Part 2 – The Galactic Empire and Age of Rebellion
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Chapter XII
In the coming decade or so, Jedi across the galaxy must run and hide to save themselves from the Empire’s merciless execution of Order 66 as organised resistance to the Empire takes its first steps.
| Film | Time Period |
| Vader Episode I: Shards of the Past | 18 BBY |
| Birth of a Monster | C.18 BBY |
| Cad Bane | C.18 BBY |
| Star Wars Exile | C.18 BBY |
| Echoes of the Force | C.18 BBY |
Vader Episode I: Shards of the Past: Anakin Skywalker is dead. For eight months, the mysterious Darth Vader has enforced the Emperor’s commands. Fighting between the loss of Padme, and the new cursed life he now leads, Vader must do what must be done when a surviving Jedi Master from Order 66 has lured him to the home planet of his late Wife’s tomb.
Birth of a Monster: The origin story of the Rancor that Juke Skywalker fights in Return of the Jedi. Abused and neglected with an android as his only companion, a young boy finds a Rancor egg whilst out scavenging and brings up the mighty beast as his pet.
Cad Bane: The notorious titular bounty hunter who once took Boba Fett under his wing gets an outing in this short story. He travels to an Empire outpost to pick up a highly valuable lightsaber with the help of a miscreant Jawa.
Star Wars Exile: Jedi Master Boemana Tora and her Padawan Makal Lori flee to the outer rim but not far enough to escape an Inquisitor’s evil clutches. Tora must make the ultimate sacrifice so that her Padawan can live to fight another day.
Echoes of the Force: After the death of his master, a distraught Padawan struggles to reconnect with the force.
Chapter XIII
| Film | Time Period |
| Kenobi | 13 BBY |
| Inquisition | 11 BBY |
| Regrets of the Past | 18 – 10 BBY |
Kenobi: Living in hiding whilst watching over a five year-old Luke Skywalker, the Jedi Master must intervene to save his charge when the Empire comes sniffing around.
Inquisition: Padawan Elick and his master were defeated and separated with the issuance of Order 66, only to find themselves reunited seven years later in the time of the Empire. If Elick is to protect ‘the Path’, a secret underground network that shelters Jedi and other Force-sensitives from the Empire, then he must stop his former master who has since turned to the Dark Side and become an Inquisitor on a mission to hunt Jedi.
Regrets of the Past: Jedi Master Pash Sularen and his Padawan Kaila Dain crash land on a planet whilst Darth Vader, himself, pursues them because Darth Sidious wants to pair up Kaila with a Sith holocron to create a mighty weapon for the Empire.
Chapter XIV
| Film | Time Period |
| Power | 19 – 0 BBY |
| Quiet | 18 – 13 BBY |
| The Foretelling: A Jedi Fallen Order Story | 13 BBY |
| Wrath of The Sith | 17 – 0 BBY |
| Rendezvous | 16 – 11 BBY |
| Kestis: A Jedi Survivor Story | 13 – 10 BBY |
| Checkpoint: A Jedi Survivor Story | 9 BBY |
Power: In the dark times between “Revenge of the Sith” and “A New Hope,” a master and his apprentice are undercover with an illicit group of smugglers. When one turns on the other, a lightsaber duel ensues with both physical and moral stakes.
Quiet: A former Jedi and his daughter must take refuge when a very dark visitor comes calling.
The Foretelling: A Jedi Fallen Order Story, Kestis: A Jedi Survivor Story and Checkpoint: A Jedi Survivor Story: In this triple featurette, the valiant Jedi Cal Kestis is on a quest to seek out surviving Jedi. During his expedition, a voice reaches out to him: a Jedi voice calling him to the water world of Glee Anselm. Determined to bring the mysterious Jedi into his fold of rebels, Cal arrives on the planet full of hope but oblivious to what he will encounter. Three years later and Kestis struggles to both serve and survive in a polarising galaxy oppressed by the Empire. When a conflicted Jedi-Mandalorian seeks help from the clutches of the Inquisitor Galen Marek, Cal must decide who to become in order to survive. On Spira, the wearied Kestis seeks reassurance from his mentor Cere Junda.
Wrath of The Sith: With the Jedi genocide almost complete, Master Elius Echo and his apprentice Kira Nyon escape from a rebel ship to the nearest planet just in time before it is boarded by Darth Vader. The Sith lord will not give up his quarry easily; he despatches two of his best apprentices to kill the Jedi.
