Remembering Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’s key events, characters, and story ahead of Jedi: Survivor

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor opens with the type of cinematic for a big-budget video game sequel: a retelling of its predecessor that repeats barely anything.

Jedi: Survivorrecap of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen OrderThe story and characters might jog your memory if you play the 2019 game, like, three weeks in the past. In-game recap if you haven’t dropped order Little more would appear in the form of blurry supercuts of snapshots and voiceovers. seriously, it doesn’t even cover He character death. And that barely mentions the awkward placement of the Rubik’s Cube!

Here Are All the Important Story Beats Jedi: Fallen Order Which you need to know for its sequel. keep it while you play Jedi: Survivor,

[Ed. note: Spoilers for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order follow.]

When will Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor be out?

Jedi: Fallen Order is set five years after the events of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, The Star Wars timeline is generally filtered through the years prior to the Battle of Yavin (BBY), as seen in Star Wars: A New HopeAnd after that (ABY). dropped order occurs mostly during 14 BBY,

Till then dropped order Turns around, Order 66 has resulted in a government-sanctioned extermination of the Jedi. But because the galaxies are so large, few Jedi survive. You play as one of them: Cal Kestisa padawan trained by a jedi master Jarrow Tuple (who did not survive Order 66, as detailed in a flashback dropped order,

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is set approximately five years after the events of dropped order – Therefore, 9 BBY, this place Jedi: Survivor Set during the same year, between the prequels and the original trilogy obi-wan kenobi and around the same time frame internal management and, You might want to check them out before you dive in Jedi: Survivor, Who knows how many expensive cameos Respawn made for the sequel.

What characters are in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order?

beyond Cal, dropped order Heavy Features of the Pre-Jedi Knight sere juanda and pilot Greek Dritas, who captains their spaceship, the Stinger Mantis. is with his trio Real Star of the Show: BD-1Essentially a puppy in droid form.

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the primary villain of dropped order Two are curious: the second sister And this ninth sister, (If you’ve seen the Disney Plus show, it should have been a movie.) obi-wan kenobi, you will recognize the curious. Reva, the primary antagonist of that show, is a third sister.)

However, the most complex character is MarineOne Night Sister

Who are the Merrin and Night sisters?

Executed during the Clone Wars, the Nightsisters are Force-sensitive people of Dathomir (fun fact: Darth Maul’s home planet!) Their special flavor of the Force is called “Magic”. And yes, it is affiliated with the dark side – as is most zombie summoning magic in fiction.

Merrin is possibly one of the last Night Sisters. She begins as an antagonist, but over time comes to trust Cal and his friends.

So what happens in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order?

dropped order opening up Bracca, a shipyard planet where Cal works a day job as a scrapper. An assignment goes wrong, and Cal uses the Force to save a friend from falling to his death, which eventually attracts the attention of the Second Sister and the Ninth Sister. The other sister murders Cal’s friend. Cal is rescued by Serre soon thereafter. and Greece.

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crew flew bogano, a semi-unknown planet full of rocks and swamps (thank you, Star Wars naming convention), to seek the vault of Zefo, a pre-Jedi civilization. Call meets on the way BD-1, Turns Out, the BD-1 Belonged to Serre’s Former Jedi Master ino cordova, who left one of those fancy droid messages that revealed the vault contained a holocron – basically a cube-shaped registry of Force-sensitive children across the galaxy. The holocron would give Cal and Ceres a chance to rebuild the Jedi Order. But in order to open the vault, Cal needs to find some ancient artifacts.

First, Cal Goes dathomirHouse of the Nightsisters (a clan of force users well versed in the dark side). He is driven back by Merrin. reprimanded, he visits zefo, Zifo Homeworld. it reveals a lead Kashyap, While there, he worked closely with noted anarchist saw gerrera To free an imprisoned troop of Wookiees from the Empire.

wait. Seen Gerrera from Rogue One?

Yes!

Is Saw Gerrera in Fallen Order and Survivor?

saw gerrera is totally in dropped order, and his IRL is portrayed by actor Forest Whitaker, which should give you an idea of ​​how much budget this series has. Cal’s first trip to Kashyyyk is a bust, so he goes back to Zefo, and gets another lead on a key that will open the Bogano Vault. (The star wars jedi The game is nothing if not an exercise in backtracking.) There, he also runs into another sister, real name Trila, who reveals that Serre was her former master. You know, classic Star Wars stuff.

Cal narrowly escapes Trilla, but is captured by members of the Hexian Brood before he can release Zepho.

What is Hexian Brood?

“Who are the Hexian Brood?” are you Needed You are asking introduced in dropped order, they are a criminal organization that operates at the edges of the galaxy. You can call them “bounty hunters”. they force cal to compete in a Thor: Ragnarok-style combat arena, but Serre and Grease rescue Cal and take him back to Kashyap, where they arrive one more Lead on the key to the Bogano vault. Also, Cal fights and defeats the Ninth Sister – although, for the record, you don’t see her die.

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Following Kashyyyk’s lead, Cale heads back to Dathomir, where he is fairly convinced that the key to the Bogano Vault is located. Merrin tries to stop Cal again, he turns out to be an ex-Jedi named taron mallicos, Malikos, who has turned to the dark side, utters “Join me and we can rule the galaxy”. While fleeing, Cal breaks his lightsaber and goes Ilam To source a kyber crystal (the glowing rocks that make a lightsaber a lightsaber). He returns to Dathomir with the double-edged saber, but is stopped by Taron. He helped in the fight, though, … Merrin? Sure! Merrin, who has come to trust Cal (and who also expresses a yearning to explore the galaxy), joins his small band of rebels.

How does Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order end?

Now equipped with the vault key, the crew return to Bogano and grab the holocron from the vault. Trilla appears, steals the holocron, and the Inquisitor flees to the Fortress – the massive pinnacle in the middle of the ocean that appeared in episode one. obi-wan kenobi, Cal defeats Trilla and retrieves the holocron. but then!!! Darth! Freakin! Vader arrives, murders Trilla, and then tears apart the fortress in an attempt to capture Cal. Stinger near end wicked oneThe sequence is arguably one of the more awe-inspiring displays of just how strong Vader is. It rules.

Cal survives, but barely and solely due to rescue from Merrin. Safe in interstellar space, Cal destroys the holocron.

it sounds like a vacuum-sealed end, but Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order The finale was largely colored by the context in which it unfolded: between the releases of the last jediwhich suggested that Star Wars could be the story of more than one dynastic family, and rise of skywalker, which basically subsumed everything its predecessor had to offer. for some, the holocron in dropped order suggested the thesis of the same “anybody can be last jedi – A message and cliffhanger that was equally challenged rise of skywalker,

Star Wars is in a very different place in 2023 than it was in 2019. Over the past four years, Disney has released (and has more to come) several character-centric TV shows, detailed plans to expand into the High Republic era, and even gave Baby Yoda an actual name. you better bet they force Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Tie it in some way.