Gareth Edwards Reveals This Easter Egg About Kyber Crystals

With the release of the Blu-Ray almost here, more info is coming out about Gareth Edwards' Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Just recently, Edwards himself has revealed an Easter Egg about Jedha city and the origin of Kyber crystals.

In an interview with Collider, Edwards explained:

"If you look at the establishing shot of Jedha from above, the layout of it is this giant, circular rock formation around where Jedha is — the idea was that there was a meteor impact that hit Jedha and it came at such a force that it was what created the Kyber Crystals at the center of that crate of impact. So Jedha is like this very unique place in the galaxy in that it's got a very high density of Kyber Crystals, which is what the Jedi need for lightsabers. So it became this holy city as a result of that meteor impact. But that must've happened maybe millions of years ago. We tried to tell that story in the establishing shot, you see the circular formation and at the heart of it is Jedha city."

A rejected concept for the movie actually had Jedha riddled with several massive craters, signifying that the Empire had been mining the entire planet for Kybers excessively; but then again, I was alright with how the movie turned out. Some part of me is just wishing that we got to see what the inside of the Jedi temples looked like.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hits Blu-Ray on April 4.

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