Rendezvous: A pair of do-gooders attempt to protect a young force-sensitive girl from the Empire and other denizens of the galaxy, including Darth Maul who, incredulously, survived his demise in The Phantom Menace and now has prosthetic legs.
Chapter XV
| Film | Time Period |
| Legend of Hope: Episode I | 18 – 10 BBY |
| The Last Padawan, Part I | 15 BBY |
| The Last Padawan, Part II | 11 BBY |
| Legend of Hope: Episode II | 18 – 10 BBY |
| Echoes of the Force: Tales from the Outer Rim | c.18 – 2 BBY |
| Days Past | 18 – 0 BBY |
The Last Padawan, pts. 1 and 2: A Padawan has an Inquisitor breathing down his neck, despite defeating him in a fight once already. He heads to Dantooine to locate a stash of kyber crystals which are the energy source for lightsabers. Seeking help from the local rebels there, the Padawan will have to make a choice: Will he reveal himself and save the people or hide and save the Jedi order?
Legend of Hope, eps. 1 and 2: After Order 66 was executed, the Jedi were hunted down as malevolance coursed through the Empire. Yet, the fight did not end. Surviving Jedis remain at large, roaming across the galaxy. The turmoil from the Jedi purge plunged the planet of Kashyyyk into ruins and the Empire has enslaved its inhabitants. Amidst the chaos, two Jedis have been unable to get off world until now, but the Empire will not let them slip away so easily. Jedi, Kavis Weyfel crash-lands on Ossus while fleeing pirates. As he wanders the forests, visions from the Clone Wars resurface. He soon encounters a mysterious lost child who latches onto him, forming an uneasy but growing connection. Meanwhile on Kashyyyk, a Rebel strike team uncovers that the Empire is enslaving Wookiees and transporting them off-world to construct a new Imperial facility linked to a project only referred to as “Star–”. Back on Ossus, Kavis discovers a Sith holocron calling to him — unaware he’s being watched.
Echoes of the Force: Tales from the Outer Rim: Two humble outpost workers are forced to choose sides between the nascent resistance movement or the Empire after a fleeing Jedi lands in their laps.
Days Past: In a past life Valera was a commander in the old Republican army but now stands with the Resistance against Palpatine’s Galactic Empire. Then, the day comes where she must face her past once an old mentee pays a visit.
Chapter XVI
| Film | Time Period |
| An Idiot’s Array | c.11 BBY |
| Solo | 13 – 10 BBY |
| Han Solo: A Smuggler’s Trade | 9 BBY |
An Idiot’s Array: Quip Farguil, a space mechanic who owned and named the Millennium Falcon and his unlikely counterpart, Eno Satori, attempt to gamble their way off the dangerous urban planet of Taris as the stakes get higher and things go from bad to worse.
Solo: Years before his fate led him to meet Luke Skywalker and join the Rebel Alliance, we get the backstory to how Han Solo met his faithful companion Chewbacca as well as Lando Clarissian. Han has to leave his childhood sweetheart, Qi’ra, behind in order to escape a gang on Corellia. In the ensuing years, life as a Stormtrooper doesn’t suit our anti-hero, so he sets out for adventures in the criminal underworld before meeting the early members of the Rebel Alliance. Finally, Solo reunites with his girlfriend one last time.
Han Solo: A Smuggler’s Trade: Han continues to show that he is as good getting into trouble as he is getting out of it, but this time he needs to attempt a trade to get Chewie out of a tight spot.
Chapter XVII
| Film | Time Period |
| Podracer | 18 – 0 BBY |
| Obi-Wan Kenobi, Episode I | 9 BBY |
| Obi-Wan Kenobi, Episode II | 9 BBY |
| Obi-Wan Kenobi, Episode III | 9 BBY |
Podracer: What is the cost of ambition in the sport of Podracing during the reign of the Galactic Empire?
Obi-Wan Kenobi, Eps. 1, 2 and 3: Ten years after the trauma of Order 66, Obi Wan Kenobi lives in a cave on Tatooine where he watches over young Luke Skywalker whose father Kenobi believes he slew on Mustafar planet. His connection to the Force is now at its lowest ebb. Agents of the Empire arrive on the desert planet of Tatooine looking for escaped Jedi and Third Sister Reva is determined to unearth whatever hole Kenobi is hiding under in order to get into Darth Vader’s good graces. She kidnaps Princess Leia to bait Kenobi into exposing himself in a rescue attempt. It almost works and Kenobi has to fight his way off of the Planet Daiyu before finding out, to his great consternation, that Anakin Skywalker still lives. With the kidnapped princess now by his side, Obi-Wan attempts to search for allies. However, he attracts the attention of not only the Empire, but also one of his oldest friends.
