Obi-Wan Kenobi has one of the strangest fight records in Star Wars. Put him alone against a famous duelist, or even trap him between two dangerous opponents, and he can look almost impossible to break. Put him beside Anakin against one enemy, and the same Jedi sometimes gets removed from the fight surprisingly fast. That …

Imperial troops could spend weeks on warships, patrol deserts, and occupy planets far from home, but they still needed regular food. Star Wars does not show many Imperial lunch breaks, so it is easy to imagine stormtroopers living on gray nutrient paste. In reality, Canon gives us a wider picture: portable ration packs in the …

Anakin Skywalker entered the Mustafar duel believing he had become more powerful than any Jedi. Minutes later, Obi-Wan Kenobi had taken his lightsaber, three limbs, and the future he thought was waiting for him. Vader survived, but the defeat stayed with him long after the armor closed around his body. So when he finally spoke …

Palpatine had a secret order long before his most infamous command wiped out the Jedi. This one did not target clone troopers, and it did not begin with an army turning on its commanders. It began with one ordinary B1 battle droid on a remote battlefield. What happened next became one of the strangest and …

The Empire was beaten, disarmed, and forced to pay reparations. Three decades later, its successor appeared with larger Star Destroyers, a planet-sized superweapon, millions of troops, and a flagship wide enough to dwarf a city. That kind of military buildup should have left a financial trail across the galaxy. Yet the First Order managed to …

In Rogue One, Jyn Erso finds six mysterious project names before reaching Stardust, the Death Star file. Their threatening names make them sound like six more Imperial superweapons. However, canon tells a more complicated story: three helped hide parts of the Death Star program, one built the Empire’s new army, and two remain almost complete …

Luke Skywalker had defeated the Emperor, but winning a war did not tell him how to rebuild the Jedi. In this fan-made story, that search brings him to the abandoned Jedi ruins on Dantooine, where an ancient presence is waiting. The stranger knows both the Jedi and the Sith from the inside, and he does …

San Diego city meetings are not known for heavy breathing, black capes, or threats against the Rebel Alliance. That changed when a speaker dressed as Darth Vader stepped to the microphone during an August 19 council committee meeting. He had only a few minutes, a voice changer, and a very modern piece of surveillance technology …

Darth Vader’s birth scene in Revenge of the Sith moves so quickly that the operation can feel almost immediate. One moment Anakin is burning on Mustafar, and soon after, the mask closes over his face. But the film never shows a clock, a calendar, or any clear measure of the time passing. To work out …

Anakin Skywalker’s green interceptor looks like one more piece of machinery left behind when his life collapsed on Mustafar. The movie never returns to it, and Vader soon becomes linked with very different ships. That makes the fighter easy to forget, even though it was sitting beside one of the most important moments in Star …