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For a long time, the Return of the Jedi seemed to mark the conclusion of the Star Wars saga on the big screen. The Rebel Alliance had triumphed over the Empire with a little assistance from the Ewoks, and Luke Skywalker had helped his father redeem himself. The Empire was in ruins and the rebels had won… But the Skywalker saga wasn't over. Starting in 2015 with the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the continuation of the saga introduced the world to Rey, Finn, and Poe Dameron as they fought against the sinister forces of the First Order commanded by the mysterious Supreme Leader Snoke and his masked apprentice, Kylo Ren. The films continued and concluded the stories of fan-favorite characters Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Leia Organa.…

Commander Poe Dameron was the most daring and skilled pilot in the Resistance. Born toward the end of the war between the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire, he was raised on Yavin 4—the moon the rebels launched their attack from that destroyed the first Death Star. General Leia Organa, who had trust in Poe, sent him on a mission to retrieve information that would hopefully reveal Luke Skywalker’s location. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED Together with his loyal droid, BB-8, Poe Dameron reached Tuanul, a small, remote village on Jakku, and received part of a map from an old Resistance ally, Lor San Tekka, to aid in the search for Luke. But when the First Order stormtroopers attacked the village, Poe had no other option than to entrust the secret information to…

An endless army of new stormtroopers, equipped with the finest weapons; a fleet of galactic Star Destroyers; a superweapon with the power to destroy an entire system. This is the First Order, the military organization that inherited the legacy, targets, and purposes of the Empire. Under the leadership of mysterious Supreme Leader Snoke, it planned to take control of the galaxy. SUPREME LEADER SNOKE As the Supreme Leader of the First Order, Snoke commanded his generals from his secret chambers—only projecting a large-scale version of himself. Powerful in the dark side of the Force, but not a Sith like the Emperor, Snoke acknowledged the might in Kylo Ren’s blood and pulled him to the dark side of the Force. “Snoke watched the Galactic Empire rise and fall,” said actor Andy…

A collector of countless antiques and treasures, including Skywalker’s old lightsaber; Force-sensitive, but not a Jedi; a protector of smugglers and pirates; a traveler who was a thousand years old. This was Maz Kanata, who survived many wars and learned a valuable lesson: although the name may change—the Empire, the Sith, the First Order—there’s only one fight, the one against the dark side. A FRIEND Looking for some way to get BB-8 to General Leia and the Resistance, Han Solo took Rey, Finn, and the droid to Takodana. He knew Maz Kanata, who lived there, was their best chance. When she saw him, Maz told Han to go home, to deliver the droid himself. She knew he should stop running away from Leia, from the fight against the First Order…

It may have lost the destructive power of Starkiller Base, but with the New Republic in shambles, the First Order continued to spread its evil like a plague across the entire galaxy. Under the leadership of Supreme Leader Snoke, General Hux and Kylo Ren organized a massive strike against the Resistance. And new, devastating technology would make the escape of General Leia’s fleet impossible. UNKNOWN POWER Supreme Leader Snoke was disappointed by his young, faithful apprentice. Luke Skywalker, the seed of the Jedi Order, lived. The Resistance lived. And Rey, a scavenger no one had ever heard about, was able to defeat Ren in a lightsaber fight. Taunting Kylo Ren, calling him “young Solo,” Snoke tried to destabilize his mind to keep him and his exceptional abilities under control. As…

Galactic war didn’t mean misery and suffering for everyone. Some saw the chaos it created as an opportunity for immense profit. Barons of industry and commerce who provided the First Order and Resistance with armories, ammunition, and technology increased their wealth beyond imagination. There were also criminals, waiting for the right opportunity to make a crooked deal. FAR FROM THE CHAOS There was no place like the resort city of Canto Bight on Cantonica—a haven for those who made fortunes contracting with both the First Order and the Resistance. Local law enforcement was in the pocket of Canto Bight’s wealthy denizens, constantly patrolling the streets, artificial coastline, and the Canto Casino and Racetrack. According to production designer Rick Heinrichs, Canto Bight proved to be the biggest challenge from the start…

The way to Exegol is from Pasaana, a desert planet in the Ombakand sector, in the Expansion Region. Pasaana was where Luke Skywalker had to give up his quest for Exegol, and where Rey and her friends picked it up. This was only the first planet they visited: from Pasaana, through the lawless and cold Kijimi, they got to Kef Bir before finding an unexpected route to Exegol. RENDEZVOUS ON PASAANA As he himself wrote in the Jedi texts, Luke Skywalker needed the Emperor’s wayfinder to locate Exegol. Together with an old ally, the Jedi Master learned that a hunter of Sith relics, Ochi of Bestoon, knew where the ancient artifact was. The two followed Ochi to Pasaana, but the hunter vanished in the desert, leaving his empty ship behind.…

