Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi
A publishing initiative disguised as a disaster novel, and mostly the better for it.
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Books (57)
All booksStar Wars: The High Republic: The Rising Storm
The fair, the fireworks, and the moment the Nihil stop being a nuisance.
Star Wars: The High Republic: The Fallen Star
A siege novel that turns the era’s proudest symbol into a trap.
Star Wars: The High Republic: Into the Dark
Padawans stranded on a very wrong space station.
Star Wars: The High Republic: Out of the Shadows
A salvage pilot, a corporate marriage, and Jedi who are out of their depth.
Star Wars: The High Republic: A Test of Courage
Four survivors, one very young Jedi Knight, one hostile moon.
Star Wars: The High Republic: Tempest Runner
The whole Nihil story told from inside the Nihil, and it is the best thing in Phase I.
Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures
The all-ages wing of the era, and quietly one of its best corners.
Star Wars: The High Republic: Midnight Horizon
Jedi on Corellia, working a case in a city that does not want them.
Star Wars: The High Republic: Temptation of the Force
The era finally asks what attachment costs the people holding the line.
Star Wars: The High Republic: Convergence
Phase II opens a hundred and fifty years earlier, with a war nobody in Phase I mentioned.
Star Wars: The High Republic: Path of Deceit
A cult that believes the Force should belong to nobody, and the Jedi who cannot argue with it.
Star Wars: The High Republic: The Battle of Jedha
A holy city, a dozen faiths, and a peace conference that does not survive contact.
Star Wars: The High Republic: Cataclysm
Phase II escalates, and the Path of the Open Hand stops being a fringe movement.
Star Wars: The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness
A year after Starlight fell, and the Republic has lost a quarter of the Outer Rim.
Star Wars: The High Republic: Trials of the Jedi
The last book of a five-year, three-phase, four-format publishing experiment.
Star Wars: The Living Force
All twelve Jedi Councillors leave the Temple. It goes about as well as you would expect.
Star Wars: Queen’s Shadow
Padmé stops being a queen and has to work out what she is instead.
Star Wars: Padawan
Teenage Obi-Wan Kenobi, badly, wonderfully out of his depth.
Star Wars: Dooku: Jedi Lost
A full-cast audio drama about the Jedi who left, told by the assassin he hired.
Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising
Thrawn at home, in a society with rules he is constantly, politely breaking.
Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good
Chiss politics, at length, with a fleet action attached.
Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil
The Ascendancy trilogy closes, and explains how a Chiss officer ends up in Imperial uniform.
Star Wars: Dark Disciple
The Jedi Council decides to have someone assassinated, and it goes exactly as well as you would expect.
Star Wars: Brotherhood
Master and apprentice become something the Order has no word for.
Thrawn: Alliances
Two timelines, one grudging partnership, and Darth Vader in a very bad mood.
Thrawn: Treason
Budget politics at the top of the Imperial Navy, which is more gripping than it sounds.
Star Wars: A New Dawn
The first novel of the new canon, and a workplace thriller about industrial murder.
Star Wars: Tarkin
The man who out-argued Darth Vader gets a biography.
Star Wars: Lords of the Sith
Palpatine and Vader, stranded, hunted, and entirely too pleased about it.
Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel
How a research grant becomes a superweapon.
Star Wars: Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear
The first weeks of the Empire, from inside a Senate that has not yet admitted what happened.
Star Wars: Leia, Princess of Alderaan
Sixteen-year-old Leia works out what her parents do at night.
Star Wars: Ahsoka
What a former Jedi does when there is no Order left to be former to.
Star Wars: Darth Vader Vol. 1: Vader
Vader in disgrace, running his own black operation, with a rogue archaeologist for company.
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra Vol. 1: Aphra
An amoral archaeologist, two homicidal droids, and no supervision whatsoever.
Doctor Aphra: An Audiobook Original
The comic run, adapted for a full cast, and it works better than it should.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
The rare novelization that adds an argument rather than deleted scenes.
Star Wars: Battlefront: Twilight Company
The Rebellion from the mud upward, with no Jedi anywhere near it.
Star Wars: Lost Stars
Two friends join the Imperial Academy. Only one of them stays.
Ultimate Star Wars
The new canon gets its first single-volume overview.
Star Wars: Aftermath
The Empire loses at Endor and then has to work out what losing means.
Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron
Five pilots, five different starfighters, and a war that has technically already ended.
Star Wars: Aftermath: Life Debt
Han and Chewbacca get their own war, and the ensemble finally gels.
Star Wars: Aftermath: Empire’s End
The Battle of Jakku, finally dramatised.
Star Wars: Bloodline
A senate procedural about the republic that is about to lose everything.
Star Wars: Last Shot
Three timelines, two smugglers, and a droid uprising nobody asked for.
Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel
The wedding, the honeymoon, and the awkward business of peace.
Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren
The night the temple burned, told without the excuses either side offers for it.
Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens
The man who ghostwrote the first Star Wars book comes back for the seventh film.
Star Wars: Phasma
A frame story about a survivalist, told by people who want her destroyed.
Star Wars: Episode VIII — The Last Jedi
An expanded edition that argues with the film in the film’s favour.
Star Wars: Resistance Reborn
Rebuilding a resistance out of a phone list, which is more interesting than it sounds.
Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker
The expanded edition that has to explain rather more than a novelization usually does.
Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge: Black Spire
A spy novel that doubles as a guidebook to a theme park.
Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith
Luke and Lando, twenty years on, hunting something neither of them understands.
The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Concept art as a record of every film that was almost made instead.
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Dossiers (318)
All dossiers0-0-0
A protocol droid specialising in etiquette, translation and torture, in that order.
2-1B
The surgical droid who puts Luke back together twice, on Hoth and after Bespin.
4-LOM
A protocol droid whose logic glitched its way out of its own programming and into the bounty trade.
Aayla Secura
Created for a comic, drafted into the films because George Lucas liked the cover.
Adi Gallia
The Council’s line into Republic intelligence, killed twice in two continuities.
Admiral Ackbar
The Alliance’s fleet commander, and the only major film character who debuted in a newspaper comic strip.
Admiral Konstantine
Held a sector command against six people in a freighter and lost, then resented the man sent to fix it.
Admiral Motti
Told Darth Vader that his religion was a superstition, and got roughly the response you would expect.
Admiral Ozzel
Came out of lightspeed too close to the system, and became the object lesson that made Piett an admiral.
Admiral Piett
Promoted twice by surviving the man in front of him, and killed by an A-wing.
