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Arcsquad12 posted:I honestly couldn't tell you. It was pretty obvious from the interviews about Legacy of the Force that the higher ups had no actual plan for how the storyline would go. John Ostrander wrote Legacy making it a lot further into the future to allow for a change to the status quo. But the old EU crept up on it as the newer books came out where there was only a century or so between the end of "current" EU and the future of Legacy. A century is a long time but when you consider that Jagged Fel is supposed to be the founder of an Empire that has been active for quite a while it puts pressure on the newer EU stuff to set up how the Fel Empire formed. And as I said, they had no plan. Christie Golden was suppose to write a trilogy focused on Jagged and Jaina post-Fate of the Jedi. It probably would have dealt with the founding of the Fel Empire and Imperial Knights in some way. Speaking of no plan. It really feels Disney has none for post-Episode IX stories and that's why they decided to do The High Republic since they have a clean slate in that time period. I really should get around to buying and reading Light of the Jedi.
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I've read the first ten chapters of Light of the Jedi. Mostly character introductions as the event unfolds, but the more optimistic tone is a refreshing departure from the final old EU books I read which were the Dark Nest trilogy and Betrayal. I stopped reading Star Wars books after those and from what I read online then and here dodged the nadir of Star Wars literature. Light of the Jedi is also a much easier read than Aftermath. Which I didn't get very far into. The writing style there was just. Don't know the right word. It was difficult. Edit: Little strange to see the Jedi called "space wizards" in an actual Star Wars novel. OhFunny fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Apr 12, 2021 |
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I finished Light of the Jedi Order and here are some random thoughts:
Those thoughts aside I think it manages to setup things well enough. The Nihil aren't interesting villains in this book, but I think they and Marchion Ro have a lot of potential. When Ro was thinking to himself that he viewed Starlight Station not as outreach, but force projection. His whole plan for the Nihil fell into place for me. There's downsides of the Republic expanding into the Outer Rim that haven't been touch on that he can exploit. Mass unemployment as a world's economy is upended by new trade deals or hyperspace lanes that Republic creates that breeds anger. Resentment from the Republic and Jedi meddling in the internal affairs of worlds that don't wish to be part of the galactic community. I could be off base though.
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May 3, 2021 20:32
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Chairman Capone posted:I remember "bastard" was used in one or two of the late-period EU books. I think Darth Plagueis? Oh right he does. Definitely a new thing though right? I actually haven’t seen The Mandalorian. quote:Exar Kun and him being a Sith Lord is mentioned in Solo (though in writing on the set, not dialogue). Sweet.
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Nckdictator posted:I’m a tad confused about how a bootleg/unpublished EU book ended up on Amazon The author Kenneth Flint wrote the book in 1992. He rewrote it in 2015 to slot into the old EU and allowed the whole thing to be uploaded online to a fan that's now defunct. You can read the whole thing here via web archive. Someone clearly copied that and published it on Amazon.
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T___A posted:Bruh, Mara Jade was 67 when she died??? Adjusts glasses Actually, she was 58. She was born 17BBY and died 40ABY. Add one due to the year zero in the dumb calendar LucasArts decided to use. A real life New Republic government would have made their declaration of being after Endor the day one;year one of a new calendar. We're stuck with this one though. OhFunny fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Jun 3, 2021 |
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I finished up The Rising Storm. I thought it was pretty good, but since I've only read it and Light of the Jedi there were some things that popped out of nowhere. Such as these killer plants, the Drengir, and I could definitely tell when things were happening not just off the page but in other media. Like when Gios' old apprentice pops up on the comms at the Fair or how Avar is off leading a bunch of Jedi against the Drengir.
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Chairman Capone posted:I never read any of the Galaxy of Fear books but reading the descriptions I always felt that I would have loved them as a kid. Are you referring to Star by Star? Every Jedi who dies as part of the strike force, except for Anakin, is introduced in NJO instead of YJK/JJK. Master Ikrit from JJK is killed by Greg Keyes the duology before Star by Star though. Robot Style posted:I wonder if this will be about Keeve Trennis leaving the Jedi, which was hinted at in the Dooku audiobook. This is one of the comic characters? I've only read the two adult novels.
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Rochallor posted:Edge of Victory and Star By Star systematically kill off all the major characters from the children's books. This does not happen! Why do people keep saying this? Lowbacca, Zekk, Tenel Ka, even Raynar all survive the mission and the war! jivjov posted:Not seeing anything in the usual places--where'd this one get announced? They haven't been announced. Edelweiss, a book publishing website, seems to have mistakenly publicly listed their upcoming release.
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There was no hope for horse girl once the higher ups learned she had been topless for the entire childrens series.
