Force Matters: The Secret Origin of Tamtel Skreej Revealed in ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge — Echoes of Empire’ #3

Galaxy’s Edge “Original Trilogy-ization” continues as it turns out this is going to be a multi-story miniseries.

Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge — Echoes of Empire #3

By Ethan Sacks, Jethro Morales, Roi Mercado, Rachelle Rosenberg & Clayton Cowles

• Dejarik is the chess-like game Chewbacca and Threepio play on the Falcon en route to Alderaan in Star Wars.
• Amongst the Batuuan’s fighting Vader are a Duro, a Twi’lek, an Aqualish, a RA-7 protocol droid (aka a Death Star droid), a Threepio-esque protocol droid, pit droids (as seen in Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace), an architect droid (like Huyang from Ahsoka), and an HK-87 assassin droid.
• “Tamtel Skreej” is the identity Lando used as a guard in Jabba’s palace at the beginning of Return of the Jedi, with this story revealing how the Rebels acquired the chain code (essentially, a digital ID) to back up the ruse (with earlier stories suggesting Skreej was an actual person whose identity Lando stole, similar to Leia with the bounty hunter Boushh).
• Kod’yoks, a kind of hairy horse with horns, were first mentioned in the visual dictionary for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, though this issue is the first time they’ve been used as a substitute for “horse” in the English idiom “look a gift horse in the mouth.”
• Luke leaping in to take out the Stormtroopers blocking access to the Falcon is the kind of Bad-Ass Hero Moment we don’t get nearly enough of from Luke.
• Vader using the Force to pull the escaping Falcon back to the ground is similar to what he did in “Part V” of Obi-Wan Kenobi on Jabiim.
• Colo Clawfish first appeared in The Phantom Menace; they were one of the larger fish which menaced Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan and Jar-Jar as they journeyed through [Boss Nass voice] “the planet core.”
• Nam Chorios is an outer rim planet which first appeared in Babara Hambley‘s 1997 novel Planet of Twilight; it was later re-canonized in 2014’s Tarkin.
• Bib Fortuna assuming control of Jabba’s crime empire in the wake of his death in Return of the Jedi is established canon, amongst other things serving as the setup for The Book of Boba Fett.

Ending a story midway through issue three of a five-part miniseries only to pivot to another story is a bit of an odd creative decision that suggests neither story has much depth (or at least not enough to sustain an entire miniseries on its own). On the flip side, that’s better than just padding them out to meet the issue requirements.