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Star Wars confirms major origin story in The Acolyte's return

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Published 14:00 12 Jun 2025 GMT+1

Star Wars confirms major origin story in The Acolyte's return

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Olly Smith

Olly Smith

A new major detail about the Star Wars universe has just come to light, thanks to a new The Acolyte release.

The internet will never convince me that The Acolyte was a bad show. Sure, it might not have hit the highs of Andor or The Last Jedi, but it’s a pretty solid eight hours of television.

Although it was cancelled in August last year, the hope remains that story threads that began in The Acolyte will be wrapped up in future Star Wars productions.

Now, a new The Acolyte release has confirmed a little nugget of info about the Star Wars universe, and it’s pretty interesting to say the least.

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Star Wars: The Acolyte Visual Guide will be released on 17 June, detailing new facts and information about the show, both in-universe and behind the scenes.

Ahead of the book’s release, Star Wars News Net’s Aled Morgan reviewed it. One of the major reasons Morgan gave for reading this was due to a detail about the origins of the High Republic.

The book’s opening details the timeline of The Acolyte, which is set around a century before The Phantom Menace.

“After the defeat of Sith conquerors, the Republic emerges from the ashes of galactic conflict to reach unprecedented heights in the long stretch of peace that follows,” the book reads.

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“It is an era known as the High Republic, and will be remembered as a settled age while the galaxy marches toward a darkening future.”

As Morgan notes in their review, this excerpt provides some context to a line Palpatine says in Revenge of the Sith, where he exclaims, “Once more the Sith will rule the galaxy.”

It implies that the Sith did not take over the galaxy in secret, like how it was depicted in Revenge of the Sith, but rather conquered it using a great force.

If The Acolyte hadn’t been cancelled, it’s likely that this would have been explored in future seasons.

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Hopefully it will be expanded upon in a future Star Wars production, though.

Featured Image Credit: Disney Plus

Topics: Star Wars, Lucasfilm, TV And Film, Disney

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