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    The Force

    The Force is a mysterious energy field created by life that binds the galaxy together. Harnessing the power of the Force gives the Jedi, the Sith, and others sensitive to this spiritual energy extraordinary abilities, such as levitating objects, tricking minds, and seeing things before they happen. While the Force can grant users powerful abilities, it also directs their actions. And it has a will of its own, which both scholars and mystics have spent millennia seeking to understand.

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Appearances
  • Star Wars: A New Hope (Episode IV)
  • Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Episode V)
  • Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (Episode II)
  • Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Episode III)
  • Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (Episode I)
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Episode VIII)
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Episode VII)
  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Episode IX)
  • Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Episode VI)
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars
  • Star Wars Rebels
Affiliations
  • Jedi Order
  • Sith
Locations
  • Jedi Temple
  • Lothal Jedi Temple
  • Cave of Evil
  • Ahch-To Jedi Temple
  • Ahch-To Mirror Cave
Weapons
  • Force Lightning
  • Force Push
  • Jedi Mind Trick
  • Force Choke

History

Jedi statue on Jedha

In the heyday of the Jedi, the Order’s scholars endlessly debated where and when civilizations first became aware of the Force and its power. No answer was ever considered definitive, but many traditions speak of lost worlds beyond the galactic frontier, suggesting the Force’s greatest secrets are yet to be discovered. Different species have their own names for the Force, their own metaphors for how it’s perceived, and techniques for learning the powers it can grant.

Qui-Gon measuring midi-chlorians

But all traditions agree that life creates the Force and makes it grow. Individuals’ Force potential depends on their levels of midi-chlorians, microscopic life-forms found within living cells. The Jedi believed midi-chlorians communicated the will of the Force, which could be understood through meditation.

The Jedi saw the Force as possessing two aspects: the light side and the dark side. The light side was to be used for knowledge and defense, and channeling it required a Jedi to be calm and at peace. Negative emotions such as anger, fear and jealousy were fuel for the dark side, which offered a quicker, seemingly easier path to great power. To avoid the dark side’s lure, the Jedi developed a code emphasizing detachment and forbidding emotional attachments. Jedi seekers found Force-sensitive infants and brought them to the Order’s temples, where they learned the ways of the Force alongside other younglings.

Yoda and Darth Bane

But some ancient Jedi rejected the Order’s teachings. They fell away from the light, using emotions repressed by the Jedi to unlock great powers and dominate others. From this schism a dark-side cult arose known as the Sith.

This wasn’t just a philosophical dispute: waves of wars between the Jedi and Sith convulsed galactic civilization and left entire star systems lifeless. A millennium before the rise of the Empire, the Jedi defeated the Sith and became protectors of the Galactic Republic, serving as peacekeepers and negotiators in lieu of a standing military. The Order was overseen from the Jedi Temple on the galactic capital world of Coruscant.

Darth Sidious and Darth Maul

The Sith were believed extinct, but they had survived. To prevent infighting and preserve the order, the Sith Lord Darth Bane introduced the Rule of Two, limiting the Sith ranks to a master and an apprentice. For nearly a millennium the Sith remained in hiding as corruption and complacence ate away at the Republic and the Jedi. Seeing the balance of the Force tipping toward the dark side, Darth Sidious plotted to resurrect the Sith. In his guise as Senator Palpatine, he rose to become chancellor of the Republic, engineered the Separatist movement and the Clone Wars, and convinced the Jedi to abandon their traditional roles and become generals of a vast clone army – which had been secretly created to bring about their downfall.

Master and Apprentice

Sidious used the dark side of the Force to cloud the Jedi’s perceptions as he consolidated galactic power and wove a trap for his enemies. When his identity was finally discovered, he issued Order 66 to his clones, who obediently turned their guns on the Jedi. Sidious had also seduced Anakin Skywalker, thought to be the Chosen One destined to bring balance to the Force. Anakin fell to the dark side and became Darth Vader, helping his new master vanquish the Jedi. A triumphant Palpatine then declared himself emperor of a new galactic order – an Empire ruled in secret by the Sith.

