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  • The Star Wars universe is a pretty complex place, and it gets a little more complex with

  • every episode of Rebels, every tie-in comic and novel, and best of all, when a highly

  • continuity-dependent movie like Rogue One is released.

  • Every tenuous connection makes the experience a little richer, no matter how hard the director

  • tries to hide these things in the fabric of the film.

  • Here are a few Rogue One Easter eggs you didn't notice.

  • Oh, and if you haven't seen Rogue One yet, brace for impact: spoilers ahead!

  • Blue Harvest

  • What is it with young rebels and blue milk?

  • As a very young Jyn escapes her family's farm at the beginning of Rogue One, we see a glass

  • of blue milk perched on a countertop, not unlike the questionable beverage that young

  • Luke Skywalker had to endure in A New Hope.

  • The blue moo juice also reappears in Attack of the Clones.

  • Presumably, the junk comes from banthas, but no one is free from it, even on planets where

  • banthas aren't a native species.

  • Someone is importing this junk.

  • Forget about buildi ng a Death Star, just corner the blue milk market if you want to

  • conquer the galaxy.

  • Where there's a Whill

  • Back when Star Wars was just a shadow of an idea in the curly head of George Lucas, it

  • was called Journal of the Whills.

  • The concept of an ancient race of aliens deeply connected to the Force has floated around

  • the Star Wars universe since the beginning, but nothing really definitive has been established

  • about themexcept for that they absolutely have nothing to with Yoda's unknown species.

  • Lo and behold, the desert city of Jedha was actually home to the Temple of the Whills,

  • once guarded by the blind Chirrut Îmwe and freelance assassin Baze Malbus.

  • The bustling, mysterious city has super-deep ties to the whole Jedi thing, which is reinforced

  • by the fallen Jedi statues around the surface and the fact that it's absolutely full of

  • kyber crystals, used to make lightsabers.

  • JedhaJediit can't be a coincidence.

  • And now it's exploded.

  • The not-so-good Doctor

  • It's a cameo that's impossible to miss.

  • In the ill-fated city of Jedha, Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor bump into a really, really ugly

  • man and his walrus-faced pal.

  • Visitors to Chalmun's Cantina on Tatooine will easily recognize the duo as Dr. Evazan

  • and Ponda Baba, who try to start trouble with Luke Skywalker and lose an arm to Obi-Wan's

  • saber for the trouble.

  • Apparently, Ponda Baba could easily escape a city going totally nuclear, but couldn't

  • keep his arms from falling off his body in a sleazy bar a few weeks later.

  • Tough break, buddy.

  • The worst job in the universe

  • Directing the as-yet-untitled Star Wars: Episode VIII would be a dream job for just about any

  • director, and as you probably know, Rian Johnson scored the gig after directing a few episodes

  • of Breaking Bad and writing the screenplay for Episode VIII.

  • But he also got the absolute worst gig in the galaxy: standing next to the deadly, planet-destroying,

  • railing-less laser shaft in the Death Star.

  • "I just want a railing.

  • You know, one railing, right here!"

  • "Yeah I know I've almost fallen over that thing so many times."

  • It's a cameo we wouldn't even know about if Johnson himself didn't tell us at 2016's Star

  • Wars Celebration in London.

  • So let us not forget that not only did Galen Erso built a vulnerable exhaust port into

  • the Death Star, but he subtly made these guys lives a living hell.

  • For the Rebellion.

  • Budget dejarik and cave monsters

  • There are a lot of scummy things going on in Saw Gerrera's ramshackle base, including,

  • but not limited to, watching weird holo-porn of dancing Twi'lekswhich only reminds

  • us of Grandpa Itchy's dirty dalliances in the forbidden Star Wars Holiday Special.

  • "Oh, we are excited, aren't we?"

  • But amid the many props and baubles found in the base is a very bootleg version of dejarik,

  • the holographic chess game found aboard the Millennium Falcon.

  • This dollar store version uses actual, physical pieces and not the hi-tech, animated, holographic

  • stuff.

  • Which is what you get when you blow your whole hologram budget on dancing girls.

  • Also making an appearance in Gerrera's cave in especially Easter-eggy form are creatures

  • from director Gareth Edward's 2010 film Monsters and his 2014 film Godzilla.