Chapter XVIII
| Film | Time Period |
| Obi-Wan Kenobi, Episode IV | 9 BBY |
| Obi-Wan Kenobi, Episode V | 9 BBY |
| Obi-Wan Kenobi, Episode VI | 9 BBY |
Obi-Wan Kenobi, Eps. 4, 5 and 6: Obi-Wan and an ex-imperial officer named Tala infiltrate the Inquisitor’s stronghold to rescue a captured Leia. The Third Sister and remaining inquisitors attempt to prove their worth to Darth Vader by finally hunting down Kenobi. Obi-Wan plans his next move as the Empire slowly begins to close in around him. As Vader tries to reach out to his old friend, Obi-Wan attempts to reason with Reva, once a Jedi but now turned Imperial Inquisitor, in order to save the Path. As Reva continues her pursuit of Luke, Obi-Wan prepares to face Darth Vader one last time. The two chase after their own destinies, Reva wishing to punish those who hurt her whilst Obi-Wan attempts to reach out to Anakin Skywalker.
Chapter XIX
| Film | Time Period |
| Secrets of the Trials | 8 BBY |
| Secrets of the Temple | 8 BBY |
Secrets of the Trials and Temple: Whilst gangsters scour nearby systems for valuables like bacta, ancient relics and kyber, on the moon of Kyrul-Eba, a hidden Jedi Master sends his surviving padawans on their Trials, and during the final test a young Twilek senses her friend is in danger. Fear is a poison to the galaxy. Organised society is crumbling as locals yearn for the highest bounties offered for Jedi relics; only the strongest have prospered. In this eager moment the Galactic Empire has swept in, offering them food, supplies and work in exchange for these relics, saving the moon from its trials. As the moon’s society recovers, rumours spread of a secret map to a hidden temple which forces some desperate Jedi out from hiding.
Chapter XX
The tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became involved. In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor embarks on the path that is destined to turn him into a hero of the Rebel Alliance.
| Film | Time Period |
| Andor, Episode I | 5 BBY |
| Andor, Episode II | 5 BBY |
| Andor, Episode III | 5 BBY |
Andor, Eps. 1, 2 and 3: Whilst trying to find his sister, Andor comes to blows with two Pre-Mor security officers and kills them. An investigation gets underway and Pre-Mor gets a tip off identifying Cassian before he makes plans to flee his planet, Morlana One. Andor rendezvous with a buyer named Luthen Rael to sell a starpath unit that will pay for his ticket off the planet. Yet Rael is not all he appears to be. After Andor and Rael have a showdown with a security unit sent to arrest Andor, the two do a runner. Andor now takes his first step on the path to joining the ‘Resistance.’
Chapter XXI
| Film | Time Period |
| Andor, Episode IV | 5 BBY |
| Andor, Episode V | 5 BBY |
| Andor, Episode VI | 5 BBY |
Andor, Eps. 4, 5 and 6: Cassian Andor joins a small rebel group about to embark on a high-stakes mission to rob the payroll of an entire sector of the Empire from a base situated in a dam on the planet Aldhani. There is much suspicion about who Andor is until he reveals that he is being paid to partake in the rebel mission, Meanwhile Rael continues to try to harvest income for the fledgling rebellion. He is most fortunate to have a brave benefactor, the Senator Mon Mothma. The build-up to the mission takes meticulous planning and hinges on escaping during a spectacular meteorite show that will distract the garrison. At the end of it all, one of the rebels turns out to be a backstabber but Andor shows the true steel of his character.
Chapter XXII
| Film | Time Period |
| Andor, Episode VII | 5 BBY |
| Andor, Episode VIII | 5 BBY |
| Andor, Episode IX | 5 BBY |
Andor, Eps 7, 8 and 9: After giving a heartrending farewell to his adoptive mother on Morlana One, Cassian moves to a tourist resort on Niamos but, there, is unjustly arrested and imprisoned for six years. Once incarcerated, Andor must adapt to the hard-graft regime of working on the factory production line. Soon, he and his fellow inmates discover that the prison has culled a whole sector of prisoners rather than let a secret from spreading amongst them, and the others might be next if they don’t act soon. Meanwhile both the Internal Security Bureau (ISB) and the Rebel cell that Andor split from begin hunting him down.
