Turns Out Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy Was Built on a Very Familiar Planet

The more we get to know about the future of the Force in a post Return of the Jedi, post Rise of Skywalker era for Star Wars, the more we are getting echoes of its long past.

The first piece of canon media to explicitly touch on the location of the Jedi Academy is Adam Christopher's Shadow of the Sith.

This isn't the first time Ossus has been named. It was first brought back to the Star Wars canon in a short story by Alexander Freed in the December 2014 issue of Star Wars Insider.

In Tales of the Jedi, Ossus was home to vital repository of Jedi knowledge, home to the Great Jedi Library, and one of the first worlds beyond Typhon that the most ancient versions of what would become the Jedi would visit. After the events of the Yuuzhan Vong war, Ossus became vital to the Jedi once more, even though the Great Sith War had ended.

There is a weird relationship with Star Wars. Like Knights of the Old Republic before it, the comic series is set in a time before the movies, but before the High Republic. The events and characters of Tales of the Jedi can be seen in current continuity thanks to the Qel-Droma Epics, a purported historical document that describes the events of the comic as a collection of ancient poetic epic. They are legends and fables only spoken of in whispers. It should be like that.

It is not clear what Star Wars will do with this connection in the future. We know that Ossus is fated to its destruction, and it is not likely that we will get to visit it in the future. Tython, one of the ancestral homes of the Jedi before the Jedi even existed, was namechecked by Star Wars and then nothing more was done with it.

It is possible that Tales of the Jedi will exist in a relationship to the current Star Wars canon as a source for fables and references here and there. Star Wars is in the process of changing its name to an animated anthology that is far away from the stories of the Knights of the Old Republic. As we get to see more of this period of time after and beyond the Skywalker Saga, it might be a chance to revisit some of the legends.

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