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CONTENTS
06 / The Troops
14 / Profile - Jyn Erso
18 / The Rebel Arsenal
34 / Profile - K-2SO
29 / The Death Star
36 / Profile - Orson Krennic
42 / Imperial Machine
48 / Profile - Darth Vader
53 / Concept Art
61 / The Death Quiz
64 / McQuarrie’s Death Star
69 / 50 Things to Notice in The Force Awakens
 INTERVIEW INTERVIEW

THE MAKING OF ROGUE ONE THE MAKING OF ROGUE ONE

the troops

THE
TROOPS
A FIELD
GUIDE
Meet the troopers—some new, and some
more familiar—as we take a look at the
rebels’ worst nightmares.

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 INTERVIEW INTERVIEW

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STORMTROOPER
The most well-known and easily
identifiable of the Empire’s elite
soldiers, Imperial stormtroopers are
the cold enforcers of the Emperor’s
dark will.
Brandishing powerful blasters,
these servants of the Empire are
as merciless as they are loyal.

SHORETROOPER
Patroling the luxurious world of
Scarif, the shoretroopers are
specialist elite stormtroopers.
Owing to the highly specific nature
of the postings, they are a rare
sight in the galaxy. They operate at
an effective sergeant rank, which
means they are able to command
stormtrooper squads.

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IMPERIAL
COMBAT
DRIVER
Trained to pilot the
Empire’s ground assault
vehicles (GAVs), these
combat pilots are lightly
armored, relying on
their heavily armored
vehicles to bear the
brunt of any attack.

DEATH
TROOPER
Imperial death troopers
are specially chosen to
protect vital operations
and operatives.
Wearing armor formed
from plastoid coated in
reflec, these troopers
are very hard to detect,
making them effective
when on stealth missions.

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IMPERIAL
ROYAL
GUARD
Elite soldiers assigned
to protect the Emperor,
the Imperial Royal
Guards are highly-
trained soldiers armed
with force pikes, a type
of melee weapon with
a vibro-edged head.

TIE
FIGHTER
PILOT
Elite warriors of the
skies, TIE fighter pilots
undergo rigorous
training in order to
earn their place in the
Imperial navy.

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 JYN ERSO JYN ERSO

“THIS IS OUR CHANCE TO MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE.” “THIS IS OUR CHANCE TO MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE.”

Felicity jones is

JYN ERSO
REBEL WITH A CAUSE?
A rogue and a rebel who might just become a hero,
Jyn Erso is enlisted to take part in a seemingly
impossible mission.

yn Erso was born to
Galen and Lyra Erso on
the planet Vallt during the
Clone Wars, one of the most
tumultuous periods in
galactic history. Jyn Erso’s
turbulent start in life offered
a taste of what was to come.
Trapped behind enemy lines
on Vallt and held captive by
Separatist forces, young Jyn
and her parents were liberated
by Galen’s old friend, Orson
Krennic, who enlisted Galen to
work on a mysterious top secret
Imperial project on Coruscant.
However, Krennic’s kindness
was a deception; in reality he
was harvesting Galen’s genius
to create a devastating super-
weapon, that the Empire planned
to use to hold insurgent forces
in line with almost unimaginable
brutality. When Galen learned
the true nature of the project he
was working on, he took Lyra
and Jyn and fled the Imperial
capital, aided by rebel firebrand,
Saw Gerrera.
The family established a new
life in hiding on the rural Outer
Rim world Lah’mu, eking out
a humble existence among fewer
“ with Saw’s militia, as well as
May the Force
be with us.
” Her training and experience led
than 500 settlers who populated
the planet. Despite the world
providing an effective hiding
place for those looking to avoid
the watchful gaze of the Imperial
machine, the Erso family were
eventually tracked down by
Krennic and his squad of Imperial
death troopers. Lyra, Jyn’s moral
compass as she was growing up,
was killed, and Galen was taken
into captivity, but Jyn managed
to escape before being taken
off-world by Gerrera, who
spirited her away and raised
her to be a soldier.
Between the ages of eight
and sixteen Erso became a fighter
a smuggler and petty criminal,
adopting a variety of aliases over
the years, including Tanith Ponta,
Liana Hallik, and Kestrel Dawn.
to her becoming proficient in
hand-to-hand combat as well
as skilled at improvising with
whatever weaponary came to
hand, though she favored dual
truncheons as her weapons
of choice.
After the group suffered
a crippling defeat, she was

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 JYN ERSO
“THIS IS OUR CHANCE TO MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE.”
1/
abandoned by Gerrera. The
sudden trauma of losing her
mentor left Erso unable to trust
others and, not for the first time
in her life, she was left alone
and isolated.
On her own and without
the sense of direction that
Saw Gerrera was able to provide,
she was captured on Corulag,
arrested under the alias Liana
Hallick and sentenced to a labor
camp on Wobani. It was only the
intervention of the rebel Specforce
team, commanded by Sergeant
Ruescott Melshi, that led to her
liberation. Little did she know she
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JYN ERSO
“THIS IS OUR CHANCE TO MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE.”
2/ 3/
was about to be plunged 1 / Sergeant Jyn Erso
into greater danger than she and Captain Cassian
Andor pose as pilgrims
bargained for. in the Holy City
Enlisted by rebel leaders of Jedha.
Mon Mothma and General Davits 2 / Jyn Erso sneaking
Draven, she becomes involved in into position on Eadu.
a daring mission to steal the data
3 / Jyn Erso in the heat
tapes that hold the schematics of battle.
of the Empire’s Death Star, the
exacting and horrific planet- 4 / Preparing
for combat against
destroying weapon that Jyn’s the forces of
father helped create. With the Director Krennic.
vital information contained on 5 / Rescued by
those tapes, the rebels just might the Rebel Alliance,
turn the tide of the Imperial’s Jyn embarks on
a deadly mission.
march to galactic dominance...
or die trying.
4/ 5/
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 THE REBEL ARSENAL FEATURE

SHIPS OF THE ALLIANCE THE STORY SO FAR...

machines

THE REBEL
ARSENAL
The Rebel Alliance are the underdogs in the fight
against galalctic oppression, but these ships might just
help to even the score a little...

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 THE REBEL ARSENAL FEATURE

SHIPS OF THE ALLIANCE THE STORY SO FAR...

