I can’t place it in time, but it’s when I first saw Darth Vader.” “One of my first memories as a kid is being really really scared of a dark, ominous being in a movie. “You know, I cannot remember not knowing what Star Wars was,” she says. Like most of her team, Ingvarsdottir is a diehard Star Wars fan. Ingvarsdottir runs the Battlefront development team out of DICE’s office in Stockholm, Sweden, coordinating with the other producers, design director Niklas Fegraeus, EA, and Lucasfilm.

Someone in the room lets out a squeak of delight just the same, when the forest moon of Endor appears on the screen. And when the presentation begins, it’s disappointingly on a large screen built into the wall, not a hologram projected up from the circular console in the middle of the floor. The three-tier risers encircling the room are filled with journalists, not Rebel pilots. We’re not standing in the real briefing room from Return of the Jedi, of course, but a recreation built to showcase the public’s first real look at EA and DICE’s Star Wars Battlefront. Everyone in the room is starry-eyed, riding high on the rush of seeing Han Solo for the first time in 32 years. Barely an hour ago, Star Wars Episode VII director JJ Abrams revealed the second teaser trailer for The Force Awakens. It’s day one of Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, California, and I’m standing in the briefing room from Return of the Jedi, where Mon Mothma and Admiral Ackbar laid out the plans for the Rebel Alliance’s assault on the second Death Star.

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