Years later, Ben Solo, Lor San Tekka and Luke Skywalker found a rifle of this type in a Jedi outpost on Elphrona.
Jocasta Nu firing a lightsaber rifle at Darth Vader.
Once a lightsaber was properly loaded into an open slot on top of the rifle, a lightsaber rifle could produce an overwhelmingly powerful and destructive beam of energy. One such rifle was kept secure in the Jedi Archives. The weapon could fire at least five shots before the lightsaber being used as fuel melted beyond usage, at which point the empty rifle began to smoke. It could also be activated to self-destruct with enough force to break open a large hole in the Jedi Temple wall.
The rifle first appeared in Darth Vader (2017) 9, a canon comic written by Charles Soule, penciled by Giuseppe Camuncoli, and released in 2017.
- Star Wars Helmet Collection 69
- Star Wars: The Lightsaber Collection