Star Wars loremaster Pablo Hidalgo gives fans an intriguing look at a game that could have been thanks to some long-buried promotional art. Star Wars Uprising was a mobile title released in 2015, but it only lasted for a year before developer Disney Interactive shut down its servers.

Developed by Kabam of Marvel: Contest of Champions fame and set shortly after the events of Return Of The Jedi, Uprising put players in the role of a small group of resistance fighters battling against the remains of the Empire in the Anoat Sector by utilizing a fully customizable crew in large-scale battles with either one or multiple players. The game served as a prequel of sorts to the then-yet-to-be-released The Force Awakens, but its story would only run for two chapters before it was cut short due to a lack of financial success.

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Earlier this week, Pablo Hidalgo of the Lucasfilm Story Group posted a series of Twitter posts detailing his immense collection of Star Wars books and other promotional materials. Among the various novels and blueprint collections is an unpublished art book for Star Wars Uprising, which he says contains work from Brian Matyas, who would go on to help with the highly successful Disney+ series The Mandalorian. Hidalgo claims that he received the book as a commemorative crew item thanks to his own work on the game, but it's unclear if it was always meant to serve such a role or if it would have eventually seen commercial sale had the game been more of a success.

While Star Wars: Uprising fell short, games based in the Galaxy Far, Far Away are now in a more exciting place, at least on the home console front. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order proved that EA could deliver a solid single-player experience after a lackluster first few years with the Star Wars license, and Ubisoft is currently working on a yet-undisclosed open-world game thanks to its impressive showing with Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora. Meanwhile, Zynga’s free-to-play multiplayer shooter Star Wars: Hunters looks to deliver some fun bounty hunter action on the Nintendo Switch.

Pablo Hidalgo may not have shown much with his reveal of the unreleased Star Wars Uprising artbook, but the fact that it even exists means that Disney Interactive must have had a great deal of content planned for the game before it was shut down in 2016. Given the Star Wars franchise’s tendency to recycle unused concepts in other media (as was the case in The Clone Wars and the aforementioned Mandalorian) it could be possible to see some of these Uprising ideas in a future Star Wars game.

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Source: Pablo Hidalgo/Twitter