Here’s the most specific and detailed prediction yet!..

Inspired by a few recent clickbait headlines and some general noggin work I predict that the next animated Star Wars series will take place in the years leading up to Episode VII (similarly to how Rebels precedes Episode IV.)

The main characters will not have been seen before but will consist of a young person, a teen, an older man or woman or both, at least one alien and a droid.

The stories will have The First Order’s rise to power as a backdrop and we’ll occasionally get cameos from some of the characters from the sequel trilogy and canon novels from that period.

We will see Maz Kanata obtaining Luke’s lightsaber (and probably Obi-Wan’s entire chest too.) We’ll see Snoke, Phasma and Hux getting up to no good and we’ll likely see Han and Chewie in an episode too. Luke and Leia will no doubt be encountered in some way and more than likely Lor San Tekka will turn up too.

The show will last for three seasons and will begin airing in 2019. The trailer will air around Christmas this year and the first episode will be shown at Celebration 2019 (which I’m predicting will take place in New York) and the full season will air from September next year.

Finally, I predict that when Dave Filoni introduces us to this new series on an episode of the Star Wars show he’ll be wearing a hat.