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“Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is essential to a Jedi’s life. So you might say, that we are encouraged to love,” Anakin Skywalker tells Padmé Amidala in one of his many excruciatingly clumsy forays into foreplay in
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But as we meet that Republic at its high in Disney’s new Star Wars publishing initiative, and a Jedi Order at the apparent apex of its luminance, the time has come to perhaps reconsider that rule. Is attachment really such a bad thing to a Jedi Order that should feel more open and experimental, more considerate and compassionate, than it has ever before for it to truly feel at its apex?
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The launch of the
Star Wars: The High Republic initiative hit January harder than a Gungan hits a pit droid s nose. Charles Soule s
Light of the Jedi kicked it all off, along with
A Test of Courage by Justina Ireland, and a new High Republic comic series written by Cavan Scott. They are three of the main
Star Wars “Project Luminous authors, along with Daniel José Older (
Star Wars: Last Shot) and Claudia Gray.
Gray s turn at the High Republic helm launched this week. The prolific author (
Star Wars: Lost Stars,
Bloodline,
Master & Apprentice) enters the fray with her new book,
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Star Wars: The High Republictakes the franchise back 200 years before the events of The Skywalker Saga, to a time when the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order were flourishing side-by-side. The Jedi and Republic venture to establish a new base in the Outer Rim territories - a region that is still very much the galactic Wild West. The new novel
Star Wars: The High Republic - Into The Dark explores the underworld of smugglers and criminals that exist on the edges of the High Republic - including this era s version of Han Solo and Chewbacca, who are just as fun as their Skywalker Saga counterparts!
Fan favorite
Star Wars in the High Republic era with
Into the Dark. Like the title implies, it’s a darker look into this spot on the timeline and introduces new elements to The High Republic that may prove much more lethal to the Jedi than just the Nihil, the villains seen in the other books set in this era.
The book follows a Padawan named Reath Silas, among others. Silas really loves his situation on Coruscant in the Jedi Temple. He’s a bookworm and loves spending all his free time in the Archives. So when his master takes the top spot on the frontier at the Starlight Beacon, his life is turned upside down. If there’s one thing he wants, it’s to