T-65 X-WING
The most well-known
starfighter in the rebel
fleet, Incom’s X-wing
is perhaps the ultimate
ship of its kind: Not only
is it fast, maneuverable,
well-armed and well-
shielded, it is capable
of hyperspace flight. BTL Y-WING
Dating back to the Clone Wars,
the Y-wing serves as an assault
fighter and bomber. The model
used by the Alliance to restore
the Republic, stripped off the
original hull plating and engine
nacelles of the earlier models
for ease of maintenance.

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U-WING
A troop transport and gunship,
the U-wing starfighter is a
swing-wing vessel capable of
penetrating heavy fire zones,
to deploy soldiers onto
battlefields before providing
crucial air support. Well-
shielded, the U-wing is not as
nimble as a regular starfighter.

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 K-2SO K-2SO

“YOU ARE BEING RESCUED. PLEASE DO NOT RESIST.” “YOU ARE BEING RESCUED. PLEASE DO NOT RESIST.”

ALAN TUDYK IS

K-2SO
AN IMPERIAL ALLY
A droid who should be an enemy of the rebels, K-2SO is
actually one of its most important assets: a reprogrammed
spy on the side of the Alliance.

P
ersonally reprogrammed
by Captain Cassian
Andor, K-2SO is an
Imperial combat droid
who now fights alongside the
Alliance to restore the Rebublic.
He is perhaps the only KX-series
droid to have been successfully
reprogrammed.
Originally created, like all the
KX series, by Arakyd Industries,
K-2SO was ostensibly designed
as a security droid. However, the
KX droids’ programming secretly
included exceptions to the standard
in-built droid rules about not
harming flesh-and-blood creatures,
as well as commandsto defer to
Imperial officers, with the result
that they were deployed on the
battlefield against the rebels.
Although programmed to interact
with organic beings, the KX-series
droids are not as well-versed as
protocol droids at the intricacies
of human-cyborg relations.
Cassian was able to strip
out the majority of the
Arakyd programming, with the
unintended consequence that
“ missions with Cassian Andor.
There is a 97.6
percent chance
of failure.
” droids following the Clone Wars,
K-2SO is now often brutally
honest in his assessments.
Humanoid in appearance—
albeit in exagerated preportions—
the 12-year-old droid K-2SO was
designed to be multifunctional,
with the ability to operate
a range of machinery and
equipment. This, in combination
with programming that allows
him to pilot multiple Imperial
vessels, and his innate speed and
strength, has made him an
invaluable resource on many
Although he is a crucial tool
in the battle against his former
Imperial commanders, he isn’t
quite trusted enough to be
allowed to brandish a blaster.
Despite the fear of combat
K-2SO is the ideal spy, blending
in Imperial territory while
reporting back to his rebel
masters. A key member of the
rebel strike team sent to retrieve
the Death Star datatapes, K-2SO
is a valuable ally.

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 K-2SO K-2SO

“YOU ARE BEING RESCUED. PLEASE DO NOT RESIST.” “YOU ARE BEING RESCUED. PLEASE DO NOT RESIST.”

3/

4/

1/ 5/

1 / Captain Cassian
Andor, Jyn Erso,
and K-2SO.

2 / Cassian Andor,
Jyn Erso, and K-2SO
infiltrate the Imperial
base on Scarif.

3 / K-2SO on Jedha.

4 / The Imperial droid

confers with Jyn Erso.

5 / Cassian Andor
and the droid he
reprogrammed. 2/

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 THE DEATH STAR

CONSTRUCTING A TECHNOLOGICAL TERROR

PLANET KILLER

T H E
D E AT H
S TA R
Constructing a
technological terror...

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 THE DEATH STAR
CONSTRUCTING A TECHNOLOGICAL TERROR
We need to capture the Death
Star plans if there is any hope
of destroying it.
T
he Empire rules by
fear and intimidation,
whether it’s the shock
attack of a unit of
stormtroopers, the relentless
march of a squadron of Imperial
walkers, or the looming threat
of a Star Destroyer in orbit above
a planet. Yet while those measures
can prove devastating on
individual worlds, nothing before
or since has spread interstellar
terror like the Death Star.
A mobile battle station with
hyperdrive capabilities, the Death
Star is the size of a small moon
and has the power to destroy an
entire planet with a single shot
of its superlaser, regardless of
planetary defenses. It also houses
many squadrons of TIE fighters,
and hundreds of thousands of
Imperial military personnel.
The earliest plans for the
Death Star were conceived by
the weaponsmiths of Geonosis
at the outset of the Clone Wars.
Then referred to simply as “the
ultimate weapon,” the design was
commissioned by the Sith Lord
Darth Tyranus, who was known
publicly as Count Dooku. Acting
on behalf of his master, Darth
Sidious, Dooku headed the
Confederacy of Independent
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“
”
Jyn Erso
Systems, a puppet movement
of separatists in conflict with
the Republic, set up to secretly
advance the cause of the Sith.
In his public capacity as Supreme
Chancellor Palpatine, Sidious
was in charge of the Republic,
meaning that he was actually
pulling the strings of both sides
from behind the scenes.
When Geonosis was invaded
by the Republic’s army of clone
troopers (on a mission to rescue a
team of Jedi Knights), Geonosian
leader Poggle the Lesser turned
over the plans for the Death Star
to Dooku, little suspecting that
he was secretly a Sith Lord.
Construction of the Ultimate
Weapon began in orbit of
Geonosis soon after, and kyber
crystals were gathered from
far and wide to power its
devastating superlaser. Work
on the battlestation was well
underway by the end of the
Clone Wars, when Sidious
disposed of his Confederacy
underlings, including Dooku, and
took on a new apprentice, Darth
Vader, formerly the Jedi Knight
Anakin Skywalker.
As Palpatine, Sidious declared
himself Emperor of a new
Galactic Empire, and took over
THE DEATH STAR
CONSTRUCTING A TECHNOLOGICAL TERROR
1/
the development of the
Ultimate Weapon. He appointed 2/
Admiral Wilhuff Tarkin to
supervise construction—with
the help of Rear Admiral Tiaan
Jerjerrod—and assigned Director
Orson Krennic to oversee security
for the project. Everything about
the Death Star was kept top
secret, with access to Geonosis
severely restricted and the
construction site guarded by
several Star Destroyers and
other Imperial ships.
The sheer scale of the project
required a great deal of labor,
much of it forced. Enslaved
Wookiees and other species
carried out much of the legwork,
while Krennic enlisted scientists
such as his old friend Galen Erso 3/
to apply their genius intellects to
the technical challenges. Having
been misled by Krennic, when
Erso discovered what he was
really working on, he fled
Coruscant with his family,
but was eventually captured.
Erso’s decision to flee was
not the only incident to dog the
smooth development of the Death
Star. Sentinel Base, a support
facility on a nearby moon, was
attacked by a group of former
Republic Intelligence operatives
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CONSTRUCTING A TECHNOLOGICAL TERROR
4/
acting under the orders of the
Empire’s own Vice Admiral
Rancit. The admiral intended
to betray his underlings to secure
a promotion from the Emperor,
but his plot was uncovered and
he and his co-conspirators were
captured, tortured, and eventually
killed. In another incident, a
small band of rebels based on the
planet Lothal managed to destroy
a single, massive kyber crystal
that was en route to the Death
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Star to power its superlaser,
delaying its completion.
After these setbacks, the
Emperor decided to move the
almost-completed Death Star
from Geonosis to the planet
Scarif. He also went so far as
to have the entire population
of Geonosis wiped out in order
to ensure the continued
confidentiality of the project.
This monstrous act did not
succeed in keeping the Death Star
THE DEATH STAR
CONSTRUCTING A TECHNOLOGICAL TERROR
5/
Previous spread:
entirely secret, however, and when
1 / The Death Star
the battlestation was finally orbits Jedha.
complete, Galen Erso managed to
2 / The ominous
send a coded transmission to the outline of the Death
Alliance to Restore the Republic, Star over Scarif.
telling them that a major Imperial
3 / The rebels survey
weapons test was soon to take their target.
place. This led to the Alliance
This spread:
moving against the Empire with
4 / The superlaser
a plan to steal the schematics for dish is fitted to
the mysterious weapon, in the the battle station.
desperate hope they might 5 / Death Squad
discover some weakness… commanders on board.
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CONSTRUCTING A TECHNOLOGICAL TERROR