THE DARK SIDE RISES For over a thousand generations, Jedi Knights served the Old Republic as guardians of peace. But war loomed on the horizon as evil Sith Lord Darth Sidious set into motion the final stages of an ancient plan to destroy the Jedi Order. 66 BSI* INVASIO NABOO With Darth Sidious pulling the strings from the shadows, the Trade Federation invaded the peaceful planet Naboo with its droid army. Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, reached the planet and rescued Queen Padmé Amidala. ANAKIN SKYWALKER On their way to the Galactic Senate, Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi encountered nine-year-old Anakin Skywalker on the planet Tatooine. The Force was exceptionally strong with the boy, and Qui-Gon decided to take Anakin to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant.…

Bold and independent, but with a generous heart, nineteen-year-old Rey lived alone on the remote planet Jakku. She scavenged valuable technology from wrecks in a spaceship graveyard, then sold it for food at Niima Outpost. One day, Rey helped a small droid in need, beginning a journey that took her a long way from Jakku and from who she had always thought she was. ALONE IN THE GALAXY The moment she touched Anakin Skywalker’s lightsaber in Maz Kanata’s castle on Takodana, Rey received a series of visions. In one of them, Rey saw herself as a child yelling out to a starship taking off, begging it to come back. From that moment on, she had grown up alone. “Rey comes from an isolated community,” says Lawrence Kasdan, co-writer of The…

A spherical astromech droid, equipped to control the flight and power distribution systems of a starfighter, BB-8 was also a trusted Resistance agent and the loyal, enthusiastic sidekick of pilot Poe Dameron. This little droid would face any danger to stay close to his companion. Agile and particularly fast, BB-8 usually tried to go unnoticed, as his self-preservation protocols required. A SPHERE WITH A HEART BB-8 controlled his body—made of six circular tool-bay disks—through wireless telemetry. An internal orbiculate motivator rolled him, while magnetic casters kept his head still. A significant amount of engineering, puppetry skills, and technology were required to create this droid in practice. As creative supervisor for creature effects and special make-up effects Neal Scanlan explained, bringing BB-8 to life was not without a significant number of…

It had been thirty years since the Battle of Endor, and Han Solo and Chewbacca were once again wandering between planets as space smugglers, transporting shipments of questionable cargo and looking for their stolen ship, the Millennium Falcon. Their search came to an end when a scavenger, a deserter stormtrooper and a droid brought it back to them. HAN SOLO Han gained control of his destiny when he won the Millennium Falcon in a game of sabacc—a popular card game. He had been a pirate and a smuggler, but after he met Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa, he joined the Rebel Alliance and helped destroy two different Death Stars. Still, he preferred to introduce himself as a smuggler rather than a war hero. After their son, Ben, turned to…

Luke Skywalker was living a simple life, far from his twin sister, Leia Organa, who desperately needed his help to fight the First Order, and far from his failure, Ben Solo, who had turned to the dark side. When the Millennium Falcon appeared on the horizon, and the past came calling on him in the form of his lightsaber, Luke refused. For he desired to put an end to the Jedi once and for all. HIS FAILURE It should have been the beginning of a new era for the Jedi—that is what Luke Skywalker saw in his future after the death of his father, Anakin Skywalker. He wanted to pass on what he had learned, but he had to discover more about the history of the Jedi and their teachings…

Finn was a hero—or at least, that’s what everyone in the Resistance fleet thought. But he didn’t feel like one. The only thing Finn cared about was finding Rey. But fate and Rose Tico took him on a daring mission to save the Resistance. Ultimately, Finn would prove himself to be the hero the galaxy needed, one who knew right from wrong and refused to run away when he had the chance. RUNAWAY Severely injured by Kylo Ren on Starkiller Base, Finn was evacuated on the Millennium Falcon then brought aboard the Resistance flagship, the Raddus, where doctors put him into an emergency bacta suit to recover. Unconscious the whole time, Finn thought he was still on Starkiller Base when he woke up. He was not aware that Rey reached…

The power of Supreme Leader Ren is threatened. Despite the unmatched fleet and army he inherited from his predecessor, systems and planets still rebel all across the galaxy. But there’s something even worse. Kylo Ren has discovered that Snoke was nothing but a servant. Someone else is behind the First Order, a mysterious entity hiding in the shadows of Exegol, in the Unknown Regions. AN UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY The only way to find Exegol, and the secretive figure hiding there, was to use a wayfinder. The wayfinders were ancient lodestones that helped pilots find safe paths through navigationally challenging stretches of space back in the early days of hyperspace exploration. Only two pointed to Exegol; one belonged to Darth Vader, which was found on Mustafar. Once again, Kylo Ren’s fate was…

FIRST STEP During a mission to free Supreme Chancellor Palpatine from capture by the Separatists, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker—now a Jedi Knight—faced Count Dooku aboard General Grievous’s flagship. Obi-Wan was rendered unconscious during the battle, leaving Anakin to fight Dooku alone. Anakin disarmed the Sith Lord and, encouraged by Palpatine, delivered a final, killing blow. 53 BSI BATTLE OF GEONOSIS Supreme Chancellor Palpatine was given emergency powers to defend the Republic and engage the Separatists. To strike Count Dooku’s forces, the clone army was deployed for the first time. Under the command of the Jedi, the army fought on the planet Geonosis. The battle was won, but a war had started. THE DREAM Anakin Skywalker learned Padmé Amidala was pregnant with his child. Not long after, he dreamed about…

