Rogue One Rogue One planets

Its Badu/Eadu.

Speculation on my part based on what I believe to be a missing planet.

 

I suspect it's Eadu.

 

McQuarrie's temple design looks more like two separate chambers, while Jedha's temple with its two separate but close spires and one chamber gives it a very harmonious feel, where two faiths come together to worship in a unified temple. It might be a statement about Israel/ Palestine, and hopefully it's viewed as the possibility of harmony despite difference. The city may have been very peaceful before the Empire occupies it. There might be a scene where we see red-garbed worshippers enter one side of the temple, blue-garbed worshippers the other, and an interior shot where they're all intermixed.

 

What's your take on Badu? Jedha underworld or different planet altogether?

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"There might be a scene where we see red-garbed worshippers enter one side of the temple, blue-garbed worshippers the other, and an interior shot where they're all intermixed."​

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And what of the Force/Jedi worshippers who don't wear Red or Blue or who wear both? ​

 

Well, it's now officially confirmed as Eadu.

I think it's another place. Possibly the planet that Jedha (a moon) orbits.

 

Eloody Eollocks.

 

JabbatheHumanBeing "I think it's another place. Possibly the planet that Jedha (a moon) orbits."

So, why do you think the Rogue One team go there? And what is Krennic doing there?

 

They enter through the middle door.

 

I've been thinking. The shot of the city on Jeddha shows transport ships carrying those orange crates to and from the city. But where are they coming from?

Perhaps the central hub for the kyber crystal operations is on the comparatively hospitable (in terms of atmosphere) Jeddha, but the mining is happening not on Jeddha, but on the planet it orbits...Eadu?

Just a thought.

 

I'm probably going to argue against my own assumption here but;

1, The Kyber Crystals being taken from Jedha are those in the Temple's store room. The Imperials transport them through the streets to a landing area on the other side of town. This opens the possibility of Eadu being another planet altogether where Kyber crystals are also being mined (there is an orange crate near Krennic's shuttle).

2, The Kyber crystals are mined deep in the depths of Jedha and transported to the surface via sky-barges. They are offloaded to a surface distribution point and transported to the landing area.

I still think that Eadu is Jedha's underworld but the fly in the ointment is the fact that Krennic's shuttle, X-Wings and U-Wings can somehow get down there yet the big Imperial transports can not. Maybe the entrance is just too small for the transports?

 

Where is there a transcending light and dark theme in the ST?

 

Based on the poem that opens the TFA novelisation and the trailer for season three of Rebels, that's my speculation.

 

I can understand why you would read it that way. However, I read it differently. Jedi don't deal in absolutes. Everything is relative. There is darkness and there is light. Provisionally we say there is black and white, but it isn't absolute, or to be punny, things are t black and white. Maybe 50 shades of gray? However, there is darkness and brightness. Oxford gray is darker than Cambridge gray.

Likewise, Yoda killing clonetroopers to defend himself and to get to the bottom of things is darker than sparing their lives, but it was justifiable. It wasn't murder, he didn't give into hatred or pride, it didn't make him great. Thus, he didn't give into the dark side. Had he given into the dark side by giving into hate, or using techniques whose foundation require the dark side, such as force choke or lightning, then that would even be darker along the spectrum. Transcending the light and dark would be a void, not even a muddy gray as gray is composed of black and white. Discerning the relative brightness and darkness is achieved by Jedi insight, as well as by the Father and temporarily by Anakin on Mortis.

If you look at the Taiji symbol, brightness is within and darkness and vice versa. Things are relatively yin and yang. While GL's Force doesn't match the Taiji exactly, it's the restiveness, the complimentary nature of things that is nondual for Chinese philosophy and the Force. This nondual isn't monism but polarity (up and down, which are coequal, unlike God and human, and God is transcendent. The Church of the Living Force is a pantheistic religion, not transcendent like the Faiths of Abraham.

Jedi insight can't resolve the much more than 50 shades of gray (and we gotta keep it PG-13) if it transcends light and dark. Just the opposite, the Jedi can see the light and dark in the spectrum of gray.

 

Sorry if I got off tangent. But this Jeddah planet sounds very interesting. OK, back on topic.

At first I was opposed to Kiber crystals like some are opposed to midichorians. I love Excalibur, LOTR, and Potter. Spells and wands may augment innate and developed magical abilities. I was glad after reading rough drafts of ANH GL dropped this idea and didn't care for it in SOTME, the original SW 2. However, I like how the idea has been realized. We don't have Kenobi complaining Vader stole his crystal or Sith Lords worshipping a big crystal.

 

I think the only planets that we will see is the one's trailers

 

we have a leaked image of a raincoated Jyn Erso, and again, it's written Eadu....i have to watch the trailer again but it makes sense if that's what she's wearing during the "rainy pillar planet" sequence. Notice we don't see her wearing it in any of the Jedha city sequence. I think it's indeed a new planet and not just the name of the city (and if this was her outfit for a couple of scenes outside of the city it would have been "jedha" and not "eadu")

 

Funny that LFL have given us details on Scarif and Jedha but no mention of Jyn's home planet or the 'place' called Eadu.

 

Yeah. I wonder if this has to do with not spoiling certain plot points.

 

Thats part of the reason I'm starting to wonder if Eadu isn't the real climax of the movie.

They've been very hush hush on Iceland since the beginning. Seems like they want to keep that whole part locked in the "mystery box," I was surprised that it featured so prominently in the international trailer.

 

Given how much they've shown of Scarif so far, I'm hoping that's the case. We didn't get good looks at the Starkiller Base scenes till the final trailer and tv spots.

Plus if this is a dark, rainy sequence for part of the third act, it could make for a unique climax in comparison to previous films.

 

This would also make sense in regards to Baze Malbus’ “they destroyed our home” line in the trailer while on Eadu.He is probably referring to the scene where it looks like the city on Jedha is being destroyed (the shot where Jyn and Cassian are fleeing on a ship). Possibly as a result of a certain weapons test. If they call Jedha home, I’d bet the climax of the movie is on this new planet, after the destruction of Jedha.

 

Maybe the team is confronted by Vader on Eadu?

By the way. I find it interesting that the name Eadu is very similar to Tarkin's Home Planet Eriadu.

 

More thoughts on 'Eadu is not a planet';

Erso seems to be doing his research on a volcanic planet during the flash back scenes. The Eadu rock formations have a volcanic look to them. Perhaps Kyber crystals are either formed in cooling volcanoes or are brought closer to the surface by the flowing molten rock? Perhaps the city on Jedha sits on an extinct volcano and the Kyber crystals are extracted from the volcanic caves below?

 

during the semi-official toy video, the alien Pao says he's on Eadu. And it's the rocky, rainy environment we saw in the trailer. I think it's safe to say there'll be 5 distinctive planets in R1: Yavin 4 / Scarif / Jedha / Eadu / Iceland planet

 

Yeah, he's been pushing it being underground jedha for so long though he's pot committed