Star Wars Insider – July 2019

STAR WARS INSIDER / 35

RESISTANCE REVISITED

AsthestoryonCastiloninches
closertotheeventsofTheForce
Awakens,PoearriveswithCB-23
tocollectBB-8fora specialmission
toJakkuontheordersofGeneral
LeiaOrganaherself.Butfirst,Poe
andKazpaya visittotheDassal
systemintheUnknownRegions
andmakea chillingdiscovery
aboutthemightoftheFirstOrder.
There,theyfindentireplanets
coredanda sunthat’sbeen
extinguished,wipingoutall
signsoflifeintheprocess.

OutspokencriticsoftheFirst
Orderbegintogomissingunder
suspiciouscircumstances.After
stormtrooperstrytopressureAunt
Z intopostingtheirpropaganda,
shemysteriouslydisappears.
CaptainDozais forcedtoground
theracers,andamidhisown
criticismofevents,Hypealso
vanisheswhilehisbelovedship
remainslockeddown.AfterTorra,
Kaz,andCB-23discoverwherethe
outlawsarebeinghidden,they
helpthemescapebeforerushing
backtoYeager’sgarage,onlytofind
stormtrooperswaitingforthem.

CommanderPyreandhistroopers try to place Kaz and Yeager under arrest, but

withsomehelpfromBucketthey manage to get away with Neeku and Kaz’s new

droidCB-23.However,Tam,confused by the accusations and torn by her duty to

followtherules,doesn’trun.As her friends try to evade capture whilst launching

a schemetosinktheplatformand deactivate a communications jammer, Tam is

takenintocustodybyAgentTierny, whose gentle manipulations begin to leave the

mechanicquestioningif shereally knows Kaz at all.

Episode 19

Descent

DirectedbyBoscoNgWrittenbyPaulGiacoppo

Watching a devastating

transmission showcasing

the power of Starkiller

Base, Kaz witnesses the last

day of the Republic when

his home planet, Hosnian

Prime (the New Republic

capital) is destroyed.

Meanwhile, Agent Tierny

convinces Tam that she

will only reach her full

potential as a pilot by

joining the First Order. Kaz

and his friends reactivate

the forgotten engines of

the Colossus, and the ship

jumps to hyperspace.

Episodes 20-21

No Escape

Directed by Steward Lee (21) Saul Ruiz (22)

Written by Brandon Auman (21 & 22)

Episode 17

The Core Problem

Directed by Saul Ruiz
Written by Kevin Burke and Chris “Doc” Wyatt

Episode 18

The Disappeared

Directed by Sergio Paez Written by Steven Melching