When Gareth Edwards and the cast of Rogue One descended upon Star Wars Celebration last month , we learned a tiny act aboutsome of the locating we ’d see in the flick — including Jedha , a spiritual home for Force users all over the galaxy . But now we have a slight more about why the imperial are so interested in the planet .
speak toEntertainment Weekly , Edwards talk about Jedha ’s place as a satellite of spiritual pilgrim’s journey in a world where the Jedi have been blot 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 treat them like a long - lost myth :
The Force is basically in Star Wars like a religion , and they ’re lose their trust in the period that we pop the movie . We were trying to find a strong-arm localization we could go to that would speak to the themes of losing your faith and the choice between letting the Empire profits , or evil win , and upright reign . It got embodied in this position we called Jedha .
But interestingly , Edwards goes on to cod that the Empire are on Jedha for reasons beyond the fact that it was formerly a orce - userF stronghold :
It was basically contract over by the Empire . It ’s an occupied territory … for cause we probably ca n’t reveal .
There ’s something very of import in Jedha that serves both the Jedi and the Empire . It felt very much like something we could relate to in the real world .
It ’s not confirmed , but Entertainment Weekly goes on to speculate ( and heavily imply ) that that something might be a intimate bit of Star Wars lore : a origin of kyber crystals , the uncommon mineral that focuses , and gives color to , the blade of a lightsaber .
But in both the old enlarge universe and the Disney canon , kyber crystals were also used in the construction of the Death Star ’s superlaser to center the radio beam of deadly muscularity . So if Jedha is a place where they can be found as EW speculates , that ’d make good sense as something Jedi and Imperial likewise would covet . It might not be the case , but for now , it score a comme il faut amount of good sense !
We ’ll learn more about Rogue One subsequently this week , when a new prevue is let loose upon , of all places , reporting for the Rio 2016 Olympics .
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