The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland has denied episode 6’s unknown oceanic planet is Ahch-To (from The Final Jedi). That mentioned, it might need deeper Star Wars Legends ties.
Spoilers forward for The Acolyte as much as this week’s sixth episode.
After a killer fifth episode, persons are feeling higher total about The Acolyte, Disney and Lucasfilm’s newest live-action Star Wars sequence, but it stays to be seen whether or not it’s going to preserve the momentum and stick the touchdown. For now, episode 6 was the steamiest that Star Wars has been in fairly some time (the Reylos are celebrating) and likewise teased a troubled previous for Manny Jacinto’s Qimir aka the Stranger, the Sith (or Sith-like, we do not know for positive) baddie that everybody and their moms are thirsting over.
One of many largest observations made by diehard Star Wars followers was that the ‘unknown planet’ (as offered by the present itself) the place Qimir’s base of operations is situated appeared lots just like the sequel trilogy’s Ahch-To, the place Luke Skywalker deliberate to reside the remainder of his days in solitude. Rian Johnson’s The Final Jedi was the film that higher fleshed out the planet (or no less than Luke’s island) and its ecosystem, and this week’s episode of The Acolyte had various winks to it.
Showrunner, creator, co-writer, and director Leslye Headland, nonetheless, has shot down these theories throughout a chat with Collider: “It is not Ahch-To. I do know it is related, and it was deliberately alleged to be related when it comes to terrain and feeling remoted and surrounded by water and fewer lush inexperienced and extra rocky. However the thought is that Cortosis is mined on this planet, so I do not suppose that is the case with Ahch-To. A part of the rationale that is his dwelling base is that Cortosis is a really uncommon metallic. I do not suppose we are saying it explicitly within the present, however that is a cause it is not Ahch-To.”
With that out of the best way, the important thing nugget of information right here is the Cortosis connection she mentions, which the episode hinted at with a shot of an ore vein inside Qimir’s cave. For individuals who have not been watching the present, however are curious, or just weren’t paying sufficient consideration to the mechanics of what went down final week: Cortosis is what the villain’s helmet and gauntlets are made from, which allowed him to ‘break’ the lightsabers of his Jedi enemies because of the mineral’s distinctive capacity of briefly shorting out gentle blades and absorbing blaster photographs.
If we glance deep into Star Wars lore, each present canon and Legends, we’ll find out about a planet known as Bal’demnic that matches what we have seen of it up to now, together with “wealthy deposits of Cortosis ore” that “fell into the arms of Sith Lords Darth Tenebrous and Darth Plagueis.” Whereas we have but to substantiate Qimir/the Stranger’s Darkish Facet id (perhaps he is only a fallen Jedi on his personal) and whether or not there is a Sith Lord lurking within the shadows, Headland has repeatedly expressed curiosity in exploring a few of Legends’ largest Sith names and buried lore, so Bal’demnic form of checks all of the bins on this case. Thoughts you, its identify may change if it is transitioning from Legends to the present canon, however we won’t consider a greater candidate to elucidate the place Osha and Qimir are proper now.