We’ve gotten a glimpse of Star Wars Visions, the new anime anthology collection coming to Disney+ subsequent month, however now we’ve got the primary bits of data for its first tie-in novel—a story that follows a mysterious Sith warrior, with some very fascinating twists on the fables of the Jedi and Sith’s creation.

StarWars.com has given us our first have a look at the duvet of Star Wars Ronin: A Visions Novel, Emma Mieko Candon’s story that can tie into one of many shorts included within the Visions anthology: “The Duel,” by Kamikaze Douga’s Takanobu Mizuno. What little was lately glimpsed of “The Duel” teases every little thing from katana-esque lightsabers to the actual star of the present, an astromech droid sporting a preposterously massive straw hat. But Ronin will observe an unnamed Sith from the story as they wander the galaxy in a world dominated by a strong Empire… an empire of Jedi Warriors.

Inspired by the jidaigeki style of Japanese storytelling—interval dramas that usually concentrate on Japan’s Edo interval, telling the story of samurai, feudal lords, and their servants—Ronin follows the in any other case unnamed titular protagonist as he travels the galaxy. It’s set twenty years after a civil battle among the many Jedi and the lords they serve splintered the non secular sect into two teams: one which remained Jedi, and one which renamed themselves Sith, searching for a future away from their former masters. After the Sith riot resulted in defeat and the once-warring lords coming collectively to forge a brand new Empire, the Ronin wanders the galaxy in exile, in service to no Sith or Jedi clan—till a bandit claiming Sith heritage crosses his path.

It’s fascinating not only for its Japanese-framed tackle the Star Wars mythos, however as a result of the world of “The Duel” and Ronin sounds similar to what was as soon as the foundational lore of how the Jedi took place within the outdated expanded universe. In the outdated EU, the Jedi (initially known as the Je’daii), a sect of Force wielders from throughout the galaxy that got here collectively on the planet Tython, known as by its sturdy hyperlinks to the dwelling Force, founding an Order with two distinct ideological viewpoints, primarily based on the sunshine/darkish dichotomy of Tython’s twin moons. These Jedi even wielded katana-esque Force-imbued swords earlier than lightsabers turned a factor!

Ronin and “The Duel”’s connections to Tython’s outdated EU historical past—itself slowly however absolutely hinted at in matches and begins within the present Star Wars canon, from The Mandalorian’s latest go to there to mentions within the latest High Republic novel, The Rising Storm—could be coincidental. But coincidence or not, Candon’s novel and the brief itself sound intriguing sufficient that we’re very excited to see the way it explores this new lens on the galaxy. Star Wars: Visions streams on Disney+ beginning September 22, whereas Ronin: A Visions Novel will hit cabinets on October 12.

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