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Gareth Edwards Talks Jedha, Rogue One's Jedi Mecca
James Whitbrook
Yesterday 3:19pm
When Gareth Edwards and the cast of Rogue One descended upon Star Wars Celebration last month, we learned a tiny bit about some of the locations we’d see in the movie—including Jedha, a spiritual home for Force users all over the galaxy. But now we have a little more about why the Imperials are so interested in the planet.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Edwards discussed Jedha’s place as a planet of spiritual pilgrimage in a world where the Jedi have been blotted out of existence—it’s now pretty much a place that exemplifies the galaxy we see in the original Star Wars films, one just two decades removed from the Jedi but already treating them like a long-lost myth:
But interestingly, Edwards goes on to tease that the Empire are on Jedha for reasons beyond the fact that it was formerly a Force-user stronghold:
It’s not confirmed, but Entertainment Weekly goes on to speculate (and heavily imply) that that something might be a familiar piece of Star Wars lore: a source of kyber crystals, the rare mineral that focuses, and gives color to, the blade of a lightsaber.
But in both the old expanded universe and the Disney canon, kyber crystals were also used in the construction of the Death Star’s superlaser to focus the beam of deadly energy. So if Jedha is a place where they can be found as EW speculates, that’d make sense as something Jedi and Imperial alike would covet. It might not be the case, but for now, it makes a decent amount of sense!
We’ll learn more about Rogue One later this week, when a new trailer is unleashed upon, of all places, coverage for the Rio 2016 Olympics.
James Whitbrook
Yesterday 3:19pm
When Gareth Edwards and the cast of Rogue One descended upon Star Wars Celebration last month, we learned a tiny bit about some of the locations we’d see in the movie—including Jedha, a spiritual home for Force users all over the galaxy. But now we have a little more about why the Imperials are so interested in the planet.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Edwards discussed Jedha’s place as a planet of spiritual pilgrimage in a world where the Jedi have been blotted out of existence—it’s now pretty much a place that exemplifies the galaxy we see in the original Star Wars films, one just two decades removed from the Jedi but already treating them like a long-lost myth:
But interestingly, Edwards goes on to tease that the Empire are on Jedha for reasons beyond the fact that it was formerly a Force-user stronghold:
It’s not confirmed, but Entertainment Weekly goes on to speculate (and heavily imply) that that something might be a familiar piece of Star Wars lore: a source of kyber crystals, the rare mineral that focuses, and gives color to, the blade of a lightsaber.
But in both the old expanded universe and the Disney canon, kyber crystals were also used in the construction of the Death Star’s superlaser to focus the beam of deadly energy. So if Jedha is a place where they can be found as EW speculates, that’d make sense as something Jedi and Imperial alike would covet. It might not be the case, but for now, it makes a decent amount of sense!
We’ll learn more about Rogue One later this week, when a new trailer is unleashed upon, of all places, coverage for the Rio 2016 Olympics.
