Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel
How a research grant becomes a superweapon.
Topic
15 entries filed under this topic across the library, the dossiers and the dispatches.
From the library
How a research grant becomes a superweapon.
The rare novelization that adds an argument rather than deleted scenes.
Who is involved
Lost his faith and kept the man who still had it, which is its own kind of belief.
The defector who started the whole thing, and the only one of the six whose courage is visibly difficult for him.
The Rebellion as a job with a body count, done by a man who keeps the receipts.
Not a Jedi. Believes anyway, out loud, in the middle of a firefight.
A promising surgeon who became a butcher, and announced his own rap sheet to a farm boy in a bar.
Built the Death Star, and built the flaw that destroys it, over fifteen years of pretending to be broken.
Survived the Death Star and Endor, and the histories recorded him dead at Yavin anyway.
A stolen childhood, a forged identity and one sentence that redefined what the Rebellion was for.
Built by the Empire to kill rebels, reprogrammed by one, and constitutionally incapable of tact.
Saw what Krennic was doing years before her husband would admit it, and died on the doorstep saying so.
The man who built the Death Star and could never get anyone to say so out loud.
The insurgent the Rebel Alliance trained, then disowned for doing what they trained him to do.
From the database
Rogue One adapted across six issues, with room for the interior lives the film had to move too fast to give its squad.