In 1999, in The Phantom Menace, the Star Wars galaxy started to get a bit bigger. While various books and comics had indicated that the galaxy was sprawling enough to include entire areas of space where the Empire didn’t even exist, The Phantom Menace was a real-deal canon, which fully established where everything was in the galaxy, relative to each other. This was the first time the planet “Coruscant” was spoken aloud and was fully made a part of onscreen canon, and established as existing in the Core Worlds of the galaxy, close to the center. In the same film, Obi-Wan talked about the boundaries of the Republic’s influence, the planet Naboo was introduced, and the general sprawl of the famous faraway galaxy became richer.
And now in Skeleton Crew, 25 years after The Phantom Menace, Star Wars is once again redrawing the map of the galaxy. But this time, the details of the Old Republic are more mysterious than ever.
