As the dust settles on the survivors of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, there's a quiet moment when Maz Kanata gives Chewbacca something: a medal that looks awfully familiar. Although it's never said out loud whose medal it is, the implications are pretty clear.

Maz giving the medal to Chewie isn't the first time we see it in the movie. Earlier, as Leia ends her leadership of the Resistance and prepares to reach out to her son one last time, the medal is in her possession. It's a Medal of Bravery - if you think you've seen it before, it's because Leia presented Luke and Han with Medals of Bravery at the end of A New Hope. Theoretically, the medal Maz hands to Chewie could be either Han's or Luke's, since Leia is the last surviving non-evil member of their family. But the fact that Leia has it up until she dies,...