Star Wars: The High Republic - A First Look at Project Luminous

HStallion · Feb 25, 2020

Crossing Eden said:
The first season of the mandalorian literally concludes with a quest to find the Jedi and Baby Yoda is undoubtedly the most popular character. Nothing the Mando does is as significant or badass as Baby Yoda using the force.

Yes and I said "not beholden" every step of the way as a lot of that series does its own thing for a good chunk of its run time. I also have stated that I don't mind the Jedi or the force but I do mind its rather hackneyed portrayal over the decades that has become incredibly repetitive and creatively bankrupt. The Mandalorian having the force being relegated to a baby character who is comic relief for a good portion works because its not the same old stilted monk nonsense.

D.Dragoon · Feb 25, 2020

Crossing Eden said:
Yes in the technical sense. For a thousand years the sith followed the rule of two until Palpatine used politics to secretly bring them back into power/destroy the Jedi order.

Also isn't that all Sith are dark side users but not all dark side users are Sith like for example the inquisitors. So they could still fight dark side users while the Sith are hidden during this era.

Deleted member 17402 · Feb 25, 2020

At this point I think it would be great to offer an alternative to the Sith and Jedi - a third religion that is equally in touch with the Force and just as powerful with its users. Obviously most people will immediately consider a third faction in this sense to be a grey between Jedi and Sith, but that's not how I see it. We have so many religions in our own world, what's to stop Star Wars from having several more that are just as prominent and powerful as these two, regardless of whether they're good or bad? I'd be interested in seeing a different set of ideals.

Lifejumper · Feb 25, 2020

TheFallenSaboteur said:
At this point I think it would be great to offer an alternative to the Sith and Jedi - a third religion that is equally in touch with the Force and just as powerful with its users. Obviously most people will immediately consider a third faction in this sense to be a grey between Jedi and Sith, but that's not how I see it. We have so many religions in our own world, what's to stop Star Wars from having several more that are just as prominent and powerful as these two, regardless of whether they're good or bad? I'd be interested in seeing a different set of ideals.

Like the nightsisters in TCW?

Deleted member 17402 · Feb 25, 2020

Lifejumper said:
Like the nightsisters in TCW?

Yes, and I like them quite a bit for existing. But they weren't shown prominently in any film for the major audience. I wouldn't mind them being developed more.

Deleted member 2229 · Feb 25, 2020

D.Dragoon said:
Also isn't that all Sith are dark side users but not all dark side users are Sith like for example the inquisitors. So they could still fight dark side users while the Sith are hidden during this era.

Yes

TheFallenSaboteur said:
At this point I think it would be great to offer an alternative to the Sith and Jedi - a third religion that is equally in touch with the Force and just as powerful with its users. Obviously most people will immediately consider a third faction in this sense to be a grey between Jedi and Sith, but that's not how I see it. We have so many religions in our own world, what's to stop Star Wars from having several more that are just as prominent and powerful as these two, regardless of whether they're good or bad? I'd be interested in seeing a different set of ideals.

Yeah I don't know why they keep intentionally avoiding this conclusion and making the jedi the be all end all. Dark Side has gotten Inquisitors, Nightsisters, Knights of Ren. The light has....Ahsoka.

Dazraell · Feb 25, 2020

Summary made by Star Wars Explained, YouTuber who was present at Project Luminous reveal.

https://twitter.com/StarWarsExplain/status/1232149269101965312?s=20
- The Jedi of the High Republic are the "Jedi Knights of the Round Table.
- The main villains are called the Nhil and are described as space Vikings.
- There will be stories for every type of Star Wars fan.
- The High Republic is 200 years before the prequels. "The Jedi as we've always wanted to see them."
- The idea for this massive connected story was pitched way back in 2014 .
- These are all unique stories, not the same story repeated for different ages.
- https://twitter.com/StarWarsExplain/status/1232154950999756801 Concept art
- The level of production that went into these stories was reminiscent of film pre-production.
- The Nihil are the main villains. They are purposefully meant to be VERY different than the Empire or the First Order.
- The Nihil are able to use hyperspace in a very dangerous way but that's all.
- A driving force behind #ProjectLuminous was "New, new, new. What have we never seen in Star Wars that still feels like Star Wars."
- Light of the Jedi by @CharlesSoule is the first book, coming out August 25. Will establish the era and kick off the adventure.
- The Wookiee Jedi is named Burryagga Aggathuri. I'm sure I misspelled that .
- We're going to see The Great Disaster. Something terrible is going to happen at the opening of the novel. Something awful happening in a time of peace and prosperity.
- A Test of Courage is a middle grade book by @justinaireland. The main character is a sixteen year old Jedi Knight. She says it's more serious than her previous stories.
- The High Republic comic from @Marvel will be written by @cavanscott. It will center on Starlight Station.
- Into the Dark by @claudiagray.
- The High Republic Adventures comic from @IDWPublishing is by @djolder.
- Everything we've heard about so far is just "Phase One" of the High Republic. More stories and more licensees are coming.
- We are going to learn a lot more between now and August 25.