Admiral Screed
Lost an eye in the Clone Wars, won a battle they teach at the Academies, and was killed by pirates.
Admiral Statura
A veteran officer whose job in the film is to explain why Starkiller Base can be destroyed at all.
Admiral Versio
Burned his own homeworld on a dead man’s orders, and hunted his daughter for refusing to help.
Agen Kolar
One of the four Masters who walked into Palpatine’s office, and the first of them to fall.
Alexsandr Kallus
The Imperial Security Bureau agent who changed his mind — slowly, on screen, over four seasons, which is not a thing Star Wars usually has the patience for.
Allegiant General Pryde
An old Imperial who never stopped taking orders from Palpatine, across thirty-five years and one death.
Amilyn Holdo
Refused to explain herself to a subordinate, was right, and paid for it at lightspeed.
AP-5
A cargo-inventory droid with a beautiful voice and a very low opinion of his own life.
Ar'alani
The admiral in the white uniform — the officer who gave up her family name to command.
Arihnda Pryce
A local girl who lost her family’s mine to the Empire and spent the rest of her life climbing the thing that took it.
Armand Isard
Ran the Republic’s intelligence service into the Empire — and in Legends, was executed on his daughter’s word.
Armitage Hux
A boy raised inside a defeated army, given a bigger gun than the Empire ever built and no idea what to do after firing it.
Ars Dangor
One of the robes behind the throne, in wide hats, closing shipping lanes to Ghorman.
Asajj Ventress
Count Dooku’s assassin in two incompatible versions — the clearest case of the reboot rewriting someone entirely.
Aurra Sing
A background extra at a podrace who became one of the animated era’s most reliable killers.
Axe Woves
Fought for Mandalore, then sold the same skills to whoever was buying.
Azmorigan
A gangster who runs his operation out of a ship, and once lost a puffer pig to Lando Calrissian.
Bail Antilles
The other candidate — a name in one line of dialogue, and a fossil of a script revision.
Bail Organa
Raised the galaxy’s most dangerous adopted daughter and died before she needed him to explain why.
Bala-Tik
Negotiates for the Guavians, backed by soldiers who do not have faces.
Bant Eerin
Obi-Wan’s oldest friend at the Temple, and one of the few Jedi Apprentice names canon kept.
Barriss Offee
The padawan who bombed the Jedi Temple, framed her friend, and made the best argument against the Order anyone in the fiction has made.
Baylan Skoll
A survivor of the purge working as a mercenary, and looking for something older than either order.
Baze Malbus
Lost his faith and kept the man who still had it, which is its own kind of belief.
BB-8
The plot device that rolls, and the best practical-effects gamble the sequel trilogy took.
BD-1
A bipedal exploration droid who spends two games clinging to a fugitive Jedi’s shoulder.
Beilert Valance
Marvel’s first original Star Wars villain: a cyborg who hates droids because he has become one.
Belkor Dray
Fed a rebellion intelligence to discredit his boss, and got blackmailed into an assassination attempt on the Emperor.
Beru Whitesun Lars
Luke's mother in every sense the films have room to show.
Bib Fortuna
Forty years at the Hutt’s ear, one year on the Hutt’s throne, and about four seconds after that.
Biggs Darklighter
Luke’s best friend, cut from the film, partly restored in 1997, and dead in ninety seconds either way.
Black Krrsantan
A black-furred Wookiee bounty hunter created to prove that Chewbacca was not the template.
Bo-Katan Kryze
A terrorist, then a regent, then a claimant — the longest political arc anyone in Star Wars has been given.
Boba Fett
Four lines of dialogue and a helmet, and somehow the most merchandised man in the galaxy.
Bodhi Rook
The defector who started the whole thing, and the only one of the six whose courage is visibly difficult for him.
Boil
Waxer’s partner, and the one who argues that they cannot afford to care.
Bolla Ropal
Died rather than open a holocron listing every Force-sensitive child in the galaxy.
Boss Nass
The head of state who has to be asked twice, and then commits an entire army.
Bossk
One of the six hunters on the Executor’s bridge, and the only one with a grudge that predates the war.
Breha Organa
Head of state, minister of education, and the parent who actually taught Leia how to rule.
Brendol Hux
Invented the idea of raising stormtroopers from infancy, and was poisoned by two of his own protégés.
BT-1
An astromech chassis packed with every weapon that would fit, and no protocol restraints at all.
Burg
The muscle, and a demonstration that muscle is not enough.
C-3PO
Built by a nine-year-old slave on Tatooine and present, terrified, at every turning point for the next seventy years.
Cad Bane
A spaghetti-western gunslinger dropped into a war cartoon, and the one hunter the Jedi never beat cleanly.
Cal Kestis
Found the list of every Force-sensitive child in the galaxy — and decided nobody should have it.
Captain Canady
An old Imperial who saw the bombers coming, said so, and went down with the dreadnought anyway.
Captain Gregor
A clone commando with amnesia, working as a dishwasher on Abafar.
Captain Needa
Apologised to Darth Vader in person. It went as well as apologising to Darth Vader in person ever goes.
Captain Panaka
Ran the security detail that kept a fourteen-year-old queen alive, and spent the film being told his job was not necessary.
Captain Peavey
An Imperial veteran who thought General Hux was a nepotism appointment, and was correct.
Captain Phasma
Chrome armour, two films, almost no screen time, and a novel that quietly makes her the most self-interested person in the First Order.
Captain Rex
The clone the war was told through — and one of the very few who got to choose what came after.
Captain Typho
Lost an eye protecting the Queen and was promptly told to stop worrying so much.
Cara Dune
An Alderaanian shock trooper with no planet to go home to and no war left to fight.
Cardo
The band’s armourer, and the only one of them who would rather shoot than swing.
Cassian Andor
The Rebellion as a job with a body count, done by a man who keeps the receipts.
Cere Junda
Broke under torture, gave up her own padawan, and cut herself off from the Force rather than risk it again.
Chass na Chadic
A B-wing pilot who has watched her entire squadron die twice, and flies with the music turned up.
Che'ri
A child navigator whose Force sensitivity is the Ascendancy’s hyperdrive, and expires with puberty.
Chewbacca
Fifty years of screen time without a single line of translated dialogue, and nobody has ever misread him.
Chirrut Îmwe
Not a Jedi. Believes anyway, out loud, in the middle of a firefight.
Chopper
A malicious, half-repaired astromech who is in this for himself and saves the galaxy anyway.
Cid
A Jedi informant who became a fence, because the Jedi stopped paying.
Cikatro Vizago
The Ghost crew’s arms dealer, who later changed his ways — mostly.
