10 Star Wars Answers Given YEARS Later

Star Wars has grown into one of the most detailed and vast franchises you'll find on this spinning ball we call home.

On top of nine main Skywalker Saga movies and a few spin-offs, animated and live-action TV shows, comics, video games, books, and so much more have continually packed both the Expanded Universe and canon versions of this galaxy far, far away with countless additional stories.

With all of that new information dropping by the year, a number of once frustrating questions about the worlds of Star Wars were finally given the answers fans had been searching for.

Often it wasn't just a case of a cheeky cliffhanger being left and then ultimately resolved a couple of months or years later when the next instalment in a movie, TV, or comic book series dropped either. Sometimes fans were forced to wait decades to find out the truth about why certain characters said specific lines, what happened to once-prominent faces, and more.

Star Wars does have a habit of leaving rather compelling questions unanswered for an eternity - looking at you Yoda's species - with it eventually getting to the point where the mystery itself is likely more interesting than whatever answer Lucasfilm cook up. 

But in the case of the following 10 questions, the long-awaited answers were largely worth the wait, with the reveal of why a famous army disappeared from the galaxy, some Force-users wielded particular weapons, and a legendary Jedi delivered a quite strange line being pretty darn fascinating.

As Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, C-3PO and R2-D2 enter a little watering hole by the name of Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina - a.k.a. the Mos Eisley Cantina - both our heroes and the audience were introduced to a ton of interesting faces.

Among that collection of scum and villainy knocking back beverages were everything from grumpy Aqualaish punters to grinning horned figures, but there was also a human there who seemingly passed on the chance to help the gang.

Said dude was known as BoShek, and he could be seen gesturing towards Chewbacca before leaving Kenobi to have a chat with him.

As time went by following the release of 1977's Star Wars, it was eventually revealed that BoShek was very much a smuggler, and one who actually came from the same world as Han Solo, Corellia. 

But precisely who played the sideburn-sporting character? Well, that was a question that wasn't answered in the credits, and it would remain a mystery for nearly 40 years until investigative journalist Billy Jensen finally discovered the truth in 2016.

It turns out that BoShek was played by the late Frances Alfred Basil Tomlin, with his family getting in touch with Jensen to confirm it was him in the iconic movie chatting to Sir Alec Guinness.

Now get this smuggler a credit!