  • The director told The Star Wars Show that it wasn't even him being cheeky; these were

  • slipped into Gerrera's cave by the crew.

  • Like father, like son

  • Like all good supervillains, Darth Vader has to have a sweet and scary base.

  • We've only ever really seen him hanging out on giant starships, but early concepts for

  • the character placed him in his very own Snake Mountain, by the name of Bast Castle, on the

  • beaches of an acid rain planet called , where real estate is probably cheaper than Detroit.

  • While Rogue One flips the script a bit, and thankfully, his base doesn't just look like

  • a giant version of his own helmet, because that design was stolen by the Legion of Doom.

  • Vader apparently chills on a fiery lava planet, which is presumably Mustafar, the very same

  • place he lost most of his body parts and caught on fire courtesy of Obi-Wan Kenobi.

  • Because there's nothing like building a home on the shores of the lake where your humanity

  • and dignity drowned.

  • And of course, Vader has to take his cumbersome costume off occasionally, right?

  • We learn that in order to rejuvenate his half-robot body, he goes swimming in his own personal

  • bacta tank, extremely similar to the one we see Luke in, recovering from frostbite and

  • some serious wampa wounds.

  • Though a sassy wampa-slap is a lot less serious than, you know, losing all your limbs.

  • The Rebels connection

  • Early intel for Rogue One was adamant about the film having nothing to do with the ongoing

  • animated series, Rebels, but now that seems like a bit of misdirection, for a few reasons.

  • First, it looks a lot like the Rebels ship Ghost is spotted among the fighters during

  • the film's final battle, indicated by the unique pattern of lights on the rear of the

  • ship.

  • There aren't too many ships' butts that look like a surprised clown, but the Ghost is one

  • of them.

  • Second, the name "General Syndulla" is mentioned, and unless "Syndulla" is the "Jones" or "Smith"

  • of the galaxy, that would have to be Hera Syndulla, the captain of the Ghost.

  • Some viewers have also speculated on the use of the name "Blacksaber" as one of the Empire's

  • projects, mentioned as Jyn is searching the archives and just before she lands on the

  • file she's searching for, "Stardust."

  • While there are a lot of sabers in the universe, the darksaber is an ancient Jedi artifact

  • once stolen by the Mandalorians and then wielded by Darth Maul, and yes, it has a black blade.

  • "Blacksaber" could refer to just about anything, though, from Darth Vader's towering, hellish

  • home, to an undisclosed death weapon, to Grand Moff Tarkin's favorite pie recipe.

  • Time will tell.

  • Blasting womp rats

  • Luke Skywalker, even though he'd one day become a noble Jedi, was a jerk of a kid.

  • To quash his boredom on Tatooine, he'd hop into his T-16 Skyhopper and fly around blasting

  • womp rats.

  • Apparently, his love of fun is shared by Stormtroopers, too, since two helmet-heads can be heard on

  • Scarif idly chattering about how the old T-15 models were getting phased out.

  • Do Stormtroopers go on joyrides, or is it just an endless nightmare of anxiety until

  • a rebel blows you up or a slightly perturbed Darth Vader crunches your windpipe?

  • We hope it's the former.

  • Red Five

  • The Rebel Alliance existed long before a shaggy-haired farmboy-turned-Jedi came along to save it.

  • While Luke was out collecting moisture in the desert and whining about not going to

  • Tosche Station, a real rebel soldier was flying around in an X-wing with the callsign Red

  • Fiveuntil he exploded during the attack on Scarif.

  • A little while later, Luke would take the same callsign during the Battle of Yavin,

  • destroying the first Death Star.

  • Since, you know, no one was using it anymore.

  • But he wasn't the only hotshot pilot, and he wasn't even the boss.

  • The head of the Red Squadron, Garven Dreis, survived the attack on Scarif and went on

  • to attack the Death Star at the Battle of Yavin.

  • Original actor Drewe Henley came back to play the role, at least via some amazing CGI work,

  • since Henley was 76 at the time, and passed away 10 months before the film reached theaters.

  • He can consider himself in some pretty solid, posthumous company.

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