Rhikter said:

Originally posted by TheoOdo:

"...here's two examples of gray colored battle droids which (I believe, anyway) look more mechanical an thus embody the nature-technology conflict..."

I'm going to get lynched by the "green laser" people ... but I actually like this idea. Primarily because there's a well thought out, artistic reason behind it, and it's not being proposed just because someone doesn't like the original color. ...However, I'm having trouble picturing them against the lush backdrop of Naboo and not looking bad.

I don't like the idea of all the Jedi having blue lightsabers. It seems too tyrannical and uninclusive which is not what the Republic is about.

Well, I hadn't ever thought of it like that. What I really wanted was to show that Luke's new green lightsaber of ROTJ was a whole new age for Jedi, a symbol of the new republic and something that had never existed before.

It's not really supposed to be about uniformity but rather to give Luke's green saber that much more significance.