Star Wars: Return of the Sith

Star Wars: Return of the Sith is an upcoming film written and directed by JB that will be the first film of the Legacy saga. 
==Plot summary==
Thirty-seven years prior to the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (fifteen years before the outbreak of the Clone Wars), there has been a long-running power struggle between the Wey Clan and the outlying systems of the Galactic Republic, which has led Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum, leader of the Galactic Senate, to host a summit on the Outer Rim planet of Cantonica to resolve the dispute. Meeting in the palace of the crime lord Hekaro Wey, Valorum and Wey negotiate the terms to a treaty before the mysterious dark side cult known as the Brothers of the Night raid the palace. Unbeknownst to them, the Brothers of the Night are in league with the mysterious Darth Sidious, Dark Lord of the Sith, who secretly orders the cult leader, High Priest Sallow Caine, to assassinate Valorum.
Caine sends his general Boka to kill the Chancellor while he dealt with the others. While the members of the Senate Guard quickly escort Valorum and Vice Chair Mas Amedda outside of the palace to Valorum's executive shuttle, Boka makes his way over to the Chancellor. Meanwhile, more cultists arrive at the palace with a large Scorpenek droid that begins opening fire on its enemies, leaving the members of the Republic and Wey Clan scattered. While Valorum is safely secured into the shuttle, Boka grabs the defenseless Amedda by the neck and holds him up while laughing. Valorum orders the Senate Guard to retrieve Amedda, however, the guards insist that it would be far too dangerous to try saving him. Though uneased with the reality of the situation, Valorum orders the pilot to take off.
While the fighting coincided, Caine contacts Sidious to inform him that the Chancellor escaped, but also adds that the Vice Chair is in their custody. Sidious then orders Caine to retreat and await further instructions before ending communications. Caine tells Boka to bring Amedda alive and orders the remaining cultists to retreat while the Scorpenek droid provides cover fire.
Back on the Republic capital planet of Coruscant, Valorum contacts Wey inquiring about the incident at the summit. Wey informs him about the Brothers of the Night and that they captured Amedda. Wey also informs Valorum about their devotion to the dark side, suggesting that the Jedi are the only ones capable of bringing an end to the cultists. Therefore, Valorum secretly dispatches Jedi Knight Keleran Verso and his Padawan, Galen Fontaine, to Cantonica, in order to rescue Amedda and resolve the dispute between the Wey Clan and Brothers of the Night.
Upon their arrival, Wey sends the Jedi to the casino city of Canto Bight to seek out an informant named Plazer, who might know the location of the cultists. The two visit the Canto Casino and Racetrack, where Plazer was known to frequent. While Galen is mesmerized by the wealth and glamour that Canto Bight had to offer, Keleran tells him that the city is built on exploitation. While watching a fathier race at the Canto Bight racetrack, Keleran points out how the creatures are being brutally treated by their master Bargwill Tomder, explaining how people can enjoy themselves at the expense of others. Afterwards, the Jedi locate and apprehend Plazer in the Canto Casino after he tries running away from them.
Pulling him outside the casino, Keleran tells him that they are only there to help and asks him where the Brothers of the Night are held up. Plazer concedes and tells them that the cultists took his wife during the Red Raids. He tells them that he followed her captors to the western outskirts of the desert, where the cult's hidden temple was located. Plazer also adds that the temple is heavily fortified and it emanates a "dark aura" that he couldn't quite explain. Keleran releases the informant and pays him before heading for the temple based on the coordinates from Plazer.
After fighting through a squad of cultists outside the temple, Keleran and Galen infiltrate the temple and begin searching for the cult's leadership. Meanwhile, Sidious contacts Caine to inform him that Chancellor Valorum sent two Jedi to recover Vice Chair Amedda and urges him to be alert. He also informs the High Priest that he sent his apprentice, Darth Maul, to protect him and ensure that the Jedi don't escape with Amedda. As Keleran and Galen approach Caine and the other priests, they prepare to engage them, but are surrounded by several cultists and captured. Afterwards, they are taken to the Shadow Arena, where they are to be executed alongside Amedda. In the high stands, Caine steps out to announce the start of the executions, and with him stands Boka and Darth Maul, who had just arrived to witness the festivities. The trio are forced to fight an acklay, a nexu, and a rancor without any weapons. 
In the midst of their struggle, Lieutenant Talan Bizago of the Wey Clan arrives to rescue the trio from the arena at the behest of Hekaro Wey. As the group prepares to escape, Maul appears and engages in a lightsaber duel with Keleran and Galen, however, Talan fires at Maul from his ship, Fantasma's Revenge, allowing for an escape. On Coruscant, Keleran informs the Jedi High Council about the mysterious assailant he encountered on Cantonica, coming to the conclusion that he was a Sith, followers of the dark side and the ancient enemy of the Jedi Order thought to have been extinct for over a millennium. Though troubled by his findings, the Council refuses to act without approval from the Senate.
Meanwhile, the civilians of Coruscant riot outside the Senate Building to protest against Chancellor Valorum's treaty with the Wey Clan, though the Coruscant Security Force arrives to break up the incident. While the Senate expresses their own concerns with the treaty, Senator Hela Naterrie of Milano proposes a bill that would place a trade embargo on the Wey Clan and severely limit their access to key trade routes. After receiving some pushback from several senators, such as Senator Sheev Palpatine of Naboo, the secret persona of Darth Sidious, the bill is passed by the Senate, which in turn saved Valorum's seat in office.
