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Print media is still a dinosaur in a lot of ways, and it usually takes forever to get a project from inception to release. The ball probably got rolling on these long before the show premiered, so the show's reception is neither here nor there.
I imagine another factor is that it's much more suitable for tie-in media since it's largely isolated from most other settings and indeed, most of the characters were killed off, so they're all pretty fair game at this point.
The Mando'verse is a little trickier since in addition the the usual secrecy around the productions, this is a still evolving story being told by basically two people who are WAY too busy to be collaborating and overseeing novels and comics on top of everything else they have going on. Kenobi on the other hand is an extension of the saga movies, so there's not much they can do that hasn't been covered elsewhere, or won't tread on the toes of any potential second season.
We might see something tying into 'Skeleton Crew' in the pipeline soon, largely for the same reasons as The Acolyte's suitability, and because it was delayed long enough that print media may have had time to catch up.
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This is great news, I've been hoping for a Bad Batch novel since the series started.
Hyperspace Stories is also doing a new Bad Batch story set during the Clone Wars.
Now I'm just going to keep my fingers crossed for Mandalorian novels and original comics.
I'd love to see some books or comics that fill in the gap between the end of Rebels and Ahsoka, but I have a feeling they're going to want to keep that open in case Dave Filoni has plans to fill those gaps himself.
This is great news, I've been hoping for a Bad Batch novel since the series started.
Hyperspace Stories is also doing a new Bad Batch story set during the Clone Wars.
Now I'm just going to keep my fingers crossed for Mandalorian novels and original comics.
I'd love to see some books or comics that fill in the gap between the end of Rebels and Ahsoka, but I have a feeling they're going to want to keep that open in case Dave Filoni has plans to fill those gaps himself.
I started reading A New Dawn earlier to day. I've had it for a while, and had moved it up on my reading list when Ahsoka came out, but then I got into The High Republic and it got shoved back down. I was getting The High Republic stuff from the library apps, but I decided to focus on stuff that I own instead, so that moved it back to the top of my list.
'A New Dawn' is a pretty good one, and I think there's an accompanying short story that more firmly links it with a character that also shows up in the Kanan comic. I think my only complaint is not with the novel itself, it's that we didn't get any follow-up media that explored Sabine or Zeb's backstory a little more, and how they came to be on the Ghost. Filloni is clearly *very* protective of his characters.
The show implies a few things; like Sabine being a relatively new addition to the crew, something closer to a year than not based on her still struggling to trust Hera in season 1. One might presume they crossed paths while Sabine was working as a bounty hunter, trying to get in with Black Sun, but after she parted ways with Ketsu.
I think it's also implied somewhere that Kanan was the one that recruited both her and Zeb, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's a rough outline of both of those events in the show's bible, but they just never made it into any stories.
The chronology certainly seems to line up with the fall of Lasan said to have happened around CRC.7970, which is about two years prior to season 1, which means Zeb was with them for up to about a year before Sabine joined, and they found Ezra about a year after she signed up.
That does mean though that Hera and Kanan worked together for about 4 years with just the three of them, given the book takes place around CRC.7966. (Yes, I'm stubbornly refusing to use the BBY/ABY system; I just dislike it.)
There's other gaps too; like we don't know exactly how Hera was recruited into Bail's network (though it's a fair bet it was Ahsoka that did the recruiting) or how long it was between that event and what made her leave her father's cell (presumably the death of her mother was the inciting incident.) IIRC the book at least implies that it's a fairly new state of affairs.
OK, I didn't realize there was that much information in the show.
Where does the CRC dating system you're using come from? I've never seen it before. I've always thought the ABY/BBY system was kind of awkward, I understand from a real world perspective wanting to base everything around A New Hope, but it seems kind of weird when you're talking about things in-universe.
Where does the CRC dating system you're using come from? I've never seen it before. I've always thought the ABY/BBY system was kind of awkward, I understand from a real world perspective wanting to base everything around A New Hope, but it seems kind of weird when you're talking about things in-universe.
There's really not of lot that's explicitly stated; most of it can be gathered from inference, reading between the lines, and just approximating a chronology of events.
Coruscant reckoning calendar. It showed up in a reference book a while ago, and was used for Marva's funerary brick in 'Andor'. Not exactly been widely adopting in other media, but then Star Wars quite wisely shies away from getting into that kind if minutiae.
The basic idea is quite simple: the events of the first movie take place in CRC.7977 because 'Star Wars' came out in 1977 and it just adds on an extra 6000 years. With that as a reference point, it's a simple matter to get everything calculated and plotted out. So for some examples: -
- The Battles of Hoth, Endor and Jakku would have been sometime in '80, '81, & '82 respectively. (not too far off the movies actual release dates)
- The Mandoverse is sometime around the mid to late 80's if reports are to be believed.
- Luke's temple was torched around '05 with the events of the ST occurring seemingly entirely within CRC.8011 or thereabouts (somewhat ironically close to the year Lucas decided to sell to Disney.)
- The events of 'Rebels' & 'Andor' began in '72 (explains Kallus's mutton chops!)
- The Clone Wars lasted through most of the mid 50's (making Dex's 50's style diner pretty much bang on.)
- The Naboo Blockade would have been in CRC.7945.
- The event's of 'The Acolyte' would fall somewhere around 7840's (give or take a decade.)
- The High Republic Era itself beginning in the mid-to-late 7400's, with the Hyperspace Disaster falling somewhere around the 7740's.
I'm 90% sure this comes from Pablo Hidalgo since he was the author of said book, and I do recall him mentioning on social media that he had his own system of tracking events around that time, just using an actual calendar as a foundation. He did stress however that it wasn't meant to be definitive, just functional for keeping things straight-ish behind the scenes. Incidentally there's also a Lothal Calendar that's shown up a few times, and it uses the exact same dates, only it places ANH in 3277 (presumably to mark when Lothal was colonised?) So that also probably came from Pablo.
Personally I like it because it works as in-universe, and out of universe because it give you a better sense of how different eras relate to each other in real terms, without a pesky "year zero" smack in the middle of everything, forcing you to do maths and count backwards. It's a similar to one reason why I also rather like the idea of the Holocene/"Human Era" calender as an alternative to the Gregorian.
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BBY/ABY does exist in-universe in the current canon, but it's an in-universe author's reference system for their history book, not an actual calendar system.
The Empire had their own calendar where year 1 is 19 BBY, and use BFE/AFE, 'Before the Formation of the Empire', and 'After the Formation of the Empire'
The Empire had their own calendar where year 1 is 19 BBY, and use BFE/AFE, 'Before the Formation of the Empire', and 'After the Formation of the Empire'
I finished up New Dawn earlier today, and I really enjoyed it. It was cool to see what Hera and Kanan were like before they go together. Kanan was pretty different, but in a way that made sense since that point he would have been on the run and hiding for most life, and had turned his back on being a Jedi and things like that.
Vidian was great villain, and his plot that the heroes were fighting against was nice motivation for them to come together.
It was nice seeing Sloane here, knowing she became a fairly big recurring character in the DIsney canon.
Vidian was great villain, and his plot that the heroes were fighting against was nice motivation for them to come together.
It was nice seeing Sloane here, knowing she became a fairly big recurring character in the DIsney canon.
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