This article contains mild spoilers for "Star Wars: Skeleton Crew" episode 6, "Zero Friends Again."

Star Wars is one of the largest fictional universes in film and TV, filled with countless legends, stories, locations and people. Like Middle Earth, it's a place that can support almost any kind of story. This is also why Skeleton Crew feels so fresh; the existence of an all-ages coming-of-age adventure set in the same universe as Andor is nothing but good news for the viability of Star Wars.

More than just "The Goonies" in space, "Skeleton Crew" took the franchise where it had never been before by telling the story of a group of kids who yearn for adventure and are thrown into a world of ruthless pirates and the search for legendary treasure. (It's basically the Star Wars version of Treasure Planet.) Where The Mandalorian promised to take viewers deep into the Star Wars underworld only to become much more concerned with connecting and setting up other Star Wars projects, while The Boba Fett Book completely failed to depict the seedy world of criminal cartels operating on Tatooine, finally the Skeleton Crew (like "Andor" before it) fulfills the promise of George Lucas' Star Wars: Underground series, which was never made live-action. Indeed, we've already been shown the darker side of a galaxy far, far away—one that's full of constant dangers and killers for a fortune or a big score.

Not that this is the first time pirates have been part of a Star Wars project. Han Solo himself was mentioned as a pirate in A New Hope, while the cartoons The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels featured many pirate crews with their own styles and ruthless ways. And yet, it wasn't until Skeleton Crew that we finally got a key piece of pirate iconography that Star Wars had been missing for decades: a space sea shack.

In the latest episode of Skeleton Crew, titled "Zero Friends Again," Jude Law's Jodh Na Naud (aka Crimson Jack, Sylvo the Mad Captain, Dash Zentin, Professor Ummiam Gorellox, and Jodwick Zanck) is captured by his former pirate crew. to be sentenced to death. Before that happens, however, he is given a chance talks about his freedom à la the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. - an opportunity he uses to convince the crew to join him in his search for the great treasure of Athens. He even charmingly explains how he found a recording of the legendary Captain Tac Renaud talking about the planet of eternal wealth.

But when words aren't enough, Jodh begins reciting a rant about Renaud and his legendary exploits aboard the Onyx Cinder. That's right, we now have our first Star Wars space sea shack, and it's one that practically everyone else in the crew knows and joins in singing along to, suggesting that this particular shack is popular enough to be well known throughout the entire galaxy. Suffice it to say, this rules; the sea shacks are great, attractive and help paint a colorful picture of pirate life in a given time period. It's also the secret ingredient that made Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag one of the best video games in the franchise, giving you as a player even more reason to spend hours simply sailing the seas with your crew listening to the sea forests and forget about the main quest.

Of course, there's also the fact that Renaud's shack is another undeniable reference to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, the classic novel that serves as a huge source of inspiration for Skeleton Crew (from Legendary Treasure and the show's Young Heroes and the pirates search for Jod initially presenting himself as an ally before revealing his true colors to the children). In "Treasure Island," the song "Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest" is not only a popular tune among pirates, but is also a major clue to the location of the title location. Perhaps there is another verse from Renaud's song that holds a clue to the fate of the pirate legend.

"Zero Friends Again" also brings back a pirate tradition in the form of walking the plank - or, rather, being ejected from the airlock of a spaceship. It's a method of execution that's been used in Star Wars for years, especially in The Clone Wars when pirates and bounty hunters (especially Cade Bane) threaten to throw others into the cold abyss of space. In Rebels, while not technically a pirate, war criminal Chopper constantly kills people by throwing them out of airlocks like the twisted demon that he is.

More than space cowboys and outlaws like Han Solo and Lando Calrissian, who care primarily about themselves and tend to work alone, pirates are all about their crew, have fun looting and pillaging, and are mostly just weird little guys like werewolf Shistavanen Brutus (Fred Tatasciore) on "Skeleton Crew" or The Gorian Shard-like Swamp Thing on "The Mandalorian" (one of the best characters Star Wars has presented in years). Space travel is analogous to sea travel, so it makes sense that the Star Wars universe would be full of pirates. If Skeleton Crew proved anything, it's that you can never have too many pirates in space.

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