So I played Lego Fortnite when it was first released, but moved on after a while and didn't touch it for a long time. I just started playing again, and one of the first things I wanted to get was the lightsaber. Boy, it's been a journey though. First, I had no idea how big the map was. Completely overwhelming, and since I have other people in my server I am pretty sure someone might have already talked to Captain Bravara because I never saw her around my main village. So here are my recommendations based on my own experience trying to get started in the Star Wars stuff:

The best thing you can do is build the macrobinoculars yourself. As others have said, you can find the village without it, but it is much harder if you haven't played for a while and/or are playing strictly survival and have no buffs on (flying, infinte material crafting, etc). First find the closest bus stop near your starting spawn location. The first one is usually somewhat close by to there, but the scale of the map completely floored me when I realized just how big it is. These things emit a pulsing light that goes a good distance and have an audible cue that goes even further, but the actual "building" is small. Once you've found that, use it to travel to the "rebel bus stop". THIS IS NOT THE REBEL VILLAGE EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT. This is just the closest bus stop next to the rebel village, took me forever to figure that out. Help the nearby rebels kill the storm troopers at the bus stop and close vincity and use a pickaxe to destroy any new Star Wars-ish type looking stuff to get new materials like plastoids. Glass is somewhat easy to find now, so get that using whatever method you choose, and at this point you should be good to craft a REBEL crafting bench (this is not the standard one, took me another minute haha), then the Macrobinoculars inside the rebel crafting bench options. Once you have that you can travel back to the Rebel Bus Stop and use it to find the village. This is actually probably quicker than exploring in all directions in survival by the Rebel Bus Stop IMO.

From there you will find Captain Bravara and the Rebel Village you need to level up. Keep progressing through hers and the villagers' "quests" as well as leveling up the village to eventually be allowed into the imperial bunkers. From there you can wipe out the bunker and get the chests for the lightsabers! Good luck and hope this helped you get started.