Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 10 Design Secrets You Probably Didn't Know

10. The Oscillator Is The First Order Logo

The Oscillator is a pretty essential location in the film – it’s where the pivotal emotional scene takes place, of course, but also serves as Starkiller Base’s bumper size exhaust port. And while it’s rather flippantly set-up, there was still a lot of time spent on its design and how it would be realised.

The exterior structure is particularly interesting. Fitting with how factions in Star Wars have designs influenced by very simple recurring shapes, it’s actually made to be a three dimension riff on the First Order logo (itself an update of the Imperial insignia) – you have the hexagonal shape, along with the lines pointing in.

Oddly enough, in extending the Empire logo, what the oscillator’s final design winds up looking most like is the logo of the Hutt Empire, something that is obviously pure coincidence (unless – new theory – Snoke is Jabba’s son from The Clone Wars).