Cin Drallig
The Jedi who taught the Order to fight, killed on the Temple steps by his best student’s student.
Cliegg Lars
Bought a woman out of slavery, married her, and lost a leg trying to get her back.
Cobb Vanth
A sheriff in borrowed Mandalorian armour, holding one town together on a planet with no government.
Coleman Kcaj
A Council seat that spent years being called the wrong name.
Coleman Trebor
Took the Council seat left empty by Yarael Poof, and lasted one scene.
Commander Cody
Executed Order 66 on his own general, served the Empire anyway, and eventually walked out of it in the night.
Commander D’Acy
Ground forces commander for a movement that keeps running out of ground.
Commander Fox
The clone who policed Coruscant, and shot Fives before he could finish the sentence.
Commander Wolffe
Plo Koon’s commander, one eye short after Ventress, and an old man on Seelos twenty years later.
Cordé
The decoy who dies in the first ninety seconds of Attack of the Clones.
Crosshair
The marksman whose inhibitor chip worked, and who then had to find out what he believed without it.
Cut Lawquane
The clone who walked away, took a name and a farm, and asks Rex the question the war cannot answer.
Darth Maul
Killed off in his first film, and rebuilt by twenty-five years of books and television into something better.
Darth Momin
A Sith who treated atrocity as a medium, and survived four hundred years inside his own mask.
Dedra Meero
The analyst who was right about the rebellion before anyone else, and destroyed a great many people proving it.
Del Meeko
An Imperial engineer who met Luke Skywalker once and never entirely got over it.
Dengar
Firepower over finesse, a head full of bandages, and the longest continuous career of anyone in the line-up.
Depa Billaba
A silent Council seat in 1999; two decades later, the master who dies so Kanan Jarrus can live.
Derek “Hobbie” Klivian
Crash-prone, relentlessly pessimistic, and still flying decades after everyone expected him to stop.
Dexter Jettster
A four-armed short-order cook who identified the murder weapon the entire Jedi Archive could not.
Din Djarin
A bounty hunter who breaks the one rule of his profession in his first episode and spends three seasons paying for it.
Doctor Cornelius Evazan
A promising surgeon who became a butcher, and announced his own rap sheet to a farm boy in a bar.
Doctor Hemlock
Ran the Empire’s cloning programme out of Mount Tantiss, and drew a straight line from the clone army to Palpatine’s return.
Dormé
The handmaiden who stays on Coruscant while Padmé is sent into hiding — played by Rose Byrne.
Dryden Vos
A gangster of wealth and taste, fronting a syndicate for someone he does not name.
Echo
Presumed dead, wired into a Separatist computer, and recovered as something between a man and a machine.
Eeth Koth
A Zabrak Master out of the Nar Shaddaa slums, and the Jedi Grievous kept alive on camera.
Eighth Brother
A tracker with a temper, killed by his own malfunctioning lightsaber during an escape.
Eirtaé
The blonde handmaiden — she goes to Coruscant, and she fights at the Battle of Naboo.
Eli Vanto
Assigned as a translator because of an accent, and ended up as the Empire’s only man inside the Chiss Ascendancy.
Embo
A hunter of very few words, a bowcaster, and a hat that is also a shield and also a weapon.
Enfys Nest
The film’s designated marauder, who turns out to be the only person in it with a cause.
Eno Cordova
An archaeologist Jedi who hid the Order’s future inside a puzzle only his own padawan could open.
EV-9D9
The droid overseer in Jabba’s basement, running a torture chamber for machines.
Even Piell
A metre tall, one eye short, and the most openly aggressive Master in the chamber.
Ezra Bridger
Taught the Force by a man who never finished learning it — and the only Jedi who ever removed himself from the board on purpose.
Fenn Rau
A Clone Wars flight instructor running a neutral airspace, until the Empire demonstrates what neutrality is worth.
Fennec Shand
Left for dead in the Dune Sea, rebuilt with cybernetics, and promoted to the second most dangerous person on Tatooine.
Feral
The brother who was spared the transformation, and killed by the brother who was not.
Fifth Brother
The heavy of the Inquisitorius — no subtlety, considerable telekinesis, two lost hands.
Finis Valorum
A decent chancellor removed by the crisis his successor manufactured.
Finn
The only stormtrooper the saga ever let take the helmet off and keep talking.
Fives
The clone who worked out what the inhibitor chips were for, and was shot for it.
Galen Erso
Built the Death Star, and built the flaw that destroys it, over fifteen years of pretending to be broken.
Gallius Rax
A boy from Jakku who grew up to destroy the Empire on the Emperor’s own instructions.
Gar Saxon
A Mandalorian who governs Mandalore for the Empire, in red and white armour with an Imperial cog on the shoulder.
Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios
The last Lasat anyone had counted, which turned out to be wrong in the best way the show ever managed.
Gardulla the Hutt
Owned Shmi and Anakin Skywalker, and lost them on a bet.
Garsa Fwip
Ran the best cantina in Mos Espa, paid her tribute, and was killed anyway.
Garven Dreis
Red Leader at Yavin, and the pilot who took the first shot at the exhaust port.
General Bast
Told Tarkin the Death Star had a weakness, and was told to be quiet.
General Dodonna
He read the stolen plans, found the exhaust port, and gave the briefing every Star Wars mission scene has copied since.
General Grievous
A Kaleesh warlord rebuilt as a machine so he could collect the lightsabers of people who were better than him.
General Madine
The man who built the Empire’s commandos, then planned the raid that finished it.
General Rieekan
The officer who called the evacuation of Hoth, and the reason anyone got off it.
General Romodi
Survived the Death Star and Endor, and the histories recorded him dead at Yavin anyway.
General Tagge
The only officer in the room who was right about the Rebellion, and the comics gave him forty years of credit for it.
General Veers
The one Imperial officer in the trilogy who is simply good at his job.
Gideon Hask
The member of Inferno Squad who did not defect, and spent thirty years making that everyone else’s problem.
Gilad Pellaeon
The Imperial officer who finally signed the peace — and the rare Star Wars character both continuities decided to keep.
Gor Koresh
Runs an underground fighting pit, gambles on it, and tries to sell a Mandalorian’s armour.
Grand Admiral Thrawn
The Empire’s only alien Grand Admiral, and the one commander it could never quite trust.
Greedo
Two minutes of screen time and thirty years of argument about who shot first.
Greef Karga
The middleman: he does not hunt anyone, he just decides who gets to.
Greer Sonnel
A champion racing pilot who took a desk job rather than tell anyone she was ill.
