What we now know about new 'Star Wars' movie universe

If you thought the Star Wars movie universe was expansive before, it's grown a whole lot since Thursday at Star Wars Celebration when Disney/Lucasfilm dropped a new trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. (Which quite impressively had 88 million views in the first 24 hours.)

The new movie will continue the story past the events of 1983's sixth episode,Return of the Jedi, but we're also going to get standalone films (now with a new "Anthology" label) to flesh out that galaxy far, far away. The first: Director Gareth Edwards' Rogue One, which had its own little Celebration panel on Sunday.

So many movies, so many of us Star Wars nerds excited about what's to come. While we're anxiously waiting for December to welcome Han and Chewie home to the big screen again, here is what's known about the upcoming movies and how they fit into the whole saga.

THERE IS PROBABLY A NEW SKYWALKER. STRONG IN THE FORCE THEY ARE!

The Force Awakens trailer features a voiceover by Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker saying that his whole family — him, his late father Anakin/Darth Vader (more on that in a second), his sister Leia (Carrie Fisher) and someone else can tap into the power of the Force. Since it's now 30 or so years afterJedi, that probably means a kid — maybe the child of Han and Leia? (Our wild guess is that could be Daisy Ridley's Rey, though how she ended up on the sandy junk planet of Jakku remains to be seen.)

SOMETHING WENT DOWN DURING THE BATTLE OF JAKKU

Namely, a big freaking Star Destroyer. Ship wreckage is the first thing we see in the Force Awakens trailer, and the conflict occurred after the Battle of Endor in Return of the Jedi with the Rebels attacking the remnants of the Empire. (Fans will be able to get involved, too — the Battle of Jakku is a downloadable add-on to the upcoming Star Wars Battlefronts video game.)

THE FIRST ORDER AND THE RESISTANCE

The Empire fell in Return of the Jedi so why are there Stormtroopers still around? Exact plot details are sketchy, yet exhibits at Celebration named the new-look white armored soldiers as part of the First Order — the second coming of what used to be the Empire — while X-Wing Fighters and their pilots make up a faction of the Resistance, or Rebel Alliance 2.0. Apparently a lot politically can happen in 30 years.

IS DARTH VADER STILL ALIVE?

There is a hint at this somewhat crazy theory in the trailer when someone holds the remnants of Vader's charred helmet. That could go far in explaining who Kylo Ren is and why he's clad in a silver mask and wielding a funky lightsaber. (And why Luke talks about his father having the power of the Force in present tense rather than past tense in the trailer.) The Sith Lord Formerly Known as Anakin Skywalker might not be "alive" per se but maybe the new guy's a clone, since the franchise has already went there before when it comes to copying folks (See: Episode II: Attack of the Clones).

NO JEDI KNIGHTS IN ROGUE ONE

Out next year, Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One will be the first standalone film, and it stars recent Oscar nominee Felicity Jones as a Rebel soldier in the wartime heist movie. Its official description:

What's interesting here is it's set after the final prequel Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, where the Emperor has ordered the extinction of all Jedi in the universe. A few survived obviously (notably Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda) but there will be more blasters than lightsabers in Rogue One. And it will definitely tie into the original Star Wars — those stolen Death Star plans that seem to be the Macguffin of the new flick are the same that Leia gives to R2-D2 in the opening scenes of the 1977 movie.

THE DEATH STAR WAS FREAKING HUGE, Y'ALL

Remember when it was just hanging out in space in the original Star Wars? The well-armed space station seemed pretty big then — big enough to lay waste to Leia's home planet of Alderaan (#RIP). Edwards showed Rogue Oneconcept footage during the Celebration panel Sunday, however, that shows its vastness from the view of a neighboring planet. A flying TIE Fighter looks like a gnat in the sky in comparison.