What, if anything other than the Jedis own decision, determines the color of lightsaber a Jedi uses?
Despite all the fan questions about this, it’s difficult to come up with a single, direct, official answer. In a nutshell, though, lightsaber color’s so-called symbolism largely stems from fan analysis, not official word. There is a pattern to be seen in the films – as George stated, red for bad, green and blue for good – but that’s basically it. All this talk of green for mastery of the Force, blue for apprenticeship, whatever – that’s fantalk. Take that however you’d like. :**) And yes, Mace Windu has a purple lightsaber, but his is the only non-red-green-or-blue lightsaber we see in the films. The real-life explanation for this is that Samuel L. Jackson asked George for a purple lightsaber. If you’re looking for an in-universe explanation, you’ll have to turn to EU, which offers an explanation by making a distinction between Windu’s “electrum lightsaber” (electrum may also refer to the gold trim on his saber hilt) and the other Jedi’s “crystal” lightsabers. When Mace was a teenager,
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