Breaking Down the Ominous Portents of the NewStar Wars: The Rise of SkywalkerFootage

This morning , Lucasfilm gave us our modish , shocking coup d’oeil at the final chapter in the Skywalker Saga . Although fairly light in content , that does n’t mean the footage was n’t jam - backpack with clues and hints about what to require — or what to devise yourself for — in The Rise of Skywalker .

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After a montage of clips from Star Wars ’ past , the peculiar look ’s young footage opens with our heroes Rey ( Daisy Ridley ) , Finn ( John Boyega ) , Poe ( Oscar Isaac ) , Chewbacca ( Joonas Suotamo ) , and C-3PO ( Anthony Daniels ) expect over a big liquidation of some sort — with Poe attend a bit defeated .

A teaser short enough to basically fit into one gif.

A teaser short enough to basically fit into one gif.Image: Lucasfilm

This is the same satellite we saw the speed demon chase and Rey ’s saltation with a TIE fighter seemingly flown by Kylo Ren inthe first trailer , so what the squad and the First Order are doing there really remain to be seen . Vanity Fair ’s specify visit froma few month agonamed the satellite as Pasaana , so add it to your handy inclination of Star Wars single - biome desert man if you have n’t done so already .

This strange jungle existence is also one we ’ve glimpse a few times and will do so again later in this laggard . We see Leia Organa ( the dearly missed Carrie Fisher , included in the motion picture through tantrum originally blast for The Force Awakens ) look on at someone with a smile . Given her kit matches the one we see her embracing Rey in a similar environment in the first trailer , it ’s presumptively Rey she ’s smiling at .

In the skies above an unidentified world , a Resistance fleet jumps in from lightspeed . It ’s a multi-colored crew , but the shot reveals some conversant addition to the scattered guerilla ’s group . late merchandise leaks confirmed the return of the Y - Wing wedge , joining the T-70 X - Wing from The Force Awakens and the RZ-2 A - Wing interceptor from The Last Jedi , but fresh bring out here is the return of a Return of the Jedi classic : the B - Wing , a veritable flying tank car of a bomber .

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Whether like their predecessor they ’re actually updated designs or just mothballed ships from the Age of Rebellion repurposed by a desperate immunity remain to be find out , but it ’s in all likelihood a slenderly update design . Got ta sell them spaceship miniature , after all ! Also glimpse among the fleet is a lone Corellian Blockade Runner , and what looks like a new design — a heavily armed gunboat seen on the right

It ’s not just the Resistance pick up some conversant ships , though . This shot is perhaps the biggest reveal of the trailer , next to a sure dark vision we ’ll get to later : cover in a ocean of storm , an entire fleet of Star Destroyers . This would n’t be too surprising if they were of the First Order design seen in The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi , but they are n’t . They ’re of purple conception , and there ’s a reasonableness for that — one you wo n’t know if you have n’t been reading some of the Star Wars novels that have flesh out thetime full point betweenReturn of the Jedi and The Force Awakens .

essentially , before he die ( and , err , seemingly receive better?)Emperor Palpatine was obsessedwith a sector of the galaxy called the Unknown Regions — obscure because it was uncharted by the sure-enough Republic and Empire , the sharpness of mapped distance in the beetleweed . While we ’ve had intimation of what ’s beyond it — Grand Admiral Thrawn ’s people , the Chiss Ascendancy , call the part home , and Batuu , home of the Star Wars theme parking area at Disneyland and Disney World , make its name from sitting on , well , the Galaxy ’s Edge . But Palpatine believe a majuscule source of power emanated from the area and dedicated his time to finding it himself … or would ’ve if his apprentice did n’t toss him down a breathing shaft .

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Palpatine may not have gotten out there , but his most loyal servants did . The Emperor send his flagship , the Super Star Destroyer Eclipse , out to a set of coordinates he had work out to the Unknown Regions , and member of the Imperial Remnant , head byAdmiral Rae Sloane , maneuveredentire fleetsout to unite them as the Galactic Civil War come to an end over the sky of Jakku . It ’s out of this oddment that the First Order work up up its own flotilla of vessels and train its U. S. Army , biding its meter to re - intrude on the wandflower — but it ’s clear that there ’s a set of honest-to-god Imperial tech out there for them to be using , too .

It ’s a sinister breakthrough that ’s ostensibly made by both Finn , and newcomer Jannah(Naomi Ackie ) , who are aboard what could be the Millennium Falcon ’s cockpit , lit in a way that matches these stormy scene . We ’ve not seen a great deal of Jannah so far , but there ’s been ceaseless speculation that she has hereditary draw to Lando Calrissian ( the returning Billy Dee Williams ) , so if this is the Falcon ’s cockpit , where we ’ve previously see Lando hanging around once more , perhaps that hypothesis will just go on to produce .