Grogu
A fifty-year-old infant of a species Lucasfilm still refuses to name, and the most consequential new character in forty years of Star Wars.
Hera Syndulla
Owned the ship, recruited the crew, and was quietly running a cell of the Rebellion before anyone on board realised they had joined one.
Hondo Ohnaka
A pirate with no allegiance, no shame, and an unnervingly consistent code.
Hunter
Squad sergeant, enhanced senses, and the reluctant guardian at the centre of The Bad Batch.
Huyang
The droid who has taught every Jedi in twenty-five thousand years how to build a lightsaber.
Iden Versio
Raised to be the perfect Imperial, and given a front-row seat when the Empire decided to murder its own worlds.
IG-11
An assassin droid reprogrammed as a nurse, which turns out to be the same protocol pointed the other way.
IG-88
A chrome assassin droid in the bounty hunter line-up, with about four seconds of film and forty years of backstory.
Jabba the Hutt
The debt at the centre of the original trilogy, sitting in a palace on a desert world.
Jango Fett
The best bounty hunter in the galaxy, hired to be the template for the army that ends the Republic.
Jannah
Led an entire stormtrooper company in laying down its weapons, which is the mutiny Finn thought he was alone in.
Jar Jar Binks
The most disliked character in the franchise, and the one who hands Palpatine emergency powers.
Jaro Tapal
A Lasat Jedi General who died in a corridor so his padawan could reach an escape pod.
Jas Emari
A bounty hunter who keeps taking jobs from the winning side and insisting it is a coincidence.
Jek Tono Porkins
Red Six, four lines of dialogue, and one of the most stubbornly beloved bit parts in the franchise.
Jessika Pava
A Resistance X-wing pilot from Dandoran who got considerably more life in the comics than on screen.
Jocasta Nu
Six lines of dialogue that diagnose the entire Order: if it is not in the Archives, it does not exist.
Jom Barell
The only member of the crew with an actual commission, and the least comfortable with the rest of them.
Jon “Dutch” Vander
Gold Leader, flying the slowest craft in the attack down the longest corridor in the galaxy.
Joph Seastriker
A young New Republic pilot who has never fought a war and cannot quite believe the last one was real.
Jova Tarkin
Took a boy out into the Carrion Plateau and taught him everything he later did to the galaxy.
Jyn Erso
A stolen childhood, a forged identity and one sentence that redefined what the Rebellion was for.
K-2SO
Built by the Empire to kill rebels, reprogrammed by one, and constitutionally incapable of tact.
Kairos
A silent U-wing pilot in black, behind a mask that hides every expression — including, for a long time, her species.
Kanan Jarrus
A padawan who never finished his training, teaching a student he is not qualified to teach.
Karyn Faro
Thrawn’s second aboard the Chimaera, promoted out of the job just before it stopped existing.
Kaydel Ko Connix
Junior controller at D’Qar in one film, running the room by the third.
Kelleran Beq
The host of a children’s game show who turned out, three years later, to be the Jedi who saved Grogu.
Kes Dameron
Fought on the ground at Endor, then chose a farm on Yavin 4 over the rest of the war.
Ketsu Onyo
Sabine Wren’s Academy classmate, who took the other road out and made a career of it.
Ki-Adi-Mundi
The one Council member who reached the screen from a comic — and the one the films never bothered to explain.
Kit Fisto
The only Jedi in the prequels who looks like he is enjoying himself.
Kix
The 501st’s field medic, with "a good droid is a dead one" stencilled on his helmet.
Koska Reeves
One of Bo-Katan’s Nite Owls, hijacking Imperial freighters to fund a claim to a dead planet.
Kuiil
Worked off three lifetimes of indenture, then spent his freedom helping a stranger for nothing. I have spoken.
L3-37
Assembled herself out of astromech and protocol parts, started a droid revolt, and ended up inside the Falcon.
Lady Carise Sindian
The aristocrat who leaked Leia’s parentage and helped hand the galaxy to the First Order.
Lady Proxima
A gang boss who runs child labour out of a sewer and cannot go outside.
Lando Calrissian
A con man who became an administrator, betrayed his friends, and then spent the rest of his life paying it back.
Latts Razzi
Charges exorbitant rates, delivers, and fights with a scaled boa she also wears.
Lieutenant Mitaka
Top of his class at the Academy, and best remembered for being lifted off the deck by the throat.
Lio Partagaz
Chairs the meeting where the Empire decides who disappears, and runs it like a faculty seminar.
Luke Skywalker
The farm boy the whole shelf is built around — and the character the two continuities disagree about most.
Luminara Unduli
Thought to have died in Order 66; actually kept alive in a cell and used as bait.
Lyra Erso
Saw what Krennic was doing years before her husband would admit it, and died on the doorstep saying so.
Mace Windu
The Order’s champion, right about Palpatine and wrong about how to handle him, in that order.
Mae Aniseya
Set out to kill four Jedi in revenge, and found the man who wanted her to do it.
Magna Tolvan
The Imperial officer assigned to catch Doctor Aphra, with the predictable complication.
Marrok
A silent ex-Inquisitor selling his services after the Empire stopped paying.
Mas Amedda
Stood beside Palpatine for fifty years, signed the surrender, and kept his office.
Max Rebo
Signed his band to Jabba the Hutt for unlimited food and no money, which he considered a good deal.
Maz Kanata
A thousand years of watching galactic powers rise and fall, from behind a bar.
Merrin
The last of her coven, taught for years that the Jedi were the ones who killed it.
Migs Mayfeld
An ex-Imperial sharpshooter with a mouth on him, and the only person in the show who says what the Empire actually did.
Minister Tua
A true believer who tried to defect, and whose murder the Empire successfully blamed on the rebels.
Mister Bones
A Separatist battle droid rebuilt by a teenager into something considerably worse.
Moff Gideon
An ex-ISB officer holding the Darksaber and a plan the New Republic has not noticed yet.
Moff Jerjerrod
An architect running the largest construction project in history, behind schedule, with Darth Vader in the doorway.
Moff Mors
Grieving, spiced, and negligent — until somebody made the mistake of assuming she was finished.
Mok Shaiz
The elected mayor, working for the spice cartel the whole time.
Mon Mothma
The one founder of the Rebellion who had to build it inside the building she was trying to destroy.
Mother Talzin
Not a Sith, and that is exactly the point — a dark side tradition the Sith never controlled.
Naga Sadow
The Sith Lord who found the Republic by accident and lost an empire trying to conquer it.
Nahdar Vebb
Kit Fisto’s former padawan, promoted by a war and killed by it in the same episode.
