So Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 3 has finally dropped on Disney+, continuing the tragic tale of Obi-Wan discovering the true fate of his former Apprentice Darth Vader. In the episode we got some massive connections to the Star Wars books, games, comics and tv shows, including one of Anakins darkest moments.
So the episode begins inside of the cargo ship they used to escape last episode, with Obi-Wan yet again begging for his Master Qui-Gon Jinn to greet him from the cosmic force. Instead however, he is only greeted by the chilling voice of Reva, warning Obi-Wan that Anakin is still alive… We then get some crosscut shots with Darth Vader inside of his tank, intertwined with Obi-Wan hearing more voices from his past, including Yoda, Qui-Gon Jinn and Anakin on that Fateful day on Mustafar. Right after this, we see the final construction of Darth Vader’s suit onto his body, before he menacingly walks forward at his fortress on Mustafar. His suit in this series is actually pretty close to the one used in Rogue One.
Next, Vader moves to his throne room and opens a hologram call with Reva, revealing that he has been watching her for some time now. He also offers Reva the position of Grand Inquisitor is she is successful in finding Kenobi. This finally confirms the long held theory that the Grand Inquisitor is a rank that can be earned, rather than just going to the first Inquisitor who joined. In the very next shot, young Leia asks Obi-Wan what it feels like to use the force, and describes it as the feeling of safety you get after turning on the light in a dark room. Obviously this is the Jedi’s perspective on the force, but it’s actually pretty similar to the way Ahsoka explained it to a young child on the planet Thabeska shortly after Order 66. After crashing her Venator into the unknown ice Moon, Ahsoka was forced to live in hiding from the Empire, and she eventually discovered a young force-sensitive girl in the outer Room. She used a very similar way of describing the force to her, but this was before she started moving towards the balance.
After this, Obi-Wan and Leia’s cargo ship arrives on the imperial controlled planet of Mapuzo, where lots of imperial mining takes place. Mapuzo was mentioned in Star Wars legends, and we don’t know much about it apart from the fact that a huge robbery took place there… During their journey across the planet, Obi-Wan is having horrific visions, which are powerful enough to even scare Leia. If it wasn’t already clear, he’s a very scarred man by this point in the timeline.
Now in the next shot we arrive at an extremely cool location, that we’ve actually seen before in Star Wars Canon. This place is called Fortress Inquisitorious and is the home base of Darth Vader’s inquisitors. It is located on the Moon Nur in the Mustafar system, but was only moved there after Two Inquisitors fell in love at their old headquarters on Coruscant and Darth Vader shredded up the whole area to find them. As a result, Palpatine forced Vader to move their headquarters to his home system of Mustafar, and here we are. It has previously appeared in the Darth Vader: 2017 comics as well as at the end of Jedi Fallen Order.
Inside the main chamber, Reva comes in and asserts her position as the new leader following the Grand Inquisitor’s “death”, if you can call it that, and you can actually see some Jedi artefacts in the background. First is either a Jedi Temple guard Mask, or one of the youngling helmets that they used to train, and after that you can see a row of lightsabers. These are presumably from inside the Jedi temple, after Vader’s complete slaughter.