Talan informs Keleran that he will return to help repel the cult's attack on Canto Bight. The Jedi Council sends Keleran and Galen back to Cantonica with Talan, hoping to shed some light on the Sith's involvement. Back on Cantonica, the trio join the battle against the cultists after meeting up with Hekaro Wey. As more Scorpenek droids storm the streets of Canto Bight reeking havoc, Wey orders his forces to retreat to the town Shattered Point. There, Wey gathers the townspeople and asks for their help in taking back their home. He also offers compensation for the help of the corrupt Canto Bight Police Department and local bounty hunters that resided in Shattered Point. As some of the townspeople claimed that this was Wey's fight alone, Talan stands with his father to beg for their assistance. He acknowledges that they must be afraid of the cultists, but he encourages them to fight for their families and loved ones. After his speech, everyone agrees to fight beside the Wey Clan to take back their home.
Wey informs Talan and Keleran about his battle strategy; with the Wey Clan, Canto Bight police officers, and townspeople volunteers acting as a distraction to the bulk of the Brothers of the Night's forces, and Talan and the Jedi will infiltrate the Temple of the Night to capture Caine. After receiving reports that the battle had begun, Caine informs Sidious, who then orders him to wipe them all out, claiming that their work was done. Meanwhile, Wey orders the activation of a deflector shield around his forces, which protects them from the ranged attacks of the Scorpenek droids, which were also equipped with shields. Boka orders the droids to focus their fire on the shield, but seeing them fail to penetrate the shield, orders the cultists to storm inside the shield and destroy the shield generator.
At the same time, Talan and the two Jedi storm the temple, where they are met by Darth Maul. While Keleran and Galen engage in combat with Maul, Talan continues his search for Caine. The duel moves from the entrance of the temple to the command station, where Caine was barking orders at Boka. Startled by their arrival, Caine activates a self-destruct beacon and runs away to join the others in Canto Bight. During the fight, Maul entraps Galen in a series of blast doors leading to the command station. However, Keleran cuts through the blast door with his lightsaber and joins in the fight with Galen and Maul. Afterwards, Maul runs behind one final blast door and waits for the Jedi in the command station. Eventually, the Jedi cut through the door and continue to fight Maul as the temple begins to come down on them, and they bring the fight back to the Shadow Arena.
By this time, Talan cuts off Caine's escape from the temple and the two begin fighting. As a massive pillar falls down in between them, trapping Caine inside, Talan tells him that this is over and leaves. Meanwhile, Maul manages to disarm Galen by cutting off his right forearm then sends him flying back with the Force. Angered by this, Keleran storms at the Sith Lord and manages to cut his double-bladed lightsaber in half, then Force chokes him. After Galen recovered to join his master, he attempts to talk some sense into Keleran, stating that his actions aren't the Jedi way. Galen's words of wisdom leads Keleran to release Maul, allowing for him to escape after hauling pieces of debris at them. Before boarding his ship, the Scimitar, Maul is contacted by Sidious, who orders his apprentice to retreat at once.
Following the battle, Talan thanks the Jedi for their sacrifice and sends Keleran off with the astromech droid R3-D3 as a parting gift. While heading back to Coruscant, Keleran meditates on his T-6 shuttle and envisions the destruction of the Jedi Order. Keleran wakes up in panic to tell Galen about his visions, stating that he needs to speak with the Jedi Council at once. Back on Coruscant, the Council informs Keleran that they promoted Galen to the rank of Jedi Knight, meaning that Keleran had become a Jedi Master. Therefore, Grand Master Yoda offers Keleran a seat on the Council, believing that his insight on the Sith could prove useful. However, Keleran declined the offer and announced that he wanted to leave the Jedi Order after much thought. He claims that the Jedi serve a corrupt Senate and that they are too blind to recognize that the Sith is plotting against them, something he couldn't sit by and watch happen. Although saddened by this, Yoda speaks on behalf of the Council by stating that they respect his decision and wishes him the best of luck.
Afterwards, Keleran visits the residence of Senator Hela Naterrie, Keleran's secret lover, to inform her of his decision to leave the Jedi Order. He tells her that they don't have to keep their relationship a secret anymore before asking for her hand in marriage. Hela instantly accepts and then she announces that she is pregnant with their baby. On Milano, the home planet of Keleran and Hela, the two hold a wedding, with the recently-knighted Galen, his new Padawan, Rozatta Tey, and the droids R3-D3 and TC-11 as the only witnesses.
==Development==
Before the creation of the Verso saga, Star Wars Legacy was originally intended to be a live-action television series named Star Wars: Lost Legacy. However, through further development and expansion of the overall story, JB figured that the series needed to be changed into a Star Wars canon based continuity instead to allow for numerous projects to be produced in the future. With that, the television series was transformed into the Star Wars Legacy continuity and the Legacy saga was introduced with five live-action television series to tell the story of the Verso family. However, while working on the stories of the saga, JB drew inspiration from the Star Wars saga, and reintroduced the Legacy saga as a series of nine live-action films. As a result, Return of the Sith was announced to be in production in October, 2023, along with the other eight films to complete the saga.
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