Cal Kestis' Lightsaber: Sabers, Stances and Canon Facts

Cal Kestis’ lightsaber is a blue saber with a modular hilt that he built from salvaged parts on Ilum in 14 BBY, and in canon it can run as a single blade, a double-bladed staff, or two separate sabers [1][2]. It first appears in the 2019 game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order [3]. In the 2023 sequel Survivor it gains a crossguard mode [1][4]. This page covers his sabers, how the game stances work, canon status and licensed hilts. For the design of the double blade, see the double-bladed lightsaber guide.

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Last checked: 2026-11-09.

Quick answers

• Colour: blue [1].
• Modes: single blade, double-bladed, split into two sabers, and crossguard [1].
• Built: 14 BBY on Ilum, from Jaro Tapal’s and Cere Junda’s lightsabers [1][2].
• Games: Fallen Order (2019) and Survivor (2023) [3][4].
• Canon: yes. Wookieepedia files it as canon, and the Lucasfilm Databank lists it [1][2][8].

Which sabers make up the Cal Kestis lightsaber

“BBY” means before the Battle of Yavin, the calendar Star Wars stories use. The table runs in story order.

Wookieepedia calls the first row a conjectural title, meaning the wiki chose the name and no source gives one [5]. The Databank says Cal carried what remained of Tapal’s damaged double-bladed lightsaber to Bracca, and later used it until the crystal shattered [2].

How Cal built his saber on Ilum

Cal went to Ilum in Fallen Order after the old crystal was destroyed [2][3]. Wookieepedia says he found a new crystal in the Crystal Cave, and it split into two halves when he touched it [1]. He built the saber from the remains of Tapal’s hilt and the lightsaber Cere Junda used when she was a Jedi [1]. The Databank gives the same outline [2].

The finished hilt is cylindrical and straight, with two kyber crystals, a black grip section in the middle, and an emitter at each end [1]. Wookieepedia says one blade can be lit alone, both at once, or the hilt can split into two single-blade sabers for Jar’Kai style fighting [1].

Wookieepedia also says Cal later added parts that made both halves look like Tapal’s saber, and kept the second half on his belt when fighting single-bladed [1]. Those are in-universe descriptions from a fan wiki, not game text.

Fallen Order, Survivor and the stances

In Fallen Order the player starts with one saber and later earns the ability to dual-wield or use a double-bladed saber [3]. That matches the modes of the in-universe weapon.

Survivor turns this into five lightsaber stances: double-bladed, dual-wield, single, blaster and crossguard. The player can equip only two at a time [4]. Wikipedia says the double-bladed stance suits groups of enemies, and the crossguard stance is slow but hits hard [4]. The blaster stance uses a blaster alongside the saber, which Wookieepedia places after the gift of a blaster pistol in the story [1].

The crossguard mode is explained in the story. Wookieepedia says Cal took a crossguard emitter from a Bedlam Raider lieutenant’s saber on Koboh and fitted it to his own [1]. For how that design works, see the crossguard lightsaber guide. For real fighting styles, the stances in games are not the same as the Jedi forms on the lightsaber forms page.

Wookieepedia describes Cal as skilled with single, double-bladed and Jar’Kai combat, and able to switch between them during a fight [6]. That describes his fiction, not a training method.

Colour

Wookieepedia lists the blade as blue [1]. The handbook card says the saber colour can be changed in the game (handbook/sabers/cal-kestis-blue.md), but that card is marked unverified and I did not find that in a source I opened, so treat blue as the default and customisation as unconfirmed [7]. The blue lightsaber page explains what blue means in canon.

Canon status

Canon is the continuity Lucasfilm treats as current, and Legends is the label for licensed stories from before the April 2014 reset [8]. Both games and Cal came after that reset, so there is no Legends version of his saber. Wookieepedia files the saber under canon [1]. The Lucasfilm Databank lists both Cal Kestis and Cal’s lightsaber [2][9]. Wikipedia says the Survivor team worked closely with Lucasfilm so the events would not clash with other projects [4]. I did not find a single Lucasfilm sentence that uses the word canon for the games, so the statement rests on the Databank listing and the wiki.

The handbook card marks him canon, and says his first appearance was Fallen Order in 2019 [7]. Wikipedia gives the release as November 2019 for Fallen Order and April 28, 2023 for Survivor [3][4]. Wookieepedia also records Cal’s escape from Darth Vader on Nur, and Vader’s own saber is covered on the Darth Vader lightsaber page [1].

Licensed hilts and replicas

Disney sold a Cal Kestis Legacy Lightsaber hilt at Dok-Ondar’s Den of Antiquities from March 2022, after it won a fan poll in 2020 [3]. The Disney Parks Blog says a Survivor Collector’s Edition hilt was revealed on December 9, 2022, as a full-sized replica compatible with Legacy blades [10]. Wikipedia adds that Disney released a replica of Cal’s saber in August 2023 [4]. None of these pages gave a price I could confirm, so none is listed here.

I found no Hasbro Force FX lightsaber for Cal. Wikipedia lists Hasbro Black Series figures of the character, not a saber [3]. For other licensed hilts, see the Black Series Force FX lightsabers and conversions and replicas pages.

Sources

1. Wookieepedia, Cal Kestis’ second lightsaber, https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Cal_Kestis%27_second_lightsaber (read through the public API, accessed 2026-11-09)
2. Star Wars Databank, Cal’s lightsaber, https://www.starwars.com/databank/cals-lightsaber (accessed 2026-11-09)
3. Wikipedia, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Jedi:_Fallen_Order (accessed 2026-11-09)
4. Wikipedia, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Jedi:_Survivor (accessed 2026-11-09)
5. Wookieepedia, Cal Kestis’ first lightsaber, https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Cal_Kestis%27_first_lightsaber (accessed 2026-11-09)
6. Wookieepedia, Cal Kestis, https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Cal_Kestis (accessed 2026-11-09)
7. Handbook card handbook/sabers/cal-kestis-blue.md (its header says it was not checked against any source)
8. StarWars.com, The Legendary Star Wars Expanded Universe Turns a New Page, https://www.starwars.com/news/the-legendary-star-wars-expanded-universe-turns-a-new-page (accessed 2026-11-09)
9. Star Wars Databank, Cal Kestis, https://www.starwars.com/databank/cal-kestis (accessed 2026-11-09)
10. Disney Parks Blog, New Cal Kestis Legacy Lightsaber Hilt Revealed for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Collector’s Edition, https://disneyparksblog.com/dlr/new-cal-kestis-legacy-lightsaber-hilt-revealed-for-star-wars-jedi-survivor-collectors-edition (December 9, 2022, accessed 2026-11-09)