In The Phantom Menace, Obi-Wan gives us one of the clearest hints about Qui-Gon Jinn’s history with the Jedi Council. When Qui-Gon insists that Anakin Skywalker should be trained, Obi-Wan warns him, “Don’t defy the Council, Master. Not again.” And that last part is what makes the line interesting. Obi-Wan is not shocked that Qui-Gon …

Previously, we looked at the moment when Darth Vader discovered that Palpatine had lied to him about the death of Padmé Amidala. It’s one of the most important revelations in Vader’s life, because it reframes everything he has believed since the end of the Clone Wars. This time, we are focusing on what comes after …

For a lot of Star Wars fans, Dantooine has always been tied to one of the saga’s most famous Rebel references. By the time A New Hope mentions it, the planet is already being treated as a former Rebel location rather than the center of the fight, and official canon still identifies Dantooine as the …

Obi-Wan had high hopes for Luke. At the end of the day, Luke was his last Jedi student, and in A New Hope he was the one who first taught him to trust the Force. But there was also one part of Luke that clearly frustrated him: the moment Luke stopped listening and chose to …

Most lightsabers in Star Wars follow a familiar design. They look sleek, metallic, and unmistakably mechanical, built like precise Jedi weapons rather than something taken from the natural world. But Gungi’s lightsaber never gave off that same feeling. From the moment it appeared, it looked different from almost everything else the Jedi carried, and that …

Long before Darth Vader became a nightmare to one Tusken clan, Tatooine had already played a major role in Anakin Skywalker’s fall. Official Star Wars canon says Shmi Skywalker died in a Tusken camp, and that Anakin’s massacre of the Tuskens after finding her body was one of the moments that began his descent to …

At the end of Return of the Jedi, after watching the Emperor torture his son, Vader could not let it continue. For the first time in decades, he turned against his Sith Master and chose to save Luke.  But in one version of the story, Vader’s redemption is not completely silent. The Return of the …

Mandalorians and Jedi are two of the most famous warrior traditions in Star Wars, but for some reason, they almost never become the same thing. The Jedi were raised to follow the Force, control their emotions, and let go of personal attachment. Mandalorians were raised very differently. Their identity was built around clan, armor, weapons, …

After Return of the Jedi, the Empire was falling apart, but Luke Skywalker was not finished crossing paths with Imperial soldiers. In Star Wars Battlefront II, Luke ends up on the planet Pillio, where one of Palpatine’s secret observatories is hidden. At the same time, Del Meeko, a member of Inferno Squad, is sent there …

The clone army looked identical from the outside, but inside the Grand Army of the Republic, every clone did not hold the same level of authority. Some clones were regular troopers. Others became captains, commanders, or senior officers trusted with much larger units. And while names like Rex, Cody, Fives, and Wolffe are all famous, …