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.
__________________
"I am tired of Earth. These people.
I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives."
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.
The Sith not being around for millennia is iself a EU invention isn't it?
__________________
"The Daemon lied with every breath. It could not help itself but to deceive and dismay, to riddle and ruin. The more we conversed, the closer I drew to one singularly ineluctable fact: I would gain no wisdom here."
Last edited by Tzeentch on Feb 26th, 2020 at 03:16 AM
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.
__________________
"I am tired of Earth. These people.
I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives."
Last edited by Galan007 on Feb 26th, 2020 at 04:33 PM
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...
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.
__________________
"I am tired of Earth. These people.
I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives."
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.
Feb 25th, 2020 01:08 PM
