Star Wars: Dark Empire
The comic that brought the Emperor back, and got away with it for about a decade.
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The Battle of Jakku, finally dramatised.
Published in February 2017, the conclusion of Chuck Wendig’s trilogy stages the Battle of Jakku — the engagement that ends the Galactic Civil War in current canon and leaves the wreckage the sequel trilogy opens on.
This entry is catalogued but not yet reviewed. The publication details above are verified; the write-up is still in the queue.
5 ABY – 34 ABY
The comic that brought the Emperor back, and got away with it for about a decade.
The book that proved Star Wars could live on a shelf instead of a screen.
The middle book, and unusually the one where the politics get interesting.
The campaign ends the way good campaigns end: because of one person’s judgement.