Staff

Production information
Type	Melee weapon

For other uses, see staff.

"Look at him! He's weak, leaning on a staff!"

―A human pilot observing Darth Vader

A staff was a stick or rod that could be used to assist a being in walking or as melee weapon which could be used for offense or self-defense. A staff could also be a symbol of office or serve as a religious icon.

Staffs

Types

• Disintegrator staff
• Electrostaff
• Memorial staff
• Quarterstaff

Individual staffs

• Chirrut's staff
• Rey's quarterstaff
• Speaker's staff

History

During the days of the Galactic Republic, the Senate Vice Chair to the Supreme Chancellor carried the Speaker's staff as a symbol of their office. Mas Amedda held the position during the final days of the Republic.

During the Clone Wars, various forms of electrostaff were used by both the IG-100 MagnaGuards of the Confederacy of Independent Systems and clone shock troopers of the Coruscant Guard. Shortly after the First Battle of Geonosis, a clone trooper named Cut Lawquane deserted the Grand Army of the Republic and settled as a farmer on Saleucami. He made use a staff with rounded loop with three spikes at one end which he could use both as a farm tool and weapon with equal skill.

Appearances

• The High Republic: Convergence (and audiobook)
• "Tales of Enlightenment: The Unusual Suspect" — Star Wars Insider 216 (reprinted in Star Wars Insider: The High Republic: Tales of Enlightenment)
• The High Republic (2022) 1
• The High Republic (2022) 4
• The High Republic (2022) 5
• The High Republic (2022) 6
• The High Republic (2022) 8
• The High Republic (2022) 9
• The High Republic: Path of Vengeance (and audiobook)
• The High Republic (2022) 10
• The High Republic: Cataclysm (and audiobook)
• "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life (and audiobook) (In flashback(s))
• The High Republic: The Rising Storm (and audiobook)
• The High Republic: The Edge of Balance, Vol. 2
• The High Republic: Trail of Shadows 2
• The High Republic: Trail of Shadows 3
• The High Republic: Midnight Horizon (and audiobook)
• The High Republic: Trail of Shadows 4
• The High Republic: The Edge of Balance: Precedent (In flashback(s))
• The High Republic Adventures (2023) 1
• The High Republic Adventures (2023) 2
• The High Republic Adventures (2023) 8
• The High Republic Adventures (2023) 9
• The High Republic Adventures (2023) 10 (Cover only)
• The High Republic: Temptation of the Force (and audiobook)
• The High Republic (2023) 8
• The High Republic: Beware the Nameless (and audiobook)
• The High Republic: The Edge of Balance, Vol. 4
• "Brothers and Sisters" — The High Republic Adventures Phase III Annual (In flashback(s))
• The High Republic Adventures (2023) 11
• The High Republic Adventures (2023) 12
• The High Republic: Trials of the Jedi (and audiobook)
• The High Republic Adventures Phase III - The Wedding Spectacular
• The High Republic Adventures (2023) 14
• The High Republic Adventures (2023) 15 (Cover only)
• The High Republic Adventures Phase III - The Battle of Eriadu (Vision to Gavi Takitaken)
• The High Republic Adventures (2023) 16
• The High Republic Adventures (2023) 20 (Cover only)
• Star Wars Eclipse
• Star Wars: The Acolyte — "Destiny"
• The Acolyte: The Crystal Crown
• Mace Windu 3
• Mace Windu 4
• Hyperspace Stories: Qui-Gon
• Jedi Knights 1 (Vision to Obi-Wan Kenobi)
• Jedi Knights 2
• Darth Maul (2017) 2
• Darth Maul (2017) 4
• Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace (First appearance)
• Star Wars Journeys: The Phantom Menace
• Star Wars Journeys: Beginnings
• Mace Windu: The Glass Abyss (and audiobook)
• Choose Your Destiny: An Obi-Wan & Anakin Adventure (and audiobook)
• Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
• "Galactic Tales: Saber Truth" — Star Wars Insider 210
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "The Gungan General"
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "The Zillo Beast" (In flashback(s))
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "The Zillo Beast Strikes Back"
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Duchess of Mandalore"
• Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel (and audiobook)
• Hyperspace Stories: The Bad Batch—Ghost Agents 3
• Forces of Destiny: Daring Adventures: Volume 1 (and audiobook)
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Pursuit of Peace"
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Senate Murders"
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Friends and Enemies"
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Crisis on Naboo"
• "Bug" — The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark (and audiobook) (Model only)
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "The Lawless"
• Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising (and audiobook)
• Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
• Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Aftermath" (In flashback(s))
• Darth Vader (2017) 1
• Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Common Ground"
• Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Infested"
• Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear (and audiobook)
• Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Tribe"
• Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "The Clone Conspiracy"
• Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Truth and Consequences"
• Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Metamorphosis"
• Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "The Outpost"
• Tarkin (and audiobook)
• Most Wanted (and audiobook)
• Crimson Climb (and audiobook)
• Rebel Rising (and audiobook)
• Inquisitors 1
• Beckett 1
• Solo: A Star Wars Story
• Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition (and audiobook)
• Solo: A Star Wars Story: Meet the Crew
• Solo: A Star Wars Story Graphic Novel Adaptation
• Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaptation 2
• Solo: A Star Wars Story: Train Heist
• Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaptation 5
• Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaptation 6
• Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaptation 7
• Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures — "Han Solo - From Smuggler to General"
• Obi-Wan Kenobi 1
•  HoloNet News Exclusive: Mas Amedda receives Governor Arihnda Pryce for Lothal report (backup link) (original site is defunct) (Appears in hologram)
• Lost Stars webcomic
• Star Wars: Andor — "Kassa" (In flashback(s))
• Star Wars: Andor — "That Would Be Me" (In flashback(s))
• Star Wars: Andor — "Reckoning" (In flashback(s))
• Star Wars: Andor — "The Eye"
• Kanan 1
• Leia Organa: Ordeal of the Princess (In flashback(s))
• Star Wars Rebels — "Legends of the Lasat"
• Forces of Destiny: The Leia Chronicles
• Thrawn: Alliances (and audiobook)
• Vader Immortal – Episode III
• Guardians of the Whills
• Guardians of the Whills: The Manga
• Star Wars Rebels — "Family Reunion – and Farewell"
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story novelization (and audiobook)
• Star Wars: Rogue One: A Junior Novel (and audiobook)
• Rogue One Adaptation 1
• Rogue One Adaptation 2
• Rogue One Adaptation 3
• Rogue One Adaptation 4
• Rogue One Adaptation 5
• Rogue One Adaptation 6
• Smuggler's Run: A Han Solo & Chewbacca Adventure (and audiobook)
• Lando 1
• Lando 2
• Lando 3
• Chewie and the Courageous Kid (reprinted in Galactic Adventures Storybook Collection)
• Doctor Aphra (2016) 1
• Star Wars (2015) 68
• Star Wars (2015) 69
• Star Wars (2015) 70
• Star Wars (2015) 72
• Boba Fett — Black, White & Red 3 (In flashback(s))
• Darth Vader (2020) 4
• Darth Vader (2020) 11
• Doctor Aphra (2020) 12
• Doctor Aphra (2020) 13
• Crimson Reign 1
• Doctor Aphra (2020) 16 (In flashback(s))
• Crimson Reign 2
• Crimson Reign 3 (In flashback(s))
• Darth Vader (2020) 18
• Darth Vader (2020) 19
• Darth Vader (2020) 20
• Darth Vader (2020) 21
• Darth Vader (2020) 22
• Revelations (2022) 1 (Vision to Darth Vader)
• Sana Starros 1
• Darth Vader (2020) 29 (Cover only)
• Darth Vader (2020) 30
• Darth Vader (2020) 31
• Darth Vader (2020) 32
• Darth Vader (2020) 34
• Darth Vader (2020) 35
• Darth Vader (2020) 36
• Bounty Hunters 35
• Bounty Hunters 38 (In flashback(s))
• Darth Vader (2020) 37
• Darth Vader (2020) 38
• Darth Vader (2020) 39
• Doctor Aphra (2020) 38
• Star Wars (2020) 48 (Appears in dream)
• Darth Vader (2020) 42
• Darth Vader (2020) 44
• "The Curse" — Free Comic Book Day 2024: Star Wars 1
• Darth Vader (2020) 46
• Darth Vader (2020) 47
• Darth Vader (2020) 48
• Darth Vader (2020) 49
• Darth Vader (2020) 50
• "The Kroolok" — Life Day Treasury
• Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi
• "Divine (?) Intervention" — From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi (and audiobook)
• The Princess and the Scoundrel (and audiobook)
• Ewoks (2024) 1
• Ewoks (2024) 2
• Ewoks (2024) 3
• Return of the Jedi – Ewoks 1
• Star Wars: Uprising
• Aftermath: Life Debt (and audiobook)
• Battle of Jakku — Republic Under Siege 1
• Aftermath: Empire's End (and audiobook)
• Star Wars (2025) 1 (Variant cover only)
• Star Wars (2025) 3 (Variant cover only)
• Hyperspace Stories Annual—Jaxxon 2023
• "The Tree of Life" — Life Day Treasury
• Star Wars: Hunters (Mentioned only)
• The Mandalorian Junior Novel (and audiobook)
• The Mandalorian Season 2 Junior Novel (and audiobook)
• Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett — "Chapter 3: The Streets of Mos Espa" (In flashback(s))
• Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett — "Chapter 5: Return of the Mandalorian"
• Star Wars: The Mandalorian — "Chapter 18: The Mines of Mandalore"
• Star Wars: The Mandalorian — "Chapter 24: The Return"
• Star Wars: Ahsoka — "Part One: Master and Apprentice"
• Star Wars: Ahsoka — "Part Two: Toil and Trouble"
• Star Wars: Ahsoka — "Part Seven: Dreams and Madness"
• Poe Dameron: Free Fall (and audiobook)
• Shadow of the Sith (and audiobook) (Mentioned only)
• Bloodline (and audiobook)
• "True Love" — Tales from a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Aliens: Volume I
• Han Solo - Hunt for the Falcon 4
• "Kidnapped!" — Star Wars Adventures (2017) 24
• Before the Awakening (and audiobook)
• Force Collector (and audiobook)
• "Better the Devil You Know, Part I" — Star Wars Adventures (2017) 1
• "Better the Devil You Know, Part II" — Star Wars Adventures (2017) 2
• Phasma (and audiobook)
• Star Wars Forces of Destiny — "The Happabore Hazard"
• Forces of Destiny: The Rey Chronicles
• Choose Your Destiny: A Scavenger Mission
• "Destroyer Down" — Star Wars Adventures: Destroyer Down
• Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens novelization (and audiobook)
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens: A Junior Novel (and audiobook)
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens Graphic Novel Adaptation
• The Force Awakens Adaptation 1
• The Force Awakens: Rey's Story (and audiobook)
• Rolling with BB-8!
• The Force Awakens Adaptation 6
• Star Wars Forces of Destiny — "Sands of Jakku"
• Star Wars Forces of Destiny — "BB-8 Bandits"
• Forces of Destiny—Rey
• Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire (and audiobook)
• Age of Resistance - Rey 1
• Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Expanded Edition (and audiobook)
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi: A Junior Novel (and audiobook)
• The Last Jedi Adaptation 1
• The Last Jedi: Rey's Journey
• The Last Jedi Adaptation 3
• The Last Jedi Adaptation 4
• Chewie and the Porgs
• Star Wars Forces of Destiny — "Porg Problems"
• Legacy of Vader 4 (In flashback(s))
• Poe Dameron 26 (Mentioned only)
• Resistance Reborn (and audiobook)
• "Through the Turbulence" — Stories of Jedi and Sith (and audiobook)
• Allegiance 1
• Allegiance 2
• Allegiance 3
• Allegiance 4
• Spark of the Resistance (and audiobook)
• Galaxy's Edge 3 (In flashback(s))
• A Crash of Fate (and audiobook)
• "The Obstacle Course, Part 1" — Star Wars Adventures (2020) 1
• "The Obstacle Course, Part 2" — Star Wars Adventures (2020) 2
• "Repair Stop" — Star Wars Adventures (2020) 13
• "Repair Stop, Part II" — Star Wars Adventures (2020) 14
• Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Expanded Edition (and audiobook)
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: A Junior Novel (and audiobook)
• The Last Order (In flashback(s))
• Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes

