Lightsabers are synonymous with Star Wars, however there’s one other Drive weapon which is deadlier to Jedi – and it was wielded by Yoda‘s little-known grasp from the Vagadarr system.

Whereas Yoda was educated as a Jedi within the common method (by a being named ‘N’Kata Del Gorm’ in Legends canon), he had one other grasp who tutored him in a far rarer means – Stonepower. This was a model of the Drive which utilized solely to the shimmering blue rocks of 1 unnamed planet.

In Star Wars #27 – by Jason Aaron and Salvador Larrocca – Yoda investigates a mysterious planet, discovering it populated solely by kids, who’ve damaged into warring teams. The kids carry weapons manufactured from a blue stone which Yoda is shocked to understand he cannot manipulate utilizing the Drive. However another person can.

Yoda Took a New Grasp to Be taught Stonepower

After an try at diplomacy, Yoda is taken to a huge blue mountain – the supply of the fabric – and sentenced to journey inside to its coronary heart, the place the youngsters imagine he’ll be consumed. As an alternative, Yoda discovers a younger man – Garro – who is ready to management the blue stone together with his thoughts. Yoda requests to turn into the younger warrior’s pupil, even declaring the boy his new grasp in a second of spectacular humility.

Nonetheless, as soon as Yoda discovers the key of the blue stone – that it has been mined from gigantic rock creatures native to the planet – he units to work bringing peace to the warring teams, finally gaining the Stonepower for himself because of Garro’s teachings. Years later, a younger Luke Skywalker reads an account of Yoda’s journey and units off to research. On the mysterious planet, he finds Garro – now alone because of Yoda’s efforts, and wielding a set of blue-stone knives together with his distinctive Stonepower. Garro is consumed by vengeance for the way Yoda modified his world, and Luke is shocked to understand that he cannot use the Drive to cease the knives. Luke is repeatedly stabbed and disarmed by the knives, which hover and assault from each course, at the same time as he makes an attempt to struggle them off.

Garro’s Stonepower Knives Beat Luke Skywalker

Lightsabers are a complicated weapon, however they’re additionally honorable, drawing on talent and a connection to the Drive to make use of successfully. Garro’s knives are much more duplicitous, and it is because of this that he is capable of repeatedly wound Luke, regardless of the younger hero wielding first the Drive, then a blaster, then his lightsaber in opposition to the risk. Garro’s knives present how harmful it’s for Jedi to face a weapon they can not use the Drive to regulate – particularly when their opponent can. Certainly, Luke by no means really beats Garro – as an alternative, Yoda’s former grasp has a change of coronary heart and sacrifices his life to deliver again the blue stone creatures his folks nearly drove to extinction, with Luke ending the job as soon as his life pressure is spent.

The Drive Nonetheless Has Infinite Secrets and techniques

Whereas followers might imagine they perceive the Drive, this story makes it clear that the vitality subject expresses itself in infinitely various methods, and even a single unknown planet would possibly comprise secrets and techniques no Jedi or Sith has ever confronted earlier than. Curious and humble, Yoda was keen to acknowledge that Garro knew one thing he did not and to check beneath him, however mockingly Garro’s personal ego could not settle for the modifications Yoda caused after mastering the Stonepower.

Garro’s knives have been a relic of immense cruelty, and whereas Yoda‘s grasp clung to that darkness for so long as he may, finally this Star Wars story noticed him settle for his pupil’s lesson of humility and search redemption – one thing Luke Skywalker helped him obtain.