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Sounds pretty cool, huh? But is this really just a publishing initiative? Rumors have abounded for some time now that the next Star Wars cinematic saga may also take place in the past – and specifically this hitherto unknown era. It all started on January 4th this year, when Jason Ward of MakingStarWars.net, :
“The next Star Wars film saga to be set during the High Republic era!”
Now, fans are always coming up with rumors of dubious authenticity (remember when Revenge of the Sith was definitely going to reveal that Obi-Wan was actually Luke’s father?), but both Ward and MakingStarWars have a pretty good track record with this sort of thing.
That the Star Wars comics in January suddenly started dropping in references to the High Republic era lent further credibility to it. In hindsight, that was likely teasing the new books and comics, but it does feel like this could be the start of something much larger. James Waugh, Lucasfilm’s VP of Franchise Content and Strategy says in the announcement video, “What if publishing was more of an incubation place?” That’s an interestingly specific turn of phrase and leaves one obvious question: incubating what?
That said, Lucasfilm were quick to point out that, «This period on the Star Wars timeline will not overlap any of the filmed features or series currently planned for production,» which rules out movies set in this period for the time being.
What the trailer makes really clear is that Lucasfilm have gone all in on the project. As well as gathering their core group of creatives (Claudia Gray, Charles Soule, Cavan Scott, Daniel José Older and Justina Ireland), they’ve employed concept artists to fully flesh out this new period of Republic history, including Iain McCaig – the man who came up with the iconic look of Darth Maul. That’s a lot of trouble to go to just for some spin-offs.
Различия между Высшей Республикой и Старой Республикой
Старая Республика и Высокая Республика официальное искусство
Их место на временной шкале «Звездных войн» и в ее каноне
Первое существенное различие между Высшей Республикой и Старой Республикой Республика — это то место, где они вписываются во временную шкалу «Звездных войн» и то, как долго они просуществовали.
Старая Республика существовала примерно за 25 000 лет ДБЯ (до битвы при Явине) до 1000 ДБЯ — самой продолжительной отдельной эпохи в «Звездных войнах». канон. Высшая Республика просуществовала всего 400 лет, с 500 ДБЯ по 100 ДБЯ.
Излишне говорить, что за эти 24 000 лет в Старой Республике многое произошло. Интересно, однако, что почти все особенности той эпохи не считаются каноническими, поскольку эти сюжетные моменты были созданы до новой инициативы Диснея.
Напротив, каждая деталь Высшей Республики, довольно недавней эпохи созданный для новой волны книг по «Звездным войнам», начинающейся в 2021 году, является частью канона.
Поклонники надеются, что Аколит, в центре внимания которого находятся ситхи, сможет создать больше Старых войн. Республиканские знания как канон.
Peace Vs. Война в Галактике «Звездных войн».
Высокая Республика известна как абсолютная высшая точка Республики, поддерживающая длительный непрерывный мир.
Были некоторые исключения, такие как угроза Нихила, которая исследуется в романах о Высшей Республике.
Однако по большей части в галактике царит мир. Многие джедаи Высшей Республики никогда не видели боя сами.
Это полная противоположность Старой Республике, у которой длинный список конфликтов по всей галактике, а именно конфликт Галактической Республики (и Ордена джедаев) против Империи ситхов.
Бесконечно злые ситхи
Затем следует самое большое различие между двумя эпохами — ситхи.
В Старой Республике одновременно действовали тысячи людей, и все они были частью великой Империи ситхов. Как и следовало ожидать, эта фракция вела долгую и разрушительную войну против джедаев и Республики.
Когда дело доходит до Высшей Республики, ситхов не видели уже сотни лет. До появления Скрытой угрозы почти тысячу лет не было зарегистрировано местонахождение ситхов.
Аколит раскроет скрытую правду. что они действовали в течение этого длительного периода мира. Тем не менее, фракция оставалась в тени и была обязана печально известному Правилу двух — держать свою численность под контролем.
Поскольку знания должны соответствовать канону, установленному в Скрытой угрозе, шансы на выживание невелики у любого джедая, который увидит красный световой меч в любой точке Аколита.
