Star Wars’ next Grand Admiral Thrawn comes from Kabam: Deathstick

Daniel Erickson’s eyes gleam from across the table.

The director is deep into a discussion of his company’s biggest, most ambitious project yet — Star Wars: Uprising — and his team’s role in creating one of the first stories in the franchise’s new post-Return of the Jedi canon. We’re talking about one of this free-to-play mobile role-playing game’s newest characters and how Kabam reacted when it realized that she could be poised to take a place alongside Boba Fett, Jabba the Hutt, and the galaxy’s other infamous scum and villainy.