The Star Wars galaxy continues to develop on the small display screen, particularly on the Disney+ streaming service.

Following up such titles as The Mandalorian, Star Wars: The Dangerous Batch, and Star Wars: Visions comes Star Wars: The Acolyte from showrunner Leslye Headland. Based mostly on promotional materials for the sequence up to now, it’s protected to say that the Star Wars RPG-inspired program is kind of a departure from most up-to-date franchise endeavors.

Set lengthy earlier than the occasions of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, The Acolyte sees a interval of relative peace interrupted within the worst method. Mysterious forces are conspiring in opposition to the Jedi, killing these inside its ranks. Thus, it’s up to some courageous members of the Jedi Order to determine who’s liable for these heinous acts and put a cease to them earlier than it’s too late.

The Acolyte places a number of latest characters entrance and middle for this thriller, from Jecki Lon (Dafne Eager) to Grasp Sol (Lee Jung-jae). Nevertheless, it’s no secret that Star Wars loves nothing greater than tossing viewers cameos of their favourite legacy heroes and villains. The truth is, it has come to gentle {that a} staple of the Star Wars: The Excessive Republic multimedia initiative, Vernestra Rwoh (Rebecca Henderson), will seem on this system. Can followers anticipate extra preexisting characters to seem?

Although it takes place far forward of the Skywalker saga, one may assume that characters with lengthy lifespans like Yoda (Frank Oz), Yaddle (Bryce Dallas Howard), and probably Plo Koon (James Arnold Taylor) may seem on The Acolyte. In actuality, nonetheless, this isn’t the case. Headland herself revealed to ComicBook.com that cameos from such characters, particularly Yoda, who has appeared in Excessive Republic tales already, aren’t on the desk.

With that mentioned Headland did point out that she and the Acolyte group pulled from current Star Wars materials to fill out the present’s roster. “We’re pulling characters from the Excessive Republic and characters from the EU, however that’s it,” she mentioned. So, one has to surprise which different Excessive Republic-era characters moreover Rwoh may pop up, and, extra intriguingly, who from the Expanded Universe may do the identical.

This time interval may permit for Emperor Palpatine’s (Ian McDiarmid) Sith Grasp, Darth Plagueis, and even his grasp, Darth Tenebrous, to seem. In any case, The Acolyte is in regards to the sudden and violent reemergence of the Sith to the galactic forefront, so if there have been ever a manufacturing for them to make their live-action introductions, this appears to be the one.

Time will inform which Excessive Republic and Expanded Universe names may very well be on the desk as The Acolyte unfolds throughout its eight-episode debut season. For these curious, right here’s the sequence’ launch schedule.