Inquisitor

Very few knew Emperor Palpatine was a Force wielder, let alone a Sith Lord – that aspect of the Empire was a closely guarded secret. The Emperor’s agents systematically destroyed Jedi temples, artifacts, and even historical accounts of the Order, spreading disinformation that the Jedi had been charlatans and the Force just a primitive superstition. Meanwhile, Sidious’s Inquisitors – Jedi survivors lured and corrupted by the dark side – ruthlessly hunted down Jedi exiles and snatched up Force-sensitive children.

Master and Apprentice

Vader had been maimed and horribly burned in a lightsaber duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi. He survived by being encased in black armor that helped him breathe, but was left more machine than man. In secret he served Sidious as a Sith apprentice, but publicly he was Palpatine’s enforcer. A new generation of Imperial technocrats feared Vader, but also dismissed him as a pitiful vestige of a bygone era and an obsolete religion. Most assumed the fires of the Force tradition had burned out and would never be reignited.

Obi-Wan Kenobi in exile on Tatooine

The few Jedi who’d escaped the purge did whatever they could to survive. Some concealed their powers to escape the Inquisitors, while others fled to commune with the Force as hermits. Yoda, once the Grandmaster of the Jedi Order, pondered the Force’s mysteries in exile on Dagobah. Obi-Wan Kenobi sought refuge on Tatooine, where he watched over Luke Skywalker, Anakin’s secret son. With the dark side ascendant, these scattered refugees waited for a day when the balance of the Force would tip towards the light once again.

Obi-Wan gives lightsaber to Luke

A new hope arose from the Rebel Alliance’s struggle to destroy the Death Star, an Imperial superweapon powered by kyber crystals. Summoned from exile on Tatooine, Obi-Wan gave Anakin’s lightsaber to Luke and began to teach the boy the ways of the Force. Though barely trained, Luke showed immense potential. With the Force guiding him, he destroyed the Death Star, shaking the Empire’s rule to its foundations and proving the dark side’s triumph was not complete.

Luke and Vader duel

Betrayal was second nature to the Sith, with master and apprentice always struggling for dominance. When Sidious and Vader discovered Luke was Anakin’s son, both sought to use him for their own ends. After training on Dagobah with Yoda, Luke unwisely chose to confront Vader. In their lightsaber duel, Vader struck off Luke’s hand and revealed the terrible truth of his parentage. And he made Luke a fateful offer: join him, and together they would overthrow the Emperor and rule the galaxy as father and son.

The Emperor is killed

Luke refused, just as he refused to believe Yoda and Obi-Wan when they said Vader could never return to the light. He stubbornly believed that the man Vader once was, Anakin, could still be redeemed, and it was this simple faith in family – not Jedi doctrine – that would save the galaxy. Sidious lured Luke to the second Death Star, hoping to manipulate the boy into taking Vader’s place as his Sith apprentice. But Luke refused to kill his father and awakened the good slumbering in him. When Sidious turned on Luke, Vader hurled his master to his death before dying himself. The Chosen One had indeed brought balance to the Force – by destroying the Sith.

The map to Skywalker

With the Sith vanquished and the Empire shattered, Luke wondered what to do next. Should he create a new Jedi Order, or was that philosophy best left in the past? Finding no guidance from the Force, he spent years searching the galaxy, seeking answers as a Jedi and for himself. It was the most personal of reasons that caused him to reluctantly begin training students again: his nephew, Ben Solo, was extraordinarily strong with the Force, but also a volatile boy in desperate need of a teacher.