Nath Tensent
A roguish pilot who outlasted his own squadron and has been charging the galaxy for it ever since.
Nien Nunb
He flew the Falcon into the second Death Star and laughed, and nobody has ever needed the subtitles.
Ninth Sister
A Jedi Knight broken into an Inquisitor, and undone years later by being reminded of her own name.
Nute Gunray
A shipping executive who invaded a planet over a tax dispute and never once stopped being frightened.
Ochi of Bestoon
A contract killer on Palpatine’s payroll for fifty years, remembered mostly as a skeleton in a desert.
Odan-Urr
Built the Great Jedi Library on Ossus, and lived long enough to watch it burn.
Old Daka
The oldest Nightsister alive, and the one who could call the dead ones back.
Omega
An unaltered clone the Kaminoans never meant to let leave, and the reason The Bad Batch is about something.
Oppo Rancisis
The serpentine Master in the corner — royalty, in the Legends telling, who gave it up for the Order.
Orn Free Taa
The senator the prequels use to show what a legislature looks like when it has stopped working.
Orson Krennic
The man who built the Death Star and could never get anyone to say so out loud.
Osha Aniseya
The twin who went with the Jedi, washed out of the Order, and ended the series holding a red blade.
Owen Lars
The man who kept Luke on the farm, and was right to try.
Paige Tico
The opening sequence of The Last Jedi belongs to her, and she does not survive it.
Passel Argente
One of the four corporate signatures on the document that starts the Clone Wars.
Paz Vizsla
The biggest man in the covert, carrying a name with a much longer history than he has.
Peli Motto
Runs Docking Bay 3-5 and asks no questions she is not paid to ask.
Plo Koon
A background mask in the films; in the Clone Wars, the Jedi the clones actually liked.
Poe Dameron
The best pilot in the Resistance, promoted and demoted roughly in proportion to how much he was listening.
Poggle the Lesser
The hive lord whose foundries built the droid army — and, quietly, the first Death Star.
Ponda Baba
Picked a fight in the Mos Eisley cantina and lost an arm inside four seconds.
Pong Krell
A Jedi General who spent clone lives deliberately, hoping the waste would get him noticed by Dooku.
Pre Vizsla
A governor by day and a terrorist by night, holding the Darksaber and losing it in a fair fight.
Q9-0
A mercenary pilot droid voiced by Richard Ayoade, shot in the head mid-sentence.
Qimir
A Sith who does not want an empire — only the freedom to use his power without being told not to.
Qin
The extraction target, who ends the episode back in a cell he never left.
Quinlan Vos
A Jedi tracker who reads objects for memories, sent undercover into the dark side and left there too long.
R2-D2
The most consequential character in Star Wars, and the only one who never explains himself.
R5-D4
The droid Luke almost bought. Its motivator blows, and the galaxy changes.
Rabé
Wardrobe mistress to the Queen, and the only handmaiden to speak as herself in The Phantom Menace.
Ransolm Casterfo
A Centrist senator who collects Imperial memorabilia and turns out to be the most decent person in the chamber.
Ranzar Malk
Assembles crews for jobs he has no intention of paying out on.
Ren
The original Ren — the name is the weapon, and it is inherited by whoever takes it.
Reva Sevander
Joined the people who killed her friends in order to get close enough to kill the man who did it.
Rio Durant
A pilot who treats every job as material for the story he will tell about it afterwards.
Rose Tico
The Resistance seen from the engine room, by someone who joined because the First Order strip-mined her home.
Rukh
Thrawn’s bodyguard in both continuities, and his killer in one of them.
Rune Haako
Nute Gunray’s deputy, and the second man in the room to realise the deal has gone wrong.
Sabé
The woman in the throne-room gown for most of The Phantom Menace, played by Keira Knightley.
Sabine Wren
A weapons engineer who defected from her own Academy and signed the Rebellion’s logo without meaning to.
Saesee Tiin
The Council’s pilot, from a moon whose people see the future and rarely mention it.
Salacious Crumb
The laugh in Jabba’s throne room, tolerated because the boss finds him funny.
Samakro
The first officer who resents his captain, and slowly works out that the captain is right.
San Hill
The banker who financed both sides of a civil war and expected to be thanked for it.
Sana Starros
Introduced as Han Solo’s wife, which was a lie, and then given a life of her own.
Sate Pestage
One of the robed men behind the throne — and in Legends, the man who briefly inherited it.
Satine Kryze
A pacifist ruling a warrior culture, and the argument the whole Mandalorian canon is still having.
Savage Opress
A Nightbrother rebuilt into a weapon by his own mother, and aimed at the people who took her son.
Saw Gerrera
The insurgent the Rebel Alliance trained, then disowned for doing what they trained him to do.
Sebulba
The best podracer on Tatooine, entirely because he cheats and no one has managed to prove it.
Sergeant Kreel
The Empire’s answer to a Rebel special-forces problem: stormtroopers with names.
Seventh Sister
The one who enjoys the hunt more than the kill, which makes her the more dangerous half of the pair.
Seyn Marana
Twenty-nine languages, an eidetic memory, and one moment of mercy that killed her.
Shaak Ti
The Jedi assigned to Kamino — which is to say, the Jedi who watched the trap being manufactured.
Shara Bey
Flew at Endor, flew one more mission for Leia after it, and raised the best pilot in the Resistance.
Shin Hati
Trained to surpass the Jedi by a master who then walked off and left her on another planet.
Shmi Skywalker
The saga begins with a woman letting her son go, and the whole tragedy runs off that one decision.
Shu Mai
Head of the Commerce Guild, and the only woman in the room where the war is signed.
Sifo-Dyas
A name dropped once in 2002 that turned out to be the load-bearing beam of the whole prequel plot.
Sinjir Rath Velus
Trained to find disloyalty in other Imperials, and quit the moment he found it in himself.
Sio Bibble
The civil servant who tells the Queen, correctly and repeatedly, that the plan will not work.
Siri Tachi
A Legends love interest for Obi-Wan Kenobi in 2000, quietly restored to canon in 2022.
Slick
The first clone to say out loud that the Republic owns him — and the first to sell it out.
Sly Moore
Stood at Palpatine’s shoulder through the fall of the Republic and was never once asked to explain herself.
Stass Allie
Adi Gallia’s kinswoman, a Council healer, and one of the Order 66 deaths the film actually shows.
Sugi
A crew boss who takes the jobs she believes in, which is not how the profession is supposed to work.
Supreme Leader Snoke
Grown in a vat on Exegol to be a puppet, and given the best villain dialogue in the sequel trilogy anyway.
