Star Wars: The High Republic: The Rising Storm
The fair, the fireworks, and the moment the Nihil stop being a nuisance.
Topic
25 entries filed under this topic across the library, the dossiers and the dispatches.
From the library
The fair, the fireworks, and the moment the Nihil stop being a nuisance.
The whole Nihil story told from inside the Nihil, and it is the best thing in Phase I.
A full-cast audio drama about the Jedi who left, told by the assassin he hired.
Who is involved
Killed his mother for the job, expanded the Nihil enormously, and was killed in turn.
The Nihil’s scientist: a cult child who grew up to vivisect the Force.
The Jedi who resigned on principle and was recruited by the very thing he claimed to be fighting.
The Marvel run’s lead: a Knight who is measurably good and cannot be told so.
Royalty, slave, Republic cadet, deserter, Tempest Runner — and the only Nihil the era let change.
The journalist who broadcast the Valo attack, and was then made to broadcast for the Nihil.
A Jedi Master losing the Force and hiding it, in the best sustained tragedy the era wrote.
Bond-twins sharing one mind across any distance, and the first openly trans non-binary Jedi in canon.
A former Padawan who quit and went freelance killing things the Jedi would rather not discuss.
From the database
Two short stories an issue, drawn in flat cartoon colour, ranging freely across the whole saga and pitched at readers who are meeting these…
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…
The second October miniseries, with Vader’s servant Vaneé as the storyteller and titles — "Night of the Lava Zombies", "Vault of the Living Brains"…
The third Vader’s Castle instalment compressed into one 40-page October special rather than a weekly miniseries.
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…
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…
A bounty hunter, a mountain, and something living on it that the locals have stopped trying to name.
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…
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…
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.
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.
The last Marvel High Republic miniseries: the Jedi behind the Stormwall have become something the people they protect are frightened of, and the…
Subtitled “The Beacon”: the single issue that closes the whole High Republic publishing initiative, five years and three phases after it began.