The High Republic: A more civilized age...
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Well there's no point setting anything in stone until it's relevant to a given story. As I said even he changed his mind about certain things over the years and adjusted accordingly. Doing otherwise would just risk getting painted into a corner.
But still, as I said the idea that the Sith were a rival order of knights was there pretty much from the jump. Indeed the opening scene of the rough draft IIRC was a Sith Knight hunting the protagonist (Annikin Starkiller in that version I think?) while they were hiding out in the desert by their ship, and killing his younger brother. A scene that was kinda-sorta repurposed for TPM...and maybe one of the Ewok movies too.
When he was developing ESB & RotJ the idea was that Yoda being a Jedi Master meant he was a separate thing than a Jedi Knight. Like the Masters were primarily spiritual gurus that the Knights went to to train, and they they themselves have a whole different path and are not just senior Knights in their own right--hence no lightsaber. Sort of the priests of the order, while the Knights were the martial arm. Which by extension meant that the Emperor was Yoda's opposite number and the same in that sense; he wasn't a Sith Lord but a Sith Master--also hence no lightsaber. Clearly by TPM he'd changed his mind about that as he'd have to think about the organisation of the Jedi and Sith in more detail than before, but the general idea of what a Sith is never really changed.
I always found it odd that LF let KJA & Veitch define the "Sith" as a species since Zahn wanted to do the same thing just a few years earlier and it was nixed, so he called them Noghri instead. One assumes the design of the red skinned "Sith Species" from the EU will show up in canon at some point, just under a different name; maybe just "Massassi", or something like "Korribani", "Morabandian", or perhaps just repurpose "Sith'ari" to mean "slaves of the Sith", as in they were a total mix breed species that were enslaved for so many generations that any sense of an original culture or name was wiped out and forgotten.
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Finished The Rising Storm a few days ago, absolutely fantastic. As good as if not better than Light of the Jedi. It's refreshing to have something set in a new era where anything can happen.
The whole High Republic initiative seems to be really well thought out. It's great that they have the whole storyline mapped out (that's not a dig at the sequels, I love them, 7 and 8 especially).
The whole High Republic initiative seems to be really well thought out. It's great that they have the whole storyline mapped out (that's not a dig at the sequels, I love them, 7 and 8 especially).
Sure. Thrawn is really overrated, anyway.
Yes and no. Like any good villain, he's best used sparingly. Zahn just uses him WAY too much...and mostly not even as a villain.
My issue has always been that Zahn did that thing where writers conflate high intelligence with omniscience. It's one of my biggest pet peeves.
I never found Thrawn enjoyable.
Thrawn has flaws. The books show them.
Novels and movies tend to slip under the radar.
Because it isn't a movie/show or a video game
Novels and movies tend to slip under the radar.
Will it make a difference in following the stories if I read the first volume of the Marvel High Republic comic before or after Light of the Jedi? I have both and I had originally planned on reading Light first, but I'm finding myself in a comic and Star Wars mood, so I was thinking about reading There is No Fear, the first volume of the comic, now.
After my post I started There is No Fear, but I decided to stop when I hit what appeared to be a reference to the events of The Light of the Jedi. I know I probably could have kept going without being too lost, but I decided since I already have The Light of the Jedi, I'll just wait and read that first. I decided to switch over to the 6th volume of the Marvel no subtitle series for my Star Wars comics fix instead.
Lucasfilm has revealed some of the first information about Phase II of The High Republic in a new anniversary special of The High Republic Show.
I didn't watch the show, but they did post an article recapping some of the information revealed.
I didn't watch the show, but they did post an article recapping some of the information revealed.
- Phase II will begin in October of this year.
- It will take place 150 years in the past.
- George Mann, Zoraida Cordova, Tess Gratton, and Lydia Kang will be joining the author line up.
- Cavan Scott will write the Marvel comic
- Charles Soule will be writting a Marvel comic that explores Porter Engle's backstory.
- Daniel Jose Older will be writing an all ages The High Republic Adventures graphic novel for Dark Horse,
- Justina Ireland & new author Tessa Gratton will write the first YA novel for Phase II.
- Claudia Gray will be doing something for Phase II, but she won't say what.
Jumping back not forward, and it's not starting until October. There is still quite a bit of stuff coming out before then, we still have at least 3 issues of the monthly comic, the Trail of Shadows comic miniseries, the Eye of the Storm comic minseries, 3 issue of THR Adventures, the YA novel Midnight Horizon, and the kids book The Battle for Starlight.
I know but I see the novels as the main arc of the story. The rest are just tie ins. From what I’ve read of the series so far, the novels and the YA ones are all you need. The comics have been forgettable. They’re just good to put some images onto things.
Haven’t tried the audio play yet. From reading The Fallen Star, that could be a interesting one.
Haven’t tried the audio play yet. From reading The Fallen Star, that could be a interesting one.
