Aired the day after Jeremy Bulloch, who played Boba Fett in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), died.
The Imperial shuttle pilot's speech about the Death Stars is the first time any character within this series or original films to acknowledge that millions of Imperials died when each Death Star was destroyed by the Rebellion.
Mark Hamill receives screen credit as Luke Skywalker, even though none of his performance is seen on screen. Max Lloyd-Jones performed Luke's actions on set, with a CGI mask of Hamill's face, circa Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), applied over Lloyd-Jones' face. Luke's voice was artificially created by an AI vocal program so that it would sound like a young Luke Skywalker, rather than a 70-year-old Mark Hamill. Hamill was on set and in costume to provide performance reference for Luke's appearance.
Bo-Katan's ship, seen parked near the cantina, is a Kom'rk-class fighter. "Kom'rk" is Mando'a for "Gauntlet".
The launch sequence of the TIE Fighters is shot to resemble those of the Colonial Vipers from the original Battlestar Galactica (1978).