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The red and blue moons of Brendock are seen above in the night sky during the ascension ceremony, eclipsing one another as Mother Aniseya and her coven carry out a Forceful rite before bringing Osha and Mae into their ranks. These twin moons therefore reflect the ancient Jedi world of Tyx and their own moon. Though it was actually Ahch-To where Luke Skywalker enters exile in the sequels, many academics have speculated that Tync was a planet linked to the beginnings of the Jedi Order.
Thanks to a collection of Star Wars comics including Marvel's Darth Vader and Doctor Aphra series, Tyx is included in the canon accepted for the franchise. But the most striking look the planet took was live-action with The Mandalorian season 2, as Grogu meditates on the seeing stone before the Imperial Remnant grabs him. Still, the importance of Tyx's moons has mostly stayed with the non-canon Legends (as yet).
An interesting Easter egg from The Acolyte episode 3 refers to the actual nature of the Dark Side itself and shows a quite neat connection to Legends. Filmed before to the first two shows' events, The Acolyte episode 3 recounts the beginnings of Osha Aniseya (Amandla Stenberg) and her twin sister Mae. Therefore, the ascent ritual of the young girls with a coven of witches has an interesting connection to the beginnings of the Force and its operators.
Raised by witches on the planet Brendok, young Osha and Mae are scheduled to be formally welcomed into the coven's ranks in The Acolyte episode 3 with an important ascension ceremony. Under the direction of Mother Aniseya, the coven's leader who created the twins by using her uncommon Force ability, this ascension ritual takes place on Brendok's twin moonlit night. These eclipsing moons not only look to be the identical ones found in The Acolyte's logo, but they also relate to a very cool side of Star Wars mythology and the accepted canon surrounding the elements of the Force itself.
Furthermore noteworthy were Brendok's moons in The Acolyte episode 3, which seemed to be approaching an alignment and eclipsing one another. This implies that Mother Aniseya's leading Brendok witches, believe in balance instead of one element over another. This also probably relates to their Force philosophy, that the energy field binding all living entities in the galaxy is in fact a "Great Thread" connecting all, allowing the power of one to become greater via the power of two, and subsequently the many, like with a coven of united witches.
Osha eventually turns away from this concept embodied by Brendok's moons. Mae gets initiated into the coven, while Osha decides to become a Jedi following the interruption in the ascension ceremony by four Jedi who want to test both females. Eventually Osha starts working as an apprentice under Jedi Master Sol; it is not coincidental that "Sol" is Latin for "Sun". Though it's likely that Osha followed her Jedi road as shown in The Acolyte's premiere, implying that finding the balance might be her endpoint, maybe Mae's as well as the Star Wars show progresses.
Keeping the story link to Tython and its moons in mind, Brendok's moons most definitely refer to a core truth regarding the Dark Side of the Force. Like Ashla and Bogan, Brendok's moons seem to be in a natural orbit, existing concurrently and most likely reflecting the two separate facets of the Force itself. This would imply that the dark side is equally natural as the light side, a vital feature of the Force that has to be admitted, and cannot ever be totally eliminated. One must have both to attain actual equilibrium in the Force.
Though the ascension ceremony takes place on a planet with twin moons, Osha and Mae were born as twins and the might of the Force is not coincidental. Though the lines between good/bad and light/dark are probably going to continue to blur as the series runs on, the narrative parallels are in full force, including the idea that Osha and Mae's destinies are clearly linked to one another even as they end up choosing quite different paths as they grow up.
Far from the might of the New Republic, the show chronicles the hardships of a lone gunfighter called Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) in the furthest reaches of the galaxy. Acting as the first live-action Star Wars series, The Mandalorian has been immensely popular on Disney+ largely owing to Mando's friendship with Grogu, which the internet dubbed "Baby Yoda" upon his appearance in season 1.
Set in the Star Wars world during the conclusion of the High Republic Era, the television series The Acolyte follows the Jedi and the Galactic Empire as they were most powerful. Investigating various crimes, this sci-fi thriller sees a former Padawan reunite with her former Jedi Master as they uncover events all pointing to darkness bursting from beneath the surface and ready to bring about the death of the High Republic.
According to Legends, ancient Jedi considered the nature of Tyx's moons, Ashla and Bogan. This guided their development of the ideas of the light and evil sides of the Force. Thus, Ashla and Bogan are the original names for the light and evil side; thanks to Star Wars Rebels, this knowledge was declared canon when the enigmatic Force-sensitive being known as the Bendu called the light and dark side. Brendok's moons so do seem to be a major parallel to Tyx's moons.
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