My understanding is that if you bribe the padawan couple at the ruins they give you an orange color crystal to keep their secret.

no you get a yellow one

no you get a yellow one

I wonder if it was orange in the beta... Torhead had comments about them tricking you and giving you yellow instead, but nowhere in the conversation does it say they found an ORANGE crystal. Just a rare one, and yellow--being a blue recipe--counts as 'rare'.

I think it was Bioware's backdoor way of getting blue, green, AND yellow in as starting-planet saber colors (similar to KOTOR when you choose Guardian, Consular, or Sentinel on Dantooine)

Patch 1.1.5 is currently live on the patch test server and will go live next week (2-28-12).

 

Patch 1.1.5 will bring higher level versions of the pre-order yellow-black color crystal.

These will be sold by the current pre-order color crystal vendor on the fleet space station.

 

 

Patch 1.1.5 will also introduce a temporary vendor to both, Republic & Sith, fleet space stations.

 

That vendor will sell bind-on-pickup level 47 and level 50 color crystals of various stats.

Stats = +crit, +endurance, +power, +expertise.

Colors = Purple, Cyan, White

Price ranges from 150,000 to 2,500,000 credits depending on level, stat and color.

 

This vendor is temporary and will be removed when patch 1.2 goes live.

Because, every color crystal the vendor sells will be craftable by artifice in patch 1.2. The craftable ones will differ from the vendor ones by being bind-on-equip instead of bind-on-pickup.

there is a dev post somewhere in which he clearly states YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CRAFT A WHITE CRYSTAL. MAYBE IN THE FUTURE, BUT NOT NOW OR ON 1.2

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=252962

hey guys, how about you look at the sticky and use them instead of making a new topic.