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 ORSON KRENNIC ORSON KRENNIC

“THE POWER WE ARE DEALING WITH HERE IS IMMEASURABLE.” “THE POWER WE ARE DEALING WITH HERE IS IMMEASURABLE.”

Ben Mendelsohn is

ORSON
KRENNIC THE DIRECTOR
Ambitious and driven, Orson Krennic’s career, reputation,
and maybe even his life depend on the completion of the
Empire’s much-delayed superweapon, the Death Star.

B
orn in the Sativran City
on the planet Lexrul,
Orson Callan Krennic is
an Imperial officer
determined to deliver the ultimate
weapon to Emperor Palpatine and
win the respect and admiration of
his equally ambitious peers.
Highly intelligent but very
cruel, Krennic has spent years
driven by the desire to realize
the Death Star—a project begun
decades ago by the Separatists
(under the direction of Senator
Palpatine) before being adopted
by the Empire. To that end, he has
assembled a team of unwilling but
coerced scientists on Eadu (led by
his former friend Galen Erso), and
set them the task of harnessing the
awesome power of kyber crystals.
Krennic’s road to the upper
echelons of the Empire began
when he studied architecture in
the Futures program on the planet
Brentaal. It was there that he first
met Galen Erso, and where his gift
for manipulating others became
evident. He went on to work in
the design regiment of the Corps
“ high-born Imperials of Coruscant
We’re on
the verge of
greatness.
” officers and superiors such as
of Engineers, before supervising
construction of government
headquarters and military facilities
on Coruscant during the Clone
Wars. Upon joining the Republic’s
Strategic Advisory Cell as part of
the Special Weapons Group,
he began to research and test
weapons for the Grand Army
of the Republic and the Republic
Navy. When the Republic became
the Empire, Krennic became
Director of the Empire’s Advanced
Weapons Research division.
An outsider among the
society, Krennic is not given to
rhetoric and debate, and his highly
volatile temper often gets the
better of him. This causes
great concern among his fellow
Grand Moff Tarkin. Armed with
a non-regulation DT-29 heavy
blaster pistol with a custom-fitted
macroscope, the Director is not
a man to be crossed, and the
cold steel of his designs for the
Empire very much reflect the
man himself.

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 ORSON KRENNIC ORSON KRENNIC

“THE POWER WE ARE DEALING WITH HERE IS IMMEASURABLE.” “THE POWER WE ARE DEALING WITH HERE IS IMMEASURABLE.”

1/

2/

1 / Director Orson
Krennic.

2 / Imperial officers
gather to witness
the might of the
Empire’s superweapon.

3 / Director Krennic
in a pensive mood.

4 / A moment of
contemplation
as Orson Krennic
considers his destiny.
3/ 4/

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 FEATURE THE IMPERIAL MACHINE

THE STORY SO FAR... DROIDS, SHIPS, AND TECHNOLOGY

machines

THE IMPERIAL
MACHINE
The Death Star isn’t the only means that
the Empire uses to enforce its iron will.

ZETA-CLASS
SHUTTLE
A cargo shuttle built under the
cooperation of the Telegorn
C2-B5 Corporation and the Sienar
Fleet systems, the Zeta class
A black-plated astromech droid, offers assorted transportation
C2-B5 patrols the Scarif Citadel, options. 2 wing-mounted
performing maintenance tasks. The heavy laser cannons and 3
subject of frequent memory wipes, hull-mounted laser cannons
C2-B5 has no distinctive personality. offer useful defensive support.

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 FEATURE THE IMPERIAL MACHINE

THE STORY SO FAR... DROIDS, SHIPS, AND TECHNOLOGY

KX SERIES
A highly-mobile, highly-
adaptable series of droid.

AT–ACT
Designed as a cargo
transport and not a combat
vehicle like the AT-AT, the
AT-ACT can still defend
itself from attackers thanks
to the two heavy cannons
mounted on either side of
its “head.”

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 FEATURE THE IMPERIAL MACHINE

THE STORY SO FAR... DROIDS, SHIPS, AND TECHNOLOGY

TIE STRIKER
A streamlined starfighter,
the experimental TIE Striker
is designed specifically for
atmospheric patrols over
Imperial installations.

TIE FIGHTER
With its distinctive “scream“ and
instantly recognizable silhouette the
Imperial TIE fighter is the Empire’s
most common symbol of oppression.

MSE-6 DROID
A familiar sight at any Imperial
AT-ST installation, the MSE-6 “mouse“ droids
are fast-moving workers that relay coded
The All Terrain Scout messages and transport small items.
Transport is a light
walker, which serves
as a reconnaissance
vehicle. The two chin-
mounted guns have
a range of 2km.

