**Official Lightsaber Discussion Thread**

Electrum is an alloy made from gold and silver. It is not a crystal. All lightsabers use a crystal internally. It was unfortunate that whoever wrote the copy for the t.v. spots focused on one aspect, the hilt, for Mace, and on the crystal, for the other Jedi. Apples and oranges.

 

In reference to blaster sounds, listen to Zam's pistol during the speeder chase, it's the TIE fighter blaster sound. Very annoying.

 

I too would've prefered to see a few more purple lightsabers scattered through the arena.

 

"It does in the Star Wars movies."

where does a lightsaber spontaneously switch color in the star wars movies?

is there a book or website or something somewhere that says what electrum is? this whole thing is getting me confused.

 

"where does a lightsaber spontaneously switch color in the star wars movies?"

Thats not what he meant. Sorry. What he meant was that a jedi could never be seen in a SW movie holding a red lightsaber. Similarly a Sith would never use a blue/green lightsaber. In the Star Wars movies, lightsaber color is for the EXPRESS PURPOSE of telling who is who. That is why no two lightsabers of the same color will ever be seen in the same fight.

Thats also why Dooku's twin bladed action(1 red and 1 blue) was cut from AOTC, meesa thinks. It just wouldnt do to see a sith lord anywhere near a blue/green lightsaber.

Plus, it was said in no uncertain terms in the movie that Dooku is evil, yet some people are still in doubt to this day about his true loyalty. He is Sith. How much MORE confusion would it add seeing him wield a blue saber and a red saber? People would be riddling the boards right now about how that was a "metaphor for the conflict within Dooku. Hes half good, half bad." Blah, blah, blah.

 

The 1 red 1 blue \ green could work for Anakin in Episode 3, because at that point he'd be neither completely good or completely evil.

 

ok, you folks are thinking about this totally the wrong way. what's the point of discussing the science of something if the answer to any question is "because that's the gl wanted it" or something to that effect. btw, you don't know that lucas uses the lightsaber to simply differentiate good guys from bad guys; maybe they have another purpose. if you want to think about it in the perspective of today's world, why don't we just say there's no such thing as a lightsaber and be done with it? not to sound little kiddish but i think the purpose of the thread here is to discuss lightsabers as if they were real. thus, thinking of lightsabers as if they were real: the color of a lightsaber blade is the result of the nature of the crystal inside. it's not some philosophical indication of good and evil placed there by some supreme being named lucas that rules the galaxy.

 

True, it's the crystal of the lightsaber that generates the colour of the blade, not the affiliation of its wielder. If Lucas wanted to, he could have kept the footage of Dooku with the blue and red sabers, and I would still have no doubt in my mind that Dooku is pure evil. There are others though, who would look at the philospical aspects of the 1 good and the 1 bad lightsaber, and think Dooku still has good in him, especially since Lucas' most popular bad guy turned out to be a hero at the end of the previous trilogy.

 

Well, actually, there is even a logical answer in the Star Wars Universe perspective that gives insight into how Jedi (who can be percieved as "good guys") have differing lightsaber blade colors than Sith/Dark Jedi (who can be percieved as "bad guys").



In the lightsabers of the Jedi Knights, the focusing crystals were found in nature, a task which requried the Jedi to focus their concentration on selecting a stone which would focus the energy and not explode. More often than not, the Jedi Knights of the Old Republic used Adegan (Illum) crystals orwhich emitted blue or green blades. There have also been reports in which crystals mined on Ossus (which is located in the Adega system) have been used in Jedi lightsabers.


The Sith, however, used synthetic crystals formed in incredibly hot ovens, using their emotional control of the Force and hatred of the Jedi to assist in the formation of the stone. These Sith crystals generated a red blade which had the unusual strength to cleave a normal lightsaber blade in to.




Also, those lightsabers that contain more than one multi-faceted crystals have the unique property of sometimes changing colors. The restrictions of this act (i.e. whether blue can change to red, red to blue, etc.) are unknown as of now.





Ken Kenobi- And you have a nice day

 

Blah, blah, blah.

Why couldnt a Sith use a natural crystal? Or why couldnt any Jedi make a sythetic one?

If thats the "technical" answer for the Expanded Star Wars universe, thats fine. But for the movies, as far as GL is concerned, color shows affiliation, and nothing else.



It seems that in the SW movies, the characters are oblivious to other character's saber colors. The colors are there for US.