Mando’s no Jedi, but he seems to be embracing a similar vibe. Luke Skywalker is content to fly his X-wing around even after he becomes a Jedi Master. The ship is sleek, minimalist, and wrapped in misunderstood nostalgia, making it the spaceship equivalent of Mando’s armor.īut most importantly, this ship makes Mando feel more like a hero than an anti-hero. Mando flying the N-1 puts him closer to being like Luke Skywalker than Han Solo, which further distances him from Boba Fett too. Mando using it is a metafictional hug from the current era of Star Wars to the oft-maligned prequels, while Mando flying through Beggar’s Canyon references both the podracing in The Phantom Menace and Luke’s memories of racing through the same canyon before A New Hope. When Mando gets back from his test run he tells Peli the flight was “wizard.” This references nine-year-old Anakin’s catchphrase “so wizard,” which felt cringeworthy in 1999, but has since become a little endearing. Lucasfilm Why the N-1 is perfect for Mando As concept artist Doug Chiang said in 1999, the ships from Naboo were meant to be “bold and different than anything we’ve previously seen in Star Wars.” With the N-1 returning to Boba Fett, what was once a risky and edgy spaceship design is now a classic.Īlthough the Star Wars prequels are often mocked for their excessive use of CGI, several practical N-1 models were built for The Phantom Menace, and they were the guides for what ended up on screen. Unlike a lot of spaceships we see in the newer shows, the Naboo ships were specifically designed for the prequels. But because technological advances didn’t exactly shoot forward during the reign of the Empire, the basic tech of the N-1 is still somewhat contemporary with the X-wings that try to pull Mando over during his test drive.
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How this particular starfighter made its way from Naboo to Tatooine is unclear, but because young Anakin safely landed his N-1 after blowing up a Trade Federation Droid Control Ship, we could speculate that this fighter is Anakin’s old ship.Įither way, in the timeline of the Mandalorian and Boba Fett TV shows, this ship design is at least 41 years old. The notion that the N-1 was built by hand is seemingly a new piece of Star Wars canon, but it checks out with what we know about the ornate nature of all things that come from Naboo. I mean these are all handmade, no droids!” Lucasfilm What is the N-1 starfighter?Īs Peli Motto (Amy Sedaris) tells Mando in Boba Fett Episode 5, the N-1 starfighter was “handmade by the royal guard and commissioned personally by the Queen of Naboo. Anakin Skywalker crash-lands his N-1 in a Droid Control Ship about forty years before Mando flew the same kind of ship in The Book of Boba Fett.
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