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Some new connections betweenStar Wars : The Last Jediand the original trilogy have been discover . The sequel trilogy has show implausibly popular -The Force Awakensmade $ 2 billion worldwideandThe Last Jediis 2017 ’s most hoped-for film - and a bunch of that comes from its balance of the one-time and new .
Episode VIIobviously featured several major returning characters as well as a galaxy intemperately informed by the Rebel / Empire conflict ( mighty down to another planet - destroy superweapon ) , but it also depart to great lengths to show new characters and locations ( even if they were twists on the Hellenic archetypes and iconography).Episode VIIImoves us further into the new geological era , although it will actually have evenmore touchable links to the past . On top of to a great extent charm designs like theTIE Silencer , we just learned of some more impactful connection .
The first come precaution of the Sphero app used to control the impressive outside droid miniature . This has already revealedSnoke ’s Mega Star Destroyerand and now demonstrate us the Raddus ( viaReddit ) . The good guys ' own gigantic ship ( it ’s twice the size of the Mon Calamari cabin cruiser seen at the last ofReturn of the Jedi ) , it ’s obviously name after Admiral Raddus , the expansive white Mon Cal from the final stage ofRogue One .
Further , theStarWars.com Databankhas some new detail on Crait , the table salt flat satellite seen in the teaser preview that appear to be the stage for a climactic battle between First Order Gorilla gorilla walkers and Resistance ski - speeder . Updated notice on the series ' website break that the base where the torpedo hole themselves up is an old outpost once used by the Rebel Alliance - possibly one antecedently visited by General Leia - and that the crafts they eventually use actually pre - date the Rebellion .
The Raddus minute is a neat case of how theStar WarsStories rig over 35 years before the new trilogy can still have a thin comportment in the Episodes , perhaps hinting at a cross - generation storytelling going forward ; this would make it seem likelyHan Solowill have some subtle link toEpisode IX .
That sound out , the real interest comes from the Crait information . Pre - dating the Rebels fundamentally means prequel epoch , mean where the Resistance choose to hide out after go on the tally from the First Order ( the voiding of their base fromThe Force Awakensdoesn’t quite go to plan ) has importance spanning the full saga in some form .
While all this is cool for fan , it ’s unconvincing to factor into the history ofThe Last Jediitself too much - Rian Johnson has said that allthe fresh rolled out merchandise does n’t contain any major spoiler , mean everything we ’ve see across Force Friday is light on shocking info .
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