Conveniently, when they return to Luke’s home, Luke discovers his entire family’s been murdered. Obi-Wan tries to recruit Luke to save Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and recover the stolen plans to the Death Star, but Luke says he has family obligations. Plot: Luke (Mark Hamill) accidentally acquires a droid with a message from a captured, pretty princess asking for help from Obi-Wan, Luke’s old neighbor who turns out to be a Jedi. Obi-Wan and Yoda decide to split the twins up, so Leia gets to go live in the lap of luxury while Luke is sent to a pit in the desert. So does Padme as she gives birth to twins. All the Jedi, save Obi-Wan and Yoda, die. (That’s six missing limbs and counting in this series.) Darth Vader is saved and gets a snazzy suit. Obi-Wan cuts off all of Darth Vader’s limbs and leaves him a torso burning up in a river of lava. He also chokes his wife using the Force-you know, the wife he was trying to save by becoming a Sith. He takes the name “Darth Vader” and becomes very evil-like, murdering a bunch of angel-faced baby Jedi padawans evil. Since Anakin has been having visions of Padme dying during childbirth, the whole “turn evil to save his wife’s life” thing sounds pretty good. Palpatine uses the opportunity to drop hints to Anakin that he knows how to stave off death. Plot: The Jedi Council orders Anakin to spy on Chancellor Palpatine.

MORE Here’s Everything We Already Know About Star Wars: The Last Jedi Here’s where all the movies all fit on the fictional timeline and (spoiler alert!) summaries of the plots for those who have forgotten what’s happened so far. Events that take place before that battle are called BBY (Before the Battle of Yavin), those after ABY (After the Battle of Yavin). Star Wars fans measure time in the universe relative to the Battle of Yavin, the clash that led to the destruction of the first Death Star in A New Hope. The events of the film fit right into the middle of the Star Wars timeline, which will get even more complicated with several planned sequels and spinoffs hitting theaters in the coming years. Rogue One is set just before A New Hope and introduces an entirely new cast of characters-Rebel spies who set out to steal the plans to the Death Star.

It’s the first standalone Star Wars story that doesn’t fit directly in the Darth Vader-Luke-Rey storyline. Is Rogue One a sequel? A prequel? A spinoff? The answer is yes-to all of the above.

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