Star Wars: Why Inquisitors All Use Double-Bladed Lightsabers

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The Star Wars canon timeline’s Imperial Inquisitors all use the same type of lightsaber, a double-bladed weapon with the ability to spin. The near-uniformity of the Inquisitors’ weapons has to do with their incomplete dark side training by the Dark Lords of the Sith, Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine, as well as their use of fear against opponents. While the Inquisitors’ spinning double-bladed lightsabers aren’t entirely practical, they do offer some benefits to their wielders.

While Darth Vader was more than powerful enough to hunt down the Jedi survivors of Order 66, he couldn’t do it alone. Shortly after the Jedi Purge began, Palpatine and Vader trained a small number of Jedi— who’d fallen to the dark side by choice or torture—as Inquisitors, dark-side agents who closely resembled Sith Lords. Although the Inquisitors were gone by the events of A New Hope, they’d faithfully served the Empire and the Sith in their galaxy-wide pogrom of the Jedi.

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Since their introduction in Star Wars Rebels, all Imperial Inquisitors have used a specific type of lightsaber with two blades, capable of spinning in dazzling displays. The weapons proved to be versatile and provided useful defense for the wielders, as well as being extremely intimidating to opponents—yet their main purpose seems to be instilling fear. Against an opponent who isn’t afraid of an Inquisitor, the spinning lightsabers were impractical, as proven by Kanan Jarrus at the end of Rebels season 1.

Kanan’s season-long character arc was overcoming his traumatic survival of Order 66, and his fear was personified by the season’s main villain, The Grand Inquisitor. Throughout the season, he and aspiring Jedi Ezra