Yeah so I stumbled across this disturbing fact a while ago. Basically it comes down to this one moment in the Fortnite x Star Wars live event that happened just before the release of Episode 9. I’ll sum up the event real quick but there are plenty of YouTube videos if you guys want to watch it yourself.

So the event starts with the Millennium Falcon jumping to the Fortnite island from Hyperspace. JJ Abrams walks out and talks for a bit, they show a clip from the movie, and then the Falcon blasts off, however something happens right before that, that I will be pointing out in a bit because it’s important.

So for anyone who doesn’t remember the title crawl of Episode 9, it starts by saying that Palpatine basically broadcasted a message throughout the galaxy of his return, this is what tells everyone he’s alive and is extremely important to the story. I always thought it was really weird that they wouldn’t show something like that at the start of the movie considering how important it was, instead they just mention it, like it already happened somewhere else in Canon.

I think most of you can see where I’m going with this.

Palpatine’s message to the galaxy, this movie starting, galaxy changing, canon event, happens during a Fortnite live event.

Obviously I don’t actually consider Fortnite Lore as Star Wars canon, but you have to admit that technically it is. Also think about the implications of this! Remember all those who would win battles between Iron Man and Darth Vader? Oh yeah that could canonically happen. Anakin canonically could have done the Renegade on a younglings dead body. This whole time stormtroopers could have been cranking 90’s on Rebels and they haven’t been. The possibilities with this are stupid and endless.

Anyways, I’m not extremely well knowledgeable about Fortnite Lore as I stopped playing about a year ago, so if anyone is and would like to volunteer to write the wiki page on the Fortnite island here on wookieepedia I think it’s needed as Fortnite is now canon.

Honestly tho I’m not a huge fan of the fact that they put a huge plot point like that into a Fortnite live event, but it is what it is lol