WMG / Star Wars: Visions

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Pre-Release

If the series proves successful, we'll get more seasons.

And we'll get ufotable, Kyoto Animation, Sunrise, Madhouse, and Studio BONES to do some Star Wars eventually.

• Confirmed. A Season 2 came out May 4, 2023

Some of the characters will become canon and appear in works set in the main continuity

Even if the episodes remain non-canonical, I could see it happening.

• Events of their episodes of origin could be canonized as well, albeit in Broad Strokes at the discretion of the writer(s) who write them into their own canon works.

The unusually-colored lightsabers seen in “The Twins” and “The Ninth Jedi” are produced by artificial kyber.

These two shorts are tied into the chronology of the Skywalker Saga, both taking place after The Rise of Skywalker. After the bombing of Jedha City, destruction of Ilum and the mass strip mining of Exegol, there aren’t many known sources of unused kyber crystals. Karre’s kyber crystal is a cyan-to-pink gradient, and the lightsaber Kara is delivering is green and black. These unusal color combinations may be the result of synthetic crystals, which Galen Erso was able to start research into growing before his death.

• Jossed for "The Ninth Jedi"; the kyber crystals are natural, as the ones we see were harvested from the rings of Hy Izlan. As for why they work differently, it's because Zhima tempered them somehow.
• Potentially Jossed for “The Twins”; the crystal’s origin is never discussed.

The Twins are clones/strandcasts.

In the voiced trailer, after Am stabs herself with Karre's kyber crystal, we get glimpses of the twins in tanks while a mysterious group of hooded figures watch them, and also the twins' conception as their cells undergo mitosis and become fetuses. Notice that the shots of their cells and fetuses have a circular frame around them — perhaps representing a microscope or some sort of camera observing the process?

Additionally, it seems odd that there were other Force-sensitives in the First Order this whole time, yet there's no Watsonian explanation as to why they were never brought up before unless they were kept secret.

• Well, in Star Wars: Darth Vader (2020) it’s shown that some of Palpatine’s Sith Acolytes on Exegol have the potential to become Sith Lords, and even gun for Vader’s position. However, given the Twins’ namesakes and how they’re explicitly stated to be reinterpretations of Luke and Leia, it’s possible that they’re clones of them, or strandcasts who use Luke’s severed hand as a genetic template.

Post-Release

The episodes are canon...

...as In-Universe fictional stories.

• If that were the case, this series likely would have been put into the Myths and Fables sub series, which fits into that status. As of current, Visions seems to be its own canon-ambivalent corner of the universe.

"The Twins" is the start of an alternate version of the Sequel Trilogy.

It doesn't actually take place after TROS as early interviews suggested, but instead takes the place of TFA in an alternate post-Endor timeline. The Gemini Star Destroyer's upcoming attack against the Republic is framed quite similarly to Starkiller Base's strike against the Hosnian System, and Am asks if Karre intends to take the stolen kyber crystal "to the Republic", implying that they currently rule the galaxy.

The whole thing, if continued, would kick off an alternate Sequel timeline revolving around Karre and Am and their struggles against one another, instead of Rey and Kylo Ren. And in accordance with the earlier theory, the twins are indeed strandcasts created on Exegol by the Sith Eternal, possibly from a combination of Palpatine's DNA and Luke's from his severed hand, and either Snoke or Palpatine himself are lurking in the background overseeing their actions.

• PS: No, this is not suggesting that it's in any way meant to be a reboot or whatever the rumour is— just speculating on the nature of the AU timeline the short takes place in.

• Am may be also referring to a potential Post-Hosnian Republic that managed to rebuild. There will seemingly always be some version of “The Republic” and “The Empire” in conflict, be they the Old Republic and Sith Empire, Rebellion and Galactic Empire, or New Republic and First Order. The writers may have figured giving them new names for a 17 minute short film would only confuse the audience.

• Word of God is that "The Twins" is set after The Rise of Skywalker, so this is Jossed.

