Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Are the Ancients Tied to the Jedi?

It is possible that the Ancients were the Je’daii Order, who came from the planet Tython and eventually evolved into the modern Jedi Order. Remember that Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) brought Grogu to Tython in Palestinians Part 2, had a foundation to build on in the main rules of Star Wars. However, this seems unlikely when comparing The Bad Batch’s glimpse of Skara Nal and the dark-faced creatures of the Kaldar Trinary with Je’daii’s motives to bring balance to the Force.

Instead, the Ancients could be tied to Tony Gilroy’s Andor and a temporary reference to the Rakata species. Here, Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) has prepaid Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) a Kuati sign studded with a blue and white sky kyber crystal. As well as stating that it came from an “ancient world”, he confirmed that it “celebrates the uprising against the Rakatan invaders”.

Rakata? Like, Knights of the Old Republic Rakata?

Introduced in BioWare’s Knights of the Old Republic video game in 2003, the Rakata is a fish-like species that is adept at hyperspace travel for the first time. More than that, the Rakata are a sometimes vicious race that uses the dark side to mix their technological prowess with spiritual evil.

Since Knights of the Old Republic is set some 4,000 years before the Lucas films — and Rakata predates it 30,000 years — the timelines associated with them becoming the Ancients Phee refer to. For those who are still not convinced, part of the 2003 game takes place in a location known as the Temple of the Ancients on the planet Lehon.

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Helper it’s set up around 100 years ago The Phantom Menace. However, that doesn’t mean The Ancients can’t lead to more live-action or animated projects.

That’s speculation, but since The Bad Batch is set around 19 BBY and coincides with the start of the Death Star’s construction, the destructive power of Skara Nal and the Ancients could be somewhat greater than those of the previous ones. what we know. While Skara Nal was almost completely destroyed by the time the credits hit, Phee’s tease of the Ancients is a neat twist into these monuments of the Expanded Universe.

Star Wars Season 2 of “Twilight of the Apprentice” previously revealed Star Forge with an Easter egg inside a Sith temple that looks a lot like Rakatan’s space factory. There’s been a lot of talk about a live-action adaptation of Knights of the Old Republic, and with two potential nods to Rakata in Andor and now The Bad Batch, that’s a bit of a coincidence.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi may have passed Luke Skywalker inhabiting the First Jedi Temple on Ahch-To, but it wasn’t long ago that Lucas gave author Terry Brooks an extensive history of the person. Sith and the Jedi to write his novel The Phantom Menace. Like Phee’s sometimes fanciful tales, there tends to be a bit of truth in these forgotten fables. We’ll have to wait and see if The Bad Batch’s Oldest prank pays off.