Star War fans love only one thing besides a mystery: speculating on how that mystery might be connected to the rest of the galaxy far, far away. But while the series does like to keep everything connected, it doesn’t always really plan to do so.
ever since we saw its island group acolyteThe unknown planet the Sith Strangers called home has been speculated by fans to be another key location: the planet from Ahch-To the last jedi. Given the vast oceans and lush mountainous islands, it does look very similar – although the planet was filmed on the Portuguese island of Madeira rather than Skellig Michael, the Irish island featured in Ahchto “The island was filmed in “. Star Wars The sequel trilogy. In the latest episode, we learn that it even has its own Porg-like native wildlife, the Skura, a small creature that looks like a cross between a duck and an anteater. Plus, there would be some mind-boggling Sith ideas about dark side users hiding in the Jedi’s most unexpected shadows: the homeworld of the first Jedi Temple.
pity, Star Wars According to showrunner Leslye Headland, fans are eager to connect with the outside world, and the planet is very no Akh-To. “It’s not Akhto. I knew it was similar, and intentionally similar in topography and feel, feeling isolated, surrounded by water, not as lush green, more rocky,” Headland confirmed in a recent interview with Collider . “But the idea is that Cortosis was mined on this planet, so I don’t think that’s the case with Ahch-To. Part of the reason that’s his base is that Cortosis is a very rare metal. .I don’t think we explicitly said that on the show, but that’s why it’s not Ahch-To.
Headland further noted that the world is explicitly identified as an “unknown planet” only in ” acolyteThe location cards are an intentional nod to the main perspectives of the series (the Jedi Order and the Republic). “This is an unknown planet they have never set foot on. [mapped]”, Hedland added, talking about an element of the Republic setting that was featured in acolyte, but it was an important part of the world-building in the cross-media book and comics initiative that established this era: a time when the Republic and its allies were still expanding territory and mapping the galaxy. Just because they don’t know, doesn’t mean someone like the Stranger doesn’t know this – and in knowing this, he’s given tools like Cortosis that he can use against his enemies.
Whether the world will remain unknown by the end of the year acolyteSeason 1 remains to be seen – the existence of the Cortosis deposits has as many fans as those speculating that it could be Ah-To, who speculate that the world could be a canonical version of Baldnik, a world rich in The ocean world of Cortosis is the base of operations for Darth Plagueis and his master Tenebrous in the EU novels Plagueis. Currently, sometimes one planet looks just like another.
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