Via io9.com:
If you look at Star Wars as a whole, most of the movies, books, TV shows, comics, etc. are about the Skywalker family and their allies battling different iterations of the Empire. Can you imagine what the future of the franchise holds as we head into the end of their longstanding saga?
On one side they’re called the Rebels, the Resistance, the Jedi, or the Senate, but basically, all of those groups are led by, or are aligned with, a Skywalker. On the other end they can be called the Sith, the First Order, the Trade Federation, but they too are essentially groups created by, lead by, or built on the Empire. Every single canon story fans have seen or read over the past 40 plus years has been about tangentially related heroes battling new versions of the same villain again and again. Skywalkers and the Empire are the fundamental building blocks for Star Wars as we know it now. And they’re both probably going away.
That’s the prevailing theory for a few reasons. The biggest is the official press release for Star Wars: Episode IX which called the movie “the final installment of the Skywalker saga.” That suggests any characters who are directly (Kylo Ren) or indirectly (Rey) tied to that nine-part saga will have their stories closed out after that movie. That’s not to say we won’t continue to see stories set in that time frame. Stuff like Resistance, The Mandalorian, and the Cassian Andor streaming show are all set within the time of the movies and have direct ties to the Empire and Skywalkers. What we’re talking about, though, is the future beyond Episode IX. A story that, if it doesn’t continue to be about the lineage of Kylo Ren and or Rey, gets very, very hazy.
If there are no Skywalker connections and no versions of the Empire, there are a lot of questions to ponder. Who are the heroes? Are they humans? Aliens? Do they fly ships? What kind of ships? Where do they live? Do we know the planets? Do they use lightsabers? What do they know of the Force? Can they use the Force? And mostly importantly, what are they fighting for and who are they fighting against? Does the ensuing struggle change the galaxy? Without a semblance of the good or evil of the future, the mysteries are endless.
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