DixieDean82 · Feb 25, 2020

Lifejumper said:
I think its time for some of yall to admit that you don't like SW anymore... and that is totally fine. It must be exhausting to keep complaining about the same franchise since 2015 (or whenever Disney took over), but I guess people have invested too many years of their life into being a SW fan lol.

edit: plus they explicitly said that not all stories would focus on the jedi.

edit 2: and if youre still hating on it.. you can ignore it.. the press release states future films and tv series won't be set in this era.

edit 3: also all of yall wanting SW to explore new stuff and at the same time asking for a KOTOR adaptation will never not be hilarious.

Well said. I do wish the people who do NOTHING but moan about SW would piss off.

ket · Feb 25, 2020

Principate said:
The problem is Disney is obsessed with mining the very last drops of every single creative ideas George Lucas ever had.

Even the High Republics just seems like the prequel trilogy part deux vs the the ST which was the OT part deux. They're trapped and have no faith in the writers they have. They won't even take some of Lucas new ideas either so they're just mining decade old ideas to depletion.

The first High Republic book aint even out yet and ppl already saying this lmao

Deleted member 2229 · Feb 25, 2020

DixieDean82 said:
Well said. I do wish the people who do NOTHING but moan about SW would piss off.

If they do that then they wont get attention online

Reizzz · Feb 25, 2020

I'm cautiously optimistic. I love weird Star Wars so I hope we get more of that.

Rookhelm · Feb 25, 2020

I think the Marvel formula can work with Star Wars (with several movies that have interconnected, but also individual stories that ultimately lead to a finale). But it has to be all new stuff. For example, you can't really do this same formula with established characters like Han, or Lando, or mon mothma or whatever other legacy characters they've recast in the modern day. Well, you could, but there's so much restraint there.

BDS · Feb 25, 2020

"University"
"Rival houses"

Finally we Star Wars: Three Houses now

AlexFlame116 · Feb 25, 2020

*Speaks in the voice of The Client from The Mandalorian* I would very much like a movie or tv series about Rogue Squadron.

Gifmaker · Feb 25, 2020

AlexFlame116 said:
*Speaks in the voice of The Client from The Mandalorian* I would very much like a movie or tv series about Rogue Squadron.

That isn't even Star Wars according to some, so not likely, unfortunately.

Spectromixer · Feb 25, 2020

BDS said:

"Actual Ending"

D.Dragoon · Feb 25, 2020

Spectromixer said:
"Actual Ending"

Actual endings are not good for the bottom line, the perpetual machine of content makes the big bucks.

Harpoon · Feb 25, 2020

Book summaries:

Light of the Jedi

Two hundred years before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, in the era of the glorious High Republic, the noble and wise Jedi Knights must face a frightening threat to themselves, the galaxy, and the Force itself. . . .

Into the Dark

Padawan Reath Silas is being sent from the cosmopolitan galactic capital of Coruscant to the undeveloped frontier—and he couldn't be less happy about it. He'd rather stay at the Jedi Temple, studying the archives. But when the ship he's traveling on is knocked out of hyperspace in a galactic-wide disaster, Reath finds himself at the center of the action. The Jedi and their traveling companions find refuge on what appears to be an abandoned space station. But then strange things start happening, leading the Jedi to investigate the truth behind the mysterious station, a truth that could end in tragedy….

A Test of Courage

When a transport ship is abruptly kicked out of hyperspace as part of a galaxy-wide disaster, newly-minted teen Jedi Vernestra Rwoh, a young Padawan, an audacious tech-kid, and the son of an ambassador are stranded on a jungle moon where they must work together to survive both the dangerous terrain and a hidden danger lurking in the shadows….

Spectromixer · Feb 25, 2020

D.Dragoon said:
Actual endings are not good for the bottom line, the perpetual machine of content makes the big bucks.

ok....

Deleted member 2229 · Feb 25, 2020

Im expecting this "great disaster" and the Nihil using "hyperspace in a dangerous way" to just be an excuse for them to go "Thats why you can't just use the Holdo maneuver everywhere"

Jarmel · Feb 25, 2020

The more I think about this, the more uninspired I think it is.

Kalentan · Feb 25, 2020

So it's safe to assume that at some point later down the line of the: High Republic some event will take place that will lead the Jedi to become as they were in the PT, right?

Deleted member 2229 · Feb 25, 2020

Kalentan said:
So it's safe to assume that at some point later down the line of the: High Republic some event will take place that will lead the Jedi to become as they were in the PT, right?

