Star Wars has many intriguing spin-offs of the movies, and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is building interest and suspense with every new detail released. The series created by Jon Watts and Christopher Ford centers around four children, and their efforts to get home after an adventure lead them into parts unknown. It features Jude Law as a Force-using quick-thinker, but a recently released photo shows him doing some serious contemplation that has far-reaching implications.
Via ScreenRant, we have a glimpse of this significant Easter egg in a new photo from a new issue of Empire Magazine. In it, we can see Jude Law's Jod Na Nawood reading an inscription on a cavern wall. This is set "in Wild Space, a vast unexplored sector of space that includes the very outskirts of the galaxy." Thomas Bacon, the article's author, mentions that "this show is continuing the story told in Ahsoka, with more revealed (or, at least, hinted at) about the ancient intergalactic empire."
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That's a lot of pressure to put on scratching on a cave wall, but the script is in ur-Kittat, and that means a great deal. Bacon mentions that "there's a reason Skeleton Crew is concurrent with Ahsoka and The Mandalorian." It was in the story of Ahsoka's later years that we saw inscriptions on Peridea that bore a resemblance to this language. "The Perideans were forerunners of the Sith."
Bacon relates the story of how a dark sider named Kujet became emperor of an ancient empire of the Zeffo, which was a major part of the video game Jedi: Fallen Order. In these ancient times and "Millennia later, the SIth would be inspired by the remnants and relics of Kujet's empire." It's perfectly valid to wonder, as Bacon does, "Will more finally be revealed?" He points out that "Lucasfilm remains extremely secretive about this show, and we know surprisingly little."
We do know that director Lee Isaac Chung described his episode contributions as "It gets real." "Things get real." Perhaps the Peridean or Zeffo connection will play a factor in how real things get.
We're just over a month from finding out, as Disney+ will premier the show on December 3.