Plo Koon's Lightsaber: Color, Hilt and Fate
Plo Koon's lightsaber is a single blue blade on a 28 centimeter alloy hilt in canon. This reference answers the blue, orange or yellow question, then covers the hilt, the appearances, what happened to it after Order 66, and canon against Legends.
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Plo Koon's lightsaber is a single blue blade on a 28 centimeter alloy hilt in canon. This reference answers the blue, orange or yellow question, then covers the hilt, the appearances, what happened to it after Order 66, and canon against Legends.
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Plo Koon’s lightsaber is a single blue blade powered by a kyber crystal, on a straight alloy hilt about 28 centimeters long [1]. In canon he carries it as a Jedi Master and a Jedi General in the Clone Wars [1][3]. Legends lists other colors for the same saber, and the sources do not explain why [2]. This page answers the color question first, then covers the hilt, where the saber appears and how it ends. For why blue is such a common Jedi color, see the blue lightsaber page. A film by film list is on every lightsaber by film.
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Last checked: 2026-11-11.
Quick answers
- Blade color in canon: blue [1][3].
- Blade color in Legends: orange, yellow, blue and green, depending on the year [2].
- Hilt: alloy metal, about 28 cm, a design common among Jedi who saw themselves as sentinels [1].
- First appearance of the saber: Attack of the Clones, on Geonosis [1].
- Fate: Plo Koon is shot down by his own troops during Order 66, and the sources I read do not say what happened to the saber [1][3].
Who Plo Koon is
Plo Koon is a Kel Dor Jedi Master from the planet Dorin, who dies on Cato Neimoidia in 19 BBY [3]. BBY means before the Battle of Yavin, the calendar Star Wars stories use. He is a member of the Jedi High Council and is a Jedi General during the Clone Wars, often leading the 104th Battalion [3]. He wears a breath mask to filter the air so that it matches Dorin’s, and goggles to stop his eye fluids from evaporating [3]. Wookieepedia marks his page as partly out of date, so details can shift [3].
His padawan was Bultar Swan, and he found Ahsoka Tano as a child. Her saber story is on the Ahsoka Tano lightsabers page [3].
What color is Plo Koon’s lightsaber
In canon the answer is blue. The canon saber article lists the blade color as blue, and the character article says he wielded a blue lightsaber in combat [1][3]. The saber’s crystal is a kyber crystal, which the kyber crystals page explains in general [1].
Legends is where the orange and yellow searches come from. The Legends article lists four colors in its infobox, each tied to a year: orange in 19.43 BBY, yellow in 32 BBY, blue in 22 BBY and green in 20 BBY [2]. It adds that it is not known, story-wise, what led the crystal to change from orange to blue [2]. That is a fan wiki note about a continuity that is no longer canon, so it is not a rule about how Jedi choose color.
Other pages I read take a different line. A retailer article gives blue first, then green, then yellow or orange, and ties each to a stage of his career, without naming a source [4]. It says a yellow blade in the video game Jedi Power Battles is not canon [4]. A second retailer calls the saber canonically blue and imagines an indigo version, flagged as hypothetical, again without a canon source [5]. The official Star Wars databank page on Plo Koon, which I read, names no saber color at all [6].
For the yellow and orange blades themselves, see the yellow lightsaber and orange lightsaber pages. The full list of color choices is on lightsaber colors.
The hilt
Wookieepedia gives the canon specifications as an alloy metal hilt about 28 centimeters long, with a kyber crystal [1]. It says the design was quite common among Jedi who saw themselves as sentinels [1]. These are in-universe fan wiki details.
The Legends article is more specific about where the look came from. It says the hilt is a copy of one that appeared in promotional material for The Phantom Menace and of Luminara Unduli’s lightsaber, with blue coloring added to the grooves around the emitter [2]. It also says Mace Windu’s saber in the same material was plain [2]. The canon article does not mention the grooves.
If you want to build a hilt in this spirit, the lightsaber hilts guide explains the parts. For another Council member’s saber with a related look, see the Mace Windu lightsaber page.
Where Plo Koon’s lightsaber appears
The table covers the main screen appearances. Wookieepedia’s full list also holds many comics, novels and games that this page does not attempt to cover [1].
| Title | What the saber does there | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Tales of the Jedi, “Choices” | Listed among the saber’s canon appearances | [1] |
| Attack of the Clones | Used against the droid army at the arena on Geonosis | [1] |
| The Clone Wars film | Appears in the saber’s appearance list | [1] |
| The Clone Wars series | Many episodes, including the Malevolence arc, some only as a hologram or in a flashback | [1] |
| The Rise of Skywalker adaptation | Plo Koon appears as a Force spirit in the comic adaptation | [1] |
The Phantom Menace needs a note. Plo Koon sits on the Council in that film, but the canon saber article does not list it, so the handbook card’s first appearance for the saber is not supported [1][7]. Revenge of the Sith is the same: the official databank lists the film for the character, but the saber article does not [1][6].
