Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland has made it clear she isn’t limiting herself to the confines of existing Star Wars canon. In setting the series a century before the prequel films begin, she looked through the old, now non-canon Legends timeline for inspiration. Bazil, the adorable rodent tracker introduced in Episode 4, may look like a new addition to the Star Wars universe, but he’s actually a Tynnan, a race introduced in the novel Han Solo’s Revenge all the way back in 1979.
