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, far-off. However for as a lot because the franchise does certainly share that love of protecting all of it related, it’s not all the time truly 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 doubtlessly being one other key locale: the planet Ahch-To from The Final Jedi. It actually appears very related, given the huge oceans and plush, mountainous island outcroppings—though location filming for the planet passed off on the Portuguese island of Madeira, moderately 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 appear to be a mashup of a duck and an anteater. Plus, there could be one thing extremely Sith concerning 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 response to showrunner Leslye Headland, the planet could 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 by way of terrain and feeling remoted and surrounded by water and fewer lush inexperienced and extra rocky,” Headland lately confirmed in an interview with Collider. “However the thought is that cortosis is mined on this planet, so I don’t assume that’s the case with Ahch-To. A part of the explanation that is his residence base is that cortosis is a really uncommon steel. I don’t assume 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’ main perspective being that of the Jedi Order and the Republic. “It’s an uncharted planet that they haven’t [mapped],” Headland added, referring to 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 e book 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 individuals just like the Stranger didn’t learn about it already—and in figuring out it, he acquired entry to a device like cortosis he might wield towards his enemies.
Whether or not or not the world will stay unknown by the top of The Acolyte‘s first season stays to be seen—the presence of cortosis deposits has had as many followers as these speculating it may very well be Ahch-To speculating that the world might as a substitute presumably 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 like one other planet.
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