TO THE LAST SHIP Rey left Ahch-To, convinced there was still conflict in Kylo Ren. Meanwhile, the Resistance fleet could not escape Supreme Leader Snoke and his flagship, now able to track any vessel through hyperspace. The ships were destroyed one by one until only a warship remained. SECRET MISSION Finn and Rose, a Resistance mechanic, were sent to the casino city of Canto Bight on the planet Cantonica. There, they sought the Master Codebreaker and then snuck aboard the First Order flagship to disable the tracking device. The mission failed, and Finn and Rose were captured. FOR A LIGHTSABER Rey surrendered herself to Kylo Ren, who then took her before Supreme Leader Snoke. Ordered to execute Rey, Kylo Ren instead killed the Supreme Leader and defeated his Praetorian Guard,…

His previous name was just a serial number, FN-2187, and he was trained by the First Order to be a stormtrooper. Despite his excellent results in combat simulations, he was not prepared for a real, brutal battlefield. Sent to Jakku under the leadership of Captain Phasma, he had a change of heart and became a fugitive. Unlike his fellow stormtroopers, FN-2187’s good nature couldn’t be suppressed. RAISED TO OBEY Most stormtroopers who were in the First Order’s army were taken away from their families and conscripted against their will at a very young age. They were raised to do what they were told, to kill whom they were told to kill, and not to ever question authority. And because most were there against their will, they couldn’t rely on anyone…

Impulsive and ruthless, Kylo Ren was lost in anger and hate. Through his veins ran the bloodline of the most powerful Jedi and Sith, for he was once Ben Solo, the son of Han Solo and Leia Organa, grandson of Darth Vader. A gifted Jedi and student of Luke Skywalker, Ben turned to the dark side of the Force, took a new name, and became the apprentice of Supreme Leader Snoke. A CONFLICT Kylo Ren was trying to become one with the dark side of the Force, immune to the light. But his journey was not yet complete. “The character of Kylo Ren was about becoming,” said co-producer Michelle Rejwan. “He’s not fully formed. He was on a journey to discover himself. To discover his full potential. In Star Wars,…

Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan had been a key command figure in the Rebel Alliance and one of the greatest opponents of the Empire. Strong-willed and resourceful, she couldn’t let the dark side destroy what she fought for. As the First Order rose, she became the leader of the Resistance. With the annihilation of the New Republic, the general became the only hope for the galaxy. She couldn’t let the dark side destroy what she fought for. A WOMAN OF ACTION Leia was the first one to warn the Senate about the First Order activities. She asked the senators to put a stop to Snoke’s arms race, but they ignored her requests, branding her as an alarmist or a warmonger. Educated in martial and political arts, Leia thus decided to…

Rey’s abilities could easily have led her to the dark side, ruled by anger, fear, and aggression. Rey needed to find someone to guide her along the right path. But while she found a master in Luke Skywalker on Ahch-To island, Rey also experienced a mysterious, intense Force connection with Kylo Ren, her enemy—a connection whose nature and meaning changed everything. “Rey had this desire to connect with her past, and she had some notion that she might find answers on Ahch-To.”RIAN JOHNSON REY OF LIGHT The more time Rey spent on the island—training with Luke Skywalker, learning about the Jedi past and the failures of the Jedi Order, learning about the fine line between the light and the dark side of the Force—the more she realized that something was…

It was the most desperate hour for General Leia Organa and her allies. Down to four main ships, chased by the merciless First Order fleet and a dangerous new technology that could track them through hyperspace, the Resistance teetered on the brink of destruction. But Luke Skywalker’s twin sister wouldn’t succumb to despair. All the members of the Resistance looked up to her, to the princess who once defeated an Empire, as a symbol of hope. FOR THE FUTURE It was only a matter of time before the Resistance ships would be destroyed by the First Order, one by one. General Leia, who had lost many friends and loved ones in the war against the First Order, feared she could no longer carry on. But as her friend Vice Admiral…

Once just a scavenger, Rey from Jakku had become a spark that gave hope to the Resistance. Surrounded by the warmth of her new friends, guided by General Leia, Rey trained on Ajan Kloss, where the rebel forces took refuge after the Battle of Crait. But obscured visions of distant planets and a dark future followed the young Jedi. The Force was trying to tell her something. BECOMING A JEDI On Ajan Kloss, the verdant planet in the Outer Rim that became the new home of the Resistance, Rey challenged her abilities. She ran through the rainforests, practiced with Luke’s lightsaber, which she had repaired after it was split apart aboard the Supremacy, and deflected blasts from training remotes. This was how Leia herself trained thirty years prior with the…

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