When Mando busted out Tython and the seeing stone, that was retroactive continuity, but also a retcon that was connected to slightly older Legends canon. There’s also a non-canon version of Tython that goes back into Legends, which was a planet from which an older version of the Jedi Order (the Je'daii) originated. Tython first appeared on screen in 2020 in The Mandalorian Season 2 episode, “The Tragedy,” although it was referenced in a canonical Doctor Aphra comic in 2019. Either way, Tython, and the seeing stone just got even more important than they were before. Either that or the seeing stone propelled Luke into some kind of magical realm where he thinks he’s on Exegol. Somehow, just sitting on the seeing stone transported Luke to Exegol. Here’s the line from the new book: “Luke took a breath and could taste dry dust on his tongue, and then he realized he wasn’t sitting on the seeing stone anymore. Instead, it hints that right before this scene where Luke meets Anakin’s ghost, he was at the seeing stone on the planet Tython (that thing Grogu used to call out for another Jedi in The Mandalorian Season 2).
The Shadow of the Sith excerpt doesn’t just have Luke rolling up on Exegol in his X-Wing. Instead how Luke “found” Exegol stretches into The Mandalorian canon in an interesting way. It might seem like a big deal that Luke knew about Emperor Palpatine’s secret Sith planet before it showed up in The Rise of Skywalker, but if you look carefully, that’s not the biggest shock. This new book, written by Adam Christopher, is set to illuminate some of Luke’s questing.Īhead of the book’s June release, released an excerpt in which Luke seems to come face-to-face with the Force ghost of his father, Anakin Skywalker, on the surface of Exegol. We know that at some point before the sequel trilogy, Luke Skywalker was combing the galaxy for all sorts of Sith and Jedi artifacts. Set in 21 ABY about 12 years after The Mandalorian and 13 years before The Force Awakens, Shadow of the Sith reveals the adventures Luke had with Lando Calrissian, which previously were only hinted at in The Rise of Skywalker. Here’s what this new Luke Skywalker story might mean and how it raises more questions than it answers. And it has everything to do with a pivotal scene from The Mandalorian Season 2. An excerpt released by is mostly focused on connecting pre- Force Awakens Luke with Exegol, but the way he gets there is more important. In a forthcoming new Star Wars novel called Shadow of the Sith, the big reveal is that Luke manages to get to that super-secret Sith planet Exegol - but not the way you think. But that didn't stop it from bringing an item from Disney’s ongoing canon timeline to Legends, perhaps starting a trend in the process.Luke Skywalker has returned to the planet where Baby Yoda sent out an SOS. New Legends content has become a rarity since 2014, so the classic Marvel Star Wars comic revival was released at a time when its continuity was all but defunct. Despite this, the current canon often repurposes Star Wars Legends-era characters and lore, and even loosely adapts Legends stories on occasion. In 2014, however, Lucasfilm cleaned the slate for the upcoming Star Wars sequel trilogy by rebranding the Expanded Universe as Legends and making it an alternate continuity.
The Star Wars franchise’s non-movie material has been around as long as the films themselves (or longer, if one counts the New Hope novelization), and Lucasfilm long confirmed the Expanded Universe held as much canonical meaning as the saga films. The ongoing Star Wars canon continuity often takes heavy inspiration from the franchise’s original continuity, Legends, but one comic brought content from canon into the Expanded Universe.