Sy Snootles
Lead vocalist in Jabba’s house band, and in The Clone Wars a rather more dangerous proposition.
Syril Karn
A middle manager who wanted the Empire to notice him, and got exactly that.
Taron Malicos
Crashed on Dathomir escaping Order 66, and spent the years since lying to the only survivor.
Tasu Leech
Refuses to speak Basic on principle, and lets the rifle do the talking.
Tech
The squad’s engineer, whose enhancement is cognition and whose blind spot is everyone else’s feelings.
Temmin “Snap” Wexley
A teenage scrapyard trader in a 2015 novel, and a Resistance wing commander in a 2015 film.
Tera Sinube
An elderly Jedi who solves a crime by walking slowly and listening to people.
Thalias
A retired sky-walker who came back to look after the child doing her old job.
The Armorer
She keeps the forge, the creed and the history, and she is the reason the helmet stays on.
The Grand Inquisitor
A Jedi Temple Guard who kept the Temple job description and changed the employer.
The Mythrol
The first bounty the series shows being collected, and the only one who gets to complain about it.
The Son
The dark side as a family member — an abstraction with a sister, a father and a temper.
Thrass
Thrawn’s brother, and the politician who has to keep explaining him to the Ruling Families.
Tobias Beckett
The man who teaches Han Solo the trade, and then demonstrates the final lesson personally.
Todo 360
Cad Bane’s toolkit with opinions, and emphatically not a butler droid.
Toro Calican
Took a Guild-entry bounty far above his level and briefly, disastrously, succeeded.
Trilla Suduri
A Padawan whose master gave her up under torture, and who was never told it happened that way.
Tristan Wren
Served in Saxon’s Imperial Super Commandos so his family would not have to.
Trudgen
The biggest of the Knights, carrying a vibrocleaver and a helmet taken off someone else.
U5-GG
The droid on the other end of a Resistance spy’s scouting mission, and the reason anyone hears about it.
Unkar Plutt
Sets the exchange rate between salvage and food on a planet where both are scarce.
Ursa Wren
Disowned her daughter to protect the clan, and killed a viceroy to get her back.
Val
The most level-headed member of a crew of scoundrels, and the first of them to die.
Valco Pandion
Promoted himself, abandoned his troops, and lunged at Rae Sloane in a moving shuttle.
Versé
The handmaiden who was a slicer, killed in the landing-platform bombing.
Vi Moradi
A spy whose interrogation is the frame story of an entire novel, and who later gets a theme park.
Vice Admiral Rampart
Made the clones obsolete, sank Kamino to cover it, and was thrown to the Senate as the man who did it alone.
Vicrul
Believed his scythe collected souls, and that each one made him stronger.
Vult Skerris
The Empire’s best TIE pilot, killed disobeying an order from the one commander who could have saved him.
Wat Tambor
A pressure-suited industrialist who treats an occupied planet as an inventory problem.
Watto
Owned a nine-year-old boy and his mother, and is remembered mainly for being immune to a hand gesture.
Waxer
The trooper who found a Twi’lek orphan in a ruined city and could not leave her there.
Wes Janson
Ten seconds of screen time in 1980, and a decade of novels that made him the squadron’s standing hazard.
Wicket W. Warrick
Found Leia in the forest and, by doing so, delivered the ground army that wins the war.
Wrecker
Enhanced for strength, terrified of heights, and the first of the squad to nearly kill the others.
Wullf Yularen
A background extra in 1977 who was retroactively given twenty years of history, and became the face of the Imperial Security Bureau.
Wyl Lark
A veteran in an A-wing cockpit who mostly just wants to go home.
Xi’an
Knife-thrower, ex-partner, and the only person who knows what Din Djarin looks like from the neck up.
Yarael Poof
The long-necked Master of Council chamber legend, gone between films without a scene.
Yogar Lyste
Arrested as the rebel mole he had been framed as, by the actual rebel mole.
Yrica Quell
An Imperial TIE pilot who flew in Operation: Cinder, defected, and spent three novels failing to explain herself.
Yupe Tashu
The Emperor’s dark-side antiquarian, thrown down a hole by the man he was helping.
Zam Wesell
A shapeshifter hired to kill a senator, and silenced by her own employer mid-sentence.
Zev Senesca
The pilot who found Luke and Han alive on the Hoth ice, and was dead by the end of the same battle.
Ziro the Hutt
Jabba’s uncle, who tried a coup, failed, and could not outrun the Council he betrayed.
Zorii Bliss
Ran the spice crew Poe Dameron abandoned, and made him say the word "spice runner" out loud in front of his friends.
Zuckuss
A findsman who tracks quarry by religious ritual, which is not a metaphor and does not always work.
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Comics (86)
All comicsStar Wars: Darth Maul — Son of Dathomir
Four issues adapted from unproduced Clone Wars scripts, covering Maul’s war with Darth Sidious — and the only Dark Horse Star Wars comic that…
Star Wars
The flagship of Marvel’s second licence, set in the gap between the first two films, with the original cast at the centre and a very large budget…
Star Wars: Chewbacca
Stranded on a mining world on his way to a Rebel rendezvous, Chewbacca is talked into freeing a girl’s family from indentured labour by a girl who…
Star Wars: Darth Vader
Darth Vader after the Death Star: demoted, distrusted by his own Emperor, and quietly assembling the resources to find out who fired the shot that…
Star Wars: Kanan
Caleb Dume was a Jedi Padawan on the day the clones turned. Kanan Jarrus is what was left, and the twelve issues in between are the story neither…
Star Wars: Lando
Lando Calrissian and Lobot steal a luxury yacht to clear a debt, and discover rather too late whose yacht it is.
Star Wars: Princess Leia
In the days after the Battle of Yavin, Leia Organa refuses to be kept safely out of the way and goes looking for the scattered survivors of her…
Star Wars: Vader Down
Darth Vader finds Luke Skywalker, crashes alone into the middle of an entire Rebel base, and the Rebellion discovers that this is their problem…
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra
A rogue archaeologist with two homicidal droids and no functioning conscience tries to stay one job ahead of everyone she has betrayed, which by now…
Star Wars: Han Solo
Leia gives Han cover for an extraction mission by entering him in the Dragon Void Run, the galaxy’s most prestigious and most lethal race, which he…
Star Wars: Obi-Wan and Anakin
A distress call strands master and apprentice on a ruined world in the years between The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, while Anakin is…
Star Wars: Poe Dameron
The best pilot in the Resistance and his squadron spend the months before The Force Awakens looking for the man who has the map, one step ahead of…
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Adaptation
The 2015 film adapted across six issues, with material that did not make the theatrical cut.
