⭐️ FEATURED
I really need to finish Fallen Order, but since my brother takes up all the free time on our Xbox, I have to go elsewhere. I’ve obtained the majority of the story through screen recordings from other players.
One particular sequence in the game caught my eye: Trilla’s turn to the dark side at Fortress Inquisitorius, a base that Palpatine first mentions in issue #20 of Charles Soule’s Dark Lord of the Sith comic series.
I noticed what I thought was a continuity error in the sequence.
Before Palpatine relocates the Inquisitors, the Second Sister appears in issue #19 of Dark Lord of the Sith, which takes place in 14 BBY.
Fallen Order also takes place in 14 BBY, so according to Cal’s vision in the game, Trilla was present at the fortress before it was even built.
After giving it some thought, I realized that the discrepancy would be resolved if I assumed that the fortress already existed before it belonged to the Inquisitors.
Given this assumption, I then wondered, “What was the base used for before Palpatine moved the Inquisitors there?” The simple answer is that it was a prison for Jedi.
The more interesting answer I came up with makes a ton of sense given the location of the fortress: Nur, in the Mustafar system. Palpatine already had the base in mind from the first time he ever thought of using Inquisitors.
The specific instance I refer to is in The Clone Wars, in the episode “Children of the Force,” in which Anakin and Ahsoka rescue Force-sensitive children from Palpatine’s secret facility on Mustafar. Near the end of the episode, Palpatine orders the facility destroyed and his assets moved to a backup location.
It would be useful to have that backup location on a moon in the same system, wouldn’t it?
On top of it all, Palpatine foresees “an army of Force-talented spies” in his service. I’ve always directly linked this line to the creation of the Inquisitors, just another layer in his perfect plan. The base on Nur was there from the beginning to see it through.
What do you think of this theory?
