With annual Star Wars releases an increasingly likely possibility, we can pretty much count on the studio to bring us more obscure stories that consistently focus on new characters, tones, and styles.
It will definitively prove that the Star Wars saga can survive without relying on familiar characters like Luke Skywalker, and likely embolden Disney and Lucasfilm to delve deeper into the greater Star Wars lore to pluck out other stories from the mythos.
The success of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will undoubtedly have far reaching implications for the franchise as a whole.