I always wondered if there was a meaning to the colors. Indeed many have postulated that green symbolizes a master and blue is for an apprentice or normal jedi. It's quite clear in the films any really masterful jedi has a green blade.
In my opinion it's like the vest a ramp agent wears. Technically only the top lead agents are supposed to wear a yellow vest to distinguish them from the regular crew members, but I can tell you from my experience ANYBODY can get the yellow vest if they want to, it's freely available and there's no real consequence applied if you rock a vest you're not supposed to, nobody on the ramp gives a damn about vest colors. In fact to show respect to the hard working crew members, many of the supervisors actually wear the regular vest to sort of say "we're on the same level." but they're full of shit, and I know it.... no way do they want to be on the level regular baggage handlers...
I don't know, I always liked things being simple when it came to lightsabers but of course the EU had to be over the top about things and have jedi sporting a rainbow of blades. So it came as a surprise to me to see Lucas himself abandon the original concept of there only being green, blue, and red, and decide to toss a pointless purple lightsaber at us.
Of course somebody made up some reason for the purple as is the case with star wars. I can tell you I've discussed everything about star wars online that can possibly be discussed and one thing that people have actually taken the time to make up is a reason for the purple blade. Some say that Mace is a dark jedi, he's a jedi, he's affiliated with the jedi order, but he's actually practicicing a bit of the dark side, which makes no fucking sense whatsoever. You can't be a jedi and have your pinky in the dark side just a smidge. It doesn't work that way, goddamit...
It's stupidness up to 11 to think that way. Some fucker out there actually says that his lightsaber is a like a special light saber for ELITE top super jedi and he's like the last one left of those class of jedi. I like that explanation best. Indeed Mace is like the fucking special forces of Jedi or some shit and he's the last of his kind as they've lost those kinds of jedi, that actually works. Too bad he's like not even that much of a jedi yunno. He' fights the emperor and loses like it's nothing, so of course I'm like, thinking yeah he's not that badass. But if in the movie he's actually putting up a hell of a fight against the emporer and the emp is like actually losing against him because he's the best fighter of the jedi order, that would have been interesting.
But yeah I'm just saying that that's the only explanation that holds an ounce of water. That because Mace is some kind of super elite jedi, he holds the purple blade, makes sense to me...
Like with the military, yunno. There's pawns and then there's the elite, and that's the difference made there. Is that the blade indicates your level in the jedi order. Technically all the masters should have green blades, but some still rock the blue out of respect for the apprentices and ultimately nobody really concerns themselves with fucking lightsaber colors. Some do, like trying to hold on to tradition, but most are like not going lose their shit over jedi changing their blades any time they want. It's one of those unspoken rules in life that people go by without worrying about what big brother has to say.
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