Obi-Wan Kenobi will focus on 'a time of darkness in the galaxy'

https://ew.com/tv/obi-wan-kenobi-ewan-mcgregor-star-wars-joby-harold/

But could the mood be even dicier when things pick back up for Disney+'s Obi-Wan Kenobi? It certainly doesn't sound peachy keen — at least according to series writer Joby Harold. "It takes place 10 years after Revenge of the Sith, in a time of darkness in the galaxy," Harold tells EW. "The Empire is in the ascendancy. And all the horrors that come with the Empire are being made manifest throughout the galaxy. And the Jedi Order as we know them are being all but wiped out. So everything that was in the prequels has crumbled."

Well, that sounds terrible. As if it was not brutal enough for the Republic-turned-Rebellion to watch everything go to hell in Episode III, now it seems they've had to sit and watch the dark side consume all that it touches in both the inner and outer rim for a decade. But wait, it gets worse! "Those surviving Jedi, those that do survive, are on the run," explains Harold, "and they're in hiding. And Vader and his Inquisitors are chasing them to the end of the galaxy."

Such is the setting when we pick things up with our titular hero. Says Harold: "Within that hopeless fatalistic world, we find possibly the most famous of all our surviving Jedi in hiding struggling with that faith that defines the Jedi, and wanting to hold onto it and hoping to regain that faith within that sort of hopeless world."