In the series, Wookieepedia credits the saber with the Battle of Abregado and the rescue of Jedi Master Adi Gallia [1]. Those are story summaries from a fan wiki.
What happened to Plo Koon’s lightsaber
Wookieepedia’s canon article ends with Plo Koon’s campaigns and gives no fate for the saber itself [1]. The character article explains his death. After the Battle of Cato Neimoidia, he is flying a patrol when Darth Sidious issues Order 66, and he is shot down by his own troops [3]. The databank describes it the same way, as his wingmen shooting down his starfighter [6].
The retailer article says the saber is believed to have been destroyed in the crash [4]. It presents that as likely and cites no source, so I treat it as a guess. The Legends article also names Cato Neimoidia as the place of his death in 19 BBY and does not say what became of the weapon [2].
One more canon detail is easy to mix up. In a Clone Wars story Plo Koon finds the lightsaber of Sifo-Dyas on the moon Oba Diah [3]. That saber is another character’s weapon, not his own.
Canon and Legends
Wookieepedia keeps two articles for the saber, one per continuity [1][2].
| Field | Canon [1] | Legends [2] |
|---|---|---|
| Blade | Blue | Orange, yellow, blue, green by year |
| Crystal | Kyber crystal | Not stated |
| Hilt | Alloy metal, about 28 cm | Straight alloy, blue grooves at the emitter |
| Made | Before 22 BBY | Before 32 BBY |
| Fate | Not stated | Not stated, owner dies at Cato Neimoidia |
The handbook entry and what is unverified
The handbook card (handbook/sabers/plo-koon-blue.md) lists blue, single blade, canon, first appearance The Phantom Menace, and says outright that nothing was checked and no source was opened [7]. Today’s reading of Wookieepedia agrees on the blue color, the single blade and the canon label [1]. It does not support the card’s first appearance, because the canon saber article lists Attack of the Clones for the film appearance and not The Phantom Menace [1][7]. The card also says the sources do not always agree on his color, which matches the Legends colors and the retailer pages [2][4][7]. The card’s note about Order 66 holds [3][7].
Sources
- Wookieepedia, Plo Koon’s lightsaber (canon), https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Plo_Koon%27s_lightsaber (read through the public API, accessed 2026-11-11)
- Wookieepedia, Plo Koon’s lightsaber (Legends), https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Plo_Koon%27s_lightsaber/Legends (accessed 2026-11-11)
- Wookieepedia, Plo Koon, https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Plo_Koon (accessed 2026-11-11)
- Theory Sabers, Plo Koon’s Lightsaber Explained (retailer article), https://www.theorysabers.com/article/plo-koons-lightsaber-explained (accessed 2026-11-11)
- nsabers, Plo Koon’s indigo lightsaber (retailer article), https://nsabers.com/blogs/lightsabers-guide/plo-koons-indigo-lightsaber-mysticism-deep-insight-and-force-wisdom (accessed 2026-11-11)
- Star Wars Databank, Plo Koon, https://www.starwars.com/databank/plo-koon (accessed 2026-11-11)
- Handbook card handbook/sabers/plo-koon-blue.md (marked not verified in its header)
FAQ
What color is Plo Koon’s lightsaber?
Blue in canon [1][3]. Legends lists orange, yellow, blue and green by year [2].
Does Plo Koon have an orange or yellow lightsaber?
Only in Legends, and a retailer places a yellow blade in the game Jedi Power Battles [4]. The Legends article lists orange and yellow years, and the canon article gives blue [1][2]. The orange lightsaber and yellow lightsaber pages cover those colors.
What happened to Plo Koon’s lightsaber?
The sources I read do not say. Plo Koon is shot down by his own troops in 19 BBY, and a retailer article guesses the saber was lost in the crash without a source [1][3][4].
What does Plo Koon’s lightsaber hilt look like?
An alloy metal hilt about 28 cm long, a design common among Jedi sentinels in canon [1]. In Legends it is a straight alloy hilt with blue grooves near the emitter [2].
Who else uses a blue lightsaber?
The blue lightsaber page lists other owners and sorts them into canon and Legends.
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