Star Wars Finally Makes Obi-Wan's Ben Name Origin Canon
Star Wars has finally made the Legends origin of Obi-Wan Kenobi's alias "Ben" canon. When two droids arrived on the desert planet of Tatooine in the first Star Wars movie, they carried with them a message for General Obi-Wan Kenobi. The young Luke Skywalker guessed they might be referring to "Old Ben Kenobi," a man he considered simply to be a strange hermit who lived out beyond the Dune Sea. He had no idea this man was actually an aged Jedi Master, who had spent the last couple of decades watching over Luke himself.
Obi-Wan had gone by the name Ben before, as seen canonically in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. In the old Expanded Universe, a.k.a. Legends, it was an alias he was particularly fond of; according to John Jackson Miller's novel Kenobi, he'd been given the nickname by the Duchess Satine of Mandalore, a woman Obi-Wan had fallen in love with back when he was just a Padawan. With the Jedi long gone, Obi-Wan couldn't help looking back at his life and remembering her with affection, honoring her by taking on that name. But the canonicity of the Legends origin of the name was called into question when Disney acquired Lucasfilm back in 2012. However, it seems this particular aspect of Obi-Wan's backstory is being restored once again.
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Lucasfilm has released an excerpt from Mike Chen's upcoming Star Wars novel Brotherhood, which is set shortly after the beginning of the Clone Wars. It sees Obi-Wan visit his old friend (and underworld informant) Dex, who points him to recent broadcasts of his old flame Satine of Mandalore. "Used to call you Ben, for some reason," Dex recalled with a chuckle. It seems Lucasfilm has decided this remains the
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