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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charles soule
30 entries filed under this topic across the library, the dossiers and the dispatches.
- 3books
- 13comics
- 13dossiers
- 1dispatches
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Books (3)
All booksStar Wars: The High Republic: Trials of the Jedi
The last book of a five-year, three-phase, four-format publishing experiment.
Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren
The night the temple burned, told without the excuses either side offers for it.
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Dossiers (13)
All dossiersAvar Kriss
The Jedi who hears the Force as music, and conducts other Jedi like an orchestra.
Barash Silvain
The Jedi the Barash Vow is named after — and the sister Porter Engle chose.
Burryaga Agaburry
A Wookiee Jedi whose defining trait is that he feels other people’s pain before they do.
Darth Momin
A Sith who treated atrocity as a medium, and survived four hundred years inside his own mask.
Kassav Milliko
Loyal to Marchion Ro right up to the moment Ro spent him.
Lina Soh
A Chancellor with a slogan — "We are all the Republic" — and a decade to find out what it is worth.
Loden Greatstorm
Considered one of the Order’s finest teachers, and used to demonstrate what the Nihil do to Jedi.
Lourna Dee
Royalty, slave, Republic cadet, deserter, Tempest Runner — and the only Nihil the era let change.
Marchion Ro
A marauder king who inherited a secret, and built a war out of it.
Mari San Tekka
The reason the Nihil can go anywhere: a century-old woman kept alive in a medical pod.
Pan Eyta
The Nihil’s professional: the one Tempest Runner who runs his Tempest like a business.
Porter Engle
The Blade of Bardotta: three centuries old, cooks for the outpost, and is the deadliest person in it.
Ren
The original Ren — the name is the weapon, and it is inherited by whoever takes it.
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Comics (13)
All comicsStar 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: 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: 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
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Dark Droids
Something ancient and hungry starts jumping between droids, and every mechanical thing in the galaxy — astromech, protocol droid, prosthetic limb,…
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: 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…
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Dispatches (1)
All dispatchesThe High Republic: publication order versus chronological order
Three phases that travel backwards and then forwards again. Here is why publication order wins anyway.
