The story begins with Jay, a Jedi Padawan, as he runs from a battle in the Clone Wars.
The second Star Wars: Visions short follows the misadventures of a touring rock band, Star Waver, and is the only short to feature established characters from the Star Wars mythos. “Tatooine Rhapsody,” Studio Colorido Image: Lucasfilm Ltd./Disney Plus A prose novel sequel, Ronin, is due in October, and may add even more background to the short. “The Duel” seems to take place after the birth of the First Order, as the bandits wear modified Stormtrooper helmets of both Imperial and First Order design. The ensemble of village guardians in “The Duel” is comprised of familiar alien species from the canon - a Sullustan (like Lando’s co-pilot Nien Nunb), a Trandoshan (like the reptilian bounty hunter Bossk), a Dug (like the podracer Sebulba), to name a few - and clicks nicely to the timeline. The ronin from “The Duel” collects red Kyber crystals from the Sith he defeats (not unlike General Grievous’ trophy lightsabers), which implies that his own red blade may have been taken off one of his enemies. While Light Side-aligned Force-wielders do not use red lightsabers in the new canon, some Jedi favor a red blade in the old Legends universe. Jolee Bindo from Knights of the Old Republic, Bendu from Star Wars Rebels, and even Ahsoka Tano (after her excommunication) fall into this category, as may our mysterious ronin. In Legends canon, there’s a Force alignment informally known as “Gray Jedi,” referring to those who study the Force but do not follow the strict rules of the Jedi Order nor the Sith. The ronin claims that he’s “no Jedi,” but wields the Force in defense of the innocent nevertheless. Only a wandering ronin wielding a red lightsaber stands a chance of defeating her.
In this short, a rural village comes under siege by an army of bandits led by a ruthless Sith. “The Duel,” Kamikaze Douga Image: Lucasfilm Ltd./Disney Plus Here are all the ways the new set of shorts brush against the known, deeper-cut parts of the universe. Rather than repurposing characters and situations from the massive back catalog of Star Wars lore, Visions features only a few familiar faces and locations and consists of fresh, self-contained stories that are not bound to the strict rules of continuity.īut underneath this new coat of paint, however, flecks of the existing canon and even the defunct Legends expanded universe can still be found, leading us to explore just how Visions relates to the grander tapestry of Star Wars as we know it. For the new Disney Plus anthology series Star Wars: Visions, Lucasfilm invited seven Japanese anime studios to bring their talents to its far-off galaxy, resulting in nine distinct and exciting original shorts.
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