Chapter XXIII
| Film | Time Period |
| Andor, Episode X | 5 BBY |
| Andor, Episode XI | 5 BBY |
| Andor, Episode XII | 5 BBY |
Andor, Eps 10, 11 and 12: Andor and his fellow prisoners achieve a mass prison breakout. He plus a companion manage to get off the prison planet back to Niamos. Back on Morlana One, Cassian’s mother passes away and the ISB plan to capture Andor during the large funeral that is prepared. The funeral procession, Empire troops circling like snakes, reaches a crescendo. Then, a stirring speech made from beyond the grave exhorts the townsfolk to rise up in rebellion against the evil Empire. This the townsfolk erupt into and, in the pandemonium, Andor rescues his friend Bix from an interrogation cell before escaping the planet to formally join the Rebel Alliance. (hint: watch until the end of the credits)
Chapter XXIV
| Film | Time Period |
| The Tales of Boba Fett | 12 BBY – 1 ABY |
| Hand of the Empire Hand of the Empire: Epilogue – Bonus Scene | c.5 BBY |
| Boba Fett – The Twelve Parsec Stare | 8 BBY – 3 ABY |
| Last Stand | 18 BBY – 1 BBY |
| Remnants of The Order | 3 BBY |
| A Blaster in the Right Hands | c.2 BBY |
The Tales of Boba Fett: After a group of smugglers acquire a valuable asset, they soon realise they’re not alone. They are being hunted by one of the Galaxy’s most potent bounty hunters.
Hand of the Empire: A Stormtrooper unit led by Captain Quarrie, accompanied by spec-ops and Mandalorian mercs, really needs some backup while on a search and capture mission for a special ‘package’ on the forest planet of Cilpar. They aren’t the only party on Cilpar seeking it. The race is on as the growing Rebel Alliance makes a move to gain the upper hand against the Galactic Empire. (Hint: Watch the Epilogue bonus scene also!)
Boba Fett – The Twelve Parsec Stare: Boba Fett, the infamous intergalactic bounty hunter, has tracked his next prey into a dusty saloon in the outskirts of a remote space port. In the shadows of the busy space bar the hunter confronts his target’s three sinister henchmen. Who will blink first?
Last Stand: A bounty is on the head of a high profile target. With great interest the Empire recalls Jentri, their secret weapon. Meanwhile on another planet, bounty hunters fight over a prisoner, but they soon realize that the real prize is not for who they expected it to be.
Remnants of the Order: Pai has grown up under the reign of the Empire. Although she’s hardly taken notice of the intergalactic war raging around her, she’ll soon find that her destiny can not be kept at bay.
A Blaster in the Right Hands: On the trail of a crashed Imperial shuttle, two bounty hunters collide over a valuable cargo, only to discover they’re not the only hired guns around.
Chapter XXVa
| Film | Time Period |
| Andor, Episode XIII | 4 BBY |
| Andor, Episode XIV | 4 BBY |
| Andor, Episode XV | 4 BBY |
Andor, Eps 13, 14 and 15: One year on from the uprising on Ferrix, Cassian Andor is on a mission to steal a TIE Avenger prototype for the growing Rebel Alliance, which he pulls off with some difficulty. Landing on the jungle-covered Yavin IV, however, the pilot meant to take the fighter to its next destination is nowhere to be found. Instead Cassian is confronted by a band of stranded, half-starved desperados who take him prisoner. After a few days, the stress of the guerillas’ situation causes them to turn on each other and Cassian uses the chaos to make his escape on the prototype fighter.
Meanwhile, Mon Mothma finds out that her old friend who helped her hide the financial irregularities caused by her funding of the Rebel Alliance, is now unhappy with the financial burden he suffered as a result of his help, and might expose her to the Empire. Mon is then forced to confront the ruthlessness of the rebel struggle after Luthen informs her he is going to take Mon’s friend out. At the same time, ISB officer Meero finds out she is going to be assigned to the planet Ghorman on a mission to subdue the populace prior to the Empire carrying out a gouge-mining operation that will virtually destroy the planet. And after Ferrix, Bix, Brasso and Wilmon escaped to the agricultural planet Mina-Rau where they work as mechanics. Yet, after the Empire shows up to conduct an audit, the three get entangled with a squad of troops after Bix kills an officer who tries to rape her. They only survive because Andor, with perfect timing, arrives in his TIE fighter to save his friends, except Brasso who is killed.
Chapter XXVb
| Film | Time Period |
| Voyage of the Crusader | 3 BBY |
Voyage of the Crusader: When memories, visions, and reality collide, Aylek searches through time and Hyperspace for a way to fix the past.
