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Best Star Wars gifts for 2021, from video games and action figures to Baby Yoda plush
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Star Wars has pivoted towards TV in a big way, with the upcoming third season of The Mandalorian potentially bringing more Baby Yoda adventures on Disney Plus, along with CGI animated series The Bad Batch, the Boba Fett show and a bunch of others. These new stories will no doubt spawn enough new Star Wars merchandise to fill a Death Star, as if there wasn t enough to choose from already.
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Star Wars: The High Republictakes the franchise back 200 years before the events of The Skywalker Saga, to a time when the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order were flourishing side-by-side. The Jedi and Republic venture to establish a new base in the Outer Rim territories - a region that is still very much the galactic Wild West. The new novel
Star Wars: The High Republic - Into The Dark explores the underworld of smugglers and criminals that exist on the edges of the High Republic - including this era s version of Han Solo and Chewbacca, who are just as fun as their Skywalker Saga counterparts!
Star Wars: The High Republic Might Finally Explain Ahsoka’s Jedi Status
In a lot of ways,
Star Wars: The High Republic has given Lucasfilm the chance to redefine the lore of the galaxy far, far away and expand on its rich philosophical roots.
Take the first novel,
Light of the Jedi, for instance, which introduced viewers to several new aspects of the living Force, those that the Skywalker Saga, for lack of a better word, never had the opportunity to properly address. Now, the next chapter in this brand new narrative, which is another novel titled
Into the Dark, by Claudia Grey, may finally shed light on Ahsoka Tano’s status as a light side practitioner in the galaxy.
Warning:
The
Star Wars: The High Republic novel
Into The Dark by Claudia Gray sees a trio of oddball Jedi thrust together on a voyage to the Starlight Beacon the Republic and Jedi are establishing in the Outer Rim territories. However, the hyperspace disaster that is the centerpiece of this first phase of High Republic stories sends the voyage off course to an abandoned space station. It s there that the Jedi find themselves tested by a new kind of dark side threat that has been contained in the station. until now.
One of the main characters of
Into The Dark is Jedi Knight Orla Jareni. Orla, an Umbaran female, is uniquely different from her fellow Jedi, in that she serves the light side of the Force, but does not agree with the philosophies and interpretations of the Force as dictated by the Jedi Council. As such,