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The Legends material for a lot of the movie events is convoluted. Things are setup like this: The Emperor, Darth Vader, Grand Admirals Declann, Makati, Takel, and Teshik are aboard the Death Star. Piett is leading the fleet aboard Executer Unknown CO on Pride of Tarlandia is second in line. Admiral Strage aboard Chimaera is third in line. Admirals Prittick (Truce at Bakura) and Harrsk (Darksaber) are also present. Things then play out roughly like this:
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Casimir Radon posted:Was there another thread? That one cuts off before it actually comes out. Weird to think about how all of that was right around 9/11. I've also gone and looked through the old TheForce.net threads, but I haven't found any single megathread for the book so far. There's a ton of 1 to 2 page threads with OPs that are that person's review/reaction to the novel around the time of it's release. It could be megathreads weren't a thing in that forum's culture back then or it went for so long it'll be hard to find with no archive feature. These are the two longest threads I've uncovered. I'm a little amused the earlier threads had posters calling Anakin "Jimmy" in a bid to avoid spoiling people. Any speculation on if and how "Jimmy" will come back? (SPOILERS!!) He is dead (just say it) (SBS Spoilers) There was another thread around Dark Journey's release where all the people thinking it's a fake out or he's coming back somewhere lose all hope when his body is burned on a funeral pyre.
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Arc Hammer posted:M478 was removed for a good reason. It was cut from the game long before Obsidian had to take the hatchet to the game and it shows. There's only a skeleton of what the planet was supposed to be before they cut their losses and folded Lonna Vash into the Korriban plot line. The music music M478 is beautiful though and should have been reused in the main game. Yeah and having a whole other planet just annihilates the power curve. Dapper_Swindler posted:congrats and thats a genuinely good name. yeah. i feel like much like t-shirts/clothing nerd poo poo works best either stylish and/or subtle. That's my read as well. It's a R2make/FFVIIR style remake and the gameplay will be more action-oriented. I expect them to copy FFVIIR's three-man party gameplay.
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They released the first five chapters of the Star Wars: Ronin as a preview.
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I can't remember if I've read The New Rebellion. If I did I memory holed it completely. The only things I can remember from The Crystal Star are the Solo kids getting kidnapped, an extra-dimensional square, and Leia lamenting she's not wearing boots as she runs somewhere in high heels.
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I only made it a few pages into Aftermath. Never before or since have I bounced off a writing style so viscerally.
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Has anyone read The High Republic: The Fallen Star? It seems to have gotten a rather low-key release for the final adult novel of the High Republic project.
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thrawn527 posted:I looked it up, and this new one isn't supposed to be the last High Republic adult book, it's just the last of this "phase". There's going to be 3 phases. Yeah I worded that poorly.
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:Now onto Visions of the Future, then Survivor's Quest. I've got the following on my reading list after that. Outbound Fight is the name. These are all really good Star Wars books. Although I never read Shadows of Mindor.
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VaultAggie posted:I finished The Fallen Star and I’m not sure what to think of it. On the one hand, I love Claudia Gray’s writing style, and the book flowed from one chapter to another. Once I picked it up, I couldn’t put it down. I think the pacing is a consequence of the High Republic being in a multi-media format. Each of the novels needs to be focused on the Big Event so the accompanying comics, young reader books, audio dramas, etc can orbit it.
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Oh huh. Phase II of the High Republic is set 150 years before Phase I.
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thrawn527 posted:Well that’s…unexpected. I do expect that's the plan. Although it'd feel odd narratively if Phase III jumps like 50 years forward instead of directly picking up where Fallen Star left off. It already feels like the brakes got slammed on the current conflict to lay out the backstory.
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Robot Style posted:So they're doing a nu-canon version of The Courtship of Princess Leia, and surprise surprise it's a tie-in novel for the Disney theme park Star Wars hotel.. It is fascinating which books are cornerstones of the old EU. Warlord Zsinj is a joke of a villain in Courtship, but then lurks in the background of the Rogue Squadron series before coming to fore as a very dangerous antagonist against Wraith Squadron.
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The Tales of the Jedi comics were great. I loved the ancient Egyptian aesthetic.. RIP Tom Veitch.
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I see the next wave of The Essential Legends Collection reprints comes out next month and there's some old EU books I haven't read in it. How does the thread rate Kenobi, Darth Plagueis, and the Darth Bane trilogy?
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Thanks for the reviews goons! I'll pick them all up!
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I would certainly put the X-Wing series down as essential Star Wars novels. Any news on the release date? Seems to late for the KOTOR novels to get a boost from SWTOR's latest expansion and to early to ride any to the KOTOR Remakes hype. Or maybe they were more popular than I realized since I skipped.them both.
