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During Disney’s Investor Day, it was announced that Lucasfilm would be creating
a new series for Disney+ called The Acolyte. The show is being described as a female-centric,
mystery-thriller that will focus on the emergence of dark side powers in
the final days of the High Republic Era, which just sounds so damn dope.
The Acolyte will be written by Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland, who will also
serve as showrunner, and Rayne Roberts will also be co-developing the series alongside Headland.
Since The Acolyte is the Star Wars project I’m most excited about from LucasFilm, I thought
it'd be fun to speculate a little on some things that would be cool to see in the upcoming series.
So, let’s discuss some potential characters and possibilities for the series.
We know that the High Republic began in 300 BBY and ended in 82 BBY,
which means that The Acolyte would be taking place roughly 50 years prior to the events of
The Phantom Menace, which took place in 32 BBY. Since we know the series will be delving into an
emerging dark side power during the waning days of the High Republic, it’s a safe bet to assume that
we’ll be seeing The Sith in one way or another. The series could give Star Wars fans an in-depth
look at the Sith of that time that were working in the shadows to facilitate The
Sith Great Plan to overthrow the Republic and the Jedi and regain power over the galaxy.
Since the series will be female centric, which female Sith Lords could appear in The Acolyte?
As far as I’m aware, there are only a handful of female Sith Lords in the current canon.
There’s Darth Zannah-who was Darth Bane’s apprentice- but she most likely wouldn’t
be alive by the end of the High Republic, since Bane died approximately 1,000 years before the
events of The Clone Wars, so we can assume Zannah died long before the events of The High Republic.
There’s also the ancient female Sith Lord Darth Phobos, who’s also most likely not
alive during the final days of the High Republic. The female Sith Lords Darth Noctyss, Darth Skrye,
and Darth Shaa, on the other hand, could potentially be alive during the final days
of the High Republic, as it hasn’t been established in canon when these female
Sith Lords were alive or died. There’s a possibility that one
or more could appear in The Acolyte in one way or another, and any of the canon female
Sith Lords could be mentioned or appear as flashbacks at some point during the series.
In legends, there’s a bunch of really cool female Sith Lords that were alive during
various time periods in the Star Wars timeline that haven’t been introduced into canon yet,
so maybe some of those characters are brought into canon in The Acolyte.
The same could be said for any canon male Sith Lords.
Since The Acolyte is going to take place sometime around 82 BBY, there’s a very real
possibility that we’ll get to see a young Sheev Palpatine, as the Sith Lord was born in 84 BBY.
If Palpatine were to appear in the series, we could see him as a young child living on Naboo
and there’s a possibility that we could also see his Sith master, the male Muun, Darth Plagueis.
If Palpatine were to appear in The Acolyte, we could see how Darth Plagueis discovered Palpatine,
how he took him on as an apprentice, and Palpatine’s time training as Plagueis’ apprentice.
How cool would that be? Additionally, other male Sith Lords
could appear or be mentioned in The Acolyte, such as Plagueis’ master, Darth Tenebrous,
Darth Tanis-the creator of the superweapon on Malachor that appear at the end of Season 2 of
Star Wars Rebels-Darth Caldoth, Darth Momin, Darth Wrend, and the slew of other Sith Lords
that have been mentioned in canon, or even Sith Lords that have yet to cross over from legends.
Aside from giving Star Wars fans an inside look at the Sith working to implement the Sith Great Plan,
we could learn more about the relationships and training that took place between a Sith master and
their apprentice, which would just be so cool. In canon, we haven’t gotten a ton of on-screen
time devoted to how the Sith trained their apprentices, so that’s something
I’d absolutely love to see in The Acolyte. The legends novel Plagueis did a fantastic
job at showcasing Palpatine and Plagueis’ machinations in sowing discord and working
to overthrow the Republic and the Jedi, and I am really excited at the thought
that The Acolyte could showcase that as well. As we continue to inch closer and closer to the
release of The Acolyte, I’m sure more information will be provided on the story of the series,
characters that might be appearing, and so. The possibilities for this series are bountiful
and I have faith that Headland and Roberts are going to create a balling ass series.
While there hasn’t been a ton of information shared with fans just yet on The Acolyte,
I’m already super excited for the series to drop and can’t wait to see what LucasFilm
and Disney has in store for us. But what do you guys think?
What are you hoping to see in The Acolyte? Let us know down in the comments.
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