Star Wars Comics Confirm Luke Visited Starkiller Base Before His Exile

Star Wars Comics Confirm Luke Visited Starkiller Base Before His Exile

Star Wars #19 reveals Luke Skywalker actually discovered Starkiller Base long before the sequel trilogy – but never realized what he’d stumbled upon.

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Star Wars Comics Confirm Luke Visited Starkiller Base Before His Exile

This article contains spoilers for Star Wars #19.

The Star Wars comics have revealed Luke Skywalker visited Starkiller Base before his exile – but never realized what the Empire was doing there, and likely forgot all about it. The Sith have always loved superweapons. As Master Yoda reflected in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, “Long ago in forgotten times, when the Sith and Jedi fought for control of the galaxy, weapons there were, of unimaginable power.” Naturally, when Palpatine rose to power, he brought back that tradition – and, in fact, he successfully manipulated the Republic into beginning work on the first Death Star long before he ever became Emperor.

A year after the Empire was established, Palpatine’s agents discovered the sacred Jedi planet Ilum – a world rich in Kyber crystals, a holy site of pilgrimage for the Jedi. The Empire began the process of converting Ilum into Starkiller Base, Terraforming and strip-mining Ilum; its rich Kyber deposits meant that, unlike with the construction of the Death Star, there was no need to seek out the precious crystals across the galaxy in order to power the potential superweapon. There were no telltale signs for Rebels to pick up on, meaning the work – which took decades – went entirely undetected.

Ironically, Charles Soule and Marco Castiello’s Star Wars #19 reveals Luke Skywalker actually visited Starkiller Base during its construction – but had no idea what was going on there. The comic is set shortly before Return of the Jedi, with Luke realizing he was no Jedi and needed further training. Master Yoda was not responding to Luke’s attempts to contact him, and so he began to comb the galaxy, following a list of planets that had once been sacred to the Jedi. He’d already discovered some of them – Tempes, for example, was a trap Darth Vader had set for any would-be Jedi – but he was particularly interested in the sacred Jedi planet Ilum. Unfortunately, Luke discovered the world was partway through conversion, and when he stood upon the planet’s surface he sensed the Empire was killing it. He left, and presumably never thought about Ilum again.

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Luke Skywalker can be forgiven for failing to realize what the Empire was doing to Ilum; nobody had ever converted an entire planet into a superweapon, at least as far as galactic records were concerned. What’s more, Starkiller Base wouldn’t be ready for an entire generation, so there probably weren’t any signs this was a weapon exceeding even the Death Star in potential. The Emperor was slain shortly after, with the Empire collapsing, and Luke presumably assumed whatever was happening on Ilum had stopped – if he ever thought about it at all.

The irony, however, is that – had Luke remembered Ilum – he could have caused major problems for the resurrected Empire. If he’d just traveled out to Ilum in the years after Return of the Jedi, he’d have stumbled upon the continued existence of the First Order, and he could have traced them to Emperor Palpatine’s gathering forces. But Luke didn’t think, and eventually, he exiled himself to Ahch-To – setting up the entire Star Wars sequel trilogy.

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