May 4 Be With You

Here’s something I’ve always noticed about Andor: for a story set right under the Empire’s nose, we hardly ever see stormtroopers. You’d expect white armor everywhere, the Empire’s most recognizable symbol of fear and order, but for the first season, they’re almost absent. Instead, we see corporate security, local garrisons, and officers in gray uniforms. …

Obi-Wan lets Vader strike him down and somehow becomes more present in Luke’s life. Yoda fades away on Dagobah and still trains Luke afterward. By the sequels, we have whole choruses of Jedi voices speaking from somewhere beyond the living galaxy. For years, we’ve heard the phrases — “becoming one with the Force,” the “Netherworld …

When most people picture Luke Skywalker’s life on Tatooine, they think of power converters, twin suns, and sand — lots of sand. But buried deep in Legends material, there’s a strange little detail that almost nobody talks about: Luke once had a pet. That’s right — before he became a Rebel hero or a Jedi …

If there’s one thing every Star Wars fan knows about Grand Admiral Thrawn, it’s that he doesn’t scare easily. Calm, calculating, and always ten steps ahead, Thrawn treats even Jedi and Sith like puzzles to be solved — not threats to be feared. He’s outsmarted rebels, predicted entire wars through art and strategy, and stood …

Coruscant is known for its endless cityscape, but there’s one natural landmark that still stands out from everything built on top of the planet: Umate, the last exposed mountain peak on the surface. Many people are curious about how tall this mountain really is when you consider both its visible tip and the massive portion …

Every Star Wars fan thought Mace Windu’s story ended the moment he fell from that window in Revenge of the Sith. Turns out, it wasn’t the last time we saw him. Years later, in the 2017 Darth Vader comic series, the Sith Lord faced his past. Vader’s journey took him beyond the limits of reality …

You probably still remember Dexter Jettster from Attack of the Clones – the big four-armed Besalisk who runs the cozy diner on Coruscant and helps Obi-Wan identify that mysterious Kamino saberdart. A lot of people liked him right away, but not everyone knows that Dex actually has a deep history across both canon and Legends …

Luke reaches a point in his journey where he wants to grow in ways he never had the chance to before. He knows he needs something deeper than the skills he already has, and he starts looking for a place where the Jedi left their knowledge. His first successful mind trick comes out of that …

Some Star Wars moments sit in the back of your mind and never really go away. One of those moments links straight to Anakin’s fall and his first hours as Darth Vader with the unlucky younnglings. In Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader (Legends), we actually get to see what was going on inside …

For more than 200 years, Chewbacca had survived wars, enslavement, empires, and every impossible situation the galaxy could throw at him. But in Star Wars Legends, his final stand would come not in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon or beside Han Solo—but on a doomed world with a moon falling from the sky. This …

I’ve gone down a deep Legends rabbit hole more times than I can count, and this topic always comes up when people talk about the darker corners of Star Wars lore. So let’s walk through what actually happened to Jabba’s Palace after Return of the Jedi, because the story goes in a direction many fans …