The Mandalorian

One of the biggest mystery story inThe Mandalorianwas work out in time of year 3 , when the person who had savedGrogufromOrder 66was revealed . The way it was answered , however , offered TV audience an even deeper interrogative sentence : who was behind it all ? As it turns out , the answer might have been hide in plain sight this entire clip .

InThe Mandalorianseason 3 , installment 4 " Chapter 20 : The Foundling , " it ’s at last revealed that it wasKelleran Beq who saved Grogufrom the 501st clone trooper at theCoruscant Jedi Templeduring Order 66 . Beq , the " Sabered Hand " Jedi Master roleplay by Jar Jar Binks actor Ahmed Best , take Grogu to a group of Naboo guard , where they escape on a Nubian Yacht . One theory evoke that Beq ’s delivery mission could have been an intricately plan evasion .

The Jedi Clearly Seemed To Have An Escape Route Planned For An Attack On The Temple

Was Grogu Saved On Purpose?

During Grogu ’s now - iconic flashback to the night that he was saved from the Jedi Temple , it really seems like the Jedi are fall out a specific procedure in see the youngling . The young stranger ’s Jedi defender continually exclaim that they need to get him to Kelleran , as if Beq is distinctly in place to save someone in the case of an attack on the temple . This would indeed make sentiency , take Beq ’s condition as a teacher and protector of younglings .

Could The Mandalorian ’s surprise Jedi character , who saved Grogu , actually be in the background of one of the Star Wars movies ? This possibility says so .

Grogu is escorted through the 501st clones to an lift , where he is sent to Kelleran outside the temple . Despite not having been told about Grogu at any point on screen , Kelleran greets him at the elevator ’s door with reassurance that everything will be alright . It all feels very intentional , that Grogu , such a exceptional youngling , was spare in this style . It take even more designed when Kelleran hand the Naboo .

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The Royal Guards Hint The Naboo Were Involved

The People Of Naboo Rescued Grogu & Kelleran Beq

The two escape to a landing political platform occupy by a Nubian racing yacht , where they meet a radical of guards in recognizable outfit fromStar Wars : Episode I -The Phantom Menace . If all of this was planned , and the Naboo were involve , it makes complete sense that this eventuality could imply the Naboo at its core . dialog from this chronological sequence only makes the connection even stronger .

Kelleran have it away exactly where he and Grogu were going , even if thing did n’t go as planned . On their journey , Beq evidence Grogu " Do n’t worry . We ’re going to converge up with some friends of mine,“making their connection obvious . Upon reaching the guards , one asks " What about the others ? " , imply Kelleran was theorize to number with more Jedi , or even younglings , than just Grogu .

Most of all , however , these two pieces of dialog confirm that Kelleran was absolutely in league with the Naboo in order of magnitude to deliver Jedi from any possible blast on the Jedi Temple . Was this a Jedi operation , or was it organized by somebody else ? As it turns out , the very ship the two Jedi escape on could very well hold the answer to that question .

Ahmed Best’s Kelleran Beq wields his lightsabers with focus, edited with Grogu reaching out with the Force over a dynamic blue and green background

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The Naboo Nubian Suggests It Was Queen Apailana Herself

The Current Queen Of Naboo Wanted To Save Jedi

While being ambushed by clon trooper , Kelleran and Grogu outflow on a Nubian yacht that ’s very similar to Padmé ’s inStar warfare : Episode II -Attack of the Clones . This makes sense , as the Naboo are behind this escape valve . This , however , is n’t just a normal yacht for them ; this is a purple spaceship . On top of that , Star Warssources have confirmed that Nubian yacht were also used by Naboo royal house after Padmé .

The Mandalorian S3 E4 break who hold open Grogu from the Jedi temple , but more questions have arisen , mainly about Senator Padme Amidala ’s involvement .

grant to the magazine issueBuild The Millennium Falcon#47 , there were only two of these specific Nubian racing yacht , the first of which had been custom - make over a decade beforeThe Phantom Menaceby King of Naboo Ars Veruna . Years after , the second yacht was built at the queen ’s order . " When Amidala became a senator , " the issue reads,“the ship was replaced by another handcrafted spaceship to be used by her successor , Queen Jamillia . " That spaceship was then used by Jamillia ’s successor , Neeyutnee , and then passed along again to the latter ’s replacement , Apailana .

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Released on November 12, 2019 The Mandalorian follows a lone gunfighter navigating the galaxy’s outer reaches after the Galactic Empire’s fall. As a skilled bounty hunter, he operates in a lawless universe, undertaking various missions on the fringes of the New Republic’s territories.

These racing yacht , then , were very much in royal hand , as the royal Naboo sentry duty had hinted at earlier . With all of this evidence , it seems probable that Apailana , the Queen of Naboo at the time of Order 66 , hatched this plan to save some Jedi from Coruscant . Though the young Queen Apailana only draw a brief visual aspect inStar Wars : Episode III -Revenge of the Sithat Padmé ’s funeral , her action may have define in move the upshot ofThe Mandalorian , and more in theStar Warsgalaxy .

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Released on November 12 , 2019 The Mandalorian fall out a solitary gunfighter pilot the galaxy ’s outer orbit after the Galactic Empire ’s fall . As a skilled bounty hunter , he operates in a lawless universe , undertaking various missions on the fringes of the New Republic ’s territorial dominion .

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