Star Wars Adventures
Two short stories an issue, drawn in flat cartoon colour, ranging freely across the whole saga and pitched at readers who are meeting these…
Star Wars: Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith
The years immediately after Revenge of the Sith, in which a newly armoured Anakin Skywalker has to murder a Jedi to obtain a lightsaber and then…
Star Wars: Rogue One Adaptation
Rogue One adapted across six issues, with room for the interior lives the film had to move too fast to give its squad.
Star Wars: The Screaming Citadel
Doctor Aphra talks Luke Skywalker into escorting her to a gothic fortress ruled by a queen who wants a very specific kind of guest, on the entirely…
Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaptation
The 2018 film adapted across seven issues — the longest of Marvel’s modern film adaptations, with room for scenes the theatrical cut lost.
Star Wars Adventures: Destroyer Down
Rey goes down inside a buried Star Destroyer on Jakku, and the wreck turns out to have a memory.
Star Wars Adventures: Tales from Vader's Castle
A Halloween anthology for young readers, in which a Rebel crew stranded on Mustafar tell each other ghost stories and a different guest artist draws…
Star Wars Lost Stars
Yusaku Komiyama’s manga of Claudia Gray’s novel: two friends from the same planet who join the Imperial academy together and end up on opposite…
Star Wars: Age of Republic
Eight prequel-era one-shots, alternating a hero and a villain each month, each one a single short story about what its subject believes.
Star Wars: Forces of Destiny
Five weekly one-shots spun off the Forces of Destiny animated shorts, each one titled for the character it belongs to: Leia, Rey, Hera, Ahsoka &…
Star Wars: Shadow of Vader
A five-issue anthology about Darth Vader’s effect on ordinary lives, announced at New York Comic Con in October 2018 and cancelled without a single…
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Adaptation
The 2017 film adapted across six issues, with a looser, more expressionist visual approach than any other Marvel Star Wars adaptation of the period.
Star Wars Adventures: Flight of the Falcon
A standalone capstone to the "Flight of the Falcon" serial that ran as the back-up strip through Star Wars Adventures #14–18.
Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader's Castle
The second October miniseries, with Vader’s servant Vaneé as the storyteller and titles — "Night of the Lava Zombies", "Vault of the Living Brains"…
Star Wars Leia, Princess of Alderaan
Haruichi adapts Claudia Gray’s novel about a sixteen-year-old Leia discovering what her adoptive parents have been doing with the family name.
Star Wars: Age of Rebellion
Eight original-trilogy one-shots, four heroes and four villains, each a single short story that tries to say one true thing about a character…
Star Wars: Age of Resistance
Eight sequel-era one-shots published while The Rise of Skywalker was still unreleased, giving the newest cast the single-issue character studies the…
Star Wars: Allegiance
Down to a handful of survivors after Starkiller Base, General Organa goes to former allies to ask for ships, and finds that old debts have not aged…
Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
On Batuu, the antiquities dealer Dok-Ondar tells stories about the objects on his shelves, and one of them turns out to involve a job Han Solo and…
Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order – Dark Temple
A Jedi Master and her Padawan are sent to a world where an ancient temple is being excavated by people who should not be excavating it — a prequel…
Star Wars: Target Vader
A criminal syndicate hires an assembled team of bounty hunters to kill Darth Vader, which is exactly as good an idea as it sounds.
Star Wars: TIE Fighter
Five issues inside Shadow Wing, an elite Imperial TIE squadron in the closing stretch of the Galactic Civil War, told entirely from the cockpit of…
Star Wars
Charles Soule’s fifty-issue run in the gap between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi: a Rebellion in pieces, a Jedi with a severed hand…
Star Wars Adventures
IDW restarted its all-ages anthology at number one with a new format — one two-part lead story, one villain-led back-up — and Francesco Francavilla…
Star Wars Adventures: Shadow of Vader's Castle
The third Vader’s Castle instalment compressed into one 40-page October special rather than a weekly miniseries.
Star Wars Adventures: The Clone Wars – Battle Tales
Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka and a clone squad pinned down between missions, swapping war stories — a framing device that lets a different artist draw…
Star Wars Rebels
Akira Aoki’s manga adaptation of the first season of Star Wars Rebels, which began life as a Japanese webcomic published on LINE.
Star Wars: Bounty Hunters
Beilert Valance, a cyborg who used to be an Imperial and is now merchandise to everyone he meets, headlines forty-two issues of the ugliest and…
Star Wars: Darth Vader
Greg Pak’s fifty issues of Darth Vader answering the only question the character has left after Bespin: what happens to a man built entirely out of…
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra
Alyssa Wong’s forty issues of Chelli Lona Aphra: still a rogue archaeologist, still the worst possible person to trust with an artefact, and for the…
The Legends of Luke Skywalker—The Manga
Four cartoonists adapt four of the tall tales from Ken Liu’s novel, in which people who may never have met Luke Skywalker explain exactly what he is…
Star Wars Adventures: Ghosts of Vader's Castle
The fourth and final Vader’s Castle miniseries, set after the Emperor’s death, when the castle on Mustafar has stopped being a fortress and started…
Star Wars: Crimson Reign
Qi’ra takes Crimson Dawn out of the shadows and declares war on the Sith, using every criminal syndicate in the galaxy as her weapon and the…
Star Wars: Life Day
Marvel’s Life Day holiday special: four short stories about the Wookiee midwinter festival, by four different teams, under a Phil Noto cover.
Star Wars: The High Republic
Padawans at the Starlight Beacon station in the golden age of the Jedi, in the comics half of a publishing initiative that ran novels, comics and…
Star Wars: The High Republic — Trail of Shadows
A Jedi and a private investigator work a murder case together in the golden age of the Republic, in the only Star Wars comic written as a…
Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures
The young-readers half of Phase I of The High Republic: a Jedi Padawan crew, a salvage gang called the Nihil and a great deal of Harvey Tolibao ink.
Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures — The Monster of Temple Peak
A bounty hunter, a mountain, and something living on it that the locals have stopped trying to name.
Star Wars: The High Republic: The Edge of Balance
The manga arm of The High Republic, following a Jedi on a frontier settlement world where the Nihil raids have already started.
Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters
Boba Fett loses the carbonite slab with Han Solo in it, and every bounty hunter, crime syndicate, Sith Lord and rebel in the galaxy converges on the…
Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters — One-Shots
Four single-issue side stories published inside the War of the Bounty Hunters crossover, each handing a different hunter or crime lord the spotlight…
Star Wars: Han Solo & Chewbacca
Han Solo and Chewbacca before the cantina: a decade of bad jobs, worse partners and one crystal that everybody in the galaxy seems to want.
