Rebellion's built on hope! And welcome to another episode of Raider Rebellion Star Wars podcast! I'll be talking later on and thank you for joining us on another Star Wars Saturday as we are here talking Star Wars in Raider Rebellion only myself today or this week. Next week we might take a little break but we are here today thank you for joining us as we talk this galaxy far away.
How are you guys doing today? Thank you again for joining us. It's gonna have a little fun, it'll be a short episode I believe, we'll talk about some news out there, we'll cover them. Our thoughts on some of the rumors, I guess we should say some rumors out there.
And then we try out some of the gel at the end of the High Republic upon us. We'll talk about what I think are some cool reading guides and interesting books and stories out there you guys should read before you jump in. Try out some of the gel because there's a lot that can overwhelm everyone but we'll get to it. So let's start with thanking everyone that's here.
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But we're here, we're having fun as always. And I'll say early Happy Fathers Day to everyone out there, since we'll most likely have a show next week. I wanted to say Happy Fathers Day to everyone. And my Darth Vader sure that my English got me.
The best father ever, Darth Vader. Maybe not, don't quote me on that. But all right, to our friend Brennan, Paige Jenner, so we're not. Hello there, I love the High Republic, thank you Brennan, we all love the High Republic.
It's sad that it's coming to an end, I'm okay with it coming to an end. At least this story's gone off about three or four years now almost since it was announced. So, it ends, it ends. Let's just leave it there.
I'll talk about it in a minute. Thank you, Brennan, for joining us, anyone else that might be out there. Thank you. All right, so let's go ahead.
If you guys already, I'm not ready. Let's talk Star Wars and Star Wars news. Star Wars news. All right, Star Wars news.
And this again, the two news items will have to the story that he kind of decides to tell. Maybe that way that he tells them. I really love that Soka. Some of the last episodes were my favorite of the series, but I really enjoyed that series.
I want to see what Season 2 brings. He has directed episodes, of course, of the Mandalorian episodes of Ahsoka, and I was ready to like, wreck his first live action movie. So, he's been slowly stepping into that world, moving a little bit away from just being the animator animation guy, producing animated shows, even though he's created as being the creator or being involved in the Bad Batch. After those episodes in Clone Wars, Season 7, the Bad Batch went to a different team.
I'm not sure if I'm interested in the character, but if you're going to focus mostly on the production side and then another one person on the creative side, then I always say that even though I don't love Filoni's choice of stories that he always tells, I think it's a perfect fit to be the creative person in Luke Asfian. He knows the whole history about it, the whole canon, the mythology about it. He knows if someone has a question about anything that has been on screen so far, not the books I don't know how it verises into the publishing side. But at least movie and TV, TV-wise, I think he's the one.
He's the guy that people will go and say, hey, I want to do X, Y, and C, does it fit in H, Y, or do I need to move it somewhere else? I think he fits that role perfectly. And if that's what they're going to do, that carries back focus on the production side of the B-side and he's more the creative, then it makes 100% sense. Well, at the same time, I believe that's what he's already doing.
If they're creative, what is it? Chief creative officer, I think that's his job now. So, I don't know if that's the way it goes. If that's what he focuses on the creative side, I think he's already doing that.
So, I don't know if this might just be a title change or something else. But in the end, I'm okay. This is the way they want to go. I don't mind.
Also, this is just most of the mirrors, or this doesn't happen. And then they decide to go with someone from the outside that's more knowledge and more experience, directly by producing and running an actual studio, then I'm okay with it. They don't need to be a massive Star Wars fan. We've seen that with Tony Delroy.
He wasn't a massive Star Wars fan, whether he came into rock one, of course, with Andor. He just had a vision for those stories, and that's why he put on screen. At the same time, I don't want Tony Delroy to be the guy to be leaving Lucasfilm. He has no desire to have that job.
He said he's done with Star Wars at Rock One. I mean, and there's the most important thing he'll ever do. So, I don't think he even wants the job. And I don't think he'll be the perfect fit for President of Lucasfilm.
I know why people say it. I know people love the love and dedication and the production value that went behind Andor. A lot of that, you have to credit the actual production team that's there and then approve everything that he got and was able to do. That doesn't mean that he can run a studio.
As massive as Lucasfilm, as massive as his Star Wars galaxy is when it has to go into the Jedi that's safe, the force. It has to go into those places and maybe he doesn't enjoy that much. He's not the guy. So, I'm glad that yet on the Gilroy, thank you for everything you did with him.
I'm going to come back and do something similar. That's fine. I don't think he's the right choice for me than the studio. Filoni and Keribeg make sense.
Two people focus on running the company production creative side. Makes sense. I'm on board. I'm going to be the first to begin the day.
The only thing I care about is what we get on screen. No, behind the scenes sitting in their quote unquote director's chair calling the shots. That's going to be good stories. That's what I want.
Explore the force. What's up, Alberto? I'm doing well. How are you doing?
Explore the force. Thank you for joining us today. Let us know you, Brandon, anyone else that might be watching. What are your thoughts on these so far rumors, not things being made official about?
