This 'Star Wars' Theory Could Tie Two Stories Together
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So far, the current Star Wars canon, both on the big and the small screen, has told a more or less cohesive story, with events leading from A to B to C. The two stand-alone movies Rogue One and Solo enhance the main Skywalker Saga, as do TV shows like The Clone Wars, The Bad Batch, Ahsoka, or The Mandalorian. Even the High Republic era is connected to events taking place hundreds of years later, when, for example, Luke, Han, and Leia discover a former base of the Nihil marauders.
Lucasfilm's upcoming cinematic projects will be no different, with Jon Faverau's Mandalorian and Grodu movie and Dave Filoni's "Avenger's style" film taking place in the years after Episode VI and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's movie about Rey and the new Jedi Order being set 15 years after The Rise of Skywalker.
But there is one exception: James Mangold's Dawn of the Jedi film, which takes place 25 thousand years before the events of the Skywalker saga. So, there is simply no way this movie could be connected to the other Star Wars films, right?
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Well, according to a new theory, maybe there is, and the way this could be achieved is by Psychometry.
Psychometry is a (rare) Force power that allows its user to "see" and feel events and emotions from the past simply by touching an object. It was introduced in the former Expanded Universe back in 1994 and brought into the current canon in 2010 in the second season of The Clone Wars. Quinlan Vos was one of the prominent Jedi being able to use this Force power, as was Cal Kestis from the Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor video games.
Another Force user, who was able to experience Psychometry was Rey Skywalker. When she touched Luke's/Anakin's lightsaber in The Force Awakens, she experienced short visions (so-called "Forcebacks") of the object's former owners. The same happened when she skimmed Ochi of Bestoon's Sith dagger in The Rise of Skywalker.
Rey's ability to use Psychometry could connect the events of her movie to that of James Mangold. She owned the sacred Jedi texts, which likely date back to the time of the first (Prime)Jedi, and studying these books to learn how to rebuild the Jedi Order could give her "Forcebacks" of events millennia in the past.
As the Rey movie is currently slated to come out before the firm of Mangol (December 2026 vs. 2027 or 2028), the latter would have to reference the former, with possible "Forcebacks" in the Rey movie about the Prime Jedi being explained and expanded upon in the Dawn of the Jedi movie.
It is still too early to tell if Lucasfilm will choose this way of storytelling, but it would certainly enhance the saga and bring it full circle once more.
As George Lucas has said: "It's like poetry, it rhymes."
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source: Screenrant
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