Light of the Jedi author talks villainous Nihil — and High Republic spoilers
Star Wars is famous for its “Expanded Universe,” a suite of multimedia that exists to serve the franchise’s blockbuster movies. But in the post-Skywalker Saga era, it means something decidedly more. Between Disney Plus series, comics, video games, and publishing efforts pushing with equal force on canon, Star Wars is the Expanded Universe. And the release of Charles Soule’s new novel Light of the Jedi kicks off the mega-property’s most advantageous experiment: The establishment of The High Republic, a prequel-to-the-prequel era that allows a new batch of Star Wars writers to do w...