Warning! This publish incorporates SPOILERS for Star Wars: Jedi Knights #8
Star Wars has revealed that Grogu’s rescue throughout Order 66 was secretly tied to a key Jedi legacy. Saved from the Jedi Purge, it has since been confirmed that the Jedi Grasp who saved the highly effective baby was all the time going to be the one to make sure Grogu’s security.
When the newly christened Darth Vader and the 501st Legion got here to the Jedi Temple and started massacring Jedi Masters and younglings alike, Grogu was saved and brought away from Coruscant due to the efforts of Jedi Master Kelleran Beq. Now, it has been confirmed that Grogu’s rescue was no mere coincidence, contemplating Beq’s newly revealed Jedi historical past.
Kelleran Beq Debuted In The Mandalorian Season 3’s Order 66 Flashback, Saving Grogu
In The Mandalorian season 3, Grogu displays on his time on the Jedi Temple through the occasions of Order 66. This key flashback to the Jedi Purge noticed a trio of Jedi Knights desperately warding off murderous clone troopers as they sought to get Grogu to Grasp Beq (performed by Jar Jar Binks actor Ahmed Greatest).
As soon as discovering Grogu, Beq took on a number of clones whereas dual-wielding blue and inexperienced lightsabers. Future entries within the Star Wars canon confirmed Beq’s nickname was “The Sabered Hand” resulting from his prowess as a gifted swordsman. Securing a ship with the Naboo Royal Guard, Grasp Beq and Grogu efficiently escaped Coruscant.
Whereas the duo’s history between Order 66 and Din Djarin finding Grogu stays unknown, new revelations about Kelleran Beq’s early Jedi historical past have shed new gentle on why the opposite Jedi Knights have been so decided to get the kid to Grasp Beq particularly through the purge: Grogu was Beq’s private duty.
Star Wars Proves There Was No Higher Jedi To Save Grogu Than Kelleran Beq
As seen in Marvel’s new Jedi Knights #8 by Marc Guggenheim and Madibek Musabekov, Jedi Grasp Kelleran Beq is proven saving a youngling who had simply been recruited and brought from her homeworld, just for her Jedi escorts to die after encountering a bunch of pirates en path to Coruscant.
Set earlier than The Phantom Menace, this additional reveals that Kelleran Beq was liable for younglings earlier than they have been chosen to turn out to be Padawans.
Earlier than The Mandalorian season 3, Kelleran Beq first debuted because the host of Star Wars: Jedi Temple Problem, a kids’s recreation present which premiered on YouTube again in 2020. Mixed with a point out within the latest novel Inquisitor: Rise of the Crimson Blade, we all know that Grasp Beq cared for and skilled younglings on the Jedi Temple’s crèche alongside Yoda.
Because of this new challenge setting an epic precedent, we now know that there was no Jedi Grasp higher suited to save lots of Grogu throughout Order 66 (or any endangered youngling) than Kelleran Beq.
Star Wars: Jedi Knights #8 is now on sale from Marvel Comics.
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Mark Hamill, James Earl Jones, David Prowse, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Ian McDiarmid, Ewan McGregor, Rosario Dawson, Lars Mikkelsen, Rupert Buddy, Moses Ingram, Frank Oz, Pedro Pascal
- TV Present(s)
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The Mandalorian, Andor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka, The Acolyte, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Lando, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Star Wars: Resistance, Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures, Star Wars: Visions
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Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II – Assault of the Clones, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Again, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: Episode VII – The Power Awakens, Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Final Jedi, Star Wars: Episode IX- The Rise of Skywalker, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars: Daybreak of the Jedi, Star Wars: New Jedi Order
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Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Rey Skywalker, Emperor Palpatine / Darth Sidious, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, Grand Admiral Thrawn, Grand Inquisitor, Reva (The Third Sister), The Fifth Brother, The Seventh Sister, The Eighth Brother, Yoda, Din Djarin, Grogu, Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, Leia Organa, Ben Solo/Kylo Ren