Star Wars: Hidden Empire
The last act of the Qi’ra trilogy: Crimson Dawn’s war on the Sith reaches its end, and the cost of using the Force as a weapon is collected in full.
Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories
Dark Horse’s first new Star Wars comic in seven years: a self-contained anthology, one or two issues per story, ranging across the whole saga.
Star Wars: Obi-Wan
Obi-Wan Kenobi on Tatooine, keeping a journal: five issues, five artists, five memories from five different points in a life he is no longer allowed…
Star Wars: Revelations (2022)
An anthology one-shot that trails the next year of Marvel’s Star Wars line, published a week after Hidden Empire began.
Star Wars: The Halcyon Legacy
A history of one starcruiser told in five flashbacks — the tie-in comic to Walt Disney World’s Galactic Starcruiser hotel, and rather better than it…
Star Wars: The High Republic — Eye of the Storm
Two issues on the making of Marchion Ro: how the Eye of the Nihil inherited a marauder fleet and turned it into the thing that broke the Jedi.
Star Wars: The High Republic — The Blade
Porter Engle, the Blade of Bardotta, before he was old: four issues about a Jedi whose gift is killing and who has spent a lifetime trying to make…
Star Wars: The High Republic (Phase II)
Phase II winds the clock back a hundred and fifty years to a Jedi Order that has not yet learned the lessons Phase I will teach it, and to the Path…
Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures (Dark Horse, Phase II)
Dark Horse takes over The High Republic Adventures from IDW and moves it into Phase II, with Daniel José Older still writing.
Star Wars: Yoda
Three writers, three eras, one Jedi Master: ten issues that take Yoda from the height of the High Republic to the eve of the Clone Wars and finally…
Star Wars: Dark Droids
Something ancient and hungry starts jumping between droids, and every mechanical thing in the galaxy — astromech, protocol droid, prosthetic limb,…
Star Wars: Dark Droids — D-Squad
A scratch squad of droids — the ones nobody would miss — is assembled to fight the thing that is eating droids, on the reasonable grounds that they…
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (40th Anniversary One-Shots)
Six single-issue stories published across 2023 for the fortieth anniversary of Return of the Jedi, each taking a corner of the film — Jabba’s…
Star Wars: Revelations (2023)
The second Revelations anthology: five short stories, each a trailer for a 2024 series, including the openings of Jango Fett and Mace Windu.
Star Wars: Sana Starros
Sana Starros goes home, which for a smuggler with a large and extremely opinionated family is considerably more dangerous than the job that sent her…
Star Wars: The High Republic — Shadows of Starlight
Four single-issue snapshots of the galaxy in the year after the fall of Starlight Beacon, each following a different Jedi through the same…
Star Wars: The High Republic (Phase III)
Phase III returns to the immediate aftermath of Phase I: the Nihil’s Stormwall is up, the Republic is cut in half, and the Jedi inside it are hunted.
Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures (Dark Horse, Phase III)
Twenty issues of Phase III High Republic Adventures: the young Jedi trapped behind the Nihil’s Stormwall, and the uprising they build there.
Star Wars: The Mandalorian: The Manga
Yusuke Osawa’s chapter-for-chapter manga adaptation of the first season of The Mandalorian, serialised in Square Enix’s Big Gangan and collected by…
Star Wars: Ahsoka
An eight-issue tie-in to the Disney+ series, set around 9 ABY, following Ahsoka Tano in the years the New Republic thought the war was over.
Star Wars: Battle of Jakku — Insurgency Rising
The first four chapters of Marvel’s twelve-issue Battle of Jakku trilogy: the Empire after Endor, refusing to accept that it has lost.
Star Wars: Battle of Jakku — Last Stand
Chapters IX to XII: the battle itself, on a desert world that will still be full of wreckage thirty years later when a scavenger called Rey walks…
Star Wars: Battle of Jakku — Republic Under Siege
Chapters V to VIII: the young New Republic discovers that winning a war and running a government are different jobs.
Star Wars: Jango Fett
Jango Fett, a decade before Kamino, takes a job that puts him between a treaty, a mystery and Aurra Sing.
Star Wars: Mace Windu
A young Mace Windu, not yet on the Council, escorts a scientist and a discovery that could tip the balance of the galaxy, and discovers how far he…
Star Wars: The Acolyte — Kelnacca
The only comic tie-in to the Disney+ series The Acolyte: a twenty-seven page one-shot on the history of the Wookiee Jedi Master Kelnacca.
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary Special
A single-issue anniversary special for The Phantom Menace, published twenty-five years to the month after the film opened.
Star Wars: Legacy of Vader
Kylo Ren between The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker: Supreme Leader of the First Order, haunted by a grandfather he never met, and increasingly…
Star Wars: The High Republic — Fear of the Jedi
The last Marvel High Republic miniseries: the Jedi behind the Stormwall have become something the people they protect are frightened of, and the…
Star Wars: The High Republic — The Finale
Subtitled “The Beacon”: the single issue that closes the whole High Republic publishing initiative, five years and three phases after it began.
Star Wars: Thrawn: The Manga
A manga adaptation of Timothy Zahn’s 2017 novel Thrawn, adapted by Man Tsang.
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Dispatches (9)
All dispatchesWhy I am cataloguing the whole saga
A launch note: what this site is, what it will never do, and how a reading log ended up with a filing system attached.
Where to start with Star Wars books
Four honest doors into a shelf that has been growing since 1976, depending on which part of the saga you already like.
Canon and Legends, explained without the headache
What Lucasfilm actually announced on 25 April 2014, what stayed canon, and why a Legends book is still a real book.
How to read the Thrawn novels without losing the thread
Two continuities, one character, and a nine-book spine. A practical order for anyone starting from zero.
The High Republic: publication order versus chronological order
Three phases that travel backwards and then forwards again. Here is why publication order wins anyway.
Zahn and the pleasure of watching someone be good at their job
Competence as a genre: how one author’s house style became the default register of Star Wars fiction.
What the 2014 Legends decision actually changed
Twelve years on, a precise accounting of what moved, what stayed in print, and what quietly came back.
Legends is not a consolation prize
Twelve years after the reset, the case for reading the old Expanded Universe on its own terms rather than as a might-have-been.
Review roundup: reading both Thrawns
Our reviews of the 1991 Legends novel and the 2017 canon novel, read against each other.