Chapter XXVI
| Film | Time Period |
| Andor, Episode XVI | 3 BBY |
| Andor, Episode XVII | 3 BBY |
| Andor, Episode XVIII | 3 BBY |
Andor, Eps. 16, 17 and 18: The stress of running a rebellion are beginning to strain the relationships Luthen has with his subordinates, Cassian in particular. The ISB is nurturing an insurgency by the Ghorman Front so that the Empire will have the justification to suppress the Ghorman population further down the line when the Empire’s mining operation commences. Dedra Meero, head of this ISB operation, employs Syril as a mole in the Ghorman front. Eventually the Front, with support from the Rebel Alliance, pulls off a heist of Imperial weapons being delivered to a new armoury on Ghorman.
Whilst Luthen liaises with the Ghormans, he and Kleya are in danger of having one of their bugs discovered that was placed in an artifact exhibition of powerful crime lord Sculdun. If it is discovered, Luthen’s rebel operation would be exposed. With the stakes so high, Luthen and Kleya must remove the bug in a do-or-die mission where they’ll be surrounded by ISB officers at one of Sculdun’s parties.
Meanwhile, Bix still struggles with the nightmares of her torture endured while in the custody of the ISB back on Ferrix, but finds catharsis in killing her torturer Dr Gorst. Wilmon joins Saw Gerrera to operate a complicated rhydonium extractor where we see the reason behind Gerrera’s volatile and unhinged nature.
Chapter XXVII
| Film | Time Period |
| Andor, Episode XIX | 2 BBY |
| Andor, Episode XX | 2 BBY |
| Andor, Episode XXI | 2 BBY |
Andor, 19, 20 and 21: It is now 2 BBY. The Rebels have begun coordinating military operations on Yavin IV where Cassian and Bix now live. Cassian is assigned by Luthen to assassinate ISB officer Meero in Ghorman’s capital of Palmo. Once there, however, events overtake him; the ISB’s insidious machinations come to fruition. After incubating the Ghorman Front’s insurrectionist activities for a year now, ISB false-flag expert Kaido is brought in to orchestrate a riot that gets out of hand in the Palmo’s city square. A demonstration is triggered before riot police are provoked into opening fire on the crowd where Ghorman Front fighters return fire. With a casualty list of ‘Imperial martyrs’ in their hands, the ISB has the political means to start a crackdown on the Ghorman populace.
As a result of this, Mon Mothma makes the courageous decision to raise her flag. She decides she’ll make a speech to the Imperial Senate which condemns Emperor Palpatine directly. With her arrest now imminent, she must join the Rebellion. Cassian arrives to secure her escape from the Senate yet the ISB will not just let her saunter off into the sunset easily… Bix removes herself from Cassian’s life so that he has no excuse to abandon the Rebel cause, The rebels also make a valuable acquisition; a K-2SO security droid is reprogrammed to serve its new masters.
Chapter XXVIII
| Film | Time Period |
| Jedi’s Code | 7 BBY – 1 BBY |
| Rebellion | 5 BBY – 1 BBY |
| Strormtroopers, Episode I: The Raid | 5 BBY – 1 BBY |
| Strormtroopers, Episode II: Siege | 5 BBY – 1 BBY |
| Bucketheads: A Star Wars Story | 1 BBY – 3 ABY |
| Odyssey | C. 1 BBY |
| TK-436: A Stormtrooper Story | 5 BBY – 2 ABY |
Jedi’s Code: When the smuggler, Kai Arclighter, crash lands on the remote world of Adara Prime, he’s forced to confront his Jedi past. The nefarious Imperial Agent, Pi-Thea-Tezu, has Kai in her sights. Can Kai reconnect with the Force to vanquish his foe? Or will he become another fallen Jedi for the glory of the Emperor?
Rebellion: Can a pair of rebels survive their sabotage mission of an Imperial base?
Stormtroopers, the Raid and Siege: A two-part series in which we see different perspectives of the war between the Rebel Alliance and Galactic Empire. A platoon of Stormtroopers raids a remote Rebel mining outpost before an Imperial base station is hit hard by a Rebel warship.
Bucketheads: A Star Wars Story: We are introduced to ‘Nova squad.’ Nova’s ship is shot down on a forested planet while transporting a rebel commander and, while on terra-firma, they walk into an ambush. But “this isn’t the first time Nova squad’s been in a pinch.”
Odyssey: A Rebel commander reflects on the gravity and importance of joining the Rebels whilst overseeing Odyssey squad’s mission to sabotage a gun emplacement. They get caught up rescuing a father and son from execution by Stormtroopers in the process.
