As we wait for Rogue One to arrive on Blu-ray next month, Collider provides readers with a new bit of trivia from the film that was revealed to them during an interview they recently conducted with director Gareth Edwards. The nugget of information pertains to how Jedha came to possess its wealth of kyber crystals which are the power source for the creation of lightsabers…and deadly, planet-sized weapons of destruction.
Collider’s own Steve Weintraub recently spoke with Edwards in anticipation of the Blu-ray release, and Edwards noted that this was the last interview he’d be doing in promotion of the film, and as such had one nugget of Rogue One trivia he wanted to share:
“There’s some stuff we did in there that are visual clues to ideas that maybe no one would ever know. I’ll tell you one thing, and this is my last interview to do with Star Wars so this is a scoop (laughs), but it’s probably not as interesting as some of the other things we talked about. If you look at the establishing shot of Jedha from above, the layout of it is this giant, circular rock formation around where Jedha is—the idea was that there was a meteor impact that hit Jedha and it came at such a force that it was what created the Kyber Crystals at the center of that crate of impact. So Jedha is like this very unique place in the galaxy in that it’s got a very high density of Kyber Crystals, which is what the Jedi need for lightsabers. So it became this holy city as a result of that meteor impact. But that must’ve happened maybe millions of years ago. We tried to tell that story in the establishing shot, you see the circular formation and at the heart of it is Jedha city.”
