So, I have thoughts, and I just can’t contain them any longer. This is one of about a dozen or so ideas I have had over the last few weeks.

There was a leak that the title for episode IX is Skywalkers. It fits in numerous ways, but I think it has a broader meaning if true. And if it isn't true, my theory can still apply which is why I like it so much.

In the new Thrawn novel, Alliances there is a moment when Thrawn first meets Anakin Skywalker–

“I greet you,” a calm voice came back in the same language. “Did you give your name as General Skywalker?”

“I did,” Anakin said, frowning. “Why, have you heard of me?”

“No, not at all,” the other said. “I was merely surprised. Let me as­sure you I mean no harm to you or your equipment. I merely wished a closer look at this interesting device.”

Later Thrawn has a conversation with Vader about that very encounter

There was a flicker in Thrawn’s sense. Vader looked up, to see a small smile on his face. “Do you find this amusing, Admiral?” he challenged. “No, not at all, my lord,” Thrawn hastened to assure him. “I was simply recalling a memory. I told you the Chiss call this talent Third Sight. What I hadn’t yet spoken of is the title these navigators are given once they take their posts.” “Which is?”

“The Cheunh word is ozyly-esehembo,” Thrawn said. “In Basic, it translates to ‘sky-walker.’ ” Another small smile. “You can imagine my momentary confusion when I first encountered General Anakin Skywalker.”

This doesn't mean I’m ready to fall down the rabbit hole and say Thrawn is in IX, but the name Sky-Walker has meaning in other cultures in other regions of the Galaxy. It’s also important to note that Sky-Walkers to the Chiss translates specifically to mean Navigation.

Ben and Rey as Sky-Walkers and The Rule of Two

For a long time, we have heard about the rule of two.

Two there are, no more, no less, a Master and an Apprentice.”

We’ve only ever applied the rule of two to the Sith, but if we look closer, the Jedi also adopted this rule even if they never gave it that label or the more sinister meaning the Sith twisted it into. There was always a Master and an apprentice within the Jedi ranks. They just never killed each other to reach the level of Master.

This school of thought although different is basically the same in the basic sense of it all.

There are two.

We know that the first Jedi were once balanced which is why we were given a symbol that looks like this on the floor of the temple on Ahch-To.

Within the First Jedi temple, Luke gives Rey advice, “Balance, powerful light, powerful darkness.”



Perhaps the first Jedi did have a rule of two, in that, two beings light and dark were paired together to keep each other balanced. This doesn't mean one was all darkness and the other one was all light, it meant– one leaned more towards the darkness naturally just as the other leaned towards the light. To lean too far to either side spelled disaster, and so they had pairs. Not Master and Apprentice, but equal pairs.

This is why the Sith and Jedi always failed. They are not compatible within their own ranks but with each other.

Even Snoke said “Darkness rises and light to meet it. I told my young apprentice as he grew stronger; his equal in the light would rise.”

The Force has been trying to obtain equilibrium since the original split, this is why we have the rise in the light to match the darkness, to pair the two.

What does any of this have to do with Sky Walkers?

When you have two Force users who are equal and the Force itself is trying desperately to bring them together certain abilities between two matched pairs certainly must be part of this equation right?

The ability to reach each other across the stars to Sky WALK to each other via the Force is possibly an ability of only those meant to be paired together. This leads me to believe that once upon a time in a galaxy far away the first Jedi pairs were always able to sky walk to each other, and the name stuck. It translated through multiple cultures and languages into exactly what it meant– to navigate through the stars.

Rey and Ben are the answer the Force has been waiting for. The two equally powerful halves that can come together in Balance, who can Sky Walk to one another through the Force.

Hence, all those pairs before them, the ancient first Jedi who were in pairs, were all Sky-walkers.