article_snippet.sent: The Jedis are all but extinct, the Old Republic is in turmoil and the threat of the Death Star is looming in 'Rogue One,' fans learned at Star Wars Celebration on Sunday.
article_snippet.sent: For more than 1,000 generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. 
article_snippet.sent: Before the Empire,' says Alec Guinness as Obi Wan Kenobi in a voiceover reprised from 1977's Star Wars: A New Hope.
article_snippet.sent: While the ominous words so familiar to millions fans are delivered the camera tracks to show a ghostly the Death Star hovering in the clouds.
article_snippet.sent: At the screening, audience members were heard to gasp when Alec Guinness spoke and then whoop when the Death Star came into view.
article_snippet.sent: In the world of 'Rogue One,' added director Gareth Edwards said the 'absence of Jedi is omnipresent.'
article_snippet.sent: It comes down to a group of people who don't have magical powers who band together to bring hope to the galaxy.'
article_snippet.sent: they can still feel like `Star Wars' and be `Star Wars.'