In Obi-Wan Kenobi, we get a quick but disturbing look inside Fortress Inquisitorius: Jedi and younglings suspended in amber, lined up like a hidden museum of the Purge. Obi-Wan calls it a tomb, and then the episode moves on. In this article, I want to slow that down and answer one simple question: why are …
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We all know the scene: Tarkin says “Fire,” Alderaan explodes, Obi-Wan feels “millions of voices” cry out… and then the story moves on. For a Core World that important, it always raises the same question for me and probably for you too: what did everyone else do when that happened? How Ordinary People Reacted When …
Luke’s jump in The Empire Strikes Back is one of those moments that can look confusing if you watch it like a normal “escape move.” He’s injured, cornered, and Vader is literally offering him a hand… and Luke chooses the drop. At first glance, it looks like Luke just gives up. But that’s not what …
Last time, we talked about the way the Empire tried to pin a fake “crime” on Jedi Master Plo Koon—claiming he attacked a Neimoidian grub-nursery near the end of the Clone Wars. It’s one of those propaganda lines that tells you everything about how the Empire operated: don’t just wipe the Jedi out, make sure …
We all grew up with farmboy Luke, then the black-clad Jedi Knight in Return of the Jedi—but Legends doesn’t leave him there. By the time he’s Grand Master of the New Jedi Order, Luke is doing things with the Force that make his movie-era self look almost grounded. In this article, I don’t want to …
We’ve all heard the same explanation over and over: Imperial TIE fighters don’t have shields because the Empire wanted to mass-produce them. Strip out the protection, make them cheaper and lighter, and you can flood the galaxy with more TIEs. On the surface, that sounds pretty reasonable. The more starfighters you have, the better… right? …
The first time most of us saw a double-bladed lightsaber on screen was Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace. That weapon got branded as a Sith thing almost immediately. But the design itself was never exclusive to the dark side. Over different eras, a handful of Jedi used double-bladed sabers too—usually because it changes the …
If you’ve ever seen Boba Fett in that slick, all-black “gladiator” look and wondered what the deal was, it isn’t a random alt-costume or a toy-only design. It comes straight out of Marvel’s canon comic event Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters, starting with the prelude one-shot War of the Bounty Hunters Alpha #1 …
“Darth” is one of those Star Wars words that feels like it’s always been there. Vader. Sidious. Maul. Tyranus. You hear it and you instantly know what it means: Sith. But that raises a question the lore doesn’t hand you for free: who was the first Sith Lord to carry that title in the first …
Through The Clone Wars, we meet clone commanders and troopers who don’t sound like numbers anymore—Rex, Cody, Wolffe, Fives, Echo, Jesse. They’re names you can actually remember, the kind that feel personal even under a helmet. So how did that happen? Did the Jedi just start calling them whatever came to mind? Did Kamino assign …