Battle of the Sith Lords
Red Fly built a stealth-action Darth Maul game in secret, was told to combine him with a distant-era Sith, and lost the project before Lucasarts ever announced it.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Never Born
- Peak stage
- working prototype
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A cancelled Star Wars action game developed by Red Fly Studio around Darth Maul.
The prototype explored acrobatic lightsaber combat, stealth and a forced partnership involving Darth Talon.
Existence timeline
The studio creates a Darth Maul combat concept.
A larger project enters production.
Combat, stealth and environments take shape.
Darth Talon is added despite the timeline conflict.
LucasArts stops development.
Developers publicly document the lost game.
Why it ended
LucasArts ended development in 2011 amid shifting franchise plans without bringing the game to public announcement.
Last confirmed trace
Prototype footage, concept art and developer interviews surfaced years later.
What it left behind
The project demonstrates how licensed games can reach playable form while remaining invisible to the public until after cancellation.
How we classified it
The proposed archive unit never reached ordinary public access in the form being documented.
The strongest verified milestone maps to working_prototype under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.