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Star Wars resolves Kylo Ren plot gap from The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker left some irritating unanswered questions and plot holes because it wrapped up the Skywalker Saga.

Fortunately, Star Wars has a wealthy expanded universe that has resolved a few of these points, equivalent to whether or not Kylo Ren truly lied about Rey’s dad and mom, how Palpatine truly returned and who all these Sith followers had been.

That’s only a handful of the issues we have found since The Rise of Skywalker‘s launch, and now we’ve got one other one so as to add to the pile.

Remember that scene on Kef Bir which had the epic Kylo vs Rey lightsaber battle and the emotional Han Solo cameo? Kylo was truly stranded on that moon after Rey took off in his TIE fighter to flee to Ahch-To.

So how did Kylo – nicely, now truly Ben Solo – discover his option to Exegol to finally sacrifice himself to save lots of Rey’s life?

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In the film, we see Ben Solo arrive on Exegol and as he goes to assist Rey, we get a shot of the X-Wing she arrived in. Alongside it’s the TIE fighter that Ben arrived in.

That’s about the one rationalization we get within the film with the viewer filling within the gaps. He discovered an outdated TIE fighter on Kef Bir (there will need to have been one in that Death Star wreckage) after which made his option to Exegol.

Simple – nevertheless it would not actually make an excessive amount of sense.

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Exegol is within the Unknown Regions and intensely distant from Kef Bir. TIE fighters haven’t got hyperdrive, so how did Ben handle to make the journey in time and in a presumably very outdated TIE fighter?

And with no Sith Wayfinder to information him, how did Ben handle to get to Exegol within the first place? Yes, he’d been there earlier than, however that is a formidable feat of navigation to get there from a planet he’d possible by no means visited earlier than.

Fortunately, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Expanded Edition), written by Rae Carson, has all of the solutions you are on the lookout for.

Back on Kef Bir, Ben needed to climb by the ruins of the Death Star to search out the hangar bay, and it took a while to search out an “old scout-class TIE and coax it into flying for him”.

The benefit of this mannequin is that it truly has a succesful hyperdrive, in order that’s one downside mounted.

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As for a way Ben truly managed to make it to Exegol:

“He’d then followed Rey’s transmitted tracking markers toward Exegol, but the scout’s barely functioning navicomputers had taken a wrong turn, and he’d found himself grinding through unknown rough space,” it reads.

“It had taken all his concentration to correct his course and get back on track.”

After his sudden detour, Ben then arrives on Exegol and the remainder is historical past.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is obtainable on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K now, in addition to on Disney+, Sky Cinema Premiere and NOW TV.