His plan failed at the end of ROTJ, nobody leaving the theater assumed he had survived...it wouldn't make sense. So he'll be "destroyed" again in this movie... until LF needs a cash infusion and they bring him back.
There's a lot, none from the films. Late Clone Wars introduced the "Force Tree" at the heart of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant -- apparently grown from a cutting from the one at the first Jedi Temple (seen in TLJ). Shattered Empire (comic miniseries) and Aftermath (novel trilogy) both start during the Battle of Endor, and follow their respective arcs forward into the weeks and months following. The former covers Operation Cinder and Luke recovering the remaining two cuttings of the Coruscant Tree from an Imperial research facility. One he takes with for when he founds his training center, the other he gives to Poe's mom (who volunteered for the mission) to plant where their family settled near the Yavin IV ruins. The latter, the other side of the Contingency, with the Emperor's protegé briefing Sloane on the plan and the preparations that had already been underway since Palpatine was Chancellor.
Ah, that would be why it's called a contingency.
Plan for the worst-case scenario. One of the things about Operation Cinder is a corollary to the wiping out. The officers who received the orders from Palpatine's droid messengers also disseminated the orders that to say the Emperor was dead was treason for repeating Rebel propaganda. I wonder how much of that was an additional culling of the easily-swayed... as the Emperor actually wasn't dead -- or, at least, had some method planned to return. We'll hopefully find out in a couple months.
The thing about the ancillary material is that it was supposed to fill in the gaps around the main story, delve into specific characters, tackle things that work better in prose than live-action or animated. It shouldn't be changing up the model in which the story is presented by splitting it between media. As has been pointed out, there are enough people -- even serious fans -- who don't and/or can't follow all the ancillary stuff that comes out, or who don't even know it exists, which can only hurt audience numbers over time.
There's a lot, none from the films. Late Clone Wars introduced the "Force Tree" at the heart of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant -- apparently grown from a cutting from the one at the first Jedi Temple (seen in TLJ). Shattered Empire (comic miniseries) and Aftermath (novel trilogy) both start during the Battle of Endor, and follow their respective arcs forward into the weeks and months following. The former covers Operation Cinder and Luke recovering the remaining two cuttings of the Coruscant Tree from an Imperial research facility. One he takes with for when he founds his training center, the other he gives to Poe's mom (who volunteered for the mission) to plant where their family settled near the Yavin IV ruins. The latter, the other side of the Contingency, with the Emperor's protegé briefing Sloane on the plan and the preparations that had already been underway since Palpatine was Chancellor.
More got added in dribs and drabs in things like the campaign storyline of Battlefront 2 and a few other novels set between ROTJ and TFA, even if it wasn't the main focus.
Ah, that would be why it's called a contingency.
I for one do.
I can firmly say that I genuinely hope this film maintains that for you. Hey maybe it’ll even surprise me.. there’s always that chance
I’ve been feeling the same way, about all of the production design and visuals of the ST. Rogue One and Solo didn’t have any of this, which I thought were better visually. But the ST feels like a comic book movie. Like, in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1, there’s a spaceport inside of the skull of a giant alien. I’m fine with that in that movie/universe, because it’s a goofy comic book movie. But SW has always felt more grounded and lived in. Now all the ships and guns feel like they’ve been designed by Nerf, and all the locations look straight out of Ragnarok or Guardians of the Galaxy.
100%! These films feel like Disney tried to apply the Marvel formula without any thought that SW is an completely different animal entirely
That space iceberg looks like it might be a comet that they turned into a secret base? That's actually a cool idea (pardon the pun). But yeah it does look more like something you'd see out of Marvel or a Star Wars EU comic/video game. Is that where the "ghost fleet" is hiding?
And also remember this is the film series that had these
Did you actually read what I wrote, or just take its most base form and run away with it?? My comment was contingent on the context of their apparent use within the film. Not their existence...
Which is easily one of the worst aspects of ROTJ for me, and why (even though I absolutely adore the end of ROTJ) I rank it as the worst of the three..
