Dough with Fish Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 In AOTC, why were there only a few different colors for the lightsabers? Every one but Mace and Dooku had either a blue or a green one, and I thought that the lightsaber was not only their weapon, but also a kind of an extension of themselves, and they would choose a color to reflect their personality. I mean, hell, in the the NJO books, the Jedi there have every color on the rainbow, and then some, so whats the deal here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CupO'Coffee Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 i think that it's simply customary for jedis to build either green or blue lightsaber while it's some kind of tradition for siths/dark jedis to have red lightsabers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zindell Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 makes it easier for the dumb people who still haven't figured out that darth vader is evil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inSpiRe- Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 probably cuz padawans have blue or green sabers, cuz that color jewel is easiest to find to put in their lightsaber. u know that its tradition that a padawan has to build his own lightsaber. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rajess MoDuron Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 Red green and blue are the primary colors of the light spectrum. The red has to do with artificial Sith crystals which are imbued with the power of the dark side. It's all in your EP 2 visual dictionary. Mace's is purple because he uses some special crystal, but other than purple, the ONLY colors are red blue and green. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharaFett Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 hey genius yellow's a primary color not green Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woad Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 Of course if you want to look at it this way, you could: In the Prequel era and before that it was tradition for the Jedis in the Order to only use blue and green sabers. After the purge and so much knowledge was lost, Luke would have had no knowledge of this tradition and allowed his New Jedi order to fashion whaever color sabers best reflected themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitedragon Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 Originally posted by Zindell makes it easier for the dumb people who still haven't figured out that darth vader is evil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adi_Sunrider Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 i think everyone shoudl have had different saber colours. well i know bout 5 - 10 in the film when there fighting in the arena, and they all got blue and green ones, instead of there special colours! Damm?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyrit Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 Ok, first a disclaimer...I have NO clue what I'm talking about. Just throwing this out there. First, when Sith and Jedi battled constantly, there were only two colors. Red and blue. It was like army uniforms...you could easily tell who is ally and enemy. Now when the Sith "disappeared", there were only blue ones for a while...but decided that they needed a second color since training with only blue sabers made it hard to tell whose saber was where. So they made green. Now, there's also a technical answer...originally Lucas only wanted red and blue because you should be able to tell who's evil and who's good right away. Then the green was made because the old blue saber wouldn't show up well on Jabba's barge against the blue sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkLegion Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 hey genius yellow is not a primary color in light beam green ,red and blue are ask your physics teacher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalVapor Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 HEY ALL OF YOU! RGB VALUES ARE ONLY RELEVANT WITH DIGITAL SPECTRUMS! RED YELLOW AND BLUE ARE THE TRUE PRIMARY COLORS! RED+BLUE=PURPLE BLUE+YELLOW=GREEN YELLOW+RED=ORANGE Now, depending on whether the spectum is light or paint, the 3 mixed together create white or black. R+B+Y=White: Light R+B+Y=Black: Paint Digital sources such as a computer are programed differently, replacing yellow with green for some reason. The only variance in this that I have seen are graphics programs such as Photoshop which allow the option of choosing color the way a printer does: CMYK which means: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black. Obviously these are the optimal variations of Blue Red and Yellow, for the purpose of creating a much broader range of color and black due to the fact that since the digital spectrum is a light, the mixture of the three primary colors produces white. And in print, it is more efficient to have a black ink instead of mixing the primary colors each time black is needed. I hope I have cleared this up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XERXES Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 although it may not be true...i believe that blue is for padawan jedis...and possibly green is for jedi knights. And Mace has the purp one cause he just kicks ass... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rajess MoDuron Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 Actually...ass, Red Blue and Green are the primary colors of LIGHT. Yellow is a primary pigment color. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rajess MoDuron Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 And the ass is not digital vapor. The ass is SharaFett. I just remember from Chemistry class that RGB are the primary colors of the Electomagnetic Spectrum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XERXES Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 :D the outsid ones are the light versions...the middle ones are the true color...and the inside are the tints...i like color 25;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda_alex Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 The primary colours are red blue and green. Printers use the three secondary colours: cyan magenta and YELLOW so yellow is a secondary colour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowMongoose Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 Gosh... what a lame star wars arguement. There have been jedi with yeloow sabers...at least one from the books. it can be done! Snow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rajess MoDuron Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 George Lucas = Master of Star Wars. George said only Red, Green, and Blue. Then he allowed Purple, but he made sure that the canonical references hinted that Mace's saber was not normal. Unique. Because he was an Uber Master or whatnot. Books=Liscenced yes, but when it comes down to it, movies over books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank_Comie4545 Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 books over movies in any other instance but for starwars it is movies over books Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rajess MoDuron Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 Yes, you're correct. I misspoke. LOTR=Books first. SW=Movies first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clem Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 primary light colours red green Blue secondary yellow (red + green) cyan (blue + green) magenta (red + blue) mix them all to get white Paint use red blue and yellow for some reason but if u mix em all u dont get black .... have u eva tried it?! U ALWAYS GET BROWN!!!! ARGH!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPY_jmr1 Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 Paint use red blue and yellow for some reason but if u mix em all u dont get black .... have u eva tried it?! U ALWAYS GET BROWN!!!! ARGH!!! wosent that a song? somthing like" BROWN!?!?! why brown? all these colors make black, so why is it brown!*BANG CHRASH CLUNK *******^&*%^%$%^$^$%$^#^$$@@#!#$#%$ *" hehe had forgoten about that song before now.... wonder what the name of it was.... it was a riot..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryphcon Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 Yes, only green and blue for the jedi is canon. Mace got a purple lightsaber because Samuel Jackson wanted one. But in EU (expanded universe) there are many different colours, and since JK2 seems to be in the EU (since it has Lukes Jedi Acedemy at Yanvin 4, Mara Jade, etc.) thats why there's many saber colours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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