Badass Digest are back with another Star Wars Episode VII scoop and there's a lot of new information to mull over here! They start off with news on Max von Sydow's mysterious role, revealing that Kira (the name which is believed to belong to Daisy Ridley's character) is not the one to find Luke lightsaber as it is instead a "blue alien guy" who brings it to a salage yard where she discovers it. How does Sydow fit into this? Well, "She's hanging out there with von Sydow, who is an old cyborg dude, a guy who maybe has dementia. He talks a lot of nonsense. But as soon as that lightsbaber shows up, he gets lucid. He recognizes it. He begins to talk about the old days, name drops a couple of Prequel Trilogy characters, even. And then, after Kira and the alien leave he makes a call to a mysterious figure. "It's here," he says. But who is he calling?"
Remember that AT-AT spotted on the Dubai set of the movie when shooting began? Well, it appears as if we finally have an explanation for that too. Apparently Kira lives inside an abandoned one of the iconic vehicles from The Empire Strikes Back! In other location news, Greenham Common Air Base - where a number of X-Wing fighters and the Millenium Falcon were spotted - is indeed the Massassi Temple on Yavin IV from A New Hope. Finally, one drastic change which could be on the way has been revealed in concept art which apparently shows Chewbacca with a cybernetic hand. They speculate that he may have lost it in a battle after Return of the Jedi, but caution that there is other concept art where he still has both hands, so we'll have to wait and see...