Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
Star Warshas finally revealed how the Sith Wayfinder inStar Wars : The Rise of Skywalkerreally works . The Sith Wayfinder was essentially the MacGuffin ofStar Wars : The Rise of Skywalker , a orphic ancient Sith relic that could be plugged into a navicomputer to guide a ship to the ancient Sith redoubt of Exegol . Star Warshas gradually been revealing just how this exploit , with Justina Ireland ’s novelA Test of Couragetouching on a forgottenForce great power name wayfinding- one that allows a violence - sensitive to focus on some vergence in the Force , and direct themselves toward it . Now , though , the full detail have been fleshed out in the most unexpected way .
Tessa Gratton’sQuest for Planet Xstars Jedi Padawan Rooper Nitani , who allies with teenagers from two of the High Republic ’s wealthiest families to seek out the mysterious Planet X. A mysterious human race rich in the Force , Planet X is somehow relate with the grave Force predator known as the Levelers ( or , instead , the Nameless ) . It can be found using an ancient machine , one that potentially predates the Jedi Order itself - and that seems to be the basis for the Jedi and Sith Wayfinders .
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How The Wayfinder Really Works
The key lies with an found subject matter inStar Warslore called supraluminite , used in hyperspace compass because it naturally adjust to the center of the Galax urceolata . According toQuest for Planet X , it is possible for a Force - sensitive to change this alliance . They can do this by placing the supraluminite next to an object from a given location - say , Exegol in the case of the Sith Wayfinder , or Ahch - To in the deterrent example of Luke Skywalker ’s Jedi Compass fromStar Wars : The Last Jedi- and contemplate upon it with the Force . This process aligns the supraluminite to that location .
The Wayfinder is a minuscule more advanced than that , of course . In fact , there have been hints in canon that its computational top executive - used to create navigational road - became the basis for thefirst Sith Holocrons , with Luke Skywalker himself note the similarities between the devices . " If the holocron was a multipurpose data store , " he reflected in Adam Christopher’sShadow of the Sith , " it seemed consistent that it had develop from the wayfinder , the product of a more primitive , but no less hefty , Sith technology . " Luke seems to conceive the Sith invented Wayfinders and then Holocrons , with the Jedi presumably repurposing the technology .
The First Wayfinders Predated The Jedi & The Sith
astonishingly , though , Star war : The Bad Batchseason 2 , episode 5 advise the first Wayfinders forego the Jedi and the Sith . It saw Echo discover a mystic Star Compass , deliberately designed to evoke store of the one Luke Skywalker used inStar Wars : The Last Jedi- but far older . The technology was said to originate with a race called the Ancients , who subsist over 25,000 years ago , before the aurora of the Jedi . The Sith presumably expose an Ancient Wayfinder at one decimal point , and repurposed it to create ways to their own worlds . Still , the principle now seem clear , raising challenging questions about whether Wayfinders will be seen again - perhaps in the upcomingStar Warsmovie set around the time of the dawn of the Jedi .
