Star Wars Rebels has done a phenomenal job with shouldering those responsibilities over the course of its run, and the most recent episode continued that tradition by linking the Death Star’s origins on Geonosis with the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
As the silver screen Star Wars world continues to flesh itself out, its small screen counterpart has gone a long way towards providing backstory, as well as linking characters, locations, and ideas.
Superhero franchises are typically the first thing that comes to mind when we bring up the topic of interconnected worlds, but Star Wars has gradually started to become one of the best cinematic universes in all of pop culture.