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When does The Mandalorian take place in the Star Wars timeline?
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Before anything else, it’s worth knowing that – like our Gregorian calendars in the painfully lightsaber-free real world – the timeline revolves around a single event. In this case, it’s the Battle of Yavin (otherwise known as the first assault on the Death Star in A New Hope). That’s referred to at 0 BBY – Before the Battle of Yavin.
The Mandalorian’s first two seasons, more or less, takes place in 9 ABY – nine years after A New Hope and, interestingly, five years after the Emperor’s defeat in Return of the Jedi.
Time has passed since then, however. Jon Favreau revealed in a roundtable interview (via ) that Grogu spent two years training with Luke. That would mean The Book of Boba Fett and The Mandalorian season 3 are set in 11 ABY.
Here is the full picture of where The Mandalorian takes place in the Star Wars timeline – as per current canon.
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace – 32 BBY
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones – 22 BBY
- The Clone Wars – 22 BBY-19 BBY
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith – 19 BBY
- The Bad Batch – 19 BBY
- Solo: A Star Wars Story – 13 BBY – 10 BBY
- Obi-Wan Kenobi – 10 BBY
- Star Wars Rebels – 5 BBY – 1 BBY
- Andor – 5 BBY
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – 1 BBY
- A New Hope – 0 BBY
- The Empire Strikes Back – 3 ABY
- Return of the Jedi – 4 ABY
- The Mandalorian seasons 1 and 2 – 9 ABY
- The Book of Boba Fett – 11 ABY
- The Mandalorian season 3 — 11 ABY
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens – 34 ABY
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi – 34 ABY
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – 35 ABY
The Mandalorian timeline: what does that mean for the show and The Book of Boba Fett?
The Mandalorian takes place in a period of time that’s been relatively untouched by Star Wars media. There have been books about the events between the original trilogy and the sequel trilogy, but few have told major stories about well-known characters. That means we’re treading on fertile ground for cameos – as we have already seen with appearances from Boba Fett, Ahsoka Tano, and Luke Skywalker. Leia, Han, Lando, and Chewie are all out there somewhere and could make an appearance in the show.
There’s another quarter-of-a-century gap between The Mandalorian and the sequel trilogy, which means there’s room for a few longer stories to be told. We can expect The Mandalorian to tie in with a few other Star Wars spin-offs, and Mando’s appearance in The Book of Boba Fett shows that the writers are not afraid of a crossover. Boba Fett’s series picks up directly after the Mandalorian season 2 finale, with Din Djarin wielding the Darksaber and without Baby Yoda, real name Grogu, by his side. The Mandalorian season 3 picks up after the events of Boba Fett’s show.
Other events worth noting: Grogu was born roughly 50 years prior to The Mandalorian, which means the creature is basically the same age as Anakin Skywalker. We also know that 30 years before the show, Grogu was training at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. That means we now know his location during the prequels, specifically Revenge of the Sith.
There are also more potential tie-ins with the animated show Rebels ahead. We’ve already seen Ahsoka, and she mentioned Thrawn, but there’s a key scene in the series that will be addressed at some stage in the Star Wars shows. Rebels, while predominantly taking place before the Battle of Yavin, has an epilogue that takes place at an undetermined time in the future.
As explained to , Mandalorian writer and Rebels creator Dave Filoni said: «When you look at the epilogue of Rebels you don’t really know how much time has passed. So, it’s possible that the story I’m telling in The Mandalorian actually takes place prior to that. Possible. I’m saying it’s possible.»
For now, though, The Way is clear for Mando to forge out his own path on the Star Wars timeline. For more on the franchise’s future, check out all the upcoming Star Wars movies and shows coming our way soon.
Unclear, the future is
The High Republic initiative will introduce a lot of new Star Wars lore at once, and even if there’s no plan for a movie set in this era right now, it lays the groundwork for filmmakers to give it some consideration in future. Star Wars has always benefited from its richly detailed backstory and its sense of history. Doing it this way also gives the fans something new to get excited about.
