Does this mean Rogue One is going to dig deep into Star Wars lore in ways other movies haven’t?
The track title itself doesn’t really spoil much about the movie, but it does reveal a bit of worldbuilding that hasn’t been seen in Star Wars before.
The Whills are a fascinating part of Star Wars history that has hardly seen the light of day, but they are George Lucas’s original inspirations for what eventually became the Force, and the Journal of the Whills is the in-universe chronicle in which the stories of the Star Wars saga are recorded.
We’ve already seen kyber crystals and Jedi ruins on Jedha in Rogue One trailers, but there’s really no way of knowing if this is anything more than a nod to the origins of the saga.