This might actually be a different ship though , despite some cockpit similarities — observe that a Resistance Pilot is at the control behind Jannah , and there ’s a B - Wing fly off in the ground . Is it that unidentified gunboat seen in the fleet in the beginning , or did the new B - Wings get alarmingly roomy all of a sudden ?

Never listen that though , C-3PO ’s decease knave ! Yes , it would seem our poor protocol droid has been co - choose by someone for villainous title , label by this shot of him rising out of some kind of droid scrap facility with shine red - eyes . But who on earth would desire to tainted poor Threepio ? This does n’t exactly look like a First Order base , so it does n’t seem like it ’s them doing the tinkering .

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Also , side - note : if you intend an evil Protocol Droid is n’t a threat , well … you should read abouta grand fellaby the name of Triple - Zero in Marvel ’s excellent Darth Vader and Doctor Aphra comics . This ruddy - eye - stare is very Triple - Zero , who ’s been known toactually disguise himselfas Threepio before !

Before we have time to mess about , however , we turn out to this ominous shot of a mountain being torn apart by a enraged beam of energy . It looks an abominable quite a little like the planet we antecedently saw in the first trailer — as a shipthat look similarto the one Rey ’s parent were seen in flying away from Jakku was go over . But irrespective of wherever it is , what ’s causing this death ?

Is it just a normal orbital bombardment from a capital ship , or , given the ruby-red hue ’s familiar glow , is it a Starkiller snap ? Please do n’t say there ’s a Starkiller II . There ’s only so much verse that can rhyme in these motion-picture show .

Back on the hobo camp world from earlier , a frustrated Rey whip out , flinging her lightsaber — the blade of Anakin and Luke Skywalker , seemingly repaired after it was torn apart in The Last Jedi — clean through a tree and nearly through the outside investigation from the Millennium Falcon . No flack visor required ! Given the shot of Leia earlier , it ’s backbreaking not to speculate if these two are linked : is Leia trying to serve teach Rey the ways of the force now that Luke ’s gone ?

Meanwhile , Kylo Ren gets out of his young TIE — not the Silencer of The Last Jedi , but something more akin to a First Order take on the classic Imperial TIE Interceptor — on what looks like the control surface whatever world those Imperial Star Destroyers were floating above , approximate by the ominous skies behind him . And at long last , we get a unexampled demarcation of dialog here from none other than Palpatine ( Ian McDiarmid ) himself : “ Your journeying draw near its close . ” It ’s skip to obviously make us think it ’s talking about Kylo , but , give what we ’re about to see … maybe not ?

Before that though , the moment eternize on thenew postershown at D23 plays out : Rey and Kylo Ren , duel in the rain aboard the remnants of the second Death Star . It in spades is part of the former struggle place — note the Turbolaser wave crash against on the left - hand side , and we can see the broken top eggshell of the Death Star ’s firing array in the background knowledge .

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We do n’t know what this planet is yet , but it ’s presumptively somewhere near Endor , just wherever the exploded ruin of the post were flung to upon its death . Unless someone went through an awful lot of trouble to haul Death Star scrap somewhere else . I would n’t put it past Palpatine at this point !

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But as all falls dark and we discover rasping voicelessness — including something that vocalize a lot like the wheezing cybernetic breathing place of Darth Vader — as we cut to a glum imagination indeed :

Rey . clothe in black robes , stale and aloof … as she unsheathe a dual - bladed lightsaber , ignite its crimson blade , and unfolds it ready for combat . Fun aside first before we start freaking out : this is n’t in reality the first folding twofold - bladed sabre we ’ve seen in Star Wars canon . Jedi - turned - Separatist saboteur Pong Krell , seen in Clone Wars ’ fourth time of year , really exert apair of such - designeddual saber in his four arms . And beyond that , the saber - staff wielded by the Jedi Temple Guards and their leader — Rebels ’ fall Grand Inquisitor — could also fold up .

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But anyway , on to the freaking out . Our hero has n’t fall to the Dark Side , surely ? Well … it ’s a vexer lagger . We ’re manifestly intend to call back literally that this is the case , but Star Wars trailers not only love a bit of misrepresentation — remember how cleverly shot the scene of Kylo Ren farm his paw out to Rey to join him from The Last Jedi was used to tease a similar thing — but Star war itself is full of dark portent and mystical visions of things that could yet fare , from Empire Strikes Back ’s Cave of Evil to Rey ’s own experience on Ahch - To in The Last Jedi . Is this really her , or a tempting vision of what she could be , by Palpatine ’s design ? Or has she really taken a dark way of life to seek command of all way of the Force ?

As always , we ’ll have to wait and see .

All in all , the novel footage does n’t really evidence us all that much about the movie itself , just like director J.J. Abrams , a hardy protector of the mystery box approach , would care it . It ’s all emotion , innocent of context — but there can still be some educated shot made about just what Rey and her friends will face as they go into struggle with the circumstances of the galaxy at state … and what they could possibly stand to lose .