![]() ![]() It’s important, in my opinion to read this novel before diving into any of the other High Republic novels, as it introduces the galaxy anew to the reader. The book is broken into three parts, and the first part encompasses the initial events leading up to the Great Disaster and the Jedi’s involvement in the Hetzal system. Alongside them are Joss and Pikka Adren, whom we previously met in the ‘Go Together’ short story. The first of these emergences finds its way to the Hetzal System, and thankfully there are Jedi in the vicinity who have just come from checking in on the completion of the Starlight Beacon project who are able to find ways to aid those in need. These emergences would later be called the Great Disaster, and its individual emergences are often highly deadly, especially when they appear near inhabited systems. Somehow the impossible has happened, and a large ship has been derailed from hyperspace, and has sent its many sections splintering across the galaxy, emerging at top speeds at random locations, to devastating effect. A massive galaxy wide event shakes the Republic to its core and forces all the hyperspace lanes to close. The novel that’s headed this entire High Republic initiative is Charles Soule’s Light of the Jedi, which is the next title on our list. It does fit on the timeline earlier, but if this is your first time reading through any of these novels, I recommend you holding off on this book until after you’ve read Light of the Jedi. Technically, the third novel to be released, Claudia Gray’s Into the Dark, begins at the very least 2 days prior to the start of anything else in this era, and ends short hours before other books, like Light of the Jedi. If you’re interested in any title, click on the link to find a copy. This list includes all canon novels, short stories, and comics released to date. So we placed the earliest event on day one of the year, unless more info is given to us. So 232 BBY, Before the Battle of Yavin – but at what point in the year any of the events occurs? No idea. The reference book, The Star Wars Book, claims the Dedication of the Starlight Beacon occurred 232 years before the events in the original Star Wars film. So when does the High Republic take place? The events in this era are said to occur some 200 years before the start of the Prequels. I’ll elaborate on those timeline inconsistencies between books at the end of the video as it gets pretty spoiler heavy. Some titles are very specific as to the amount of time that elapses between beginning and end, while other titles are less interested in giving you exact timeframes – and this actually causes what I perceive to be some pretty big plot holes in the narrative. Heads up though, there will be minor spoilers for all titles, as each revolves around three primary events, the Great Disaster, the Battle of Kur, and the Dedication of the Starlight Beacon. Fans of our Complete MCU Timeline Explained series will hopefully enjoy this article enough to give it a big thumbs up, as I put a lot of thought into where everything occurs, as you’ll see shortly. So here I am, coming at you with another timeline. Each title has its strengths and its weaknesses, but the project as a whole paints a wider, more immersive picture of the galaxy – one that is meant to be experienced as a collective, and by only reading one novel or comic from the series would be doing yourself a disservice.Ī look at a rough timeline of each High Republic title in relation to each other ![]() ![]() And I enjoyed them enough that I’m currently going through them a second time. ![]() And now, almost a year later, the first wave of titles has been released. It’s an era we’ve yet to explore in canon or legends, and it’s far enough removed from the Skywalker saga to be a wholly new story for Star Wars – but not so much that the galaxy far far away is an unfamiliar place. When Lucasfilm finally announced what they were planning with Project Luminous, detailing the new publishing campaign that would culminate in The High Republic, I was thrilled. ![]()
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