Is there any point? They just got complacent which left room for certain insidious individuals to wiggle their way in and take over. When everything is peaceful and you stop watching your back its a perfect opportunity for soneone to stab you in it.

janusff · Feb 25, 2020

Jarmel said:
The more I think about this, the more uninspired I think it is.

what would've been more inspired for you?

Kalentan · Feb 25, 2020

Omnipotent said:
Is there any point? They just got complacent which left room for certain insidious individuals to wiggle their way in and take over. When everything is peaceful and you stop watching your back its a perfect opportunity for soneone to stab you in it.

Suppose that could be true. I guess it just depends on they present the Jedi in these books. Like do they really seem like they could easily fall into complacently or does it seem like something would have to spur that on?

Edit: Like are these Jedi also all about having complete control over emotions and thus unable to love? Or is that just a PT-Jedi thing?

TitlePending · Feb 25, 2020

BDS said:
"University"
"Rival houses"

Finally we Star Wars: Three Houses now

SW slice-of-life anime incoming.

Looking forward to seeing what kind of Force pranks come out of it.

SELIG · Feb 25, 2020

It is ludicrous and laughable that with the famous phrase "for a thousand generations" and long lived characters like Yoda and Maz popping around, and inspirations like the Knights of the Round Table and Vikings and Greece they are only going 200 years ago. I don't know why but that makes this feel immediately like a poorly planned idea.

janusff · Feb 25, 2020

it all looks dope and am digging the concept but yeah only 200 years ago, wonder why they wouldn't think it'd take place a little further back? like 400-500 years. Maybe Hidalgo was there and was like "Ehhh, actually guys.."? lmao

SELIG · Feb 25, 2020

for a thousand generations.... lets go back 20.
with aliens and species that live longer than humans, what is a star wars generation range? earth generations range from 10-15 years or so, and that's only considering the "you were all born around the same time" angle. Generations also kinda makes you think about the whole life span of that group not just the period of time when they were born. A thousand generations could be like 10,000 years or more. i don't know why but this makes me extremely skeptical.

at least the concept art looks very fun.

Salty Rice · Feb 25, 2020

Looks promising so please dont screw this up again with a kinda clean slate of an era.

Wished it was Old Repulblic though considering this is only 400 years what could just feel like yesterday.

Also it gives them a opportunity to bring a bunch of characters that have a long life back what i dont like. Dont need teenager Yoda.

Jarmel · Feb 25, 2020

janusff said:
what would've been more inspired for you?

Pretty much anything not even remotely attached to the movie era. We're still getting old Yoda in this for heavens sake.

This feels like a redo of ideas associated with TPM, mainly in regards to the Jedi Order.

Jag · Feb 25, 2020

Salty Rice said:
Also it gives them a opportunity to bring a bunch of characters that have a long life back what i dont like. Dont need teenager Yoda.

But sulky teenage Broot was so much fun.

Mcfrank · Feb 25, 2020

This looks interesting to me and I will certainly check out the first book.

Lukar · Feb 25, 2020

So which ones aren't aimed at kids or young adults?

Deleted member 17207 · Feb 25, 2020

Jarmel said:
The more I think about this, the more uninspired I think it is.

I don't disagree with this.

I don't think it helps that this is only set 200 years before TPM.

I would've much preferred if they had gone WAY back, explored the birth of the Jedi, the reason the Sith exist (what brought on that disagreement in philosophy?), and then get into the politics of the galaxy at that time (maybe the formation of the Republic?).

Spectromixer · Feb 25, 2020

LukarWuff said:
So which ones aren't aimed at kids or young adults?

Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule is the adult novel and the High Republic comic is more adult of the two comics (other is High Republic Adventures)

Lifejumper · Feb 25, 2020

XandBosch said:
I don't disagree with this.

I don't think it helps that this is only set 200 years before TPM.

I would've much preferred if they had gone WAY back, explored the birth of the Jedi, the reason the Sith exist (what brought on that disagreement in philosophy?), and then get into the politics of the galaxy at that time (maybe the formation of the Republic?).

This sounds like live action material. The HR era is strictly for comic books, novels and other publishing efforts.

Plus there were rumors that the D&D series were going to explore the prime(first) jedi etc. According to insiders LF never dropped those concepts when D&D left.

edit:

This period on the Star Wars timeline will not overlap any of the filmed features or series currently planned for production, giving creators and partners a vast amount of room to tell Star Wars stories with new adventures and original characters.

Lucasfilm to Launch Star Wars: The High Republic Publishing Campaign in 2021

New stories will explore the Star Wars galaxy set 200 years before the events of The Phantom Menace.

www.starwars.com

Jarmel · Feb 25, 2020

Lifejumper said:
This sounds like live action material. The HR era is strictly for comic books and novels.

