The "Star Wars" franchise takes place in one of the best fictional universes in film history. It's an expansive and lived-in world that can support countless different stories of all kinds of tones — from the kid-friendly pirate adventure of "Skeleton Crew" to the tense political intrigue of "Andor."

Ever since Obi-Wan Kenobi told Luke Skywalker that his father fought in the Clone Wars without elaborating in the very first "Star Wars" movie, the property has expanded its mythos and lore, introducing legends, mythic figures, and much more to its setting. The "Star Wars" films have similarly explored the fall of the Jedi while leaving it to various comic books, video games, novels, and TV series to provide answers to the many other unsolved mysteries of the galaxy far, far away.

Indeed, although there are many things that have been explained about the "Star Wars" universe — sometimes well, sometimes very poorly...