TX-225
“OCCUPIER”
Able to carry crucial supplies
of kiber crystals, this
maneuverable tank boasts
immense firepower, as well
as resilient armor.

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“THE ABILITY TO DESTROY A PLANET IS INSIGNIFICANT NEXT TO THE POWER OF THE FORCE”
DARTH
VADER
THE DARK LORD
The Empire’s most sinister agent has proved himself to be a
loyal servant of Darth Sidious after his defeat on Mustafar.
A
s the Empire gained
strength around the
galaxy, Darth Vader
proved himself as
a feared enforcer. From the ashes
of Mustafar rose a warrior even
more ruthless and cunning than
before, and clad in black
imposing armor. The former
Jedi commanded his own
squadron of stormtroopers,
otherwise known as “Vader’s
Fist,” who inspired fear wherever
they went.
Five years into the Emperor’s
iron rule, Vader accompanied his
master, Darth Sidious, on a mission
to crush the rebellion on Ryloth,
led by Cham Syndulla.
Faced with an extreme attack
from Twi’lek insurgents, the Sith
Lords were forced to crash-land
on the forest planet. They were
soon attacked by a lylek horde,
retreating into a tunnel that was,
SITH WARRIOR
in fact, the creatures’ nest. They
stood their ground against a
hundred or so lyleks and their
queen, killing them before
encountering a young Twi’lek
girl, Drua. Vader prevented the
Emperor killing her, intending to
have her guide them to her village,
where they were finally able to
summon help. Despite being
surrounded by Syndulla’s forces,
relief finally arrived as the Imperials
set about quelling the insurgency.
At the Emperor’s command,
Vader killed the rebels, bringing
the Sith Lord’s mission on Ryloth to
a violent end.
Some time later, The Emperor
commanded Vader and Moff
Tarkin to investigate an attack
on Sentinal Base, an Imperial
stronghold in the outer rim.
During a misadventure on
Murkhana, Carrion Spike, Tarkin’s
personal modified stealth corvette
DARTH VADER
was stolen by dissidents, who
Tarkin were sure to be connected
to the attack, as well as being
supported by a senior member
of the Imperial military.
Tarkin and Vader managed
to unravel the mystery and Vader
executed the culprit, while Tarkin
commanded the Star Destroyer
Executrix as it decimated the
dissident fleet.
This led to a newfound mutual
respect between the Dark Lord
Tarkin and the ambitious officer
who was rewarded for his efforts
by being promoted to Grand Moff.
He was assigned to take command
of the construction of the Death
Star over Geonosis.
The Hunt
As the Death Star’s construction
continued, The Emperor sought out
the “children of the Force.” He
commanded Darth Vader to order
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 DARTH VADER DARTH VADER

“THE ABILITY TO DESTROY A PLANET IS INSIGNIFICANT NEXT TO THE POWER OF THE FORCE” “THE ABILITY TO DESTROY A PLANET IS INSIGNIFICANT NEXT TO THE POWER OF THE FORCE”

1/
a Grand Inquisitor to hunt down
these children and either enlist them
into the service of the Empire, or
kill them. The Inquisitor promised
Vader that his mission would be
accomplished.
However, after his mission
failed, the Inquisitor killed himself
rather than facing Vader’s wrath.
Several rebel cells that had
united to fight the Empire were
revealed when they rescued a small
gang of Lothal rebels from an
Imperial fleet. As rumors of these
events became known, uprisings
begun to occur on several worlds,
including Lothal.
The Emperor sent Vader to
Lothal with Tarkin to end the
growing rebellion. Vader concocted
a cunning trap which would help
him track the Lothal rebels back
to their base. The Dark Lord met
with Imperial agents Kallus and
Minister Maketh Tua, informing
Tua that Tarkin would hold her
accountable if she failed to stop
the rebels.
Gripped by terror, Tua
contacted the Lothal rebels, offering
them information if they would
smuggle her off the planet before
she met with Tarkin. The rebels
agreed, and returned to Lothal.
However, this played directly into
Vader’s hands as he had intended 2/ 3/
for the minister to contact the
rebels and lure them back to was ready, confronting them with 1 / Lord Vader makes The Lothal rebels boarded their declared that she could lead them who was located on Malachor, the he was, indeed, Ahsoka’s
Lothal. He had a bomb placed on a small squad of stormtroopers. his imposing presence ship, the Ghost, and fought back to other Jedi who survived the where he had been studying its Sith former master and friend.
felt!
Tua’s shuttle. Once the rebels Vader dueled with the rebel leader, against the Dark Lord in a futile purge of Order 66. temple for years. The Zabrak killed As the Temple locked down,
arrived, they attempted to escape a Jedi named Kanan Jarrus, 2 / Showing respect attempt to defeat him. With all Sidious instructed Vader to send the Inquisitors, leading to Vader Tano said that she would stay with
to Lord Vader.
the planet, only for the bomb to and his apprentice Ezra Bridger. seemingly lost, Vader’s former another Inquisitor to hunt the personally choosing to retrieve the him causing Vader to pause briefly.
go off as Tua boarded the ship, Vader easily bested his two 3 / The Dark Lord of apprentice, Ahsoka Tano, combined rebels. After several unsuccessful holocron and take possession of The two resumed their fight, as
killing her. opponents. Realizing that they the Sith: a fearsome her powers with Kanan’s, using the attempts to capture the rebel Jedi, the superweapon that was also Kanan Jarrus and Ezra Bridger took
figure who inspires
Vader then broadcast the could not win, they stalled Vader terror and obedience Force to probe Vader’s mind. the Fifth Brother and Seventh Sister being sought by Ezra Bridger. flight from the chamber as it closed
misinformation that the rebels long enough to make their escape in the Imperial navy. As the two former allies became Inquisitors pursued Jarrus, Bridger Vader confronted Bridger, around the two combatants. As they
had assassinated Tua. He had aboard the shuttle. aware of each other, Ahsoka passed and Tano to a Jedi Temple on Lothal. quickly disarming him before fought, a massive energy discharge
Kallus lockdown the planet’s Shortly after, the rebels used the out and Vader broke off his attack, The Inquisitors warned Vader that the being interrupted by Tano. consumed the area. Although
spaceport, telling everyone that shuttle to rendezvous with the rebel instead centering his attention Jedi were increasing in their ability to She assured Vader that there Tano’s fate remains unknown,
any ship attempting to escape fleet. But Vader had been tracking on the Ghost. As Vader closed use the Force, but he replied that it were no more Jedi left. As Vader Darth Vader managed to escape
would be destroyed. Vader knew them, and launched an attack on in, his intended prey jumped would be their undoing. taunted her, stating that Anakin from the Temple...
that the rebels would need to steal the rebel fleet in his TIE Advanced to hyperspace. had been weak, Tano responded by With the Death Star project
a ship in order to escape. He used x1 fighter. The rebels fought back Vader informed Sidious that A Final Battle battling the Dark Lord, eventually under the watchful eye of
a shuttle capable of hyperspace but were no match for the Sith he had “broken” the rebels, Vader sent the two Inquisitors, managing to slice through Vader’s Emperor Palpatine, Vader is
travel as bait. When the rebels Lord as he disabled the rebel but also revealed to Sidious that along with a third, The Eighth mask, revealing his partially tasked to oversee the officers
tried to commandeer it, Vader command ship, Phoenix Home. Ahsoka Tano was alive. Sidious Brother, to hunt down Darth Maul, exposed face and confirming that behind its construction.

