Star Wars followers love just one thing more than a thriller: speculating about how that thriller might have connections to different elements of the galaxy far, distant. However for as a lot because the franchise does certainly share that love of conserving all of it linked, it’s not at all times really planning on doing that.
Ever since we’ve seen its cluster of islands on The Acolyte, the unknown planet that the Sith Stranger calls home has been speculated by fans as probably being one other key locale: the planet Ahch-To from The Final Jedi. It actually appears to be like very related, given the huge oceans and luxurious, mountainous island outcroppings—though location filming for the planet happened on the Portuguese island of Madeira, quite than Skellig Michael, the Irish island used to movie Ahch-To within the Star Wars sequel trilogy. In the latest episode we realized it even has its personal Porg-esque native wildlife within the type of the Skura, little beings that seem like a mashup of a duck and an anteater. Plus, there could be one thing extremely Sith in regards to the thought of darkish facet customers hiding within the shadows the place the Jedi would least anticipate it: the house planet of the first Jedi Temple.
However alas, Star Wars followers craving connection, in accordance with showrunner Leslye Headland, the planet may be very a lot not Ahch-To. “It’s not Ahch-To. I do know it’s related, and it was deliberately alleged to be related when it comes to terrain and feeling remoted and surrounded by water and fewer lush inexperienced and extra rocky,” Headland not too long ago confirmed in an interview with Collider. “However the thought is that cortosis is mined on this planet, so I don’t suppose that’s the case with Ahch-To. A part of the rationale that is his dwelling base is that cortosis is a really uncommon metallic. I don’t suppose we are saying it explicitly within the present, however that’s a motive it’s not Ahch-To.”
Headland additional famous that explicitly solely figuring out the world as “Unknown Planet” in The Acolyte‘s location playing cards was an intentional nod to the collection’ major perspective being that of the Jedi Order and the Republic. “It’s an uncharted planet that they haven’t [mapped],” Headland added, concerning a component of the Excessive Republic setting that’s not come up typically in The Acolyte, however serves as a significant piece of worldbuilding within the transmedia guide and comics initiative that established the period: that this can be a time interval the place the Republic and its allies are still expanding territory and charting the galaxy. Simply because it’s unknown to them, doesn’t imply folks just like the Stranger didn’t learn about it already—and in realizing it, he bought entry to a software like cortosis he might wield in opposition to his enemies.
Whether or not or not the world will stay unknown by the tip of The Acolyte‘s first season stays to be seen—the presence of cortosis deposits has had as many followers as these speculating it could possibly be Ahch-To speculating that the world might as an alternative probably be a canonical version of Bal’demnic, a cortosis-rich ocean world that acted as a base of operations for Darth Plagueis and his grasp, Tenebrous, within the EU novel Plagueis. For now, generally a planet simply appears to be like like one other planet.
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