Homen from the Ninth Jedi likely trained in some form of Vaapad.

This mainly stems from the fact that he mentioned that he let the hatred of the Sith present overwhelm him, plus the fact that he wields a purple lightsaber. Lightsaber form VII, Vapaad, was unique in that its practitioners skirted dangerously close to the Dark Side when using it, or, as Mace Windu, one of the creators of it stated, "Vaapad is more than a fighting style. It is a state of mind, a path that leads through the penumbra of the Dark Side."

Margrave Juro’s Jedi Order isn’t following in the footsteps of Luke or Rey Skywalker, but rather Ahsoka Tano.

The symbol worn by Juro on his robe and emblazoned on his lightsaber resembles the mark used by Ahsoka as “Fulcrum,” though it seems to have changed over time. We don’t know Ahsoka’s final fate in Canon, or anything about her after The Clone Wars Season 5 in Legends, so it’s possible this is a timeline where she took on apprentices or otherwise passed down her knowledge to a future generation of Jedi.

The titular characters from "The Twins" are clones using Luke Skywalker as a genetic template, and how this fits into the timeline.

The figures that we see in the brief flashbacks showing the origin of the twins have a similar attire to the Sith Eternal cultists that were seen in the background of various scenes on Exegol. Given that Palpatine's entire resurrection plan involved creating clones of himself, and he had Luke's disembodied hand from Bespin in his possession, it is likely that part of the experiments needed to make a new body involved creating clones of other Force-Sensitive people in order to see if such a feat could be accomplished. Ergo, Karre looks almost identical to Luke, and Am, like Omega, is an Opposite-Sex Clone.

It is shown that both twins are artificially-created by scientists enthralled with the Dark Side, and it's also noted that this story is intended to take place after the events of The Rise of Skywalker by the creators of the short. So it appears that, at some point, some Sith Eternal cultists had the foresight to hand these twins off to the First Order, which splintered off into smaller cells after Palpatine's defeat on Exegol and the subsequent uprisings against the First Order. One remnant then attempted to enact some version of their plans that they had with Starkiller Base, as the Gemini-class Star Destroyer uses similar technology to that station.

• It’s worth noting that since he had no father and was assumed to be conceived by the force, Anakin Skywalker was genetically an opposite-sex clone of his mother Shmi. This presents evidence of a genetic predisposition for a member of the Skywalker bloodline to develop that way.

If "The Ninth Jedi" becomes canon, the time period will use a different calendar.

In the Gundam franchise, ∀ Gundam and Gundam: Reconguista in G are meant to envision what the distant future of any of the Gundam shows would be like. However, they both use different calendars from each other and the other shows, partly to show that enough time has passed that significant events and changes have necessitated changing to a different dating system.

If Lucasfilm ends up wanting to tell a different story set in the future but doesn't want to retcon "The Ninth Jedi" away, they could just say that the short's era doesn't use BBY-ABY/BTE-ATE anymore in order to avoid giving an explicit amount of time (ex. 1000 years) that they might want to retcon later (ex. retconned to 2000 years).

Tempering Kyber will be revealed to be a resurrection of a millennia-old technique.

In Star Wars Legends, The original Je’daii order practiced both the Light and Dark Sides in tandem, and there was no functional difference between red, synthetic lightsaber crystals and ones of other colors. In Canon, the process of Bleeding a Kyber Crystal red is taxing and largely permanent, as well as something only Darksiders can do. Tempered Kyber however can easily shift between Light, Dark, and Neutral colors without any effort on the user’s part, meaning organizations like the Je’daii could have used them without putting strain on the crystals by shifting between Light and Dark.

Margrave Juro is Lah Kara's grandfather

Juro does not strike me as the kind of person who would entrust the forging of lightsabers to just anyone, so who better to trust than his own son? Kara has also known Juro since she was a child, which seems strange since the margrave rules the entire planet, and could hardly take the time to spend significant time with one random family, even if that family practiced a notable skill. Finally, the margrave gets characteristically Papa Wolf-y when Kara is in danger.

