What did it conflict with? As far as I can remember, nothing in the movies conflicted with this idea. I know the books were quite expansive and they let author’s play with the lore from time to time. Did they say “RGB only?”
In his original idea for Lightsabers, the blue ones were the good guys and the red ones were the bad guys.
When Return of the Jedi came out he had to make the decision to give Luke a green lightsaber to make it visible against Tatooine’s sky. So he amended his original idea to also include green for the good guys.
Thos stayed that way, despite so many comics and other materials adding different colours, until Samuel L. Jackson begged him for a purple lightsaber. Essentially, to Lucas, the expanded universe was never canon until he made parts of it canon through movie or animated media.
What did it conflict with? As far as I can remember, nothing in the movies conflicted with this idea. I know the books were quite expansive and they let author’s play with the lore from time to time. Did they say “RGB only?”
It conflicted with George Lucas.
In his original idea for Lightsabers, the blue ones were the good guys and the red ones were the bad guys.
When Return of the Jedi came out he had to make the decision to give Luke a green lightsaber to make it visible against Tatooine’s sky. So he amended his original idea to also include green for the good guys.
Thos stayed that way, despite so many comics and other materials adding different colours, until Samuel L. Jackson begged him for a purple lightsaber. Essentially, to Lucas, the expanded universe was never canon until he made parts of it canon through movie or animated media.
You can see George Lucas literally say “that’s just the way it works” right up to when purple was suggested.
It feels like authors fighting over sections of lore and finding justification for minor decisions.
The true answer should have been:
Mace: “In my travels I found a cave with Purple Khyber crystals, and they really look awesome.”
I think it’s more that by asking there were more questions that writers wanted to answer, no?
It’s like d&d once you ask for the merchant’s name they suddenly have a whole life behind them