Does that mean Luke returns him for some reason? Or that Din changes his mind about leaving the child behind like he did in season one? These are questions we just don’t have answers to yet. We know there are definitely more seasons of The Mandalorian coming, and with Pedro Pascal on board, the little guy probably will be too. Why would Disney want to break from such a captivating formula? The bond between the child and his surprised father figure is at the core of what’s made the show a success. There’s even the chance Kylo Ren could encounter Grogu much later, before the official emergence of the First Order but after his fall and Luke’s self-imposed exile.īut let’s be honest: is Grogu’s time away from The Mandalorian really going to stick? From a narrative standpoint, it would be surprising if Grogu and Din Djarin were really apart for long. Anything could happen to Grogu in that time.

That means that there will be almost two decades of Grogu’s life that will likely remain unwritten for the next few years.

Judging by how timid Disney has been about exploring more of Luke’s post- Return of the Jedi story, it’s likely that we won’t learn more about his academy for some time, especially as the books and some of the shows turn to the High Republic era. We don’t know where Grogu’s story is headed next after Luke takes him. So what if Baby Yoda was trapped in the burning Jedi Temple? We already know he can protect himself from fire with the Force, as he did in “Redemption.” That said, this is all speculation. Stream your Star Wars favorites right here! So it’s almost certain he’d be alive when Luke’s academy fell. He’d still be a child in terms of the way his species ages. Just 19 years after the events of “The Rescue,” Grogu wouldn’t even be 100. The academy existed until about 28 ABY, at which point Ben destroyed it and became Kylo Ren. Meanwhile, The Force Awakens takes place in 34 ABY, and Ben Solo was born in 5 ABY. The Mandalorian takes place in 9 ABY (After the Battle of Yavin). But there’s a lot of time between The Mandalorian and anything we’ve seen elsewhere. In the years immediately after Return of the Jedi, Luke is busy learning all he can about the old Jedi Order and building his own academy, the same one we’ll see burning in flashbacks throughout the Sequel Trilogy and the comic book miniseries The Rise of Kylo Ren by Charles Soule and Will Sliney.

Thanks to the season 2 finale, “The Rescue,” we now know that Luke Skywalker does indeed take Grogu as his student to be trained in the ways of the Force.

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