How the Republic Planned to Use the Death Star on the Separatists

If you spend enough time in Star Wars circles, you eventually see some version of this claim: “Qui-Gon never even taught Obi-Wan any lightsaber forms.” It sounds wild on the surface. Obi-Wan Kenobi is one of the most famous duelists in the saga. He beats Darth Maul, stands toe-to-toe with General Grievous, and goes the …

If you’ve read the old Jedi Academy Trilogy, you’ll know Luke Skywalker’s early years as a Jedi Master were far from peaceful. In 11 ABY on Eol Sha, while trying to recruit the colony leader Gantoris, Luke was forced to prove himself — and the second test put him face-to-face with a native fireworm (also …

Long before the Empire, R2-D2 was more than just a droid in Anakin Skywalker’s service. He was a partner. Padmé gave R2 to Anakin after he became a Jedi Knight, and the two formed a bond that went far beyond orders or missions. Through every battle of the Clone Wars, R2 was there — loyal, …

Most of us meet Mace Windu when he’s already sitting on the Jedi High Council, a purple lightsaber at his side and a reputation as the Order’s champion. By the time he appears in The Phantom Menace, he looks like someone who’s always been a Jedi, calm, disciplined, completely at home in the Council chamber. …

In the original trilogy, we watch Luke go from moisture farmer to Jedi Knight, but there’s a big piece of history the films never spell out: how he learns what actually happened to the Jedi before he was born. He grows up in a galaxy where the Jedi are gone, the Empire calls them traitors, …

When a Star Wars battle ends, we hear the blaster fire stop, the music swell, and then the camera just cuts away—but in-universe, all that wreckage doesn’t magically vanish. The Death Star II blows apart over Endor. Star Destroyers get dragged out of the sky above Jakku. Frigates, starfighters, escape pods, droids, everything we just …

When we watch The Empire Strikes Back, the Hoth rescue scene looks a little weird if you think about it too hard. Han is a guy from Corellia in a coat. The tauntaun is a native Hoth creature covered in fur and blubber. Yet out in the blizzard, the tauntaun keels over and freezes while …

If you only know Commander Wolffe from The Clone Wars and Rebels, it feels like his missing eye is just part of his design. He shows up with a scar carved across his face, a metal implant in place of his right eye, and no one in the show ever stops to explain what happened. …

There’s a moment in The Clone Wars that really makes you stop and stare. Savage Opress drags this broken, spider-legged Maul back to Dathomir, Mother Talzin starts chanting, green mist fills the lair… and then she reaches into his head and pulls out this black, smoky sludge like she’s yanking poison straight out of his …

We’ve all seen Luke Skywalker as the calm, collected Jedi Master — the hero who never loses control, even in the worst moments. But in Star Wars Legends, there’s a story that completely breaks that image. When his wife, Mara Jade Skywalker, was killed. For the first time since the fall of his father, Luke’s …