Duyen Nguyen

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 …

In The Rise of Skywalker, audiences had one last encounter with Han Solo. It happened when Ben engaged with Han after his duel with Rey. Yet, when Han appeared, he couldn’t be a Force ghost, so what was he? Han emerged as a Force vision that could have been internal or external to Ben’s consciousness.  …

In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke managed to blow up an AT-AT Walker during the Battle of Hoth. Audiences probably believed he threw a thermal detonator into the armored vehicle to pull off this task. But what he held didn’t look like a detonator. What could it be then? It most likely was a detonator, …

Fans may wonder just what would have happened if Obi-Wan had come with Mace Windu to confront Palpatine on that fateful day in his office. It’s an interesting scenario that could have resulted in several variations from what transpired in Revenge of the Sith. Below are the top five outcomes, going from least to most …

If we go by a Lego minifigure book, perhaps this one, the Clone Wars lasted 300 years. Yet, if we go by the Star Wars timeline, these wars were carried out over the course of 3 years. Then again, there are other ways of framing the Clone Wars that make the conflict longer. If we …

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 …

If you’re assuming Revan’s red lightsaber comes from bleeding a kyber crystal—like what we see with Sith in modern Canon—then that’s the wrong framework. Revan’s story comes from an era of Star Wars lore where red blades weren’t defined by a “bleeding” ritual in the first place. Revan has a red lightsaber for a much …