Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith
The novelization that is better than the film it novelizes.
Topic
27 entries filed under this topic across the library, the dossiers and the dispatches.
From the library
The novelization that is better than the film it novelizes.
The first weeks inside the suit, written as a man discovering what he agreed to.
Who is involved
Created for a comic, drafted into the films because George Lucas liked the cover.
Found the list of every Force-sensitive child in the galaxy — and decided nobody should have it.
Broke under torture, gave up her own padawan, and cut herself off from the Force rather than risk it again.
The Jedi who taught the Order to fight, killed on the Temple steps by his best student’s student.
Executed Order 66 on his own general, served the Empire anyway, and eventually walked out of it in the night.
The marksman whose inhibitor chip worked, and who then had to find out what he believed without it.
A silent Council seat in 1999; two decades later, the master who dies so Kanan Jarrus can live.
The clone who worked out what the inhibitor chips were for, and was shot for it.
A Lasat Jedi General who died in a corridor so his padawan could reach an escape pod.
Survived the Clone Wars, the Purge, and roughly 150 years of Legends history in a very large hat.
A padawan who never finished his training, teaching a student he is not qualified to teach.
The host of a children’s game show who turned out, three years later, to be the Jedi who saved Grogu.
Thought to have died in Order 66; actually kept alive in a cell and used as bait.
Joined the people who killed her friends in order to get close enough to kill the man who did it.
Adi Gallia’s kinswoman, a Council healer, and one of the Order 66 deaths the film actually shows.
Crashed on Dathomir escaping Order 66, and spent the years since lying to the only survivor.
A Jedi Temple Guard who kept the Temple job description and changed the employer.
A Padawan whose master gave her up under torture, and who was never told it happened that way.
From the database
The four-issue adaptation of the 2005 film, drawn by Doug Wheatley and released weekly in the month before the premiere.
Darth Vader against a gathering of surviving Jedi, months after Order 66, drawn as a slaughter rather than a duel.
The direct continuation of Republic, carrying its numbering on the inside cover from #84: a surviving Jedi, a crew of smugglers, and an Empire that…
A one-shot in Dark Horse’s Purge line: Sha Koon, niece of Plo Koon, refuses to hide from the Jedi purge.
A Purge one-shot following the Jedi Master Bomo Greenbark’s contemporaries into hiding, painted throughout by Chris Scalf.
The final Purge story, split across two issues: Darth Vader on an occupied world and the Jedi who does not get away.
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…