No, That Acolyte Planet Is Not Where You Think It Is

Star Wars followers love only one factor greater than a thriller: speculating about how that thriller may need connections to completely different elements of the galaxy far, distant. Nevertheless for as loads as a result of the franchise does actually share that love of conserving all of it associated, it’s not always actually 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 different key locale: the planet Ahch-To from The Last Jedi. It really appears very associated, given the massive oceans and plush, mountainous island outcroppings—although location filming for the planet occurred on the Portuguese island of Madeira, comparatively than Skellig Michael, the Irish island used to film Ahch-To inside the Star Wars sequel trilogy. In the latest episode we realized it even has its private Porg-esque native wildlife inside the kind of the Skura, little beings that seem like a mashup of a duck and an anteater. Plus, there may very well be one factor extraordinarily Sith regarding the considered darkish side prospects hiding inside the shadows the place the Jedi would least depend on it: the home planet of the first Jedi Temple.

Nevertheless alas, Star Wars followers craving connection, based mostly on showrunner Leslye Headland, the planet could also be very loads not Ahch-To. “It’s not Ahch-To. I do realize it’s associated, and it was intentionally presupposed to be associated relating to terrain and feeling isolated and surrounded by water and fewer lush inexperienced and further rocky,” Headland currently confirmed in an interview with Collider. “Nevertheless the thought is that cortosis is mined on this planet, so I don’t suppose that’s the case with Ahch-To. Part of the reason that’s his residence base is that cortosis is a very unusual metallic. I don’t suppose we’re saying it explicitly inside the current, nonetheless that’s a trigger it’s not Ahch-To.”

Headland further well-known that explicitly solely determining the world as “Unknown Planet” in The Acolyte‘s location enjoying playing cards was an intentional nod to the sequence’ essential perspective being that of the Jedi Order and the Republic. “It’s an uncharted planet that they haven’t [mapped],” Headland added, pertaining to a element of the Extreme Republic setting that’s not come up usually in The Acolyte, nonetheless serves as a big piece of worldbuilding inside the transmedia information and comics initiative that established the interval: that this could be a time interval the place the Republic and its allies are still expanding territory and charting the galaxy. Just because it’s unknown to them, doesn’t suggest of us identical to the Stranger didn’t discover out about it already—and in realizing it, he acquired entry to a instrument like cortosis he would possibly wield in direction of his enemies.

Whether or not or not or not the world will keep unknown by the tip 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 be Ahch-To speculating that the world would possibly instead 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, inside the EU novel Plagueis. For now, typically a planet merely looks as if one different planet.

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