Jedi: Fallen Order's opening is excellent in establishing a sense of scale. The opening has you sticking very close to Cal. Juxtaposed with the towering wreckage of spacecrafts to give the audience a perfect sense of scale, Cal feels small and insignificant. Scanning the horizons, Cal finds only derelict hulks for as far as the eye can see. It's a dull job for Cal, but it grounds us right at the start of this spacefaring epic. They're wrecks from the Clone Wars, and even from the Trade Federation-which Cal is tasked with taking apart, bit by boring bit. In Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Cal Kestis is surrounded by these towering relics from a bygone era. Looking to the stars, or the "final frontier," and dreaming big is an essential part of the human DNA, so it's only natural to dream of gigantic spaceships roaming the outer reaches of the galaxy. That's enough to get your mind racing and imagine the sheer size and scale of the Martian mountaintop, a structure that's three times the size of Everest.ĭwarfing the average human being has always been a trait of some of the best science fiction stories around, whether it's the Star Destroyer in Star Wars, or the towering alien pods in War of the Worlds (H.G. It sits on a gradual slope so tall that if you stood at the bottom of it, the peak of the volcano would extend beyond the horizon, or so David Attenbrough has told me. There is a volcano on Mars called Olympus Mons.
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