

Vernestra Rwoh, The High Republic: A Test of Courageįor another angle on the Starlight Beacon disaster, look to Justina Ireland’s gorgeous junior novel, The High Republic: A Test of Courage. It’s those choices that I think make him and the Nihil antagonists that are very different from but hopefully as compelling as the Empire, the First Order, and the Sith.” That journey and the reasons he undertakes it will have a huge ripple effect on all of the other storytelling we’re doing.

The author explained that this character “goes on a journey through the book that takes the Nihil to a very different place at the end than where they were at the beginning. They’re a kind of anarchic space Viking Marauder group that has some very unique capabilities, built on hyperspace and other things they can do.”Īlthough “the organization of the Nihil is pretty loose,” Soule told Nerdist that “Marchion is sort of a high priest figure who gives them the thing that makes them special, which is the ability to access hyperspace in a way that no one else in the galaxy can, which makes them a very dangerous set of antagonists.” The Nihil are the main antagonists of the book, and certainly a large part of the storytelling we’re doing. “If there’s a through line character in Light of the Jedi, it’s actually the villain,” Soule explained. But Soule gave us an in on the character he believes drives the narrative. The sparkling ensemble piece aims to introduce readers to the era. As the sky breaks open and destruction rains down upon the peaceful alliance they helped to build, the Jedi must trust in the Force to see them through a day in which a single mistake could cost billions of lives.” The scope of the emergence, however, is enough to push even Jedi to their limit. No sooner does the call for help go out than the Jedi race to the scene. “When a shocking catastrophe in hyperspace tears a ship to pieces, the flurry of shrapnel emerging from the disaster threatens an entire system.

Charles Soule kicks off the event with the stunning establishing novel The High Republic: The Light of the Jedi.
