While not confirmed, it's been heavily implied it's Aspyr, who are the developers that did the KOTOR ports for mobile.
KOTOR is like 3700 years before that, they set it way way way behind in the timeline. There's 300 years between KOTOR 2 and SWTOR. When they called it the Old Republic, they really meant oldAh gotcha, and Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga looks like it'll be just as loose with the canon.
Just found a list of things they have moved into the new canon. Most of it is as-is, too.
There's also an order of Stormtroopers in the sequels named after Revan
The one major wrinkle the High Republic definitely adds is that the Outer Rim is harder to navigate than it is in the "present" Star Wars movies, and considering KotoR is like 700 years earlier than that, it'd be tricky to write around.
It's probably Aspyr, who hired a bunch of former BioWare devs, including writers, who worked on SWTOR, Dragon Age, and Mass Effect.
Yeah, my guess it will be different a bit in order to make Revan (since he is such a popular character, like Thrawn) actually canon.
Reven as a character, is already canon. what his story is, however, is probably very different
Honestly having it so far back tends to give them more freedom as then it doesn't matter if it has big dramatic events that aren't referenced in the original trilogy or the high republic stuff Disney is currently making because they can just say it's been so long people forgot or don't remember as well. So it doesn't matter that people forgot that their ancient civilizations that had technologies capable of making fleets capable of taking down the republic in months or that an Empire was able to hide put in space foe a thousand years and come back, or that there were Sith capable of absorbing whole planets of people. If it was placed closer to the timeline, I don't know if they could do as many big bomabastic things like that all of which are in KOTOR or SWTOR.
Ehh yeah he's briefly mentioned but this would make him more official in a way.
I just assume there's just so much conflict and problems that the galaxy goes through a dark age in the intervening years which is why the more recent timeline doesn't really have much know how about the events that happened in that period and the technology isn't that far advanced.
HR is over 3000 years after KotOR
I've not read the new High Republic books but how are the jedi in it so different to the Prequel era Jedi? Actually how are the Old Republic Era ones the same as the Prequel ones in your opinion?
HR Jedi are much more proactive in how they move around and take part in galactic events. They are explicitly written to specifically be akin to the Texas Rangers in a way to call out how they are different. While they don't cause trouble, they go looking for trouble to actively fix things. It's why they are much more involved in the creation of the Starlight Beacon in peace time as a space station to help the Republic explore and establish itself throughout the Outer Rim. They are also much more flexible in their philosophy, acknowledging multiple routes through understanding and interacting with the force.
The decision of the Jedi for KOTOR to not get involved in the mandalorian wars was because they thought that the someone was manipulating to cause the war and they didn't want to be drawn in, which in the end didn't work cause a number of Jedi ignored the council, got drawn in, were changed by the horrors of war and then were then able to be manipulated to start another war by the same person who initiated the Mandalorian war. Less philosopically rigid and more trying to stop future events even if in the end it didn't work - ironically the Jedi in KOTOR were right in what would happen if Jedi joined the war and what was going on , even if they constantly get criticised for it. I've always thought it was the opposite of the prequel era Jedi who despite knowing the war is being manipulated by dark forces still get drawn into the war even though the reasons for it are pretty shoddy that don't really hold up much to their belief system (it's essentially a system of planets that democratically no longer want to be part of the Republic because they think its corrupt , the Jedi are meant to be for democracy, the Republic they go for just cus it's the biggest system of democracy in the galaxy, they shouldn't if they were being philosophically rigid have a problem with the separatists) and the whole breading real people just to have them fight thing... and unlike the KOTOR era Jedi, despite it being against their beliefs and they are pretty sure there's a scheme still get drawn in basically cus they have a history of serving the Republic. I don't actually know if the Prequel era Jedi are philosophically rigid, alot of their actions don't have much to do with morals or philosopy but more that they have always supported the Republic so feel they must continue to do so which isn't reallly a philosophy or morals but basically just inertia. The Jedi have got to the point were they don't really have much moral convictions tbh, at least not ones they aren't willing to sway if the Republic tells them to.
it seems Aspyr is making the game, which is a big step up from the remakes they've been doing. they were hiring a lot of Bioware staff for some big game, and this might be it
this is a different, a single player game than either of those.
I see.
