Exclusive: Read Part Of ‘Light Of The Jedi’ Before It Debuts January 5, 2021

  • Date: 18-Dec-2020
  • Source: Forbes
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Exclusive: Read Part Of ‘Light Of The Jedi’ Before It Debuts January 5, 2021

Cover art for Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi.



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Star Wars: The High Republic is the latest publishing initiative from Lucasfilm kicking off January 5, 2021. The new era in Star Wars storytelling will start with three new books and two new comics telling one overarching story of the golden age of the Jedi Order and the Republic.

One of the two books debuting January 5, 2021 is Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule. The book sets up the entire storyline of The High Republic era and introduces readers to characters they will see throughout the books, comics, and recently announced series for Disney+. In a recent interview with Forbes Soule gave an overview of his book and said in part, “It is designed to introduce many of the huge new concepts, characters, ideas, good guys, bad guys, and ships to Star Wars fandom. In it we follow a large ensemble cast of Jedi, Republic high-level and low-level people, all kinds of people. We also meet the main villains of the piece, the Nihil, which are a group of anarchistic space pirate