Valin Halycon, Roganda Ismaren, and Djinn Altis. Those are names we’ve not heard in a long time. But Star Wars fans who grew up in the ’90s and early 2000s will likely recognize the former as the father of fan-favorite New Jedi Order character Corran Horn and the latter two as relatively deep cuts from the 1995 Expanded Universe novel Children of the Jedi by Barbara Hambly. In the Legends timeline, all three characters were Jedi who survived Order 66 and the Jedi Purge, and in Obi-Wan Kenobi, that also seems to be the case.
That said, it’s impossible to say just how much of their Expanded Universe backstory has actually been preserved for the new canon. Are these even meant to be the same characters we first met in Legends or just names graffitied on a wall for the sole purpose of fan service?
If Star Wars is planning to bring back any of these characters in a more substantial way in the future, there’s certainly precedent. The Rebels animated series brought notorious EU villain Grand Admiral Thrawn back to canon in 2016. Yes, he returned in a different time period than in his original debut in post-Return of the Jedi novel Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn, but most of the other characteristics that made this character memorable in 1991 were all still there in the new canon. The Mandalorian and the upcoming Ahsoka show have also teased that they’ll eventually do some kind of remixed version of Heir to the Empire Thrawn, but with story elements from Rebels, such as his connection to lost Jedi Ezra Bridger.
So it’s certainly possible re-introducing a name like “Valin Halcyon” to Disney canon could be a way to incorporate the more popular Corran Horn into the post-Return of the Jedi era currently being explored on Disney+. In fact, we even watched a mother trying to smuggle a little Force-sensitive boy named Corran off Daiyu in the second episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is that just another coincidence? Legends Corran would be about nine in the year in which Obi-Wan Kenobi is set, so it does kind of line up correctly…
For now, this is all pure speculation, and you probably shouldn’t get your hopes up, anyway. Valin, Roganda, and Djinn could just be meant as fun little Legends references that we are thinking way too hard about. But if they aren’t, please bring back Kyle Katarn and Jan Ors too, Disney!
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