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Star Wars has revealed the origin of one of its major new villains: Marchion Ro, the leader (or Eye) of Star Wars savage space pirate group The Nihil, who have been the central villains of the new Star Wars: The High Republic line. Marchion Ros chess-like machinations have been a major focal [...]

Star Wars Introduces Mysterious New Villains the Nihil ✖ Star Wars: The High Republics creators compared the Nihil to space Vikings, the video below describes the Nihil as anarchists on the Outer Rim who use their unique grasp of hyperspace travel to terrorize the galaxy in the wake of the Great Disaster. The group is organized and operates by a storm motif, and foggy clouds follow them wherever they strike. Three Tempest Runners lead the Nihil with the aid of the Eye of the Nihil, the myster...

A new age of Star Wars has begun. (Image: Joseph Meehan/Del Rey) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. The first wave of Star Wars: The High Republic stories is upon us, painting the broad strokes of what we can expect to see in this era, centuries before the Skywalker saga. After che...

Light of the Jedi Will Explain How Palpatine Cut the Jedi Off from the Force The new Star Wars series solves a big prequel mystery. Set around 200 years before The Phantom Menace, the High Republic era kicks off in dramatic fashion as the Jedi – including a (slightly) younger Yoda – band together to save the Hetzal system from destruction after a ship falls apart in hyperspace. Light of the Jedi outlines this heroic effort and the subsequent investigation into how the disaster came about,...

The first book of Star Wars' new High Republic series has solved a prequel trilogy mystery about how Palpatine shut off the Jedi from the Force.