its imprint in the Force - was first discovered and used through specially attuned weapons into which a Kyber crystal was set. Though Force Swords became commonly used by the Knights of the Jedi Order, the scholars and sages of the Order, as well as the temple guardians, preferred the staff, and the ceremonial use eventually evolved into the lightsaber pike following the invention of the lightsaber.
Usable by: Force Users only. Non-Force Users will find the staff completely inert in their hands.
Cost: A well-preserved and functioning Kyber Staff will rarely appear as a part of historic collections or private auction. Selling prices vary from 700,000-3 million credits.
Type: Pre-Jedi staff-type weapon for Force wielders.
Size: Sizes vary based on planet of origin and the specifications of the original owner - however, an average Kyber Staff will vary from 4 to 7 feet in length and vary from 2-3 inches in thickness on average.
Composition: While common varieties often use Force-hardened wood, rarer and more expensive examples of Kyber Staffs can be made of various metals, bones or even glass or crystal. A Kyber crystal is mounted at the head of the staff.
Unusual Properties: For so long as a properly attuned Kyber Crystal is mounted in the head of the staff, the weapon will take on a faint shimmer matching the attuned crystal's colour and will be as hard and as impervious to damage as Phrik. Should the user of the staff fail to be synchronised with their crystal, this hardening effect will cease, and the weapon will only be as hard as its original source material. As a result, a Kyber Staff can only be used by trained Force Users. The Kyber Crystal also stores latent Force energies, allowing the wielder to use the staff as a battery of Force energy. This does not reduce the amount of fatigue a user suffers on excessive Force user, but rather allows the Force to flow more readily, similar to a lightsaber, allowing the wielder to call upon the Force more easily in the heat of battle. A trained Force user can also release the Force energy stored in the crystal in a concussive burst of energy. While such a blast can easily knock even a heavily armored opponent clear off their feet, the user must take caution soas not to damage or even shatter the staff by channelling too much power at any given moment. While using such an attack would create a truly devestating result, it would surely destroy the staff utterly in the process.
Description: Though it seems hard to imagine now, once upon a time the Jedi Order were not the enormous force of galactic peacekeeepers they are now. In the youth of the Order, even the legendary lightsaber had not been invented, though the properties of the fabled Kyber crystal were already well documented. Though the Kyber crystal would go on to be almost exclusively used in the Jedi lightsaber, the protective properties of the crystal - as well as its imprint in the Force - was first discovered and used through specially attuned weapons into which a Kyber crystal was set. Though Force Swords became commonly used by the Knights of the Jedi Order, the scholars and sages of the Order, as well as the temple guardians, preferred the staff, and the ceremonial use eventually evolved into the lightsaber pike following the invention of the lightsaber.
Construction of a Kyber Staff is now considered a lost art, but what is clear is that the process of creation involved far more than attaching a kyber crystal to a length of wood. Crafting a Kyber Staff was as personal and unique a process as the construction of a lightsaber, though arguably more harmonic with nature, and the process has not been replicated in many thousands of years. What few functioning examples remain, however, are a testimony to the lost history of the galaxy, and an insight into the study of the Force long before the formation of the Republic and consolidation of the Jedi Order.
Intent: It's a magic staff! No but seriously, it's basically a weapon alternative for Force Users who want something that fits better with their Wizard or Sorcerer-style characters if they don't want to use a lightsaber or a bladed weapon in general. Obviously, typical fantasy wizard staffs were a major inspiration for this, but also the general idea of Vodo-Siosk Baas' force-hardened staff as well.
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