TK-436: A Stormtrooper Story: A gritty tale of a loyal soldier of the Empire who is forced to confront an old flame in the middle of a battle.
Chapter XXIX
| Film | Time Period |
| Andor, Episode XXII | 1 BBY |
| Andor, Episode XXIII | 1 BBY |
| Andor, Episode XXIV | 1 BBY |
Andor, Eps. 22, 23 and 24: The journey ends for Luthen Rael, the ‘Father of the Rebellion’. Luthen’s mole in the ISB gives Luthen the most horrifying news; he reveals the Deathstar project. Armed with this crucial intel, and awareness the ISB have likely uncovered him, Luthen shares the news with Kleya and tries to clean house before attempting suicide once Dedra Meero turns up to apprehend and interrogate him. In the botched arrest raid on Luthen’s antiques shop, Luthen is taken into custody in an induced coma and Meero is arrested herself for screwing the raid up. We find out the back story to how Luthen rescued Kleya as a child and why Kleya rescues her father-figure from future ISB interrogation by disconnecting his lifesupport, subsequently.
Cassian goes to Corusant to rescue Kleya from the Empire’s clutches with the help of K-2SO. With the destiny of a battle on Scarif looming, Cassian passionately defends Luthen’s legacy whilst trying to convince the Alliance’s leadership of the veracity of the report of the ‘planet killer’ Deathstar’s construction. Andor heads off to meet a contact for more intel on Kafrene, heads roll in the ISB and the series closes out.
Chapter XXX
| Film | Time Period |
| Project Blackwing | 2-1 BBY |
| Last Trial | 1 BBY |
| The Blood Crystal | 1 BBY |
| A Light in the Darkness – part 1 | 0 BBY |
| A Light in the Darkness – part 2 | 0 BBY |
| A Light in the Darkness – part 3 | 0 BBY |
Project Blackwing: In this horror story, an X-Wing pilot crash-lands on a lonely, empty planet and his only hope of survival is the head of an Imperial medical droid. Together, they must work to fight an evil that has consumed the planet. (Warning: contains strong language.)
Last Trial: A lost padawan acting as a rebel spy and a rookie stormtrooper face the hardest and most important trial of their lives amidst a storm of smoke, fire and blaster bolts.
The Blood Crystal: The story of a Jedi and Sith, and the adventure they take searching for the Blood Kyber Crystal, rumoured to have unimaginable powers that will change their lives forever.
A Light in the Darkness: A young boy living in a mining colony on the Outer Rim meets a Jedi who inspires him to join an underground resistance movement in adulthood. He and his fellow insurgents plan to liberate their planet by attracting the attention of the Rebel Alliance. Armed with a lovingly restored lightsaber that once belonged to the Jedi, the young man and his comrades-in-arms fight against the planet’s government which attracts the Rebellion’s attention but also the Empire’s…
Chapter XXXI
| Film | Time Period |
| Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | 1-0 BBY |
Rogue One: Shortly after Emperor Palpatine founded the Galactic Empire, Research Scientist Galen Erso was assigned to develop the planet-killing mega-craft named the Deathstar. He soon abandoned the job and fled with his family to hide away. Yet, director of the Deathstar project, Orson Krennic tracked Erso down and forced him to take-up his role again. Galen’s daughter, Jyn, escaped to be rescued by rebel extremist Saw Gerrera. 15 years later, it turns out that Galen secretly inbuilt a vulnerability into the Death Star and its schematics are located in an Imperial data vault on the planet Scarif. Cassian and Jyn set out to infiltrate the vault and transmit the schematics to Rebel high command, accompanied by a rebel force there to distract the garrison. The Battle of Scarif erupts and they achieve their aims but at great expenditure of blood and heroism. It is a worthy sacrifice however as it gives the rebellion a hope, however small, that they can soon destroy the Deathstar.
Chapter XXXII
| Film | Time Period |
| Connecting Rogue One to A New Hope With Star Wars’ Deleted Scenes (Seamless Transition) | 0 BBY |
| Star Wars: A New Hope, Episode IV | 0 |
| Way to The Rebellion | 0 ABY |
Connecting Rogue One to A New Hope With Star Wars’ Deleted Scenes: As described in the title. Luke discusses the rising rebellion against the Empire with his friend before bidding him farewell.
