DESCRIPTION

This once-green Kyber crystal was the focusing gem of Jedi Knight Trice Marnix’s lightsaber. In 3,966 BBY, Jedi Marnix and thousands of members of the Jedi Order fought against the Sith in the Battle of Malachor. As with all who fought on Malachor that day, Marnix was slain when a Sith superweapon was triggered accidentally, scouring all life from the planet. Marnix’s crossguard saber fell from his petrified grasp and remained in the dust for nearly four-thousand years when it was discovered by Ezra Bridger. When Bridger activated the saber, the Kyber crystal shorted out; its form corrupted by the dark side energies that scoured Malachor milenia before. Bridger left the useless weapon behind, but it was rediscovered years later by an acquisitions expert in the employ of the Archive. Marnix’s green-and-black crystal serves as a unique example of the link between Kyber crystals and the Force, and how one can transform the other.