Luke in exile

Luke’s new order ended abruptly, as Ben fell prey to the dark-side adept Snoke and his own demons. He destroyed Luke’s academy and became Kylo Ren, Snoke’s apprentice and champion of the First Order. Battered by grief and his own perceived failure, Luke retreated to Ahch-To – the legendary site of the first Jedi temple – and cut himself off from the Force. He intended to die and ensure the Jedi tradition died with him. But the dormant will of the Force would soon awaken. Kylo hungered to prove himself a master of the dark side, but still felt the pull of the light. And on Jakku, a Force-sensitive scavenger of humble origins began a journey that would end Luke’s exile and send new shock waves through the Force.

Kylo Ren and Darth Sidious on Exegol

Perhaps the greatest shock wave came with the revelation that Darth Sidious had cheated death, manipulating events for decades from Exegol, a legendary world that was home to Sith cultists. Shattered in body but still indomitable in spirit, Sidious offered Kylo Ren an armada with which to conquer the galaxy and restore Sith rule.

Rey confronting Palpatine

Sidious’s real target was Rey – his granddaughter, hidden away from him on Jakku years earlier. In a climactic confrontation on Exegol, Sidious augmented his dark-side powers with the spirits of all the Sith that had come before, but Rey was supported by the spirits of the departed Jedi. Rey destroyed Sidious, ending the Sith dream of conquest and ushering in a new era, to be shaped by the Force in ways as yet unknown.

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Quotes

  • Quote - Obi Wan Kenobi - The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.

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    "The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together." A NEW HOPE

    "The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together."

  • Quote - Han Solo - Thought it was a bunch of mumbo-jumbo. A magical power holding together good and evil, the dark side and the light? Crazy thing is … it’s true. The Force, the Jedi, all of it. It’s true.

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    "Thought it was a bunch of mumbo-jumbo. A magical power holding together good and evil, the dark side and the light? Crazy thing is … it’s true. The Force, the Jedi, all of it. It’s true." THE FORCE AWAKENS

    "Thought it was a bunch of mumbo-jumbo. A magical power holding together good and evil, the dark side and the light? Crazy thing is … it’s true. The Force, the Jedi, all of it. It’s true."

  • Quote - Darth Vader - The Emperor Will Show You

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    "The Emperor will show you the true nature of the Force." RETURN OF THE JEDI

    "The Emperor will show you the true nature of the Force."

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The Force Gallery

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    • Life creates the Force, and makes it grow, creating an energy field that binds the galaxy togethe...
    • The Force contains dualities – such as life and death, or light and dark – that it holds in balan...
    • Beyond its dualities, the Jedi saw two complementary aspects of the Force. The living Force is ge...
    • The energy of the living Force feeds into the Cosmic Force, which binds the galaxy together and h...
    • Tapping into the Force gives Force-sensitive beings seemingly supernatural abilities – which some...
    • Force users can sense things at a distance, particularly when events generate a disturbance in th...
    • Kylo Ren and Rey experienced a strange Force link that allowed them to interact despite being sep...
    • The Force can be used to influence the weak-minded. Such mind tricks can be used to avoid conflic...
    • Kylo Ren and his master Snoke used the Force to extract information from people’s memories, thoug...
    • Force-wielders can harness the Force to interact with objects, allowing them to do everything fro...
    • The Force could also be used to injure or kill – as more than one Imperial officer discovered aft...
    • One of the most terrifying dark-side powers is the ability to generate Force lightning, blasts of...
  • Life creates the Force, and makes it grow, creating an energy field that binds the galaxy together. All Force powers began with this simplest but most profound of realizations, one that lies at the core of a Jedi’s awareness and abilities.

  • The Force contains dualities – such as life and death, or light and dark – that it holds in balance while also transcending. For a Force-sensitive being at peace, this awareness could border on the ecstatic – a glimpse of a fundamental unity that underpins all of creation.

  • Beyond its dualities, the Jedi saw two complementary aspects of the Force. The living Force is generated by life, and masters such as Qui-Gon Jinn stressed the importance of being mindful of it, teaching Jedi to center themselves in the present instead of letting anxieties about the past or future cloud their awareness.

