The lost years in Luke Skywalker’s life left fans with many questions afterward Star Wars: Tthe Last Jedi, among which the nature and purposes of his Jedi star compass, although only glimpsed in the film and given a brief description in the film’s Visual Dictionary, new Star Wars Since then, stories have demystified the strange wayfinder… and how Luke used it to create his doomed Jedi Order.
After making his vague debut in Star Wars: Battlefront IIthe star compass made its debut in the film canon among Luke’s belongings in his home on Ahch-To, but strangely it was also seen on a table next to Ben Solo in the same film. Now, the reappearance of the object in Star Wars: The Battle of Jakku – Rise of the Insurgency #2 it hints at the purpose it served for Luke and also how it may play a more important role in his journey than initially thought.
The Jedi Star Compass is Luke’s second chance at the Jedi Order
Insurgency Rising #2 by creative team Alex Segura, Leonard Kirk, Rachelle Rosenberg and Joe Caramagna
In Rise of the Insurgency #2 The Acolytes of the Beyond, a group of Sith worshipers, are monitoring the location of Luke Skywalker and the “Jedi relic” he seeks. When he finally arrives at Pillio, Luke is attacked by the Acolytes, and it’s here that he divulges some intriguing new details. For starters, Luke explains that he was “called” by the star compass across the galaxy, all the way from the planet Endor.
When the star compass is referred to by Acolytes as “a relic of a long-dead order”, Luke’s response that the device is “not exactly” a relic can be taken in several ways. The simplest explanation is that Luke is merely challenging the idea of the Jedi Order being long dead by revealing his intentions to use the stellar compass to found a new Jedi Temple, or temples on the foundations of the original. But there may be even more at stake.
Luke Skywalker’s Jedi Star Compass May Have Dark Secrets
As established in canon, Luke and Lor San Tekka used the compass to map a network of planets with forgotten Jedi temples and connections to the force. But with the compass already confirmed to be present with Ben Solo before his fall, and remaining with Luke in his exile, something darker could be theorized. Although the compass helped Luke build his new order, it could also have helped destroy it..
After all, the Acolytes of the Beyond worshiped the Sith and collected artifacts infused with the presence of the dark side of the force. These objects that were once wielded by dark side users were capable of influencing those who came into contact with them, therefore, even though the compass was a Jedi relic, it remained in Emperor Palpatine’s collection for a long time. Is it outrageous to assume it could have been infused with the dark side? With the star compass now central on a Star Wars series, the door to more insights and narratives along this dark path has been opened.
Follow Luke Skywalker’s journey later Return of the Jedi in The Battle of Jakku – Rise of the Insurgency #2, available now from Marvel Comics.