Non-canon appearances

• Roblox
• Disney Infinity 3.0
• LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
• "Tests of a Jedi" — LEGO Star Wars 107

Sources

•  "The Gungan General" Episode Guide | The Clone Wars on StarWars.com (backup link)
• Star Wars Helmet Collection: Scout Trooper Databank A-Z: Bongo–Bowcaster
• Star Wars: Card Trader Set: Base Series 1, Card: Magnaguard - Separatists
• Star Wars Helmet Collection: Phase I Clone Trooper Weapons & Uniforms: The Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic
• The Art of Star Wars: Uprising
• Nexus of Power (Training stick)
• Star Wars: ABC-3PO
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game
• Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide
• Star Wars: Build Your Own R2-D2 2 Droid Directory: 3PO-series Protocol Droids, Part 1 (Picture only)
• Star Wars: Build Your Own R2-D2 6 Droid Directory: EGL Power Droids (Picture only)
• Star Wars Forces of Destiny: Meet the Heroes (Picture only)
• Star Wars Helmet Collection: Silvanie Phest Helmets: Silvanie Phest
• Forces of Destiny: Tales of Hope & Courage
• Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide
• Star Wars Search and Find Volume I
• Gadgets and Gear
• Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition
• Star Wars: Card Trader Set: 2020 Base Series, Card: C-3PO (Picture only)
• "Naboo" — Star Wars Encyclopedia (Picture only)
• Star Wars: The Lightsaber Collection
• "The Final Order and the Battle of Exegol" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
•  "Aftermath" Episode Guide | The Bad Batch on StarWars.com (backup link) (Picture only)
•  Star Wars: The High Republic Show: New High Republic Comic Revealed, Lightsabers from the Prime of the Jedi, and More! on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) (Posted on StarWars.com)
• Star Wars: The Vintage Collection (Pack: #195: Electrostaff Purge Trooper) (backup link)
• Star Wars: The Secrets of the Sith (Picture only)
• Star Wars: Character Encyclopedia, Updated and Expanded Edition
• Star Wars: The Secrets of the Wookiees
• Star Wars: The High Republic: The Lightsaber Collection
• Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy
•  Ahch-To in the Databank (backup link) (Picture only)
•  Amani in the Databank (backup link)
•  Chirrut Îmwe's Staff in the Databank (backup link)
•  electroripper staff in the Databank (backup link)
•  Rey's Quarterstaff in the Databank (backup link)

Notes and references

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