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 FEATURE

CONCEPT ART
CONCEPTS

ROGUE ONE
CONCEPT ART
The illustrations that helped create the movie.

EDRIO TWO TUBES

A Tognoth
mercenary pilot
who is allied to
Saw Gerrera.
Art by Luke Fisher,
Creature Concept
Designer/Senior
Sculptor.

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 FEATURE FEATURE

CONCEPT ART CONCEPT ART

Opposite page:
SAW GERRERA
The militia leader
who operates from
the catacombs on
the mysterious
world of Jedha.
Art by Glyn Dillon,
Co-Costume
Designer.

ORSON KRENNIC
The director of
the program to
create the Imperial
Death Star.
Art by Glyn Dillon,
Co-Costume
Designer.

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 FEATURE FEATURE

CONCEPT ART CONCEPT ART

Opposite Page:
CHIRRUT ÎMWE
AND BAZE MALBUS
Two warriors from
Jedha who prove
crucial in the
mission against
the Empire.
Art by Glyn Dillon,
Co-Costume
Designer.

K-2SO
Imperial droid
turned valuable
asset in the fight
to steal the Death
Star plans.
Art by Luke Fisher,
Creature Concept
Designer/Senior
Sculptor.

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 FEATURE FEATURE

CONCEPT ART CONCEPT ART

JEDHA
The ancient Holy
City of Jedha.
Art by Matt
Allsopp, Lead
Concept Artist.
 FEATURE

CONCEPT ART

A TANK TROOPER
Patroling the
streets of Jedha,
the tank troopers
maintain control
against insurgent
forces. Art by
Glyn Dillon, Co-
Costume Designer.

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TERROR
TEST!
TELL US ALL YOU KNOW ABOUT THE EMPIRE’S
ULTIMATE WEAPON AND SEE IF IT’S ENOUGH TO
WIN YOU A PLACE IN THE EMPIRE! QUIZ COMPILED
BY GRAND MOFF TOLLY MAGGS
 5 How many individual beams make up the composite
blast in the first Death Star?

14 What did Luke mistake the Death Star for when he

saw it for the first time?

1 On which planet were the Death Star plans delivered

to Darth Sidious?
NAME THESE DEATH STAR
OFFICERS!
We require the full name and rank for a point!

6 7 8

15 Who is the commander of the first Death Star? 18 What moon was the Death Star attempting to destroy
immediately prior to its own destruction?

9 10
19 What is the real name of the droids found on the Death

2 In which detention cell was Princess Leia held during

her captivity on the Death Star?
Star that are commonly referred to as “Mouse Droids”?

20 Who was the sole Imperial survivor of the Battle of Yavin?

16 SCORING
What is the name of the main weapon used to
defend the Death Star from small fighters?

16-20 STRONG. You would

20. Darth Vader
19. MSE-6-Series Repair Droid
make a fine military historian. In 18. Yavin 4
fact, would you like to assist in 17. Dianoga
building a second Death Star? 16. Turbolasers
15. Grand Moff Tarkin

12-15 ABOVE AVERAGE.

14. A small moon

11 How did Darth Vader describe the Death Star

when addressing Admiral Motti? Another year at the academy
and you might just pass muster.
9-11 AVERAGE. Much more
13. Obi-Wan Kenobi
12. Red Leader, Garven Dreis
11. As a Technological Terror!
10. General Hurst Romodi
9. Chief Moradmin Bast

3 12 Who nearly destroyed the Death Star prior to Luke study required. If servants of
8. Colonel Wullf Yularen
What powers the Death Star superlaser?
Skywalker’s direct hit on the thermal exhaust port? the Empire were all like you,
7. General Tagge
6. Lieutenant Shann Childsen
we’d probably be defeated by 5. 8
a bunch of teddy bears. 4. Quadanium steel

4  What kind of steel was used to make the hull of the

17 What is the name of the creature that lurked
3. Kyber crystals

Death Star? 13 Who stealthily deactivated the tractor beam on

the Death Star? within the trash compactor? 0-8 WEAK. We foresee
a career in the Imperial
2. 2187
1. Coruscant.

Sanitation Corps.
ANSWERS

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 The rebel Y-wings commence
attack on the Death Star.

MCQUARRIE’S
RALPH MCQUARRIE’S ART DEPICTING
THE DEATH STAR IS SOME OF THE MOST
EVOCATIVE IN HIS OEUVRE. A LAVISH

DEATH STAR
NEW BOOK, STAR WARS ART: RALPH
MCQUARRIE OFFERS THE MOST
COMPLETE LOOK AT HIS INCREDIBLE,
PEERLESS LEGACY.
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 An interior view from an Imperial
cockpit as a TIE pilot hones in on
the rebel Y-wings.

One of the many cavernous docking

bays of the Death Star.

In addition to concept art, McQuarrie also designed toy packaging for Galoob, including this preliminary
illustration for the Death Star Action Fleet set.

This piece, showing The cold corridors of the Death Star, as

Han and Luke escorting their populated by lightsaber-wielding Imperial
“prisoner” to the detention stormtroopers described in earlier drafts of
block, subtly suggests the The Star Wars screenplay.
spherical shape of the Imperial
battle station.

