The driving plot point of The Force Awakens involves newbie droid BB-8 entrusted with a partial map to Luke Skywalker’s location, in a setup that directly mirrors the R2-D2 escort mission of the original 1977 movie. Beyond that, the idea of an incomplete star map has been used before, and is possibly yet another reference to the Knights of the Old Republic videogame.
In the game, the player is tasked with travelling to various iconic Star Wars planets to locate star maps, which when combined together provide a guide to finding a mysterious “Unknown World,” later named Rakata Prime. The maps in the game look very similar to the map to Skywalker that appears in the movie, and the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Visual Dictionary has confirmed that Rakata Prime is part of the new Star Wars canon, leading some fans to speculate that that Luke’s quest to find the first Jedi temple has taken him to the final planet from Knights of the Old Republic.
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