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What happened to Luke's green lightsaber?

Contains spoilers for The Rise of Skywalker

Every Jedi walks a path from apprentice to master, and in that journey has to collect a kyber crystal and forge their own weapon.

In A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) wields the lightsaber his father, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen), had made during the events of the Star Wars prequel films. Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) passes the saber on to Luke at the beginning of A New Hope, but the weapon is lost in Cloud City at the end of Empire Strikes Back when Darth Vader cuts Luke's hand off before revealing his true identity as Luke's father.

When Luke returned to the big screen in Return of the Jedi, however, he was seen carrying a new blade. He had finally become a Jedi Master, and in so doing had had to forge his own weapon. This time, Luke's saber burned a bright green, contrasting from the blue blade he had inherited from Anakin. But when the Star Wars sequel trilogy began in 2015 with The Force Awakens, it's Luke's blue lightsaber that Maz Kanata (Lupita Nyong'o) has to the rising Jedi apprentice Rey (Daisy Ridley). Hiding out on a remote island on the planet Ahch-To, Luke is discovered without his second saber. So what happened to the green lightsaber he forged for himself before Return of the Jedi?