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[Kagus]

Spoiler: *Snort* (click to show/hide)

What even was the explanation behind that thing, anyways?

[ChairmanPoo]

Lightsaber color is meaningful. Blue is jedi calmness, red is sith aggression. Green is Luke's balance, and so on.

So all we need to do is figure out what an urine-yellow lightsaber means.

[Kagus]

Didn't the totally-doesn't-exist-anymore-because-EU-and-Disnexit-but-totally-might-reexist-as-an-entirely-original-idea Gray Jedi historically use yellow sabers? I remember there being plenty of fan theories about our heroine putting the Rey in Gray Grey Jedi, considering her very unique conflict between the two sides of the force and being drawn towards a middle ground that no one else has done before.


Still doesn't explain where the fuck it came from though.

[Madman198237]

Grey Jedi use silver lightsabers, as I recall. Though in the old EU Corran Horn's lightsaber was also silver, without him being particularly drawn to the Dark Side. Of course, that means very little given that the whole Jedi thing was portrayed rather differently when those books were written.

Anyway, Ahsoka's lightsaber is now silver/grey as I recall, so...make of this as you will?

[ChairmanPoo]

Didn't the totally-doesn't-exist-anymore-because-EU-and-Disnexit-but-totally-might-reexist-as-an-entirely-original-idea Gray Jedi historically use yellow sabers? I remember there being plenty of fan theories about our heroine putting the Rey in Gray Grey Jedi, considering her very unique conflict between the two sides of the force and being drawn towards a middle ground that no one else has done before.


Still doesn't explain where the fuck it came from though.

Very unique conflict... except for Anakin and Luke, and if you press me, Kylo and Ezra, before her?
I think *foo struggles between the light and the dark* is kind of standard for main-character force-sensitives in the franchise

[Kagus]

Don't you dare forget Samuel L. Windu now! He who also had a lightsaber color that indicated his middle ground between the dark and light sides (or was at least retconned to be such).

[scriver]

In EU lore, and by that I mean the video games (because I am an uncultured swine), and by that I actually mean the kotor games (because that was the only games I ever saw this mentioned in) yellow was the colour of the Sentinel branch of the Jedi Order.

From Wookiepedia (didn't wookiepedia use to be in their url?):

Spoiler: Sentinel stuff (click to show/hide)

A Jedi Sentinel was the name given to one of the three distinct schools of thought of the Jedi that sought a balance between the two other branches, the Consulars and the Guardians. While they possessed considerable combat skills and had somewhat extensive knowledge of the Force, Sentinels blended both schools of teaching and amplified them with a series of non-Force skills, such as in the fields of security, computers, stealth techniques, demolitions, repair or medicine. These skills tended to take the forefront in their middle-road approach to problems; while a Guardian might bash down a locked door and a Consular might simply knock, a Sentinel would instead use equipment available or ingenuity to pick the lock.

[...]

While studying all of the traditional techniques and abilities that made the Jedi who they were, the Sentinels of the Order found their isolation in the Jedi Temple to be a hindrance if they were expected to be able to work with the civilians of the galaxy. While adherents to the Force and all that it could do, Sentinels were not blinded by faith and realized that the mystical energy field did have its limitations. Typically opting for missions requiring them to stay in a single place for long periods of time, the Sentinels would take on assignments not suited to the other Jedi branches.

Still doesn't explain where the fuck it came from though.

A Jedi has to construct their own lightsabre to become a Jedi. It's part of the whole samurai/knight romance aspect.

[ChairmanPoo]

Supports my thesis. Sentinels were urinery

[Grim Portent]

Under current canon, from expanded material for the Clone Wars cartoon I think, yellow lightsabers are supposed to be reserved for temple guardians, the jedi assigned as security to the jedi temple and other locations they consider sacred. They get a yellow lightsaber given to them to use as part of their uniform since they shed their normal identity for the duration of their term as a guard.

For Rey? Who knows? Not like many of the long term star wars people seemed to have much decision making involvement in the movies.

[MrRoboto75]

The color of a lightsabre means everything, yet nothing

[Dunamisdeos]

If you check the hardcore wikipedia-fed superfandom, lightsaber colors are some kind of fanciful flower language with all kinds of secretive, intricate meanings.

If you play the games you can make it whatever color you want as long as it matches your outfit.

[itisnotlogical]

The big secret of Star Wars is that it's exactly as inconsistent as Star Trek or any other decade-spanning science fiction franchise, the only difference is that Star Wars is ashamed of it for some reason.

Canon is almost entirely up to the era, the realities of the given medium, the writer, and however much policing George Lucas/Lucasfilm felt like doing at that moment. Juhani couldn't be lesbian in KOTOR but now some gay extras in EP 9 are okay. Hyperspace mechanics are basically plot magic that puts characters wherever they need to be. The Force can do whatever the writer says, which has ended up being anything and everything including ghosts, lightning, healing, weather, moving rocks, ships and planets, vampirism, zombies, electricity, resurrection, astral projection, miraculous conception, and more that I can't recall at the moment. Are there Mandalorians left or are they extinct, and are they a race, religion, ethnic group or nation? Why can lightsabers be blocked by mere metal in books and games, but never ever in the films? Do blasters require ammo or not? Is the Force just a natural phenomena, or does it have a personality and will similar to a god? Are the Sith a necessary part of balancing the Force, or is one side supposed to wipe out the other?

Pretending canon ever mattered, or even existed, for something as minor as lightsaber color is just wankery.

Besides, all the Jedi (that anybody cared about) are dead and all the Jedi books are toast, so there's simply nobody left to tell Rey she can't have a yellow lightsaber.

[Mephansteras]

The Jedi books aren't toast, Rey has them. You see them in a drawer at the end of TLJ and she reads them in RoS.

[Enemy post]

Why can lightsabers be blocked by mere metal in books and games, but never ever in the films?

Lucas forgot this himself on occasion, but Vader's armor and Grevious's bodyguards' weapons are both shown blocking lightsabers in the movies.

[Il Palazzo]

The Jedi books aren't toast, Rey has them. You see them in a drawer at the end of TLJ and she reads them in RoS.

How do you know these were Jedi books and not some random Gungan smut, though?