Kenobi Series Reimagined : Concept Art and Character Building

When writing Episode One, I attempted to build with species and ideas already present within the Star Wars universe while introducing some new worlds and characters that could easily exist within Lucas' galaxy.

The Wroonian humanoid species was introduced in Legends as a blue-skinned people with distinct yellow irises. Canon would later describe them as colonizers of Saleucami.

I picked this particular lesser-known species because they were well known in Legends to be smugglers and risk takers. A perfect pick for one of the spice dealers on Nejeev.

Nejeev was mostly inspired by my desire to see more of the interesting planets in the inner rim worlds of the Republic. Star Wars The Clone Wars did a great job at introducing many of these worlds and new species. I have always wanted to see more gem stone or crystal planets.

Nejeev City Alley

I never realized how little we saw or knew about Ben Kenobi's Tatooine home until I started writing about it. I tried to build off of what was featured in the house during A New Hope. The cooking apparatus was particularly fun to imagine, featured behind the wall in the center of the set photo of the house.

The question of what Qui Gon would talk to Ben about was always on my mind. The Disney Plus series really breezed over this with a quick cameo of the Jedi Master. I thought that a dive into some interesting Kyber lore and, as always, an explanation of the Living Force was appropriate.

Ben's pistol concept.

Moisture Vaporator next to Ben's home

Kej is actually based off the character of Haja from the Disney Plus series. I specifically kept Kumail Nanjiani in mind when writing this character and played out the lines of this character in my head using Nanjiani's voice. His cocky and humorous attitude was really a great addition to the Star Wars canon. I felt like he would have been better suited with a more aloof role than the one he took on in the actual series.

His relationship with R-8BY was something I put particular effort into. As the series progresses, it will be obvious that the two bickering characters actually trust one another with their lives but poke at each other constantly.