Released First Chapter of the Star Wars Light of the Jedi High Republic

I read it. I talked about it on my YouTube live stream last night (*plug*). The short of it is that while I think his prose is decent I have major issues with the story.

• The destruction of the ship in hyperspace as described by the first chapter apparently scatters debris across the ENTIRE galaxy. This is incredibly STUPID and doesn’t work within the known continuity of Star Wars (I guess it does now. *sigh*).
• The setting is during the thousand-year rule of peace in the galaxy which limits the conflict of the story. Conflicts drive stories and without a compelling conflict, the story is suspect. Even if they have an ok story, would it really be worthy of Star Wars?
• He has some early paragraphs filled with “telling and not showing” about the point of view character of the chapter. It’s a waste of information for someone who dies at the end of the chapter.
• In a case of “many grains make a heap” the POV captain of the chapter is yet another woman in charge who is AMAZING at what she does and doesn’t fail.

I will probably read the book for the channel, but this chapter does not make me excited for The High Republic. This only further reinforces my thesis that Disney Star Wars is Bad Fan Fiction.

Anyway, thanks for bringing it up! I’m still happy to discuss / debate Star Wars anytime. Cheers!

Yeah, its not good. I read it and made a video on my channel too. I’ve already got a lot of issues with this series. It is set too close to the films for them to be saying that the galaxy is unexplored and hyperspace lanes aren’t very well developed. Its set during a time where there were no Sith, so none of the Jedi vs. Sith stuff that lends itself to internal struggles between light and dark. The hyperspace incident described in the chapter doesn’t make sense for multiple reasons. Some because the writing describing the event is sloppy, and some because of the fact that space is absolutely massive, so debris from a ship (tiny in scope compared to the size of the galaxy) would probably have a better chance of not hitting an occupied planet in the galaxy than actually hitting one.

Kinda sucks that they chose an era of relative peace to make the next set of SW books during. You’ve got to rely on ships breaking up in hyperspace (in an accident that doesn’t really make sense) and sending debris out into space to drive the plot…

I’m interested in Star WARS, not Star Mistakes and Natural Disasters.

I have to agree the jedi guarded the republic for a thousand generations. Hell Yoda was 900 in return. This shit makes no sense.

Also in real lore when a ship exploded while in hyperspace the bits all came out more or less in a line. This explanation of the book shows they know less than shit about anything.