Plus there were rumors that the D&D series were going to explore the prime(first) jedi etc. According to insiders LF never dropped those concepts when D&D left.

Watch the 'great disaster' be a movie.

Ryan. · Feb 25, 2020

Jarmel said:
Watch the 'great disaster' be a movie.

It's already been confirmed that the readers are introduced to it in the beginning of the Charles Soule's book.

MagicHobo · Feb 25, 2020

SELIG said:
It is ludicrous and laughable that with the famous phrase "for a thousand generations" and long lived characters like Yoda and Maz popping around, and inspirations like the Knights of the Round Table and Vikings and Greece they are only going 200 years ago. I don't know why but that makes this feel immediately like a poorly planned idea.

I think ultimately it's because this is a low consequence move for publishing that gives them a little more freedom to stretch while keeping the juicy eras clean and clear for film and TV development.

Deleted member 17207 · Feb 25, 2020

Lifejumper said:
This sounds like live action material. The HR era is strictly for comic books, novels and other publishing efforts.

Plus there were rumors that the D&D series were going to explore the prime(first) jedi etc. According to insiders LF never dropped those concepts when D&D left.

edit:

Lucasfilm to Launch Star Wars: The High Republic Publishing Campaign in 2021

New stories will explore the Star Wars galaxy set 200 years before the events of The Phantom Menace.

www.starwars.com

Ah that's good to know.

I still think that it's weird they went with only 200 years before, when the effort is to give them space to create. Why not go 500? or 1000?

SELIG · Feb 25, 2020

MagicHobo said:
I think ultimately it's because this is a low consequence move for publishing that gives them a little more freedom to stretch while keeping the juicy eras clean and clear for film and TV development.

you are probably absolutely correct.

It just feels wrong to me that when they cite inspirations like Knights of the Round Table, Vikings, and Greece which are far longer ago in Earth' history, that the 200 years ago Old West time period wins the timeline placement. When you have a thousand generations to explore, that could theoretically be like 10,000 years or more, going back only 200 years seems baffling.

HamSandwich · Feb 25, 2020

XandBosch said:
Ah that's good to know.

I still think that it's weird they went with only 200 years before, when the effort is to give them space to create. Why not go 500? or 1000?

200 years in Star Wars timeline isn't even that far back. For some characters that's not even a lifetime

Jarmel · Feb 25, 2020

MagicHobo said:
I think ultimately it's because this is a low consequence move for publishing that gives them a little more freedom to stretch while keeping the juicy eras clean and clear for film and TV development.

Well sounds like that will be the case, in which case all of this is whatever. It's sort of a boring era to explore and doesn't sound like they plan on rocking the boat though.

Nairume · Feb 25, 2020

SELIG said:
It is ludicrous and laughable that with the famous phrase "for a thousand generations" and long lived characters like Yoda and Maz popping around, and inspirations like the Knights of the Round Table and Vikings and Greece they are only going 200 years ago. I don't know why but that makes this feel immediately like a poorly planned idea.

Star Wars is already a setting where the Jedi become a myth people doubt even existed in less than two decades. History and memory works differently in it.

CesareNorrez · Feb 25, 2020

The Era isn't what makes a story boring. The story and the telling of it is what makes it boring. I see so many great creative people involved in this. No reason to think less of it right now. I'll wait to read these to judge them.

Deleted member 17207 · Feb 25, 2020

HamSandwich said:
200 years in Star Wars timeline isn't even that far back. For some characters that's not even a lifetime

That's what I'm saying, Yoda will presumably still be an old man in this....

It's just kind of weird.

MagicHobo · Feb 25, 2020

Jarmel said:
Well sounds like that will be the case, in which case all of this is whatever. It's sort of a boring era to explore and doesn't sound like they plan on rocking the boat though.

Yeah, just from an era standpoint it feels inert.

However, I don't quite want to discount it completely. Folks like Charles Soule and Claudia Grey are very decent storytellers, and ultimately it's the characters and stories that matter. If they can make something interesting that would be great. It's just coming out the gate, this doesn't feel all that exciting.

SELIG · Feb 25, 2020

Nairume said:
Star Wars is already a setting where the Jedi become a myth people doubt even existed in less than two decades. History and memory works differently in it.

I understand that and would often talk about that very thing when defending the setups for TFA and TLJ, but for some reason this time it's just not clicking right with me.

Reizzz · Feb 25, 2020

Nairume said:
Star Wars is already a setting where the Jedi become a myth people doubt even existed in less than two decades. History and memory works differently in it.

I agree but also 200 years seems like a short amount of time. It makes me wonder if the writers wanted a a bigger time difference but Lucasfilm wanted some familiar elements still

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