  • The energy of the living Force feeds into the Cosmic Force, which binds the galaxy together and has a will of its own. Jedi learned to understand that will by communing with midi-chlorians, microscopic lifeforms within living cells that act as symbiotes with organic beings and links between the living Force and the Cosmic Force.

  • Tapping into the Force gives Force-sensitive beings seemingly supernatural abilities – which some may not be aware they’re using. Anakin Skywalker became an ace pilot while still a child, but his lightning-fast reflexes were a product of subconsciously using the Force to see things before they happened.

  • Force users can sense things at a distance, particularly when events generate a disturbance in the Force or they have a strong connection to someone. Despite her lack of training, Leia Organa sensed Luke Skywalker’s plea for help as the Millennium Falcon fled Bespin.

  • Kylo Ren and Rey experienced a strange Force link that allowed them to interact despite being separated by many light-years. Before his death, Snoke claimed he had engineered this connection to test Kylo and trick Rey into revealing Luke’s location. Later, the two were revealed to be a rare and powerful dyad in the Force, perhaps explaining their bond – or at least its resilience and strength.

  • The Force can be used to influence the weak-minded. Such mind tricks can be used to avoid conflict – as Obi-Wan did at a Tatooine checkpoint – or to dominate others.

  • Kylo Ren and his master Snoke used the Force to extract information from people’s memories, though Kylo’s attempt to use this ability to rifle through Rey’s mind backfired. Kylo saw some of what he sought in Rey’s memories, but was unprepared for her own strength in the Force. Rey was also able to see into Kylo’s own mind and understand his deepest fears about himself.

  • Force-wielders can harness the Force to interact with objects, allowing them to do everything from lifting rocks to levitating starfighters. For someone with sufficient faith in the Force, size was immaterial, as an awestruck Luke learned on Dagobah.

  • The Force could also be used to injure or kill – as more than one Imperial officer discovered after failing to satisfy Darth Vader in his hunt for the rebels who’d destroyed the Death Star.

  • One of the most terrifying dark-side powers is the ability to generate Force lightning, blasts of energy that could be used to torture, disfigure, or kill an opponent. Count Dooku and Darth Sidious were masters of this dark art.

  • The Force could provide glimpses of the future, but the Jedi warned that such foreknowledge was unreliable and even dangerous – the future was always in motion, and fear of what might come could lure a Jedi to the dark side. Sometimes, those trying to prevent a possible future only ensured that it came to pass.

  • No Jedi prophecy would prove more fateful than that of the Chosen One who would bring balance to the Force. Qui-Gon Jinn identified Anakin Skywalker as the fulfillment of this prophecy, noting that the boy had been conceived without a father and insisting that he be trained as a Jedi. Anakin would indeed bring balance to the Force, but in a way that showed why the Jedi distrusted prophecy. Anakin destroyed the Jedi after embracing the dark side and becoming Darth Vader, then ended the Sith when Luke helped him return to the light.

  • In a galaxy with many Force-sensitive species and seekers of knowledge, the discovery of new powers is far from uncommon. Lothal’s Loth-wolves used the Force for hyper-tunneling, allowing them to access other realms and pass between distant points in the familiar world.

  • To save the beleaguered Resistance on Crait, Luke projected himself across space, taking on the form of his younger self to provoke and distract Kylo Ren. This extraordinary demonstration of Force ability took all of Luke’s strength to maintain, and the effort ultimately cost him his life.

  • Qui-Gon learned how to preserve his consciousness after death and communicate with those he had left behind. He returned to share this wisdom with Yoda, who passed it on to Obi-Wan. Yoda and Obi-Wan’s physical bodies vanished when they died, and through the Force, they were able to manifest as “spirits” and commune with the living. After sacrificing himself to bring balance to the Force, Anakin Skywalker also manifested as a spirit.

  • While some beings had innate Force abilities, most learned to use the Force through instruction as part of an established tradition. No tradition was more closely identified with the Force than the Jedi Order, servants of the light side of the Force who safeguarded the Republic for generations as peacekeepers and negotiators.

