As you will likely recall, these are the same beasts that Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Finn (John Boyega) release on Han Solo’s (Harrison Ford) freighter during The Force Awakens when the iconic smuggler finds himself cornered by two mercenary groups that he swindled.
In the last comic, the proto-Sith Lord traveled to the remote planet Twon Ketee to vent his personal aggression by hunting the vicious Rathtars.
A recent report from Comicbook.com shed some new light onto how Darth Maul’s new Marvel Comics adventures (a prequel to his fateful encounter with Obi-Wan) explicitly tie into the future of the franchise.
It’s a minor detail, but it helps reinforce the idea that the prequels, the original trilogy, and the new trilogy all definitely take place within the same universe — something that the Star Wars franchise hasn’t fully embraced just yet.