Star Wars Rebels: Synopsis for Two-Part Story Arc Revealed.

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A common criticism laid against Season 3 of Star Wars Rebels has been that there have been too many filler episodes relative to episodes that advance the overall story arc of the show, something which the handful of week-long hiatuses haven’t helped. Following what looks to be an eventful mid-season finale with Darth Maul, Rebels is looking to address that criticism further when it resumes, as a two-episode arc involve a return to a key location.

 

From Jedi Bibliothek (translated here):

Ghosts of Geonosis – PART 1: The crew returns to Geonosis in search of a missing rebel team sent to investigate suspicious activity there, and are surprised by what they find.

Ghosts of Geonosis – PART 2: After finding a missing rebel team member, the Ghost crew discovers another surprise on Geonosis, and work to conceal it from Imperial forces.

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In “The Honorable Ones”, Ezra sensed a disturbance in the Force – the entire population of Geonosis was dead as a result of something that the Empire did (the result of a genocide, presumably because the Empire wanted to keep the construction of the Death Star above the planet a complete secret before moving its development elsewhere). We later learn through the Darth Vader comic that Karina, the Geonosian queen, somehow survived by means of using cybernetics to restore her body. She would then use her mechanized womb (gross) to “give birth” to B1 Battle Droid that resembled Geonosians in an attempt to regrow her planetary Empire from scratch, but Darth Vader put a stop to that by stealing the factory and leaving Karina alone on the planet. As it stands, Rebels is set approximately two years before the story shown in Darth Vader, meaning that it’s entirely possible that the titular ghosts of Geonosis are none other than Karina and her droid children – and if this is indeed the case, then it would be another effective way that the Lucasfilm Story Group has connected story elements across time periods.

 

Regardless of what they do, it’s clear that this story is going to have something to do with the Death Star, since Geonosis was where the weapon was first conceived. The show has been building up to the mystery of what Lothal’s five-year plan was about in Seasons 1 and 2 (it’s heavily implied to be related to DS-1 project), although that plot thread was temporarily abandoned in favor of bringing other major story elements into the fold. With Rogue One out by the time that Rebels returns, it seems likely that they’ll be more likely to make more direct connections to the spin-off and bring up explicit ties to the Death Star.

 

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

Grant Davis (Pomojema)

Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

7 thoughts on “Star Wars Rebels: Synopsis for Two-Part Story Arc Revealed.

  • December 4, 2016 at 3:58 am
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    I love the Darth Vader comic and I think it deserves to be referenced. I hope they find Karina in distress and help her by making the robo-vagina. Unfortunately Rebels doesn’t have non action episodes so if she is in it they’ll probably just fight her droids and escape.

    • December 4, 2016 at 4:23 am
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      There wouldn’t be a point in stretching “Ezra and friends fight more battle droids” out for two whole episodes, though, especially since we already had that in an earlier episode. That’s why I think these two episodes are going to be fairly significant.

      – Pomojema

  • December 4, 2016 at 4:05 am
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    So it looks like this two-parter will give us some more story on post-clone wars Geonosis since the Zeb/Kallus episode in season two.

    Can’t wait to see it. ^_^

    • December 4, 2016 at 1:04 pm
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      I always figured since that episode that they did a low-level test-firing of the Death Star above Geonosis, killing the locals, and then moved it!

      • December 4, 2016 at 4:10 pm
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        It would have to have been some time before that episode. My guess is that it is the response to the Geonosians uprising that was used to help Poggle escape.

  • December 4, 2016 at 4:33 am
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    Potential game changer. Fingers crossed!

  • December 6, 2016 at 4:57 am
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    Finally some multi-episode arcs.

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