  • Jedi seekers identified Force-sensitive beings as infants and brought them to Jedi temples to be instructed as younglings. Those who showed promise could become Padawan learners, Jedi Knights, and eventually Jedi Masters.

  • The Jedi taught initiates to clear their minds of conflict and avoid emotional attachments, which they believed left them vulnerable to the lures of the dark side of the Force. These teachings were instituted as part of the Jedi code. But some Jedi saw a disconnect between forbidding emotional attachments and having compassion for others – and some, like Anakin, embraced relationships and risked expulsion from the Order.

  • Over the centuries, Jedi lore became doctrine and the Order a hierarchy, with temples across the galaxy overseen by the 12-member Jedi Council at the main Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Located within sight of the Galactic Senate, the temple was the pinnacle of the Jedi faith.

  • The Sith survived by following the Rule of Two instituted by Darth Bane: instead of armies of dark-side warriors, their ranks would be limited to a single master and apprentice who kept the order strong by continually testing each other. But other dark-side adepts did exist. Dooku trained Asajj Ventress in the ways of the dark side, while the Emperor corrupted Jedi survivors into Inquisitors tasked with hunting their former colleagues.

  • Decades later, Snoke used his dark-side powers and knowledge of Force lore to help lure Ben Solo away from the light and become Kylo Ren. As Supreme Leader of the First Order, Snoke sought to destroy the New Republic and find and destroy Luke Skywalker.

  • The Force is a power too vast for the philosophies of either Jedi or Sith to completely describe, and other Force traditions saw themselves as separate from both. Dathomir’s Nightsisters channeled dark-side sorcery, the Lasat were able to access the cosmic power they called the Ashla, and the Frangawl Cult applied its dark arts to bringing about prophecies.

  • One could follow the Force without being a Jedi or Sith. Bendu was an ancient being who refused to take sides in the ancient conflict, preferring to remain “the one in the middle.” Maz Kanata was a Force-sensitive collector of Jedi artifacts, including the lightsaber Luke lost on Cloud City. After leaving the Jedi Order, Ahsoka Tano followed her own path, wielding a lightsaber with a white energy blade. Leia Organa subconsciously called on the Force to hone her skills as a diplomat before training with her brother Luke. And Lor San Tekka was a master of Force lore, helping Luke gather knowledge lost in the Jedi purge.

  • The Guardians of the Whills were an ancient order devoted to protecting the Temple of the Kyber in Jedha’s Holy City. While not typically Force-sensitive, the Guardians believed in the Force and followed its tenets to become disciplined, deadly warriors.

  • The Church of the Force was made up of worshippers who believed in Jedi ideals. The Empire outlawed the faith and drove it underground, but failed to extinguish it. After the Emperor’s death the church emerged once again, with some believers forming ascetic communities such as Tuanul village, which was Lor San Tekka’s home on Jakku until the First Order found him.

  • Both Jedi and Sith used lightsabers, laser swords that could cut through nearly anything. Lightsabers were not just weapons but focuses for meditation, training, and discipline – a philosophy summed up by Obi-Wan’s admonition to Anakin that “this weapon is your life.”

  • Constructing a lightsaber was a critical rite of passage for Jedi younglings, who sought out Force-attuned kyber crystals to place at the heart of newly-constructed lightsabers. Most kyber crystals used by Jedi were blue or green in color; Sith powered their lightsabers with crystals they had corrupted until they “bled,” giving them a red cast. Kyber crystals could serve as focusing lens for other weapons as well: they powered ancient Sith superweapons and the laser dishes of the Empire’s Death Star battle stations.

  • Force knowledge was often encoded in holocrons, created by both the Jedi and Sith as repositories of lore and training techniques. As such knowledge could be dangerous to those still learning the ways of the Force, many holocrons came with safeguards – they could only be opened by using the Force, or with an encoded memory crystal. Some particularly valuable or dangerous holocrons were kept in a vault within the Jedi archives, accessible only to members of the Jedi Council.

