@ZkinandBonez
What was the old EU “more sci-fi” explanation of why the bad guys had red blades?
Quite simply that since the Jedi “owned” the only known planet (or maybe there was a few of them, I only remember Ilum) that had lightsaber-crystals the Sith were forced to make synthetic crystals, which turned out red.
There was more to it than that, but that’s the basic gist of it as far as I can remember. Other than the artificial red ones, the other colours were just natural in the crystals and the Jedi assigned them to specific classes of Jedi as a symbolic gesture. Since Luke’s Jedi Academy didn’t follow those rules, they just used the colours randomly or depending on availability (as they were quite rare at that point).
But that lends the weapon importance, which I kinda hate.
Could you elaborate on that? I don’t really follow what you mean, weren’t lightsabers always meant to be rare and special?