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I just finished the Star Wars: Ronin novel. The first two chapters cover the action of the animated short and things transition into an introspective character driven story of the Ronin and the little band that gather around him in a quest to find the lost Imperial capital city. I enjoyed it being Star Wars-but-feudal-Japan. A lot neat twists on familiarthings like the Force is not light and dark, but described as more Taoist. I would certainly read more novels set in this Star Wars setting. Especially since it's made very clear that in the background the Imperial heirs are readying for civil war as soon as the Emperor dies. Oh and I think this is the first portrayal of a trans character in Star Wars. One of the main characters is non-binary too.
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Vinylshadow posted:We've also got Sister from Queen's Hope The turbonerds at Wookieepedia must be slipping. This is the first named Star Wars character I've encountered that doesn't have a page there. I have noticed that book characters don't seem to getting the meticulous bios like they used to. All the characters from Alphabet Squadron only have info from the first book of the trilogy.
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Interesting because when I type Sister into the search and select Sister (clone trooper) it brings me to this
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jivjov posted:I'm actually right now trying to get caught up on a bunch of new releases that have come out and I've backburnered due to having something resembling a social life now. I've been prioritizing High Republic stuff but once I'm done with that, what should be my next read? The Ascendancy trilogy finale? Ronin? Brotherhood? Queen's Hope? Ronin is the only one of these I've read and I'll recommend it. As ecureuilmatrix said it's a very AU world. I really enjoyed it's cast of characters.
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I finished Victory's Price yesterday and it left me rather unsatisfied. I definitely don't agree with the thread's op calling this a spiritual successor to the old Rogue Squadron series. Those are pulpy action books with a fun cast. This trilogy is a serious look at war and genocide and why people would continue to wage the former when the cause is lost and commit the later despite the incomprehensible horror of it. I also didn't really like any of the Alphabet pilots. Three out of five them are just..."bad people" isn't the right wording, but I couldn't find them a team I could root for like I could with the old EU Rogue & Wraith cast. The fact the sequel trilogy exists undercuts the whole central narrative in my view. Like ok there's a database of all the crimes ever committed by every single person in the Empire and Soran wants to destroy it because he feels it falling into New Republic hands will spark years of civil unrest and more fighting as former Imperials resist what they perceive as victor's justice from New Republic tribunals. , but I already know what's coming. The First Order is going to rise and shatter the peace and New Republic along with it. Maybe that's just a weakness of inter-film novels. The bigger questions on the status quo and the future are meaningless because we've ready seen what's going to happen. That's fine though. You can tell smaller personal stories in those types of settings, but like I wrote above I didn't like the main cast enough to care about their stories. OhFunny fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Jun 17, 2022 |
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I decided to reread Shatterpoint and got remained even the best of the EU authors have no sense of scale as Matthew Shover writes the CIS is tying down all 1.2 million clone troopers of the GAR across the galaxy.
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Arquinsiel posted:1.2 million is the figure given for the contract by Lama Su in Attack of the Clones, so there's only so much you can blame him for that. It's been a long time since I've watched Episode II, so I didn't remember that.
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Lord Hydronium posted:Pretty sure that was the figure for the whole war. I remember it being written as hundreds of trillions killed by the end of the war.
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I finished my reread of Shatterpoint and I feel Stover ties things off a little to cleanly at the end. He throws a paragraph in that states the planetary milita has acTuAlLy been fighting the war above board this whole time and all the atrocities are the fault of the jungle prospectors. Which runs counter to the earlier parts of the book where the planetary milita is described as shooting everything that moves including the herd animals.
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Double posting because I blew through Kenobi in a few days and it was really good. Thanks to the goons who recommended it back in March! It’s nice to have a Star Wars story with low stakes. Orrin’s fate is a great parallel to Anakin’s.
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Chairman Capone posted:I will say in slight defense that I think the Coruscant verticality was an invention of TPM. From the 90s EU sources, I think Coruscant was much less built up in terms of continuous 1300 floor tall skyscrapers. He does appear in two of NJO novels to give Jacen some words of encouragement. Although I don't think he takes a visible form. He pops up briefly in one of the Dark Forces novelizations too, but does not speak.
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Robot Style posted:Not to mention Han & Leia's daughter married the guy who became the first new Emperor, which must have stung after Leia spent the better part of 50 years fighting against various types of galactic fascism. I think Princess Leia of House Organa is fine with monarchy. Although that does make me think about how the Republic seems to have zero criteria when it comes to membership and we seem to rarely see actual democrat societies. There are a ton of member worlds where the monarch wields actual power, worlds run by corporations like Corellia, to just corporations themselves like the Trade Federation holding membership in the Senate (even during the Clone Wars), to Ryloth with its clan system without any apparent central government. It's closer to a stronger UN.
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