Star Wars: A New Hope, Episode IV: The film that started it all, despite being 32 years deep into the ‘Skywalker Saga’. Post Battle of Scarif, Princess Leia hides the Deathstar schematics with the droid R2D2 and ejects it onto Tattooine before Darth Vader takes her into captivity. Fate has it that the droid, accompanied by C3PO, crosses paths with Luke Skywalker and shows him a hologram of Leia pleading with Obi-Wan Kenobi for help. Luke and Kenobi eventually set out to rescue the Princess, recruiting Hans Solo to get them onboard the Deathstar in the process. Meanwhile, the commander of the Deathstar, Grand Moff Tarkin, coerces Leia into revealing the location of the Rebel base before obliterating her home planet of Alderaan. Obi-Wan and Luke rescue Leia before Tarkin sets a course for the Rebel base on Yavin IV. There, the rebels hastily plan to attack the Deathstar’s weak point that will blow it to smithereens with one good shot before the gargantuan spaceship can get in range of the moon to obliterate it. The good guys, of course, are victorious and the Deathstar is destroyed.
Way to The Rebellion: After witnessing Alderaan being destroyed and coming to blows with the Empire’s troops, two men pledge themselves to the Rebel cause.
Chapter XXXIII
| Film | Time Period |
| Star Wars: Broken Allegiance | 1 ABY |
| The Lost Patrol | 1-2 ABY |
| Dead Heat | c.2 ABY |
| Bossk: Scorekeeper | 2-3 ABY |
| Boba Fett: No Disintegrations | 2-3 ABY |
| Wingman – An X-Wing Story | 1 BBY – 4 ABY |
| Kara | 1 BBY – 4 ABY |
Star Wars: Broken Allegiance: Two Sith apprentices, Ruan and Calis, who have escaped the Empire by fleeing Coruscant in a stolen transport, must fight for their freedom when Darth Vader sends the vicious bounty hunter Korbain Thor to track them down.
Dead Heat: Far out of the war raging across the galaxy, a lawman, bounty hunter, and drifter converge on a cache of credits in a dead oasis.
The Lost Patrol: A flight of X-Wings are in search of a lost Rebel patrol when they are ambushed by Imperial TIE Fighters.
Bossk: Scorekeeper and Boba Fett: No Disintegrations: In this double featurette, the fabled and most feared bounty hunter, Bossk, preys on an elite Rebel special forces team who were tasked with infiltrating an Imperial outpost to secure an intelligence asset. At the end of it, the red-eyed reptilian runs into his mentee Boba Fett. The two head to Honor’s Keep – a cantina on Mon Cala. There they reminisce of past hunts and we learn why the dreaded Darth Vader will tell Boba Fett, “No Disintegrations” in Star Wars, Episode V.
Wingman – An X-Wing Story: An X-wing squadron embarks on a perilous mission to capture a senior officer of the Empire from a transporter and are joined by an aloof, maverick, hotshot who still carries emotional baggage from a prior mission gone bad. Quickly up to their necks in TIE Fighters, X-wing need to use every trick in their bag to survive the mission.
Kara: A father tries to save himself and daughter Kara from the Empire whilst X-wing and TIE fighters battle overhead.
Chapter XXXIV
| Film | Time Period |
| Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Episode V | 3 ABY |
| Rebel Scum | 3 ABY |
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Episode V: Having stirred up the hornets’ nest, the rebels relocate to the ice planet of Hoth before the Empire attacks them with AT-AT Walkers, the rebels managing to escape just in time. Luke seeks out Yoda to begin his Jedi training whilst Han and Leia fall in love as they take sanctuary with Hans’ ‘old friend’ Lando Calrissian on Cloud City. Vader follows them there, knowing Luke will come to their rescue, and so he does, though not before Solo is carbon frozen and taken by the bounty hunter, Boba Fett. Luke and Vader duke it out and the Sith Lord reveals he is, in fact, Luke’s father before cutting his son’s hand off. And he wondered why Luke didn’t want to join him on the dark side…
Rebel Scum: After being abandoned during the Rebel retreat from their base on Hoth, a pilot faces death from either the merciless Empire or a frozen grave. Can he find a way out of his predicament?
Chapter XXXV
| Film | Time Period |
| Star Tours: Last Launch | 1 BBY – 4 ABY |
| Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure | 3 ABY |
| Rogue Seven | 0 – 7 ABY |
Star Tours: Last Launch: As the Rebel Alliance extends its operations across the galaxy, an encrypted communication between the intergalactic travel agency Star Tours and the rebellion is intercepted, threatening the cover of the Alliance.
Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure: In the first of a two-part George Lucas SW story, the Ewoks of Endor show their noble qualities of love, loyalty and courage when they help the Towani family that crash landed on the forested moon reunite. In order to do that, they must help the two Towani children rescue their parents who are being held captive by a gargantuan Gorax in the Forbidden Fortress.
