Hello there and welcome to another Star Wars timeline discussion.
It’s video game time!
In this post we’ll be talking about the first video game in the timeline, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
The game takes place about five years after Revenge of the Sith and the purge of the Jedi Order. Our protagonist: Cal Kestis.
Cal is currently a nobody working as a scrapper on a garbage planet. He works with a bunch of other scrappers disassembling Republic and Separatist ships from the Clone Wars.
He and a buddy were taking apart a newly delivered ship when their platform collapsed and Cal had to use the force to slow down his friend’s fall and save him.
Using the force and being a Jedi is illegal now and the Jedi police immediately find out there’s a Jedi in the scrapper guild, and the Inquisitors came in and rounded everyone in to investigate.
Inquisitors and What They Do
Inquisitors will be popping up a lot in stories between trilogies. They are former Jedi/force users who have been kidnapped and tortured/brainwashed to hate and capture Jedi as a dark side police force.
There are a lot of them and I’m not sure of all the members, but their leader is the Grand Inquisitor who is ordered by Darth Vader, and the GI trains all the other Inquisitors. There is a lot of in-fighting going on between the members trying to move up in rank, but each one has a designation like 3rd Sister, 2nd Brother, etc. In Fallen Order we meet a few of them, but focus a lot on the Second Sister.
She finds out there’s a Jedi working as a scrapper and rounds them all up for investigation. Cal’s friend is killed and he is outed saving the others, and the story begins with him on the run.
A small crew on a ship called The Mantis rescued him and told him that they’re trying to bring back the Jedi Order. The pair of travelers, Greez and Cere, take Cal to various planets and meet various people to follow the path of Cere’s old master who created a list of force-sensitive children.
Cal meets a little droid named BD-1 on the first planet they visit. They quickly become best buds and explore the galaxy together to unlock the vault that has the list. Cal also needs to restore his attachment to the force in order to make it through all the challenges he faces.
My first challenge I faced in the game was this giant evil frog on the first planet.
Oggdo Boggdo
This stupid giant frog is the hardest boss in the game and I just fell into his cave. Fighting him is so hard and I died about 15 times.
I decided to stop trying for now and continue the game. Maybe my upgrades will beat him later
Cal’s Journey
It’s hard to tell a completely linear story with this game because there’s a lot of different planets to visit and there’s not a specific order to go through them. Sometimes even you had to pause and move on to visiting another planet to work on your Jedi skills before coming back stronger and exploring more of the planet. There are only 5 explorable planets including Bogano, so it isn’t too overwhelming.
Zeffo, Kashyyyk, Dathomir and Ilum are all the other planets that are explorable in the game, and Cal visits each of them multiple times to explore more of the planets and regain his abilities in the force.
Introducing: Merrin the Nightsister
Merrin is one of the sole survivors of the Nightsister massacre on Dathomir. She uses magic and necromancy to revive her dead sister’s to try and persuade Cal from leaving, but he is determined to complete his quest.
Merrin is currently working with another former Jedi who survived the purge: Taron Malicos. Malicos is persuading Merrin to not allow any outsiders, and he alone can restore her planet.
Cal discovers him and they fight after going to Ilum and building a new lightsaber. Merrin helps him and joins the crew of the Mantis.
Finale
Finally, Cal has regained all his skills and is ready to collect the holocron. While visiting the vault again, he had a vision of the possible future where he would train a new generation of Jedi, and the Empire would find them all and exterminate them. He snapped out of the vision to find the Second Sister confronting him. She took the holocron and ran to deliver it to Darth Vader.
That part doesn’t matter. What matters is I’m fully leveled up and ready to fight that stupid frog again.
This time I’m unstoppable and he cannot win.
Now fully leveled up Cal went off to stop the Inquisitors. He snuck into their fortress underwater and fought his way to the holocron. He and the second sister fought until he was able to talk her down, but Darth Vader showed up and killed her. Cal was not strong enough to fight him, and all he could do was run.
With the help of all his new friends he escaped the fortress and took the holocron. In the end, he decided to destroy it in order for no one to use the list of names against them.
Thoughts On the Game
The game itself is fun! Some hard combat at times but the exploring is fun if you don’t look at the map.
Seriously, don’t look at this. Can you read anything from this??
There were a lot of different collectibles in the game that I enjoyed. There were seeds you could plant in the ship, and there were other items you can discover and scan for more information on the world.
And customization was limited, but Cal is the poncho king and has a ton of options. You can also customize the colors of your ship, but you’re away from it long enough that you won’t really get to see it much.
And that concludes the first video game! This was a long-awaited post because it took a long time for me to write. Honestly with a game where I have to travel to many places multiple times it was hard to figure out what to write about.
It’s been almost a year since I started this project, and I do plan on finishing it, so stay tuned for the next post about movies again!
Kristopher K. Online 
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