Star Wars: The Force Awakens is coming this December, but other than a glimpse of Kylo Ren last year there's been little footage of lightsabers in action. That's changing today with our first glimpse of a new character wielding one of the brilliant laser swords: John Boyega's Finn.

It's a brief promo clip posted on the Star Wars Instagram account, taking advantage of the service's newly-announced landscape orientation mode, in which Boyega squares off opposite Adam Driver's Ren. He's wielding a blue blade, and while the precise origins of the weapon aren't clear we can get a pretty good idea by looking at what materials have already been released about the film.

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Putting those pieces together with today's footage, and it's becoming pretty clear that Finn is wielding the same lightsaber used in both the original and prequel trilogies. How he managed to get hold of the weapon — and its larger importance in the story itself — is still very much under wraps as far as official channels are concerned. But with this clip premiering on Instagram (and Force Awakens toys coming next month), we're likely going to learn a lot more very soon.

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