Sparks of Hope
The E-Wing would make its first officially canonical appearance in the 2018 Marvel comic Poe Dameron #23, by Charles Soule and Angel Unzueta, appearing as an unacknowledged Easter egg in a collection of starships for a single panel. It’s not until this year’s Ahsoka streaming series—set around a decade after the events of Return of the Jedi—that the E-Wing was revealed to have become part of live-action Star Wars material, briefly glimpsed in trailers in scenes featuring Rebels character Sabine Wren on the planet Lothal.
How much of a role the ship plays in the series remains to be seen, but given its initial first steps into the reborn Star Wars continuity, it’s perhaps fitting that it’s getting its own Lego set—just like the version seen in Freemaker Adventures was inspired by, the 2013 “Jek-14’s Stealth Starfighter” model created for the Yoda Chronicles animated series.
