Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
The first serious attempt to give Star Wars a deep past.
Original generated cover art
The first tie-in novel for the MMO, and it has to introduce everything at once.
Published in July 2010 ahead of the Star Wars: The Old Republic game, Sean Williams’s novel throws a Jedi, a Sith, a smuggler, a trooper and a droid at the same buried secret on a lost world. It is the first prose set in the game’s era of open war between the Republic and a resurgent Sith Empire.
This entry is catalogued but not yet reviewed. The publication details above are verified; the write-up is still in the queue.
c. 5,000 BBY – 1,000 BBY
The first serious attempt to give Star Wars a deep past.
Horror at the Sith academy, three and a half thousand years before anyone can help.
The novel behind the Sacking of Coruscant trailer.
The game’s lead writer comes back to answer the question the game left open.