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Star Wars stories tend to be about hope and perseverance despite overwhelming odds, a theme shared with the mission-driven Sackcloth & Ashes, which launches its first Star Wars collaboration today.

In 2014, CEO Bob Dalton founded the company during a dark time in his life, when his own mother experienced homelessness. “Prior to my mom being on the streets, I was pretty judgmental toward people on the street corners holding signs and asking for money,” Dalton admits. “It was hard for me to wrap my mind around the idea that some of these people weren’t capable of going to get a job. The irony in all of it was that my mom is the hardest working person I know, so it deconstructed my bias. She ended up on the streets

Every Tuesday, Bring Home the Galaxy will reveal new products inspired by the Star Wars saga and showcase the best galactic gifts this year for the whole family. Check StarWars.com each week for a highlight of five select products, including some of the biggest reveals. Plus, in collaboration with UPS this holiday season, special Star Wars Bring Home the Galaxy-themed wrapped UPS trucks will appear along regular delivery routes in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Orlando, and Atlanta.

This week, Bring Home the Galaxy welcomes a rebel leader to the Star Wars: The Black Series collector’s line and much more. Read on for some of our favorite items of the week and details for two new sweepstakes!

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To help you Bring Home the Galaxy this holiday season, check out @StarWarsLife on Instagram every Wednesday through December

The rebellion has begun! Andor is now streaming on Disney+, following the fan-favorite rebel in a tale set five years before the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and we’re watching. Join StarWars.com every week for Andor Analyzed, in which we list the best moments from each episode.

Spoiler warning: This article contains story details and plot points from the eighth episode of Andor, “Narkina 5.”

The Empire has no idea who they’ve detained.

In the eighth episode of Andor, Cassian Andor is hauled off to the sterile prison facility on Narkina 5 under the alias Keef Girgo. It’s a bleak existence, a seemingly endless string of grueling 12-hour work shifts assembling Imperial widgets in competition with six floors of other inmates. The winners get some flavor added to their daily sustenance, a peachy liquid dispensed

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…for all things creepy! While it’s true that Star Wars features moments of heroism, leadership, bravery, and swashbuckling fun, it’s also a great place to go for a good scare. Since fear is the path to the dark side and it’s Halloween, let’s put the spotlight on those frightening Sith moments that make you wish you kept the light on in the first place!

1. Darth Sidious Emerges

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith gives us arguably the most chilling Sith moment in the saga: the reveal of Sheev Palpatine’s true identity as a Sith Lord. As Mace Windu and Palpatine (who is armed with a red lightsaber) duel to the death, Windu deflects Palpatine’s Sith lightning back on him. Metaphorically speaking, the

After spending several scary seasons inside the chilling halls of Darth Vader’s castle, this year’s galactic take on the Halloween season has found a new haunt: Jabba the Hutt’s Palace.

More specifically, dangling over the trap door that leads to the rancor pit.

Writer Cavan Scott could think of no better setting to incorporate the fear factor of his previous titles and his affinity for the creatures and aliens of the original trilogy. Styled after the 1960s-era portmanteaus from Amicus Productions and other horror movie houses, the first Star Wars Halloween one-shot from Dark Horse departs from Mustafar for the second scariest place in the galaxy: the Dune Sea of Tatooine.

“There’s a sort of a Pit and the Pendulum type thing going on there as well,” Scott tells StarWars.com,

Chandrila has a rich history, full of heritage and judicious customs. Even their food and drinks come from a long tradition, and this fizzy delight is the perfect beverage to toast to any celebratory occasion — just ask Mon Mothma.

Inspired by Andor, now streaming on Disney+, this recipe is flavored with mango juice and an added planetary specialty — squigs. These edible eels add a tasty chew to the bubbly drink, something unexpected and uniquely Chandrilian. Whether it’s your Day of Days or a casual but elegant dinner party, a glass of this slippery specialty is always welcome. Sagrona!

Chandrilan Squigs

Ingredients

For the squigs

1 tablespoon raspberry gelatin powder 1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin 1/2 cup boiling water 1 tablespoon heavy whipping cream 6 flexible plastic straws

While Star Wars has a focus on heroes, rebellions, and hope, it also has its fair share of scary stories, characters, and creatures that call the galaxy home. From the Nightsisters, who can be found on Dathomir, to giant spiders that make your skin crawl, the various Star Wars animated series have a host of downright frightening episodes to dive into. 

In honor of Halloween and International Animation Day 2022, StarWars.com has assembled nine of the scariest Star Wars animated episodes out there. If you’re looking for some ghoulactic frights this Halloween, these’ll do the trick.

1. Star Wars: The Clone Wars — “Massacre” (Season 4, Episode 19)

This episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars delivers an entire zombie army of Nightsisters! Asajj Ventress returns to Dathomir to join

Of all the people Cassian Andor has met in Andor, the new Star Wars live-action series now streaming on Disney+,  there’s one person Diego Luna believes has the greatest impact on his character’s journey: his mother, Maarva, played by Fiona Shaw.

The Irish-born actor has played Harry Potter’s dour aunt in the Harry Potter films and a stone-cold MI6 agent in Killing Eve, but her turn as Cassian’s adopted mother is strikingly different. A warm yet unflinching presence in young Cassian’s life, and a buoy in the storm of his chaotic adulthood, by the time we meet her in her later years, her patience with the Empire has just about worn out.

“I can tell you everything I know about Maarva, but I’m not sure I should,” Fiona Shaw tells StarWars.com. “It’s

Star Wars Inside Intel is a StarWars.com feature where Lucasfilm’s Emily Shkoukani, whose job is to know as much about a galaxy far, far away as possible, explores obscure facts about Star Wars lore and continuity. In this creepy installment for Halloween season, Emily takes a look at a mysterious cult of Force worshippers… 

First mentioned in Marvel’s Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #15 in the story “War of the Bounty Hunters: Party Favors,” the Ascendant was a Force cult existing long before the Skywalker Saga, sometime during the Sith’s reign. Known for their wicked technology, the Ascendant were eventually eliminated by Sith and Jedi alike, who feared the devices conjured by the cult.

Tech Cult

There are two things that define the Ascendant: technology and the occult. The

Din Djarin is back and he’s teaming up with opportunistic Toro Calican.

In StarWars.com’s exclusive first look at The Mandalorian #5, an adaptation of “Chapter 5: The Gunslinger,” now streaming on Disney+, the titular bounty hunter has limped his ship to Tatooine, where he’ll have to team up with Calican to track down the elite assassin Fennec Shand if he hopes to have enough credits to repair his ship.

The Mandalorian #5, written by Rodney Barnes and illustrated by Georges Jeanty, with a cover by Stephanie Hans, arrives November 2 and is available for pre-order now on ComiXology and at your local comic shop.

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