Star Wars: The High Republic Phase 2 Releases This October

It’s a giant day for Star Wars followers. Yes, a brand new episode of The Book of Boba Fett drops later this night however there’s much more e book information from a galaxy far, distant. The remaining chapter of part one among Star Wars: The High Republic kicks off at the moment within the type of Claudia Gray’s The Fallen Star, and now we all know way more about part two: “Quest of the Jedi.”

As introduced on a particular High Republic Show anniversary stream over on the Star Wars YouTube, part two of the transmedia publishing initiative can be known as “Quest of the Jedi,” and function a predecessor to the preliminary wave of High Republic tales. Tales advised in “Quest of the Jedi” can be set 150 years “in the past,” in an homage to George Lucas’ determination to make Star Wars’ prequel trilogy within the wake of the unique saga. It wasn’t mentioned within the video itself if this implies that the brand new part is ready 50 years after the occasions of part 1, which was set 200 years earlier than the Star Wars prequels, or if it’s set 150 years earlier than part 1, making it 350 years earlier than the films—however High Republic author Daniel José Older teased on social media that’s certainly even additional again into the period’s previous. Vague timelines apart, 4 new authors are additionally becoming a member of the staff established in The High Republic’s first part: Lydia Kang, Tessa Gratton, Zoraida Córdova, and George Mann.

But what concerning the authors who put collectively “Light of the Jedi?” We’re glad you requested. Cavan Scott is as soon as once more writing a brand new High Republic comedian sequence for part two, which is able to launch from Marvel Comics in October. Charles Soule will discover the backstory of legendary, mysterious Jedi Porter Engle—a long-living character first launched in Soule’s novel Light of the Jedi—in “another Marvel project,” and the aforementioned Older can be writing an “all-ages original graphic novel” over at Dark Horse Comics, which we lately came upon is making Star Wars comics once more. There will, clearly, even be extra grownup, YA, and younger reader novels to return as properly, however most particulars past new comics for the part are nonetheless being held again. One tiny morsel revealed at the moment: Justina Ireland, who wrote part one’s A Test of Courage, Out of the Shadows, and the brand new launch Mission to Disaster, is co-writing the primary YA novel of “Quest of the Jedi” with new addition, Tessa Gratton.

While followers may be a tad annoyed within the data that the futures for all of the characters they’ve come to know and love in The High Republic are going to be saved up within the air, we love the very fact the sequence is simply going deeper and deeper into Star Wars mythology. More constructing blocks, extra historical past—and, frankly, whereas we wish to see what’s subsequent for the surviving High Republic characters popping out of the occasions of The Fallen Star and different new tales, furthering these adventures go into the “future” of The High Republic, the extra probably it’s they’ll intersect with identified Star Wars canon. That may sound good—and we’re going to get a style of it within the Disney+ sequence The Acolyte in some unspecified time in the future, set on the tail finish of the period—however the true pleasure of The High Republic is it being an area for Star Wars tales that largely reside on their very own, away from the mainline continuity of the films, and it looks like part two can be extra of that.

“Quest of the Jedi” will start in October 2022.

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