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4 BUILDING BB-8
In an interview with Entertainment
Weekly, director J.J. Abrams
chose the name BB-8 because he looked
round and bouncy, saying, “I named
him BB-8 because it was almost
onomatopoeia… It was sort of how he
looked to me, with the 8, obviously,
and then the 2 Bs.”
Bill Hader of Saturday Night Live and
Ben Schwartz of Parks and Recreation
fame helped create digitally altered
sounds for BB-8’s voice, and are
credited as “vocal consultants”.

5 FATAL SLIP
FN-2003, also
known as Slip, is
the stormtrooper who
drags his bloody hand
across Finn’s helmet
during the First Order’s
siege on the Jakku village
of Tuanul. Slip made his
first appearance in Before
the Awakening written by

1
Greg Rucka.
BRINGING BALANCE
Lor San Tekka, played by legendary

6
stage and screen actor Max Von
Sydow, speaks the first line of dialogue SQUEAK WARS
in the film. According to the Star Wars: We get an initial glimpse of
The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary, Mouse Droids aboard the
San Tekka is a seasoned traveler and Finalizer, which were first seen on
explorer who spent the dark times as the Death Star in A New Hope.
a follower of the Church of the Force.

3
Although not Force-sensitive, he, like
many others, strongly believed in the CAPTAIN
Jedi ideals.
During his conversation with PHANTASM
Resistance pilot Poe Dameron, played by Captain Phasma’s name and chrome
actor Oscar Isaac, Lor San Tekka almost armor were a tribute by director

immediately references the balance of
the Force, saying, “Without the Jedi,
there can be no balance.” Qui-Gon Jinn
and Mace Windu first mentioned the
concept of bringing balance to the Force
in The Phantom Menace.
2
J.J. Abrams to the 1979 horror
FRIENDS REUNITED? movie, Phantasm. In fact, Abrams’
During the battle near Maz Kanata’s castle on Takodana, FN-2199, or Nines, is the company Bad Robot recently oversaw
trooper who shouts, “Traitor!” and attacks Finn with a Z6 baton. Nines and Finn a 4K restoration of the cult classic,
trained together prior to the events of The Force Awakens. More can be learned about which was written and directed by
their relationship in the novel Star Wars: Before the Awakening by Greg Rucka. Don Coscarelli.

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 13 A NEW CREATURE
As Rey trades in scavenged junk to
Unkar Plutt for rations, the creature

7
behind her is a Nu-Cosian crittermonger and
ESCAPE PLAN storyteller named Bobba-Jo. He was the first
It is revealed in Alan Dean new creature from the film revealed by J.J.
Foster’s novelization Abrams in his video for the Omaze contest,
of The Force Awakens that the “Force for Change,” where a lucky fan named
vehicle stolen by Poe and Finn D.C. Barns won a walk-on part in the movie
aboard the Finalizer is a Special and a trip to the premiere of The Force
Forces TIE fighter. Awakens! You can read more about this
character in Landry Q. Walker’s short
story, All Creatures Great and Small.

8 ARRRGGGH!
The Wilhelm scream, which is
used at least once in every Star
Wars film, is heard during Poe and
Finn’s daring escape. This famous sound
15 TIE FIGHTER DOWN
Finn and Poe’s stolen TIE fighter
crashes into the Goazon Badlands,
the same stretch of desert where the Battle of
effect was first used in the 1951 film Jakku occurred. Videogame developer DICE
Silent Drums, and was popularized by created a playable map of the area in Star
the character Private Wilhelm in the Wars: Battlefront, published by Electronic
1953 film The Charge at Feather River. Arts and Lucasfilm.

9 THE EYE’S HAVE IT

According to the The Force
Awakens Visual Dictionary,
Rey’s goggles
are cobbled
12 PEGG PAL
In addition to his role
as the junk boss, Unkar
Plutt, actor Simon Pegg also 14 REY’S
HEADGEAR
16 BEAST OF BURDEN
After arriving at the Niima Outpost, Finn
quickly races to a watering hole and
begins guzzling water next to a happabore. This
together using served as a valuable resource to The pilot’s helmet Rey wears while hulking creature is found throughout the galaxy
lenses from a director J.J. Abrams, eating her instant bread ration once on various worlds, and is first mentioned as a
stormtrooper’s who said, “His support belonged to Captain Dosmit Ræh of the mount for Sarco Plank in Weapon of a Jedi written
helmet left on the and friendship [was] Tierfon Yellow Aces. by Jason Fry.
planet after the massively important
Battle of Jakku. and helpful in
the process.”

10 RANCID RATIONS
The polystarch ration, or
instant bread, Rey prepares at
her “home” on Jakku was a real effect,
17 WAYS OF MAKING YOU TALK
When Poe Dameron wakes up bound to an interrogation
table on the Finalizer the sound of an IT-000 droid, located
behind Kylo Ren, can be heard. An earlier model of this droid, the IT-O
interrogator droid , was used by Darth Vader in a failed attempt to force
not computer generated. According Princess Leia to reveal the location of the rebel base.
to special effects supervisor Chris
Corbould, it took three months to
develop, and it tasted terrible.

11 DESERTED DESTROYER
The downed Star Destroyer Rey passes on her way
to the Niima Outpost is called the Inflictor, which is
mentioned in the novel Lost Stars by Claudia Gray.