They feel on Keribeg stepping up to win the next president's of Lucasfilm. Are you okay with the choice? Do you see where this might not work? Did you have a different choice in mind?
Does it even matter? I talked with Otty. I think when the first time this came out, people thought about Catherine can't believe it. Do we really know Keribeg who's the head behind the studio?
We know the ones that suck. David Zafla, he's getting mad over here. We don't follow him unless you're involved in a movie business and doing all this stuff that we do here. It really doesn't matter.
Excuse me. That's just my thoughts. I'm sorry. I forgot to put this there.
There we go. Co-presence of Lucasfilm. Let me take a quick sip of my water. Let's go to the next bit of news.
More rumors than this. This one might not be as much as a rumor as some people might think. Although I think everyone's kind of on board also. Starfighter.
Do we have a villain for Star Wars? Starfighter. First reported by Jeff Nye. From Confirmed by multiple outlets.
Actress Mina Goth will be joining the cast of Star Wars Starfighters starring Ryan Gosling. Hollywood Reporter said details on the project are scanned. But it does involve Gosling playing a character that must protect a young charge against evil pursuers. Goth will play one of the pursuers.
The same role that Mickey Madison had been circling before her deal blew up like a Death Star over money matters. So let's start with this. I'm not super versed on me. I got an interview with the show.
I'm super high that we're getting more casting announcement. I'm going to pick this up. I'm going to believe that this is happening. One thing that was interesting in that article, first Hollywood reporter said that Gosling was playing a character that must protect his young nephew.
And then about an hour or two afterwards they changed young nephew to young charge. I don't know if the nephew bit was just understanding. Or if it's nephew, that part of that person being an nephew is important to the story. And then called to say, hey, replace that.
That's going to be a spoiler or something out there. I don't know. We'll find out when that happens. So what can sign a lot of people have picked up on that little young nephew on the charge comment?
Some people wanted to be Broomboy. Some people wanted to be someone else. Ryan Gosling to be Broomboy. That doesn't work.
I hope it's not Broomboy. Just give me a bunch of new characters. This movie takes place for five years, I believe, after the rest of Skywalker. A bunch of brand new characters, not connected to Skywalker saga.
I think even if you bring Broomboy in, it kind of tight-sally way to the sky. So in that sense, I'm hoping it's not. If it is, then it's fine, it connects to the last year. Then bring everyone else in.
Give me some Ray. There's War Room where Ray might show up in this movie as a cameo. And maybe set up something for her movie. Maybe had me, I got character, Bea Villain here and Bea Villain here.
And that is a really movie. We'll see those movies are, although I believe that Ray Skywalker movies ten years after the rest of Skywalker with this being five. So they're still a five year gap, but it can work. Let me check real quick what you guys are saying out there.
So explore the forces. I think Cari Beck will be great, but if Dave takes it, then he will be too busy to create. I mean, it would be difficult. I agree.
If Filone be gone, part of this president's team running Luke Hasuim, he won't have time to do all the creative stuff that he's currently involved in. So I don't know if that's something he wants to do. Maybe after a show, Casissant 2, and his movie, then he steps back from Bea the creative style and directing all those projects and just does that behind this introduction and kind of help people and new directors, the Kamina writers kind of figure out what they want to do from the creative side to make sure it measures with everything that Star Wars is doing. Then that's fine, but I don't think like you said, if it becomes a president, he won't have time to do the creative side and the creative stuff he's been doing after.
So we'll see. You're also adding that Mia got look similar to the Shinhati actress, which I forgot her name. So if anyone else can tell me, I'll be glad to have shared. She does have some similarity.
Time wise, it cannot match herself. No, that's before the force awakens. So maybe I'm relative. I don't know.
So yeah, this movie starfighter from what I can remember. I can't remember anything really, but I think the way I hope it kind of goes is remnants of the first order are still out there. Some star some Thai fighter groups are squadron similar to the alphabet squad on trilogy, being the Republic was chasing Imperial remnants. Give me something like that.
That would be lovely with this young character involved. And then the Mia got villain characters chasing behind this young kid. Then what's important for the kid is what the story might be, which again, it's very Star Wars like older person taking over a younger kid and keep him protecting them. So we'll see.
This movie was fast-tracked really quickly. It came out of nowhere. It's already going to production, I believe in November. I can't wait to start seeing some of the concept art and things out there for this movie.
I don't know when we'll be able to see some term or casting announcements. But like we said, once that movie made billions of dollars that it made, it was going to get fast-tracked. No way they're going to tell me, no, no, no. You got to wait in line for all the other movies to come out.
He was getting that movie fast-tracked as soon as possible. So I'm not surprised that we're getting that before the Rey movie or that Donna Dejai James Mango movie. So yeah, I'm happy with it. I get more casting announcements.
I'll take it. Give me Star Wars movies. We're less than a year away from the Mandalorian and Grogo. And then a year after that, we get Starfighters.
