A New Trick

I am a Mandalorian. As such I am expected to be good at certain things. 

In particular I am supposed to be good at understanding how armor and weapons function and are assembled.  Over the years my aunt Bo-Katan did what she could at instructing me in such tech. 

When a Mandalorian such as myself comes into contact with military types of technology it is in my nature to come to understand that technology. 

So when I started trying to understand the design of the light sabers that I was in possession of, my frustration grew until it became an obsession.  

How could something that could fit in one hand with a solitary function be so confoundedly enigmatic? 

There were no apparent fasteners anywhere keeping each of the pieces together. They were each seamless from pommel to the grip to the emitter. Yet I know by looking at the sabers that I possessed, and having seen Ahsoka 's (though from afar) that each one is entirely unique. This is a clue that they are individually designed and assembled. Not a task easily done by a machine, so it must be done by each owner. BUT HOW?

After a close study of each one under magnifying lenses, and some trial and error (emphasis on the error). I set the single bladed saber of Maul on the floor in front of me as I sat on the floor. I closed my eyes and tried to envision what the saber looked like on the inside. 

I mentally disassembled it. Imagining that the pommel came off, then the grip slid off of the internal components. I imagined the power cell (it must have one of some type in there.) I thought of the switch that connected to the power cell, some kind of crystal that focused that power and then a red lens. I imagined it all coming apart and lying itself out in a nice neat row. 

When I opened my eyes I nearly jumped out of my skin at the sight of everything, just how I imagined it. 

What just happened.

I could not conceive how this happened. 

I closed my eyes.

I opened my eyed, Nope still apart.

I don't really know how, but it did really happen.

Okay, so it really happened, could I put it back together again?!?

So, I calmed my mind, and closed my eyes. 

While calling to mind the reverse order that I imagined the dis-assembly, I envisioned the assembly. putting each piece back in it's place. 

I opened my eyes, but to my disappointment, it was only assembled up to the crystal.

I took it apart again. 

Again it was found as I intended. 

I attempted to put it back together paying close attention to how everything went together in my mind, but there it is. I see the problem. I could not mentally see the red lens. instead I see a dark blue one. 

I could not see it as red no matter how many times I tried. 

That must be why every light saber is unique. It is dependent on the one building it.

Intent on getting this saber back together, I decided to "borrow" the chemistry laboratory at the Royal Academy of Government.  No one would be there at this late hour, and I knew what I was doing, well kind of. I mean really the odds of burning the place down was minor. So off I went. 

I let myself in to the academy, I found the flame fusion machine. added the proper amount of iron and titanium to the corundum recipe. 

After a few hours I had the crystal that was the right color. 

I put everything back. Aside from the residual heat from the machine, no one should no that I was here.

After I made it home. I went to work on the shape of the crystal. carefully comparing it to the red one that I took out of the saber. It took a long time, but after a couple of days of painstakingly long hours of laser cut after laser cut, and then polishing, it was ready. 

I sat on the floor with all of the pieces right where they have been the since I first took it apart, except now there I have replaced a blue crystal where the red one had been.

I imagined the process of  all of the pieces coming together. 

I slowly opened my eyes.

It worked. Somehow I rebuilt the light saber into something new, something mine. It still needed some changes in color of the outside, but it was mine, and it worked beautifully

I wonder if I can do anything else by literally putting my mind to it? 

It would not take long to figure that out...