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Post #1418366

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BrotherOfSasquatch
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Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Redux Ideas thread
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18-Mar-2021, 9:34 AM

So, here’s an idea I have inspired by some concept art for the deleted “Eye of Webbish Bog” scene I saw yesterday.

What if the planet Kylo acquires Vader’s Wayfinder from ISN’T Mustafar? We wouldn’t have to change much for it, save for the initial planet shot at the very beginning. The scene already doesn’t really look like Mustafar and it could just be retconned to being a forest on a planet that’s been burned by the conflict occuring.

I think there could be two ways to approach this retcon (one being more radical than the other):

  • Less Radical: We make the planet some random planet, maybe one that’s Jedi/Sith adjacent (Tython?). We then would retcon the Alazmec colonists as being either scavengers or some Force-related group such as the Church of the Force who happened to find Vader’s wayfinder and were keeping it.

  • More Radical (and this one honestly kind of leans on Hal’s edit although it could be justified for others as well): We make the planet Endor and the colonists could be retconned as being some of Jannah’s rogue Stormtrooper group. From memory, I don’t recall the colonists being too alien looking. I just remember them being sort of bulky armored guys. And as for the justification for why the Wayfinder would be on Endor… Vader was on Endor for a little bit, right? So, maybe the defected group ransacked the Imperial base on the planet after they defected to look for weapons and supplies and happened to find a little souvenir Vader was storing there for the time being?

Obviously, a lot of this isn’t 100% logically thought out (I can see someone responding, punching holes into this idea). However, I wanted to just put it out there for you all to mull over.