• Alternatively, Lah Zhima is Juro's padawan.

Tobi is modeled on Mitaka's deceased padawan.

Going along with Tobi's status as an Astro Clone, Mitaka modeled the droid's appearance, voice, and personality on a young padawan of his who had died either during the Clone Wars or Order 66, doing so as a way of honoring the boy's memory. The kyber crystal Tobi ended up using also originally belonged to the padawan.

Ronin isn't actually a Ronin.

He's on a mission to take out his master's rivals, with his master being a Sith Lord.

• Jossed by the Rōnin novel - the Rōnin is actually this universe’s FOUNDER of the Sith Order. He never had a Sith master because he was the first one. Upon seeing the terror and destruction his actions wrought, he turned against his former students and their apprentices, hunting them down to end Sith tyranny.

Margrave Juro is trained in soresu

Juro is able to hold his own against three sith oponents at the same time, and faced a total of five sith without getting a scratch. Form III of lightsaber combat is considered the most defensive style, able to easily defend against several opponents at the same time, as seen with Obi-Wan vs. Grievous. The style may have fallen out of favor in the time since it was practiced by the Jedi, but Margrave seems to practice at least a variation of it. His style may be based on Soresu, but evolved over time.

• Alternatively, he's using a deviation of Form V (Djem So variant). He's not focused so much on pure defense, but instead on forcing openings through parries, allowing him to end an opponent with a fluid riposte.

F lost her master in an encounter with Darth Vader

We briefly see the beam of a red lightsaber in one of her memories, and given how her short is set soon after the end of the Clone Wars it leaves few other possibilities, besides Inquisitor's, but an encounter with one of them wouldn't induce as much trauma as what she's seen enduring throughout The Village Bride.

• This statement may undercut what the Inquisitors are capable of. Some, like the Grand Inquisitor, Second Sister, and Ninth Sister are as ruthless as Vader and nearly as capable. Not to mention the damage that can be done by a platoon of Purge Troopers.

In "The Ninth Jedi", a Sith attempted and failed to Kill and Replace Ethan.

As with the other Jedi summoned by the Margrave, a Sith was dispatched to intercept Ethan and take his place at the meeting. But unlike the rest, Ethan was somehow able to defeat or outwit the assassin before making his way to Hy-Izlan. Assuming that they're still alive, the Sith will not be happy to learn about the death of their comrades and will attempt to get revenge on Juro and the others.

Future seasons will adapt Tokyopop's Star Wars manga due to those comics being previous Japanese-made Star Wars work

If the series continues in an anthology format, then season 1 will be the only series to have such a focus on lightsabers and the Force, while each new season has a different focus like star fighter combat or clones.

A future episode will focus on Palpatine's resurrection after Return of the Jedi.

One or more future episodes will be adapted from one or more of Quinlan Vos and Aayla Secura's comic appearances, like Star Wars: Republic or the one-shot story The Deadly Hands of Shon-Ju.

A future segment will feature Darca Nyl from Star Wars Tales

• A nomadic Badass Normal with a lightsaber who is on a mission of revenge while helping the helpless seems like a story similar to one Star Wars Visions has shown a fondness for.

Season 2 will not adapt any pre-existing story.

Either every episode will be original like in the first season, or some will be original and others will follow up on previous stories from Visions. While characters and concepts from the films and shows, and potentially comics will appear, no story will be an adaptation of an existing work.

Confirmed

A future episode will be set in the Star Wars: The High Republic era.

• While never explicitly stated it’s possible that The Elder was set in the High Republic era, as its end is placed somewhere around the time Dooku is brought into the Jedi Order.

Aldaric Brandl's story will show up in a future episode.

• His story from Star Wars Journals feels similar in tone to some of the stuff from Visions.

Lan from Tatooine Rhapsody is a Devaronian

• They have red skin and horns on their heads, like typical Devaronians. The reason that they are three people on one body because they are conjoined triplets.