This story contains spoilers for The Bad Batch. If you haven’t caught up yet, check out our spoiler-free Bad Batch season 2 review.
The latest episode of The Bad Batch season 2 has a blast from the past. Delving into the history of the Jedi Order and its predecessor, fans are rightly asking who the “Ancients” are and what they mean to the wider mythology. of a galaxy far, far away.
“Burial” wasted no time in making Wanda Sykes’ Fee Genoa the star of the show. This treasure-hunting pirate filled a hole in our lives in the form of Dr. Aphra.Like a morally obscure archaeologist, Fee gives us her insight into the state of a bygone galaxy. will give you Novak’s Grand Her Pearl and Zakata Alongside mentions of the blade of her Pur, one of hers in Fee’s story stood out above the rest.
Are the Ancients related to the Jedi?
Under Fie’s guidance, Bad Batch travels to the unknown Calder Trinary to find the heart of the mythical mountain in Skala Nar. Skala Null is eventually revealed to be a Walker-esque weapon of mass destruction, and although nothing has been confirmed about its creator, Fie says the “ancients” predate the Jedi Order itself. said to have existed.
The Ancients may be a Jedi Order who hails from the planet Tython and eventually evolved into the modern Jedi Order.Remember when Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) took Grog to Tyson mandalorian With Season 2, the foundation already exists for building the mainline Star Wars canon. However, comparing the dark side creatures of Skala Null and Calder Trinary glimpsed by The Bad Batch to the Jedi’s motives for bringing balance to the Force, this seems unlikely.
The Ancients could instead tie into Tony Gilroy’s Andor And a throwaway reference to the Rakata species. Here, Lusen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) gave Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) a down payment of a Quaty Signet embedded with blue and white Sky Kyber Crystals. He admits that he not only said that he came from “the world” but that he “celebrated the uprising against the Rakatan invaders.”
Rakata? Old Republic Rakata Knights?
Introduced in BioWare’s Knights of the Old Republic video game in 2003, Rakata are the first fish-like species to master hyperspace travel. Beyond this, the Rakata were a malevolent race that used their Dark Side to mix technological prowess with spiritual evil.
The Knights of the Old Republic are set about 4,000 years before Lucas’ film, and the Lakata existed 30,000 years before that, so the timeline is that they marry the Ancients that Fee refers to. . For those who are still not convinced, part of the 2003 game takes place on the planet Lehon in a place called His Temple of the Ancients.