18
GAME ON?
The holochess dejarik set
seen on the Millennium Falcon
was animated by Tippett Studios, which
is owned and supervised by the same
special-effects mastermind who worked
on the original sequence in A New Hope,
Phil Tippett.
19
CAPTURE THE
FLAG
The flags at Maz Kanata’s castle
are imprinted with familiar images
from Star Wars films and cartoons,
including the Mythosaur skull from
Boba Fett’s left-shoulder blast plate,
Hondo Ohnaka’s Gang symbol and Ziro
the Hutt’s belly tattoo from The Clone
Wars, and Cikatro Vizago’s Broken Horn
Syndicate symbol from Rebels. There
is even a flag displaying the universal
symbol for the 501st organization.
20
ON SONG
Composer and actor
Lin-Manuel Miranda,
most recently of Hamilton: An American
Musical fame, wrote the tracks Jabba
Flow and Dobra Doompa, which were
performed at Maz Kanata’s castle by
travelling musicians Taybin Ralorsa,
Infrablue Zedbeddy Coggins, Ubert
“Sticks” Quaril, and Sudswater
Dillifay Glon.
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21
WARWICK
RETURNS
Star Wars film veteran Warwick Davis
continues his streak of cameos in
The Force Awakens, this time in Maz
Kanata’s castle as interstellar scout
and hyperspace trailblazer, Wollivan.
It also continues a tradition of Davis
playing characters who have names
beginning with the letter “W”: Wicket
W. Warrick (Return of the Jedi), and
Weazel and Wald (The Phantom Menace).
Coincidentally, Warwick played the lead
character Willow Ufgood in Willow, a
Lucasfilm Ltd. production from 1988.
22
C-3P0—
SPYMASTER?
In addition to his role as translator, C-3P0
is in charge of the Resistance’s pool of
spy droids distributed across the galaxy,
including GA-97, who reports BB-8’s
presence at Maz Kanata’s castle.
23
DON’T TRUST HER
See the mysterious girl
wearing the distinctive black
and white outfit? That’s Bazine Netal, a human
mercenary and spy of the First Order who
spots BB-8 at Maz’s castle on Takodana. She
was first introduced in the short story The
Perfect Weapon by Delilah S. Dawson.
24
THE RETURN OF
SOME JEDI
During Rey’s Force vision, or Forceback,
at Maz’s castle, many voices and
sounds are heard, including Darth
Vader’s breathing and Yoda explaining
the nature of the Force. However, it
is an altered sample of the late actor
Sir Alec Guinness’s voice that is the
sequence’s most impressive ingredient.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly,
director J.J. Abrams explains longtime
Bad Robot collaborator Bryan Burk and
one of the film’s producers took the
word ”afraid” and altered it to sound like
“Rey.” They then combined that with new
voice-over from actor Ewan McGregor to
complete the line, “Rey…these are your
first steps.”
25 BLACK LEADER’S RIDE
Poe Dameron flies a T-70 X-wing. An upgrade from
Luke Skywalker’s T-65, it is not quite as state-
of-the-art as other X-wings in the Resistance’s fleet.
BB-8 loads into Poe’s X-wing via an arm that
attaches to the droid’s head and sucks him
into the socket. This is the same way
astromechs such as R2-D2
were pulled into the Royal
Naboo starfighters in
The Phantom Menace.
28
A LIGHTSABER’S
JOURNEY
According to a display at Disneyland’s Star Wars
Launch Bay, Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber, along with
his severed hand, were salvaged from the depths
of Cloud City following his confrontation with Darth
Vader. How Maz Kanata obtained the famous Jedi’s
26
weapon is still unknown.
REY’S VISION
The beginning of Rey’s Force vision brings her to a hallway
that bears a resemblance to two different hallways that
were important in the life of Darth Vader. The first was a hallway he
fought Obi-Wan Kenobi in on Mustafar in Revenge of the Sith, the other
was the hallway in The Empire Strikes Back that led to the catwalk where
he battled his son, Luke Skywalker.
27
GALACTIC
PEACE
With the Empire defeated, Chancellor
29
Mon Mothma restored the Galactic Senate
and decided all member worlds would SNOKE’S SHOW
have an opportunity to host the delegates,
bringing a more inclusive spirit to the OF POWER
government that was absent during In a show of power, General Hux destroys Hosnian
Emperor Palpatine’s reign. The first such Prime with Supreme Leader Snoke’s approval. The
captial was Mon Mothma’s homeworld of casualties are staggering as Chancellor Villecham;
Chandrila, as revealed in Chuck Wendig’s Kor Sella (General Leia’s envoy); senatorial
novel Aftermath. The cosmopolitan world representatives from planets such as Naboo, Taris,
of Hosnian Prime is the site of the capital and Commenor; as well as inhabitants of the planet
in The Force Awakens. are obliterated.
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30
POE’S PAST
Poe Dameron is a child
of the Galactic Civil War.
Poe’s parents fought for the Rebellion,
most notably during the Battle of Endor
where his mother was a pilot and his
father was a member of Han Solo’s
landing team. You can read more about
them in the Star Wars: Shattered
Empire comic book series written by
Greg Rucka.
Poe was raised near
the Massassi Temple
on Yavin IV, the rebel’s
secret base in A New
Hope. Coincidentally,
the temple’s real
world location was in
Guatemala, the country
where the man who
plays Poe Dameron,
Oscar Isaac,
was born.
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31 HIDDEN
FORTRESS
The Resistence’s hidden
base on D’Qar is located in
34 THANK THE MAKERS!
Lucasfilm president and executive
producer Kathleen Kennedy
approached members of the R2 Builders Club
Members at Star Wars Celebration in 2013 and
the Ileenium system. It was asked them if they wouldn’t mind making the
discovered and marked for R2-D2 prop seen in The Force Awakens.
potential use as a rebel base Of course they said yes!
decades earlier by pilots of
Corona Squadron, Thane Kyrell
and Kendy Idele. More can be
learned about their exploits
in the pages of Lost Stars by
Claudia Gray.
32
LEIA’S DROID
35
PZ-4CO, or “Peazy,” is a communications droid assigned
to General Leia on D’Qar, and makes her initial appearance DOCTOR
in the Resistance’s command center. Peazy is first referenced in the pages
of Star Wars: Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure by Cecil Castellucci DOOKU?
and Jason Fry. Actress Harriet Walter plays Doctor
Kalonia, the physician who treated
Chewie’s wounds after the skirmish
at Takodana. In addition to The Force
Awakens, Walter has appeared as Lady
Shackleton on Downtown Abbey. She is
also the niece of Christopher Lee, who
played Count Dooku in Attack of the
Clones and Revenge of the Sith.
36 FEELING
BLUE
Blue Squadron makes its
debut in The Force Awakens.
Luke Skywalker was originally
supposed to fly with Blue
Squadron in A New Hope,
but the star fighters’ blue
markings made it difficult
to film against blue screens,
so they were changed to
red instead. The resulting
moniker was Red Squadron.
37 SNAP TO ACTION!
Greg Grunberg is an actor and
childhood friend of J.J. Abrams who
33
has appeared in many of the famed director’s
GOOD productions. In The Force Awakens, Grunberg
plays X-wing pilot Temmin “Snap” Wexley. It was
LOURD! his character who provided the Resistance with
