Genbara

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This article covers a subject from a Star Wars: Visions story that Lucasfilm declared is set in an alternate history within a reimagined galaxy.

Genbara was a planet located at the fringe of the galaxy's Outer Rim Territories.[1] It was blanketed with pines and villages nestled in mountainous valleys. Twenty years after the failed Sith rebellion, the former Sith known as the Ronin came to Genbara. There, he dueled a bandit leader named Kouru who claimed to be a Dark Lord of the Sith.[1]

Description

"The mountains, sir? Are you sure?"
―A local woodcutter, to the Ronin — 20?cb=20250116042720 ▶️ (file info)[1]

Genbara was an Outer Rim Territories planet[1] characterized by vast stretches of pine woodlands and mountainous terrain.[3] Settlers established farmland in its countryside. The planet's flora included pine trees and pink-blossomed trees. Fauna found on the planet included large, shaggy, antlered beasts of burden and river frogs. Scaled boars were also present, used by settlers to pull wagons.[1]

History

Following the failed Sith rebellion and the Imperial unification, Genbara was settled by individuals seeking to rebuild their lives far from the Core Worlds. These settlers established farming villages in the planet's mountains.[1]

A band of former Sith troopers known as Bandit Troopers, led by the self-styled Dark Lord of the Sith Kouru, occupied a deserted mountain village and began terrorizing the surrounding settlements, leading to the reduction of four villages into one over time. This activity led to local stories about the existence of a spirit that did not take kindly to settlers.[1]

The former Sith known as "the Ronin" and his companion astromech droid R5-D56 arrived at the last remaining mountain village shortly before a raid by the bandits. He engaged and killed Kouru in a duel at a waterfall, ending the immediate threat to the village. Following the duel, the Ronin revealed his own Sith allegiance by destroying Kouru's lightsaber and extracting its kyber crystal. Subsequently, wanted posters for the Ronin were distributed in the Osou spaceport, and he was forced to flee the planet.[1]

Inhabitants

"I've helped you leave, which I think we should consider a public service. That Sith warrior down there seems quite set on hunting you down, which I suspect means she'll stop pestering those poor folks planetside in favor of chasing after us. What a favor we've done them."
―The Traveler[1]

The population consisted of a mix of villagers and settlers, including Humans, Sullustans, Gran, and Trandoshans, who lived in predominantly agricultural communities.[1]

Behind the scenes

"We recreated Shirakawa in 3D-CG, then adjusted the scale and terrain to design a small village with all the elements we needed."
―Takanobu Mizuno[4]

Genbara was created for "The Duel," a short film in the Star Wars: Visions series[5] produced by Kamikaze Douga and directed by Takanobu Mizuno.[6] The location of the village in Genbara where the story unfolds was based on Shirakawa-gō,[7] one of Japan's UNESCO World Heritage Sites.[8] According to Emma Mieko Candon, the name for the planet is sourced from two different readings for the character 原, being gen and hara, with the latter reading becoming voiced as bara.[9]

"The Duel"
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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 Ronin: A Visions Novel
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Star-Wars-Visions-series-logo-short Star Wars: Visions — "The Duel"
  3. ↑ TwitterLogo Emma Mieko Candon (@EmmaCandon) on Twitter (post on November 3, 2021): "The opening setting of Genbara was established by Kamikaze Douga: a planet evoking the Japanese countryside, blanketed with pines and villages nestled in mountainous valleys. 4/" (backup link)
  4. ↑ The Art of Star Wars: Visions
  5. ↑ StarWars.com Inside Star Wars: Visions: Meet the Heroes on StarWars.com (backup link)
  6. ↑ SWYT-Logo STAR WARS: VISIONS | SPECIAL LOOK | DISNEY+ on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) (Posted on StarWars.com)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Premium-Era-real スター・ウォーズ：ビジョンズ『The Duel』メイキング［後篇］黒澤映画と『スター・ウォーズ』への尊敬と共に、全力で遊んだ (Japanese) on CGWORLD (April 12, 2022) (backup link archived on February 19, 2025)
  8. ↑ Premium-Era-real Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama on UNESCO (backup link archived on August 20, 2025)
  9. ↑ Premium-Era-real The Podralorian: Playing Gay Chicken with Lucasfilm with Emma Mieko Candon on Not Saf For Work (November 13, 2021) (backup link archived on September 29, 2025)
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