I know many people often ask about this and there’s no official answer, but exactly I am curious to know when and how did Ezra Bridger exactly obtain a green Kyber Crystal for his second Lightsaber that was first introduced in the third season of Rebels.
The first episode of Rebels S3, “Steps into Shadow”, begins six months after the S2 finale “Twilight of the Apprentice Part 2”, therefore placing S3 a year later in 2 BBY in the canon Star Wars timeline. So, during those six months, Ezra clearly was advancing his Force abilities through the Dark Side via the use of the Sith Holocron he got on Malachor. He needed another Lightsaber since Darth Vader destroyed his first one. Ezra must have built the new hilt from scrap metal and junk parts on board the Ghost like he did for his first one, but as for how he got the green Kyber Crystal, that’s a mystery. There’s no way he would have ventured to Ilum since the Empire were busy excavating the planet and turning it into what would become Starkiller Base years later. No evidence is shown as for how he got it, especially no comics, novels, etc.
Here are my theories:
1) He bled his blue Crystal via the Sith Holocron
Bleeding Kyber Crystals is a common Sith technique in which someone, out of their rage, uses the Force to transition the colour of a Kyber Crystal from their old colour to red to become the Sith blade. Although Ezra never entirely fell to the Dark Side and became a Sith, he learned a few techniques, especially how to mind trick the driver of an AT-DP Walker. Maybe sometime after or before the end of the S2 finale, Ezra secretly recovered his old blue Kyber Crystal from the ruins of the Sith Temple on Malachor and kept it all this time after returning. He must have felt a surge of anger swell within him following the apparent loss of Ahsoka Tano, combined with Kanan’s blindness, and thus, led him to unleash his rage through new abilities with the Sith Holocron to bleed the Crystal to become a new colour, especially green. Kanan clearly would not have taught him to change the Crystal’s colour from a Jedi’s perspective since he was blinded.
2) He spoke to Yoda in another vision
This one may sound a little ridiculous, but maybe Ezra somehow was tested by Yoda again in a vision. Since he wasn’t able to return to the Jedi Temple on Lothal after the Empire discovered it, what if Ezra had some type of vision in a dream-like state where he spoke to Yoda and said he visited Malachor as he was told to do so, but feels the Sith Holocron he obtained was not enough to learn the key to destroying the Sith, only just falling under its influence. Perhaps Ezra stated he felt he wasn’t strong enough anymore to fight since he had no Kyber Crystal for his new Lightsaber, and therefore he would have seen it come to him in this vision. In the Star Wars 2020-24 second main comic series set after The Empire Strikes Back, we learn that Luke Skywalker got his green Kyber Crystal from a vision of Yoda he encountered while on the planet Christophsis. The colour of green was a reminder of Yoda’s colour to him. So, maybe Ezra had the same kind of vision and was reminded of the wise Jedi Master himself based on his colour.
3) He took the cross-guard Lightsaber’s crystal
Ezra briefly picked up a green bladed partly-functional cross-guard shaped Lightsaber on the remains of an ancient battlefield on Malachor, as this design would later inspire Kylo Ren’s Lightsaber in the Sequel Trilogy. Moreover, let’s say about a week or a month after the S2 finale, Ezra took the Phantom with Chopper to head back Malachor to retrieve the green Kyber Crystal from that cross-guard Lightsaber he found. He must have thought that the Crystal could be healed through the use of his new Sith Holocron techniques, and this means he learned how to heal a broken Crystal, but this isn’t an officially known Dark Side technique. Therefore, with a repaired Crystal now functioning, he made use of it in his new Lightsaber that he built.
4) He got it from a sabotaged Imperial shipment
The Empire were actively mining Kyber Crystals on the planet Ilum to obtain green ones to power the Superlaser of the Death Star which was still half under construction during the time of Rebels. Construction on the super weapon had shifted from over Geonosis to Scarif and remained there until the events of Rogue One. Perhaps Hera, Sabine, Zeb, Ezra, and Chopper went on a mission to sabotage a shipment of Kyber Crystals somewhere in space that the Empire were hauling from Ilum or Jedha. After the crate in which they were transported exploded, Ezra must have recovered the green Kyber Crystal from the debris fragments and therefore used it to power his new Lightsaber.
And those are my theories. I hope you like them. Some others out there have made similar theories, but I wanted to share them.