Matt Martin of LucasFilm’s Story Group has since that the project was developed independently from the films, TV shows, games and other parts of the franchise. He did also, however, go out of his way to point out, “That’s not to say the era wouldn’t be available to storytellers in other mediums, but it was developed or publishing.”
The next Star Wars film has a release date of December 16, 2022. That’s really not very long! We would expect a formal announcement of whatever the next movie is relatively soon, though a safe bet would be at this year’s Star Wars Celebration in August.
Of course there are numerous other options currently swirling around about what that might be: Rian Johnson’s apparently still alive trilogy, whatever it is that Kevin Feige is working on, and the recently rumored project involving Sleight-director, J.D. Dillard. Where and when those movies are set is still a mystery.
Regardless of what happens, exploring a new period of Star Wars lore is certainly an exciting thought. It’s a fresh start, a clean slate, though we wouldn’t be too surprised if a few familiar faces show up. After all, Yoda and Maz Kanata were both alive and kicking 200 years ago. And while the Jedi’s traditional enemies are deep in hiding at this point, one of the phrases written on a whiteboard in the High Republic trailer simply says “Sith Empire”. Intriguing…
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Holding out for heroes
Things have rarely been as simple as good-versus-evil for the Jedi.
Throughout the nine-film Skywalker saga, many of the franchise’s most prominent Jedi have fought an internal battle against their darker impulses. Some have lost, some have won, but for many of them, the battles they fought were simply part of a greater war between good and evil that raged within themselves.
In recent years, critics of the sequel trilogy have cited Luke Skywalker’s cynical turn in Star Wars: Episode VII – The Last Jedi as a symptom of the modern films’ unwillingness to let its heroes simply be heroes.
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To many fans, Kylo Ren’s trilogy-spanning angst in the recent sequel films and Rey’s own, late-revealed links to the Dark Side only added to a diminishing of The Force — the mystical energy wielded by the Jedi — as, well … a force for good. Given all of those stories set within the gray area of Star Wars’ moral spectrum, it’s easy to see the appeal of a chapter in the saga that shows the Jedi at their best, squaring off against clear-cut villains instead of their own inner demons.
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Return of the Jedi Knights
First revealed in February, Star Wars: The High Republic is a publishing initiative by Lucasfilm that will offer up a series of novels, comic books, and multimedia projects set within a time period before the events of the prequel trilogy. The stories will explore the characters and events that transpired 200 years before Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi first encountered Anakin Skyalker in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.
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Where much of Star Wars’ big-screen saga so far has offered up Jedi heroes faced with nearly as much inner turmoil as external threats, Lucasfilm has indicated that the High Republic stories will offer a different spin on the relationship between the Jedi and the rest of the galaxy. The stories will feature the Jedi Order at the height of its prominence in the Galactic Republic, when the Jedi were the “guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic,” as Obi-Wan Kenobi described them in the original, franchise-spawning Star Wars.
In many ways, the stories seem intended to deliver the sort of unmistakably noble Jedi heroes fans have heard a lot about, but rarely seen on the big or small screens.
“ is a hopeful, optimistic time,” explained Lucasfilm’s Michael Siglain in the announcement of the studio’s publishing plan for Star Wars.
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The High Republic Era kicks off with August’s Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi, a novel from author Charles Soule. It will be followed by various interconnected stories expected to pit the Jedi Order against a brutal enemy force bent on conquering the Republic.
Although Disney and Lucasfilm have indicated the books “will not overlap any of the filmed features or series currently planned for production,” there are plenty of reasons to believe success in the High Republic era could lead to a leap from page to screen.
Obi-Wan, Cassian Andor, and Din Djarin
As of May 2020, there are three officially confirmed, live-action Star Wars projects in various stages of development for the screen — and like The High Republic Era, they’re all set at various points in the saga’s past.
In late 2019, the first season of The Mandalorian on Disney+ quickly established the live-action series as the flagship show on the streaming service. Set between the events of Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, the series follows a lone gunfighter on the galaxy’s outer rim after the fall of the Galactic Empire.
