Crossguard lightsaber becomes a bone of contention for Jedi and Sith

That trailer for The Force Awakens sure was something, wasn’t it? Jam-packed with John Williams music, next-gen Stormtroopers, FIFA-droids, the Millennium Falcon, and some girl riding a hover-fridge; it had everything. Buried in that tantalizing footage was a rather controversial object: a lightsaber with a “tri-beam crossguard.” Upon seeing it, the Internet was divided, as if cleaved in two by an elegant weapon from a more civilized age. We couldn’t decide if the weapon was a cool artifact from Sith lore, or just some gimmicky crap designed to pander to fanboys (Hint: It’s the latter).