  • Holocrons weren’t the only repositories of Force lore – different traditions recorded their wisdom on everything from papyri to data-cards. After the destruction of the Sith, Luke became the guardian of the Jedi Order’s sacred texts, housed in an ancient tree on Ahch-To. Luke decided to burn the texts to break what he saw as a destructive cycle, but couldn’t bring himself to do so. Unbeknownst to him, Rey took the ancient texts with her when she left Luke’s hermitage.

  • Jedi scholars spoke of “vergences” in the Force, nexus points of power that could amplify the energy field and its effects. A vergence could be a person – Qui-Gon believed Anakin to be one – but was more often a place. Mortis was a legendary realm that was home to the Ones – a Father, Daughter and Son – who embodied the Force’s light side, dark side, and the balance between the two.

  • Yoda’s understanding of the Force fundamentally changed when Qui-Gon’s spirit led him to a mystical world believed to be the birthplace of the midi-chlorians. There, the Jedi Grandmaster was tested by a quintet of Force priestesses, ancient entities that bridged the living Force and the Cosmic Force. As part of the Force priestesses’ tests, Yoda traveled to Moraband, the ancient homeworld of the Sith. His spiritual journey required him to contend with visions of the galaxy’s future and confront the spirit of Darth Bane.

  • The site of an ancient battle between the Jedi and Sith, Malachor was a bleak planet, home to a Sith temple and seemingly haunted by the spirits of the lost. The Jedi erased references to Malachor in hopes that the planet’s secrets would remain inviolate, but the lonely world attracted artifact hunters as well as spiritual seekers. Many would end up regretting the journey.

  • The Force could also heal, with a Force user letting life energy pass into the body of another being to erase injuries and restore vitality.

  • This power was not without risk, as it left a Force wielder weakened. Ben Solo used the Force to restore Rey to life after her confrontation with the reborn Emperor Palpatine, but this noble sacrifice came at the cost of his own life.

  • Sacred to the Jedi Order, icy Ilum was rich in kyber crystals. Its ancient Jedi temple was the site of the ritual known as the Gathering, in which younglings found the crystals that would power their lightsabers. The Empire’s rise meant the end of Ilum’s days as a sanctuary, with Palpatine and those who followed him seeking to use the planet for their own ends. The First Order defiled and transformed Ilum, reworking the planet into a massive superweapon, Starkiller Base.

  • Dagobah was one of the purest places in the galaxy, with its abundant life making it strong in the Force. Yoda visited the planet as part of his spiritual awakening during the Clone Wars, and made it his hermitage after the Jedi purge. After years of living simply and communing with the Force, Yoda’s exile was interrupted by the arrival of Luke, seeking a teacher.

  • The legendary planet Exegol lay deep in the Unknown Regions, a Sith redoubt that was home to cultists obsessed with the dark side and the Sith traditions. Here, Darth Sidious was reborn and plotted his return to power, working in secret to guide the First Order and foil efforts to rebuild both the Jedi Order and the Republic.

  • In a showdown with Rey, the granddaughter who’d eluded his grasp years before, Sidious sought to use Sith sorcery to let his spirit merge with hers. When that failed, the two confronted each other, with Sidious’s dreadful power augmented by that of all the Sith that had come before. But Rey had allies of her own – the spirits of the departed Jedi lent her their power for this climactic confrontation.

  • One of the strangest nexuses of Force power was the realm known as the world between worlds, a plane of existence seemingly outside of both space and time. Ezra Bridger used this realm’s unique properties to rescue Ahsoka from her confrontation with Vader, then succeeded in denying Sidious access to its almost unimaginable powers. As with so many of its aspects, the existence of the world between worlds was a reminder that the Force was deeper, richer and stranger than what any scholar or tradition could know.

