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Star Wars: The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland is gearing up for the series' release on Disney+ next month, and says she was inspired LucasArts’ classic video game spinoff series, Knights of the Old Republic. Headland opened up about how The Acolyte pulled from the rest of the Star Wars universe to help tell its story during a recent interview with Den of Geek . Seeing as the series takes places long before even Episode I – The Phantom Menace, she and the rest of her team had room to play with Star Wars canon.

One character who was on the table was dark side pioneer Darth Bane, though it sounds like he won’t show up in Season 1. “While we don’t get into that particular lore, there were some things in Legends that I wanted to drag out because I felt they were really interesting, not only to the storyline but to myself as a fan," Headland said. "I thought, ‘Well, I’d love to do that.



’ ” Legends is a term for Star Wars stories and characters that aren’t widely considered to be part of the official universe canon. Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2 fall under this umbrella, but it turns out Headland is a fan of what those games had to offer. “Darth Traya really stuck out to me as an inspiration,” she said.

Darth Traya, also known as Kreia, appears in Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords and is one of the game’s primary villains. Headland didn't elaborate further, however, on how exactly the character’s influence, or any other parts of Knig.

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