Carrie Fisher’s daughter, Billie the information they needed to launch an attack
Lourd, plays Lieutenant Connix, against the Starkiller Base. Wexley was first
who appears in the Resistance introduced in Aftermath by Chuck Wendig.
base on D’Qar.
 38 SNOWSPEEDER
UNSEEN!
When Rey and Finn arrive at the oscillator
on Starkiller Base, behind them is the
boosted snowspeeder that brought them
there. It was featured in the novelization
of The Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster
and is also a toy by Hasbro.
39
AGENT OF THE
FIRST ORDER
As reported in Entertainment Weekly,
actor Daniel Craig of James Bond fame
makes a cameo in The Force Awakens.
He plays a stormtrooper who falls victim
to Rey’s Jedi Mind Trick on Starkiller
Base. When first asked about his
supposed role prior to the film’s release,
Craig vehemently denied it because he
was forbidden to confirm his association
with the project. His involvement was
made easy because the latest Bond film,
Spectre, was filming on a neighboring
soundstage only a thermal detonator’s
throw away.
40
HUX: A TRAGIC
VILLAIN?
J.J. Abrams wanted Hux to have a
sense of tragedy, and the fact that he
appears to be too young to be in charge
of a murderous group added to that.
According to Abrams, the character’s
name was created after he noticed a
grave with the name “Hux” carved into
the stone.
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41
KYLO’S
BLADE
Kylo Ren’s lightsaber is based
on an ancient design, dating back
thousands of years. The ragged,
unstable appearance of the
main blade and two cross-guard
blades, or quillions, are the result
of a cracked kyber crystal housed
inside the weapon’s hilt.
42 COMFORTABLY NUNB
One of the Resistance fighters flying an X-wing
against Starkiller Base is none other than Lando
Calrissian’s Sullustan co-pilot from the Battle of Endor, Nien
Nunb. In the Princess Leia-focused book Moving Target and
Battlefront: Twilight Company, Nien Nunb is revealed to be a vital
combatant in the fight against the Empire, and willingly signs
back up to take on the First Order. Actor Mike Quinn, who plays
Nunb in Return of the Jedi, was tapped to bring life back to the
character he made famous for The Force Awakens.
44
LEIA’S LOSS
Through the Force, General Leia can feel the
loss of Han Solo in the same way Yoda feels
Order 66 in Revenge of the Sith and Obi-Wan Kenobi feels
the destruction of Alderaan in A New Hope. Leia previously
sensed Luke was in danger at the climax of The Empire
Strikes Back and knew he was safe after the destruction
of the Death Star in Return of the Jedi.
45
DROID
STORY
Look closely and you’ll see as
Rey and Chewie leave aboard
the Millennium Falcon in search
of Luke that C-3PO’s red arm
has been replaced with a golden
one. The reason behind
C-3PO’s red arm is
explained in the
comic book Star
Wars Special:
C-3PO #1
by James
Robinson
and Tony
43
Harris.
ANOTHER TRAP?
Admiral Ackbar makes appearances in the war
room at the Resistance Base on D’Qar. According to
The Force Awakens Visual Dictionary, General Leia had to coax him
out of retirement to meet the growing threat of the First Order. Tim
Rose, the voice behind everyone’s favorite fishy commander from
Return of the Jedi, reprises his role in the new film.
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 47
FN-2187, a reference created by
director J.J. Abrams to Princess
Leia’s cell number, 2187, aboard
the Death Star in A New Hope.
46
NO SLEEP
‘TIL BESPIN!
J.J. Abrams love of the Beastie
Boys features in his 2009 movie Star
Trek (the band’s song “Sabotage”
plays during young James Kirk’s
introduction) and continues in Star
Wars: The Force Awakens.
The Beastie Boys were an American
hip-hop/rock band from New York
City, consisting of Michael “Mike D”
Diamond (vocals, drums), Adam
“MCA” Yauch (vocals, bass), and Adam
“Ad-Rock” Horovitz (vocals, guitar).
The Abednedo harassed by First
Order troopers in the Jakku village
is named Ilco Munica. These are the
first two of a series of references to
the Beastie Boys. Abednedo is close
to the word “Abegnego,” which is a
character in a biblical story they told
in a track called “Shadrach” on their
album “Paul’s Boutique.” Ilco Munica
refers to “Ill Communication,” their
fourth studio album.
The second Abednedo with a
name whose reference is to the
Beastie Boys is present on Hosnian
Prime, a senator named Brassmon
Kee, which is similar to the Beastie
Boys hit “Brass Monkey.”
The third Abednedo character
whose name references the Beastie
Boys is an X-wing pilot who sacrifices
his life in the battle over Starkiller
Base. His name is Ello Asty, which
is a reference to the fifth studio
album of the Beastie Boys,
“Hello Nasty.” Ello Asty’s
helmet bears the words
“Born to Ill” in
Aurebesh, a reference
to Lt. Joker’s helmet in
Stanley Kubrick’s Full
Metal Jacket that
reads “Born to Kill.”
It’s also a
reference to
the debut
album of the
Beastie Boys,
“Licensed
to Ill.”
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CELL MATES
Finn’s trooper
designation is
48 HEY, ISN’T
THAT…?
Various well-known faces can be seen
in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Here are
some, along with some hints as to where
you might have seen them before…
Thomas Brodie Sangster, who portrays
First Order Petty Officier Thanisson in The
Force Awakens, plays Jojen Reed in the
hit television series Game of Thrones and
Newt in the Maze Runner films. His first
major movie was Love Actually, in which
he played the stepson of Liam Neeson
(Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace).
Resistance X-wing pilot Jess Pava is
played by actress Jessica Henwick,
who also plays Nymeria Sand in the
television show Game of Thrones. Pava is
first referenced in The Weapon of a Jedi
by Jason Fry.
Actor Ken Leung, who played Miles on
the television show Lost, appears in The
Force Awakens as Admiral Statura. It was
his character who explains the science
behind Starkiller Base’s oscillator.
Members of the Kanjiklub gang
are played by actors from the 2011
Indonesian action film, The Raid:
Redemption (originally titled The Raid).
The most notable of whom is action
choregrapher Yayan Ruhian, who
portrays their leader, Tasu Leech.
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LOOKING
FOR LUKE
Luke Skywalker sought out the First
Jedi Temple. Jedi Temples were first
seen in The Phantom Menace and the
first temple Luke visited was the Temple
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of Eedit on Devaron in Jason Fry’s book
Weapon of a Jedi. The planet outside SNOKE AND LEIA There are undoubtedly many more
known space where the first Jedi Story Group member and cool things to look out for in Star
Temple is located was named Ahch-To Star Wars expert Pablo Wars: The Force Awakens. With
in the screenplay for The Force Awakens Hidalgo has revealed on Twitter that Leia the movie now available for home
and the island was filmed on location at and Snoke knew each other before the viewing, it’s the perfect time to look!
Skellig Michael in Ireland. events of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Happy hunting! a
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