Rogue Seven: A young thief named Zav Kassim must help a group of X-Wing pilots battle an Imperial armada and an overconfident bounty hunter.
Chapter XXXVI
| Film | Time Period |
| Ewoks: The Battle for Endor | 3 ABY |
| Vader: Pull to The Light | 3 ABY – 4 ABY |
| Star Wars Outlaws | 3 ABY – 4 ABY |
Ewoks: The Battle of Endor: The Towani family are preparing to leave Endor and their Ewok hosts, but the village is attacked by Marauders led by their evil King Terak and a shape-shifting witch named Charal. The Marauders capture the furry forest folk and slaughter the whole Towani family, apart from Cindel – the family’s youngest daughter. She and her Ewok companion Wicket escape before meeting an old man who will eventually become the friend they need to help them rescue the Ewoks from the Marauders’ castle.
Vader: Pull to the Light: The Empire is in pursuit of Luke Skywalker, prompting Darth Vader to personally oversee the investigation. On a nearby planet, the Sith Lord discovers an ancient temple strong in the Light Side of the Force.
Star Wars Outlaws: On Tatooine, a scoundrel named Kay Vess gets apprehended in possession of an artifact, and the evil Empire plan to interrogate her with a torture droid if she cannot escape beforehand.
Chapter XXXVII
| Film | Time Period |
| R2’s Return: A Droid’s Story | 4 ABY |
| Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Episode VI | 4 ABY |
R2’s Return: A Droid’s Story: On a secret mission from Luke Skywalker, R2 races against time across a desert wasteland—but things don’t go as planned. From dodging love-struck creatures to escaping the grip of an Imperial stormtrooper, will he complete his mission… or find something even more valuable along the way?
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Episode VI: Jabba the Hutt, that most barbaric of crime/war-lords who held sway over Luke’s home planet, Tatooine, meets his doom after coming up against one of the greatest Jedi masters ever. Despite Boba Fett’s guard dog attendance, once Jabba chose to take possession of Leia plus Solo’s carbon form, his fate is sealed. Luke returns to Yoda but the ancient Jedi mentor expires soon after, though Skywalker does learn that he shares his surname with both Leia and Darth Vader. The Empire has wasted no time building another Deathstar so Luke and his rebel comrades contrive to demolish a shield generator on Endor so that they can take out this 2nd destroyer-of-worlds. On terra-firma, the Rebels discover the noble traits of the Ewoks, like the Towanis did prior, before battle erupts. Luke has a climactic showdown with Sidious and Vader for the prophecy that ‘Anakin Skywalker would bring balance to the Force’ to be fulfilled.
Chapter XXXVIII
Beneath their helmets, the warriors who faced each other during the Battle of Endor were not anonymous soldiers but people with lives, loves, hopes and hearts.
| Film | Time Period |
| After Endor | 4 ABY |
| Dresca | 4 ABY |
| Scout | 4 ABY |
| Sanctuary Moon | 4 ABY |
| Bucketheads: Episode 1 | 4-5 ABY |
After Endor depicts the fate of the scout shot off his speeder bike by Chewbacca in Return of the Jedi. Teaming up with a compassionate enemy combatant with problems of his own, the two find out they’re not so different, they even share the same enemy.
Dresca: When the titular character, an injured Imperial pilot, is rescued by rebels after the Battle of Endor, she must choose between her loyalty to the Empire and the kindness of strangers she once thought of as monsters.
Scout: A rebel on the forest moon, after the battle in which the Death Star 2 was destroyed above, wakes up in a daze with no idea as to where the rest of his battalion has gone. In every sense he’s not out of the woods; he bumps into a jaded Stormtrooper.
Sanctuary Moon: The Empire is in chaos and a trio of Imperial survivors – an inexperienced junior officer and her two grizzled stormtrooper companions – battle to survive against Endor’s hostile and hungry natives.
Bucketheads: Episode 1: “Through fire and blood!” roars Nova Squad’s commander before falling under a hail of laser bolts. During the Battle of Endor, the stormtrooper unit fights desperately to extradite itself from a swarm of onrushing rebel soldiers. One year later and Nova Squad faces the punishment of decimation for having shown ‘cowardice’ on Endor, but they get a last minute reprieve; they’re given the mission of capturing a rebel informant on Coruscant to bring in for questioning. After retrieving the defector, squad leader Captain Sereta is tasked with his most significant mission yet: Infiltrate the rebel cell and capture the renegade Admiral Rae Sloane – but he will need the help of an unlikely ally.
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