“He’s working on the ship-breaking yard, and he’s kind of weary. He probably took part in a couple of missions, but it’s not like they were sending him out like Anakin or anything like that,” Asmussen adds.Ĭal survived Order 66 and went into hiding on the planet Bracca where he keeps his abilities secret while working for a ship dismantling guild. “Before Order 66, he was seeing what was going on in the galaxy. We asked Asmussen what level of Jedi Cal is, and he said, “He’s a padawan.” He’s done some official Jedi work, but he’s not a knight, that we know for sure. We just wanted to make sure we had a young protagonist in the game.” Clearly he doesn’t look like that in the character art, but his age doesn’t really matter to us, to the point where we see in the databank, it’s just going to have a question mark. When he was a padawan, he was an adolescent. “It’s years,” he says, which gives you a little insight into how old Cal is and how old he was when everything happened, but it’s still vague. That was one of the few details revealed alongside the game’s name at E3 2018, but Asmussen gave us a hint at about how long it takes place after the third prequel film. It’s well known that Fallen Order takes place after Revenge of the Sith and before A New Hope. You can read a broader rundown of the game's narrative in the cover story, but here are the big beats with additional quotes from Asmussen. Is the mysterious temple on Ontotho part of that long-extinct civilization? While at the studio we asked Asmussen if he could reveal anything about the “long-extinct civilization” and all he said was “not today” with a laugh. We know that at least part of the game will “explore the mysteries of a long-extinct civilization in hopes of rebuilding the Jedi Order,” according to the game’s official website. Through this announcement we learn her master is a Jedi named Eno Cordova and the two travel to the remote planet Ontotho to “oversee the excavation of a mysterious temple.” Cere and Eno are both entirely new characters and the planet they travel to, Ontotho, also appears to be new. A five-issue comic book prequel series, coming in September, will look at Cere’s past. Much like Cal, Cere survived Order 66 and the two work together to try and revitalize the Jedi Order during the course of the game. Early in the game, Fallen Order’s protagonist, Cal Kestis, meets a Jedi named Cere Junda. Before diving into what we learned at the studio, Lucasfilm made a small, easy-to-miss announcement during E3 that sheds at least a little bit of light on the setup for Fallen Order’s story.