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It's going to be exciting to see Jedi who are confident in their role in the galaxy and confident in the way that they know they're doing the right thing. There's that moment [in Phantom Menace] where Qui-Gon leaves Shmi enslaved and takes Anakan and everyone's kind of like ... how can you be a great Jedi, a morally good force in the galaxy, if you're willing to turn a blind eye to some sort of injustice like that? And those are some of the questions I think a lot of us want to talk about in our storytelling -- what does it mean to be good? What does it mean to do the right thing? How do you do that and weigh that against your vows and, and a larger calling. The books give us a little more leeway to do that storytelling, we get a little more nuance on the page then we would get necessarily in a minute of screen time. I'm looking forward to like delving into the questions and asking them myself and of the characters that I'm working with.

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Vernestra's 16, so she's probably on the older end for middle-grade -- most of middle grade characters tend to be between like 12, 13, 14. But Vernestra has a challenge, in that she is a full Jedi. She's very young: most 16-year-olds in the Jedi Order are padawans still. She took her testing early, so she's a bit of a prodigy. She doesn't know anybody else who is as young as she is so she kind of sticks out, and that gives her her own set of of sort of challenges to deal with. So how is she a Jedi Knight in this order that is being led by amazing Jedi? In her time period, of course they have the lore of the earlier Jedi, so she has that reference. So how does she fit into that space when she's supposed to be acting like an adult for the most part, but she's still, age-wise, a kid? It's really that push pull of that for her. Like what does that mean for her to be a Jedi?

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But with the Nihil, who are these Space Pirates, marauders, and are kind of just wreaking havoc in different parts of the galaxy, you do have a chance to encapsulate smaller storytelling. Sometimes the the point of the story is just survival. Or sometimes the point of the story is: How is this one character going to react to this very enclosed event? The Nihil obviously are bad. So what does that mean? How bad are they? They're going to be the worst. These are characters who just don't care. And their motto is "if you can't take it with you, we can take it from you."

And so I do think you're going to see moments... it's not necessarily this battle for the light side of the Force versus the dark side, it's literally survival, and it's literally "How do we survive in a world where people are going to show up and basically **** shit up?" That lends itself to different types of storytelling. Readers are going to feel that. There will be those conversations of what it means to be a Jedi, and what is the light side, what is the Force, and how does one connect to that in that greater sense of the galaxy, but at the end of the day, it's literally going be like, "These are the bad guys, and we need to fight them, and we need to fight them because they are bad." People are going to get to see some really cool "oh shit" moments with these characters.

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Originally posted by ares834
Sounds pretty bland. Hopefully the earlier rumors about the villains are true.

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Originally posted by Eli Vanto
Still not sure about he Nihil tho. I don't see how a group of presumably non force sensitive space pirates can possibly threaten the Jedi. Especially with how the Jedi are going to be written in this period.

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Originally posted by XSUPREMEXSKILLZ
So apparently there are 40,000 Jedi alive during the High Republic Era, meaning a shitton of Jedi are going to be dying from this initial calamity I suspect. From what I”ve heard the Nihil have some superweapon that pulls every ship in the galaxy out of hyperspace. Crazy stuff.