Darth Bane is one of the most important characters in the entire Star Wars timeline, but what do we know about him in canon? Most of Bane's history originates in the Star Wars Continuity of the legends, with many of the details of his origin story coming from the legendary Drew Karpyshyn Darth Bane trilogy of novels. Bane, however, actually originates from George Lucas's sketches for Star Wars: Episode I - The phantom menace. Darth Bane's name was first mentioned in The phantom menace's novelization, written by Terry Brooks, based on a story provided by George Lucas. The point of…
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Although it has not yet received prominence, Star Wars revealed many things about Luke Skywalker's new Jedi Order in canon. By helping launch the new canon, Star Wars: The Force Awakens began its opening crawl with "Luke Skywalker disappeared." This resulted in Luke's Jedi Order not appearing in the sequels, but being destroyed before them. Since then, Luke's Jedi Order has appeared in a number of places, most notably being first depicted in flashbacks in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Frustratingly, though, it was never the subject of the story. More and more information about the Jedi Temple and Luke's…
What are the main differences between Lucas Skywalker in Star Wars narrative of canons and legends? Since 1991, large interconnected networks Star Wars stories existed off the big screen. These stories come in the form of books, comics, video games, TV shows and more – all spanning the Star Wars Expanded Universe, or EU. That was until 2014, when the Star Wars the canon was redefined – and the EU became known as “Legends”. Since then, the new Star Wars Canon's expanded universe has begun, featuring new stories that influence all new live-action projects. Due to this, Luke Skywalker's characterization…
over the seat, Star Wars introduced the Acolytes of the Beyond - a dark side group that was prominent during the New Republic Era. The dark side, a perversion and twisting of the force to match one's will, has many different obediences. The most prominent of these is the Sith Order, a group with a long and storied history that even uses the word "acolyte" in many cases, as exemplified in the series The acolyte. The Acolytes of the Beyond, however, have nothing to do with the TV series, because they existed over a century later and first came into…
Node Star Wars In the sequel trilogy, fans were introduced to the mysterious new villain, Supreme Leader Snoke. Although the answers to Snoke's origin were presented in the final film of the trilogy, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Snoke is still a very reserved character, with a lot of mystery surrounding his rise to power, past and motives - especially considering the origin that was revealed in the films. Supreme Leader Snoke first appeared in Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015, played by Andy Serkis in motion capture. The character only appeared as a hologram until the 2017…
Emperor Palpatine's return in the finale Star Wars the film has been criticized for years, but looking back, there is actually precedent for this return in one specific place. Star Wars has long been a series full of parallels and poetry in its narrative. In George Lucas's original six films, the poetic structure of events is incredibly clear, with deliberate callbacks and subtler parallels. In the most recent Star Wars films, whether some fans liked it or not, this tradition continued. Luke Skywalker's death poetically parallels that of Obi-Wan Kenobi. THE Millennium FalcaoExegol's arrival parallels his arrival at the Death…
Grand Admiral Throne was a core part of the Star Wars universe since the 1990s, but one of its later storylines has been quite a bit goofy in one specific way: its secret base. Star Wars is pretty tonally consistent in all of his movies, with even the outliers like Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace And The empire strikes Back Still have a generally consistent amount of goofiness and seriousness. The novels Specter of the past And Vision of the future By Thrawn creator Timothy Zahn, however, introduce one of the silliest locations in Star Wars. During…
A key element of the plot of Ahsoka hinged on the mysterious ending of Star Wars Rebels - The disappearance of Ezra Bridger and Grand Admiral Thrawn. In the last two years before the Battle of Yavin, Phoenix Cell, the main group in RebelsCame into the sights of Thrawn and his forces. Phoenix Cell is originally from the planet Lothal, which at this point was occupied by the Empire. Shortly before the battle of Scarif, Phoenix Cell and other rebels decided that it was time to take back Lothal, culminating in a conflict with Grand Admiral Thrawn's forces. Ezra played…
The Force is a source not only of life, but also in the vast Star Wars Galaxy. But one of the most iconic uses of its power is the Jedi's ability to transcend life and death itself, preserving their consciousness and becoming Force Ghosts. But is there a way to achieve this through the use of the dark side of the Force? The dark side is a perversion of the light, not an equal set of powers, it is simply an imitation of true unity with the Force. One can tap into immense power through their anger and hatred using…
In a new book, Star Wars reconnected an important Jedi ritual from Star Wars: The Clone Warschanging the way fans will view lightsabers forever. Lightsabers are one of the most iconic images of all Star Warsand over the years, the stories explained them more and more. The new romance Mace Windu: The Glass Abyss by Steven Barnes, however, has just offered new information that undermines a previously held truth. Early Star Wars Stories have confirmed that lightsabers were powered by crystals, from Adegan crystals to synthetic ones. However, it was only in the prequel era that stories began to explore…