

Eventually these hilts evolved to only require a small belt-mounted pack, and again to a fully self-contained weapon system such designs saw service as early as 5000 BBY at the start of the Great Hyperspace War. The first hilts were produced as early as the advent of the lightsaber itself, approximately 15,500 BBY though cumbersome and requiring a backpack-mounted power source, the Jedi Order nonetheless began to embrace the technology. A combination handgrip, blade emitter, activator switch and power source, it held within the inner workings of the weapon that allowed it to produce its distinctive energy-based blade.

Lightsaber hilts were the basic, all-encompassing part of a lightsaber.

" Touch the brightly-colored button up there by the pommel…." ― Obi-Wan Kenobi
