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What we’ve seen of Crait so far has been visually striking. That’s the planet in The Last Jedi with the salt over the layer of red, you know the one.
Well, get used to it, because it’s going to be name-checked a bunch as we get deeper into the Journey to The Last Jedi. Starting with the Rogue One Ultimate Visual Guide and continuing all the way up to Leia: Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray, Crait was a rebel outpost in the past before becoming a haven for the Resistance on the run. What it’ll be like in the movie, we can’t say, but it was only very sparingly addressed in the books.
I’m talking on the podcast today about the circumstances that led Leia to Alderaan, and what she discovered there. And I’ll also be flagging an exchange in the novel that happens to tie into another of Claudia Gray’s existing novels, Bloodline…