Star Wars: The High Republic (aka. "Project Luminous")

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Originally posted by Galan007
YouTube video
this sounds really good. Will definitely follow. 👆

I'm just glad that it will be all new characters(aside from guaranteed Yoda cameos, which I'm totally fine with), and all new stories/content in general.

It's about time.

Yesss, I really wanna see these new Jedi in action

So after reading a little bit more about this, it sounds like the books will all be written in such a way that you won't have to read each and every bit of material chronologically in order to understand the story -- evidently you'll be able to pick up anywhere and still be able to know what's going on. That's pretty cool if true.

I'm also hoping they follow through with this concept art:

Because I'm interested to see the darksaber and dual-bladed whitesaber Jedi in action... And the Loth Wolf.

Originally posted by ares834
Looks interesting. I like the designs.

So they can fight the Sith.

The Sith not being around for millennia is iself a EU invention isn't it?

Originally posted by Tzeentch
The Sith not being around for millennia is iself a EU invention isn't it?

It's from the movies. Or well I guess it's more implied with the Republic standing for a millennia.

Originally posted by Galan007
dual-bladed whitesaber

Rob Liefeld probably looks at it and feels proud.

Originally posted by Galan007

dual-bladed whitesaber Jedi

But....why?

Originally posted by Zenwolf
But....why?

Its owner is a woman.

One in the pink, one in the stink.

Originally posted by Tzeentch
The Sith not being around for millennia is iself a EU invention isn't it?

In TPM, Ki-Adi-Mundi mentions the Sith have been extinct for a millennium. Although, admittedly, the EU didn't have to go so far back and TotJ came out before TPM.

From Ultimate Star Wars:
https://i.imgur.com/z29lIvp.jpg
"Maul may be the first Sith to slay a Jedi in combat in more than 1,000 years..."

But if the crescendo of this story takes place in the Unknown Regions, and the Order never finds out exactly what happened, then the Sith could slaughter all the Jedi they want and no one would be the wiser. /shrug

OR they simply retcon the 1,000 years thing... OR the surviving Jedi keep it a secret as to not induce panic... OR they just put the enemies into some other faction of dark side users, and not proper "Sith"(which would technically still keep the Sith emergence timeline valid.) Etc.

Originally posted by Zenwolf
But....why?

Yeah, I wouldn't let the lack of any practical application bother me. The very concept of a lightsaber is fairly impractical, especially if you can use the force.

And maybe it's there to increase the heat of the lightsaber, in case you're cutting through a door or something. Maybe you can turn one of them off at a time.

I love that poster, though, lots of nifty stuff. Crazy lightsaber designs, the most useless crossguard to date (on the "joust" looking lightsaber held by the twi'lek on the center left), a darksabre that's not 2-dimensional and has a twig for a handle, an umbaran jedi, a completely black themed jedi on the left, a white themed one on the right...

Originally posted by Galan007
So after reading a little bit more about this, it sounds like the books will all be written in such a way that you won't have to read each and every bit of material chronologically in order to understand the story -- evidently you'll be able to pick up anywhere and still be able to know what's going on. That's pretty cool if true.

I'm also hoping they follow through with this concept art:

Because I'm interested to see the darksaber and dual-bladed whitesaber Jedi in action... And the Loth Wolf.

I'm going to use it as wallpaper for my pc, I like it so much

Originally posted by Galan007
From Ultimate Star Wars:
https://i.imgur.com/z29lIvp.jpg
"Maul may be the first Sith to slay a Jedi in combat in more than 1,000 years..."

But if the crescendo of this story takes place in the Unknown Regions, and the Order never finds out exactly what happened, then the Sith could slaughter all the Jedi they want and no one would be the wiser. /shrug

OR they simply retcon the 1,000 years thing... OR the surviving Jedi keep it a secret as to not induce panic... OR they just put the enemies into some other faction of dark side users, and not proper "Sith"(which would technically still keep the Sith emergence timeline valid.) Etc.

Yeah like Star Trek Discovery takes a lot of liberties with canon, but for the most part does attempt to explain the seeming contradictions.

Originally posted by Zentrex
Yeah, I wouldn't let the lack of any practical application bother me. The very concept of a lightsaber is fairly impractical, especially if you can use the force.

And maybe it's there to increase the heat of the lightsaber, in case you're cutting through a door or something. Maybe you can turn one of them off at a time.

I love that poster, though, lots of nifty stuff. Crazy lightsaber designs, the most useless crossguard to date (on the "joust" looking lightsaber held by the twi'lek on the center left), a darksabre that's not 2-dimensional and has a twig for a handle, an umbaran jedi, a completely black themed jedi on the left, a white themed one on the right...

Originally posted by Darth Thor
Yeah like Star Trek Discovery takes a lot of liberties with canon, but for the most part does attempt to explain the seeming contradictions.
👆

And Star Wars has already taken a LOT of liberties with canon as it is, so doing something like that with the High Republic isn't a stretch by any means.

Originally posted by Galan007
So after reading a little bit more about this, it sounds like the books will all be written in such a way that you won't have to read each and every bit of material chronologically in order to understand the story -- evidently you'll be able to pick up anywhere and still be able to know what's going on. That's pretty cool if true.

I'm also hoping they follow through with this concept art:

Because I'm interested to see the darksaber and dual-bladed whitesaber Jedi in action... And the Loth Wolf.

I just noticed.. is the male human Jedi on the left (beside the wolf) a Kiffar like Vos? His tatooes on the face look similar to Quinlan's

Good catch. 👆

Seems like a strong possibility to me.

Originally posted by Galan007
So after reading a little bit more about this, it sounds like the books will all be written in such a way that you won't have to read each and every bit of material chronologically in order to understand the story -- evidently you'll be able to pick up anywhere and still be able to know what's going on. That's pretty cool if true.
Really hoping that is the case. This event sounds great and I want to read most of it, but I would also like it if I weren't completely lost if I miss a book.👆

A Roundtable Discussion with the Creators of Star Wars: The High Republic

Originally posted by Galan007

See, now I'm gonna be disappointed if that's not what that whitesaber actually does.