The Star Wars sequel trilogy, with decades of the franchise's marketing firepower forged into a fully armed and operational battle station, has been churning out an astonishing amount ancillary bullshit tie-in novels and comic books. The most powerful move in its repertoire of dastardly sales tactics is to use the movies as delivery services for questions that will go unresolved ... unless you buy a separate thing to get the answer (like C-3PO's red arm in The Force Awakens, for example).

It's vital world-building lore being sold as piecemeal like the most cynical video game DLCs. The Rise Of Skywalker is Disney's last chance to upsell its consumer base with a Skywalker Saga movie (for now ...), so of course, it came bundled with maybe the most cynical move of them all. It set up a whole-ass plot thread in the final moments of the movie and expects you to buy not one but two books to find out what happened.

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Spoilers for The Rise of Skywalker, by the way.

At the very end of TROS, after the First Order has been defeated once and for all (for now ...), and around the same time we see that lesbian kiss between two ancillary characters that was easily edited out from foreign cuts of the movie, Lando Calrissian leans over to a new character named Jannah, who like Finn, was kidnapped as child by the First Order and forced to become a Stormtrooper.

Lando asks where she's from in a way that seems like his follow up will be, "because I know where you will be - with me in my space water bed." Jannah replies that she doesn't know, leading Lando to answer, "Well, let's find out," thus setting up a grand adventure to solve the mystery of her heritage. The movie ends about 90 seconds later, the plot thread left dangling for all eternality ... unless you pay $16 for the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - The Visual Dictionary.