Julio is a features writer with nearly a decade of experience writing for the Brazilian pop culture website Cinema Com Rapadura before joining Collider. He studied History and International Relations at university but fell in love with pop culture growing up in the 1990s.
The Big Picture The first trailer of The Acolyte is here, revealing a whole new era of Star Wars storytelling to screens. There are Jedi all over the galaxy, from the Jedi Temple in Coruscant to shady cantinas in the Outer Rim. They are at the peak of their power, and their light reaches everywhere - to the point where it feels almost blinding. Not even in the Prequel Trilogy were they ever this powerful.
The greatest of these projects was the construction of the Starlight Beacon, a space station in the Outer Rim meant to serve as a trade hub and Jedi base, facilitating the access of faraway systems to things that used to only be available to the Core Worlds. Other works included the Republic Fair and the expansion of bacta production, as well as peace treaties between warring species like the Mon Calamari and the Quarren.
The threat of the Nihil began by attacking hyperspace itself, which, at that time, was still being mapped. Marchion Ro had a secret way of obtaining "hyperspace paths," like routes that allowed Nihil ships to maneuver in hyperspace without having to travel only in a straight line. A Nihil ship could jump from any point in the galaxy to get anywhere they wanted; if they wanted to jump and arrive at the exact same spot, for example, they could.