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    Darth Vader

    Once the heroic Jedi Knight named Anakin Skywalker, Darth Vader was seduced by the dark side of the Force. Forever scarred by his defeat on Mustafar, Vader was transformed into a cybernetically-enhanced Sith Lord. At the dawn of the Empire, Vader led the Empire’s eradication of the Jedi Order and the search for survivors. He remained in service of the Emperor -- the evil Darth Sidious -- for decades, enforcing his Master’s will and seeking to crush the Rebel Alliance and other detractors. But there was still good in him…

  • Luke Skywalker

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    Luke Skywalker

    Luke Skywalker was a Tatooine farmboy who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the greatest Jedi the galaxy has ever known. Along with his friends Princess Leia and Han Solo, Luke battled the evil Empire, discovered the truth of his parentage, and ended the tyranny of the Sith. A generation later, the location of the famed Jedi master was one of the galaxy’s greatest mysteries. Haunted by Ben Solo’s fall to evil and convinced the Jedi had to end, Luke sought exile on a distant world, ignoring the galaxy’s pleas for help. But his solitude would be interrupted – and Luke Skywalker had one final, momentous role to play in the struggle between good and evil.

  • Rey

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    Rey

    Seemingly abandoned by her parents on Jakku, Rey grew up a scavenger amid the wreckage of war. Her life changed when she agreed to help a droid on an urgent mission for the Resistance. Rey discovered she was powerful in the Force, and sought out the vanished Jedi Master Luke Skywalker to train her. That ended in disappointment, as did her attempt to bring Kylo Ren back to the light. But the resilient Rey continued her training and learned the truth about her parentage and her mysterious connection with Kylo. She then faced her greatest test: a confrontation with fear and evil that would determine the galaxy’s fate.

  • Ahch-To

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    Ahch-To

    An uncharted world located deep in the galaxy’s Unknown Regions, Ahch-To is the world where the Jedi Order was founded, and its sacred island is the site of the first Jedi Temple. Luke Skywalker discovered the lost world after a long search, and chose it as his place of exile – only to have Rey find her way to his lonely island.

  • Mustafar

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    Mustafar

    A tiny, fiery planet in the Outer Rim, Mustafar maintains an erratic orbit between two gas giants. Mustafar is rich in unique and valuable minerals which have long been mined by the Tech Union. Its lava pits and rivers make this planet a dangerous habitat; its natives have burly, tough bodies that can withstand extreme heat. The planet became the backdrop for the fateful duel between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. After the rise of the Empire, captured Jedi were brought to the volcanic world for interrogation and execution.

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    world between worlds

    Behind the ancient painting of the Mortis gods on the Lothal Jedi Temple is a world between worlds -- a collections of pathways and doors between time and space. Uncovered by the Empire, the Emperor sought entrance, as access would grant him unimaginable power. But the Padawan, Ezra Bridger, found the key to unlocking the world between worlds first, and would ultimately thwart Palpatine's plans.

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    Mortis

    In an uncharted region of space, Mortis is an ethereal place that defies conventional description. During the Clone Wars, an immense monolith appeared in the Chrelythiumn system, broadcasting an ancient Jedi distress code. Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka Tano investigated the kilometers-wide artifact, and were drawn into a paradise realm inhabited by unspeakably powerful Force-wielders. These god-like beings were locked in an eternal struggle for dominance, which made Mortis the fulcrum of the entire galaxy and the Force.

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    Dagobah

    Home to Yoda during his final years, Dagobah was a swamp-covered planet strong with the Force -- a forgotten world where the wizened Jedi Master could escape the notice of Imperial forces. Characterized by its bog-like conditions and fetid wetlands, the murky and humid quagmire was undeveloped, with no signs of technology. Though it lacked civilization, the planet was teeming with life -- from its dense, jungle undergrowth to its diverse animal population. Home to a number of fairly common reptilian and amphibious creatures, Dagobah also boasted an indigenous population of much more massive -- and mysterious -- lifeforms. Surrounded by creatures generating the living Force, Yoda learned to connect with the deeper cosmic Force and waited for one who might bring about the return of the Jedi Order.

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