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Review: Star Wars: The High Republic: A Test of Courage by Justina Ireland
January 13th, 2021
The High Republic era is
A Test of Courage by Justina Ireland, the first being
Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule.
A Test of Courage opens with the targeted destruction of a luxury ship, the
Steady Wing, on its way to the opening ceremony for the
Starlight Beacon space station. Two members of the Nihil, an organized group of pirates dedicated to instilling fear in the Republic, are responsible.
In the aftermath of the destruction, four young individuals are left stranded on a moon far from known space lanes. Among the survivors are newly minted Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh, Padawan Imri Cantaros, Honesty Weft, son of the ambassador for the planet Dalna, and Avon Starros, daughter of Senator Ghirra Starros. (The name Starros is likely familiar to readers of Marvel’s
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The following contains MILD SPOILERS for the the first batch of Star Wars: The High Republic books
This week sees the launch of
Star Wars: The High Republic; we now have the first books in what is set to be a long running endeavor that will explore a new era in
Star Wars storytelling through a variety of different media forms, namely on page. Set a couple hundred years before the time period of
Star Wars that we know and love, the whole idea behind
The High Republic is to take the shackles off of
Star Wars and tell original stories using new characters, new places and even a significantly different (but, not