Star Wars Black Series Jedha Streets

Jedha is the location that establishes what Rogue One is — not a galactic war story but an occupied territory story. The holy city of NiJedha, sacred to the Force and to the Jedi Order’s history, is under Imperial military control. The streets are patrolled by stormtroopers. The kyber crystals that give the city its spiritual significance are being mined to fuel a superweapon. The people who live here have been living under this for years, and the resistance they’ve built is fractured, desperate, and brutal. This is the Star Wars galaxy after the Republic fell, seen from the ground.

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NiJedha is an ancient city on a desert moon — a place of pilgrimage for believers in the Force from across the galaxy, significant to Jedi tradition, and home to the Guardians of the Whills who have protected its kyber temples for generations. The Empire occupies it because of those crystals: kyber is the material that powers lightsabers, and in sufficient quantity, something much larger.

When Cassian Andor and Jyn Erso arrive in Jedha to find Saw Gerrera, they’re walking into an occupation that has been grinding the city down for years. The Imperial presence is visible and deliberately heavy — AT-ST walkers moving through narrow streets built for foot traffic, stormtroopers conducting identity checks, the apparatus of military control over a civilian population.

The street ambush sequence — where Saw Gerrera’s partisans attack an Imperial convoy and Chirrut Îmwe demonstrates what a Guardian of the Whills can do — is the scene that introduces the Jedha cast and establishes the occupied city’s texture. It’s also the moment Rogue One most clearly draws its visual and thematic inspiration from occupied city filmmaking: the narrow stone streets, the sudden violence, the civilians caught between combatants. The Empire isn’t a distant evil in Jedha. It’s the thing in the alley with stormtroopers.

The city doesn’t survive the film. The Death Star’s first test firing — at reduced power, intended to destroy the Imperial facility rather than the whole moon — levels NiJedha. The occupied city the characters move through in the film’s first act becomes a crater. That fate is known to the audience from the moment they understand what the Death Star is, which gives the Jedha sequences a specific weight: everything you’re seeing is about to be destroyed.

Chirrut Îmwe and Baze Malbus

Chirrut and Baze are the Jedha display’s most significant characters and one of Rogue One’s most effective pairings. They’ve been in Jedha for years — Chirrut a blind Guardian of the Whills, Baze a former Guardian who lost his faith but stayed to protect his partner.

Chirrut’s relationship with the Force is one of Rogue One’s most carefully handled elements. He’s not a Jedi. He doesn’t have the training, the connection, or the institutional context. What he has is a deep and practiced trust in the Force’s presence, and the film gives him a moment — walking through crossfire, reciting his mantra, untouched — that is as quietly powerful as anything in the sequel trilogy’s Force sequences. His staff and bow-caster are the Guardian’s specific weapon set, distinct from a Jedi’s lightsaber and reflecting a different tradition’s relationship with Force-adjacent combat.

Baze is the sceptic who stays. He doesn’t believe what Chirrut believes, or won’t admit that he does, and the film uses that tension carefully — the cynic protecting the believer, discovering that his protection is something like faith.

As display figures the 2021 Galaxy Collection Rogue One releases are the definitive versions of both characters — the first time either received serious Black Series treatment with modern production quality.

Saw Gerrera

Saw Gerrera is the Jedha display’s most politically complex figure — the extremist Rebel leader whose methods the Alliance officially disavows but whose intelligence network they’re willing to use. He’s been fighting the Empire since the Clone Wars, when he was fighting the Separatists on Onderon with Anakin and Ahsoka’s assistance. By Rogue One he’s paranoid, deteriorating physically, and operating on the farthest edge of what the Rebellion is willing to call an ally.

His Deluxe Galaxy Collection release is the most accessory-complete version of the character — the breathing apparatus, the armour, the specific physical deterioration of his Rogue One appearance. It’s a figure that rewards the detail investment, and the breathing apparatus specifically makes him immediately identifiable at display distance in a way that a straight Saw without it wouldn’t achieve.

The Saw Gerrera of Rogue One knows things about the Death Star that Cassian doesn’t. He received Galen Erso’s message. He’s been holding Bodhi Rook, the defector who delivered it. His role in the film is to pass information and then die on Jedha when the moon falls — a death he accepts, having fought longer and harder and more destructively than anyone had a right to expect.

The Jedha Patrol Stormtrooper

The Jedha Patrol Stormtrooper configuration is the Empire’s face in the occupied city — the standard stormtrooper in a deployment-specific variant that reflects the environmental demands of a narrow desert city rather than an open battlefield. As an army-building figure it’s the most Jedha-specific Imperial release in the Rogue One sub-line, and the one that most directly communicates occupation rather than warfare.

Jedha and Scarif

The Jedha Streets display and the Battle of Scarif display together cover Rogue One completely — the mission’s first phase and its climax. Several figures, including Chirrut, Baze, Bodhi, and Saw, are tagged to both scenes because they’re present at both. For collectors building the full Rogue One cast, these two displays work as complementary halves of the same story.

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Scenes. Related: Battle of Scarif | Aldhani Heist | Rogue One Collection | Collector Guide.