To avoid Obi-Wan Kenobi spoilers, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor hid a bizarre reference to the San Francisco railway
To avoid plot points from the Obi-Wan Kenobi series being discovered ahead of time, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor contained a bizarre reference to the San Francisco railway during development.
The below contains spoilers for Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jedi: Survivor, so if you've yet to catch up on either, you might want to look away now.
When we catch up with Cal Kestis in Jedi: Survivor, the crew of the Mantis - Cere, Greez, and Merrin - are nowhere to be found. When Cal finally catches up with Cere, he finds she's part of a group called the Hidden Path, a smuggling network that aims to keep Force-sensitive individuals out of the Empire's reach by moving them to safe locations around the galaxy.
We first hear about the Hidden Path in the Obi-Wan series, but Jedi: Survivor's story was in the works long before that show hit our screens. To keep it a secret until the show aired, the team at Respawn codenamed it "Muni Metro" in Jedi: Survivor.
Given that Muni Metro is a light rail system in San Francisco, it's a pretty fitting phrase. Still, it would seem more than a tad strange if, in the finished version of Jedi: Survivor, one of the characters suddenly blurted it out, or it popped up in a databank entry. In a tweet, the game's senior writer Pete Stewart revealed that for a long time, he was worried this might be the case.
"I was honestly terrified until about a week before release that we were going to ship with the phrase' Muni Metro' in the game somewhere," he said.
I was honestly terrified until about a week before release that we were going to ship with the phrase 'Muni Metro' in the game somewhere. https://t.co/UAH6zhkWeBMay 14, 2023
What's more, to this day, Stewart can't say for sure that the phase doesn't appear
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