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A second season of The Mandalorian premieres in October, and it will dive even deeper into another region of the franchise’s past — both geographically and narratively — that the movies have otherwise ignored.
Also planned for Disney+ are two, still-untitled series set in the time between Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV – A New Hope.
The first of the series will explore Obi-Wan Kenobi’s time on the desert planet of Tatooine as he attempts to keep a watchful eye on Luke Skywalker while navigating the region’s web of crime syndicates and other dangerous elements. The other series, set five years before the events of A New Hope, will follow Rebel spy Cassian Andor — first introduced in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — as he operates undercover for the Rebel Alliance against the Galactic Empire.
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Although all three series offer a fair share of conflicted heroes, one thing they share in common is a foundation in the franchise’s past — which is rapidly becoming one of Star Wars’ most fertile fields for storytelling opportunities.
A wide-open past
Between the High Republic publishing initiative and the three aforementioned TV series, Star Wars is covering a lot of ground in the near future, and finding ways to make the old seem new again.
Prequel projects are nothing new in the modern reboot- and remake-obsessed entertainment world, but there’s something particularly appropriate about Star Wars looking back as the franchise moves forward. Back in 1981, when the massive success of the original Star Wars sent the film back to theaters, George Lucas decided to retroactively designate the film “Episode IV.”
Where many filmmakers would consider that first, blockbuster movie a starting point for stories to come, Lucas instead chose to make it the middle chapter in a larger story he had yet to tell. In doing so, he established a universe of stories to tell both before and after Luke Skywalker embarks on the adventure that would make him one of Hollywood’s most iconic heroes.
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No matter how you feel about the prequel trilogy that eventually served as Episodes I-III in the serialized story, Lucas’ decision proved to be a brilliant one — and made fans’ appetites for what came before Star Wars almost as great as for what would come after.
After completing a nine-film saga that encompassed more than four decades, Lucasfilm is teasing out Star Wars’ past once again.
And once again, Star Wars fans are getting excited about stories set in a galaxy far, far away, unfolding a long time ago.
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The Mandalorian timeline: what does that mean for the show and The Book of Boba Fett?
The Mandalorian takes place in a period of time that’s been relatively untouched by Star Wars media. There have been books about the events between the original trilogy and the sequel trilogy, but few have told major stories about well-known characters. That means we’re treading on fertile ground for cameos – as we have already seen with appearances from Boba Fett, Ahsoka Tano, and Luke Skywalker. Leia, Han, Lando, and Chewie are all out there somewhere and could make an appearance in the show.
There’s another quarter-of-a-century gap between The Mandalorian and the sequel trilogy, which means there’s room for a few longer stories to be told. We can expect The Mandalorian to tie in with a few other Star Wars spin-offs, and Mando’s appearance in The Book of Boba Fett shows that the writers are not afraid of a crossover. Boba Fett’s series picks up directly after the Mandalorian season 2 finale, with Din Djarin wielding the Darksaber and without Baby Yoda, real name Grogu, by his side. The Mandalorian season 3 picks up after the events of Boba Fett’s show.
Other events worth noting: Grogu was born roughly 50 years prior to The Mandalorian, which means the creature is basically the same age as Anakin Skywalker. We also know that 30 years before the show, Grogu was training at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. That means we now know his location during the prequels, specifically Revenge of the Sith.
There are also more potential tie-ins with the animated show Rebels ahead. We’ve already seen Ahsoka, and she mentioned Thrawn, but there’s a key scene in the series that will be addressed at some stage in the Star Wars shows. Rebels, while predominantly taking place before the Battle of Yavin, has an epilogue that takes place at an undetermined time in the future.
As explained to , Mandalorian writer and Rebels creator Dave Filoni said: «When you look at the epilogue of Rebels you don’t really know how much time has passed. So, it’s possible that the story I’m telling in The Mandalorian actually takes place prior to that. Possible. I’m saying it’s possible.»
For now, though, The Way is clear for Mando to forge out his own path on the Star Wars timeline. For more on the franchise’s future, check out all the upcoming Star Wars movies and shows coming our way soon.
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