They suggested it might be wonderful to give a similar treatment to the amazing destinations in our solar system that JPL is currently exploring as part of NASA. (The NASA program that focuses on finding and studying exoplanets is managed by JPL.) Later, the director of JPL was on vacation at the Grand Canyon with his wife, and they saw a similarly styled poster that reminded them of the exoplanet posters. Each poster went through a number of concepts and revisions, and each was made better with feedback from the JPL experts.ĭavid Delgado, creative strategy: The posters began as a series about exoplanets - planets orbiting other stars - to celebrate NASA's study of them. But the joy of these stories is often that they sort of… ignore canon and have a bit of fun with the material.Background: A creative team of visual strategists at JPL, known as "The Studio," created the poster series, which is titled "Visions of the Future." Nine artists, designers, and illustrators were involved in designing the 14 posters, which are the result of many brainstorming sessions with JPL scientists, engineers, and expert communicators. A third sees a gang of “masterless Jedi” unite after hundreds of years with no sabers in sight, while alternate stories include warring Force-sensitive siblings, a wandering warrior apparently hunting down Sith from planet to planet and a jaded ex-Jedi who’s dragged back into helping others after giving up on life.įans might find themselves desperately working out how or where these stories fit into the ironclad Star Wars canon or timeline, and some are easier to place than others (Boba Fett turns up at one point, voiced by Temuera Morrison, which helps in that case). Another sees an upbeat droid dream of life having adventures with a lightsaber. One story sees a master and his apprentice heading to a distant planet, where they face off with a powerful Dark Side user (incidentally, a great concept for a series!). Appropriately given the influence of classic Japanese-language samurai movies on George Lucas, every episode focuses in some way on the Jedi and lightsabers, often with riffs that more clearly cast the Jedi as troubled ronin or samurai themselves. But what are these stories about? Well, again, it varies – though there are running themes.
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