So 2026, 2027 already, two new Star Wars movies. And that's what we want. Hopefully 2028 will get maybe that's the day Filoni movie because that's how it gets coming out next year, Mandalorian Grogo. And then a Soka and then probably the day Filoni movie in 2028 is my thinking.
And then maybe 2029, which I can believe is so freaking far away. We'll get the day to really race, skywalker movie, which I know will be 10 years from now. That's a skywalker that movie supposed to take place 10 years after. So maybe and then this man got in 2030 or maybe we'll start getting two movies a year.
We'll see what happens. Alright, so are you guys excited for Starfighter? Are you guys excited to see Ryan Gotling? Maybe I got to go at it.
Maybe both of them are Ace pilots. Give me some top-gun Ace pilots going after each other chasing each other through the galaxy and their X-wings or high fighters or new ships. Give us new ships. I love it.
Alright, so that does it for Star Wars news. I should not have done this. I was moving through that one. Alright, so now let's go to my main topic.
And it is the reading guide for the high republic. So I'm going to start by saying this is non-spoiler. Anything that I say right now won't spoil anything for Trials of the Jedi. So Trials of the Jedi, the final novel in the High Republic saga is coming out in a week and a half.
June 17th, I was fortunate enough to get an advanced review copy from Penguin Random House Worlds. My non-spoiler reviews already on my website, reddit.rebenonpotches.wordpress.com. You can read it there. My spoiler review is coming out on the 17th with the movie, when the book drops.
The thing is, the High Republic has been going now for about four years, I believe, when it was announced. There is over a dozen books. I count days closer to 30 books total between adult novels, middle grade, young adults, mangas, one-shots, comic series, anthology stories. There is so much out there that it's overwhelming for someone that might want to jump into the High Republic now and don't know what's going on.
I've read most of the novels. I believe I read all the adult novels, not all the middle grades. Young adults and some of the middle grades, very little of the comics. And it does help to have all that knowledge.
You don't need to have read everything to understand what's happening by the end. But a lot of it, it does help to have some understanding of the world, the characters, and that's what we're going to go over it now. But I understand that it's difficult if someone's just online and sees a lot of us talking about the High Republic and how excited we are and the things that happen. And hey, I want to jump in and then you see all the books and comic book storyline.
It can be daunting. So what I want to try to do with this, what I call this essential reading guide. And again, this is just my thoughts. All the people will say, you're missing this book, you're missing this comic book, why didn't you talk about this?
That's all fine. These are the books that I think people should read before jumping into the Tribes of the Jedi. This last book. Like I mentioned before, none of these will be spoilers for Tribes of the Jedi.
I'm only going to talk about basically the characters that we know are on the book, most of them are on the cover already. So you know they're part of the book. And the storylines are going to the book in terms of denial, marking role, the name list. What stories you should read before you jump into the final book.
Can you just grab tiles on the Jedi and enjoy it? Of course, like any Star Wars book and any Star Wars story out there. That's the beauty of Star Wars. There is some history behind it that we might not really know.
And then you go back and read what the... what's the clone was, right? When you watch and you hope for the first time. What happened between Obi-Wan and Luce father?
We want to learn all the stories. We don't need it to enjoy and hope. There's some history behind it. It is very difficult to know everything that's going on in the Charles of the Jedi without a 20 book history that came before.
You don't need to read 20 books, but I'll do my best to help out. This list here again is not a list of my favorite books, not a list of every character or my favorite characters. There is some stories that won't affect Charles of the Jedi, so I won't mention them here. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't read them because they're just some great Star Wars stories.
Afterwards, you can go back and read through all the books out there and decide which ones you also want to jump in. Alright, so let's start. And the first one is L'Ade Jedi, but Charles Soul. Charles Soul, also the author for Charles of the Jedi.
So he's the one that started it all. And he's the one that's going to bring it all home at the end of the day. I don't envy him. This was a massive task.
I only fail to say about Charles of the Jedi. I said I think he landed. He landed the plane safely. I know that happy landing.
Some things I wanted him to cover more, others less, but in the end, great book. But all stories with the latter of the Jedi. The book has started it all. It tells you what the state of the galaxy is.
Why is the High Republic considered the Golden Age of the Jedi, the Golden Age of the Republic? Who's the chancellor, Linna So, and who are the Nile? Who is marking Rowan? This group of my brothers, Pyraz, I want to take over.
Take what they want, kill who they need, and then leave. That's what they wanted. That's how they were introduced. They're not just another bunch of Pyraz or the Hot Cointeil or Black Sons.
They're not that. They're totally different breed. Like I said, it introduces a new era in Star Wars, which is very difficult to do with non-diaprico trilogy era, the sequel, the real trilogy, the rebellion, the galactic era. We know that.
So going back 150 to 150 years and trying to bring that and make a few large Star Wars was incredibly difficult. The latter of the Jedi and Charles Sol does that. It introduces also Jedi Master Ava Chris, who is exemplifies the potential of every Jedi. What do you look for in a Jedi?
Who's the most powerful because they're so wishyota? But the Jedi that everyone looks up to is Ava Chris. This is going to be one of the main characters throughout the whole Initiative, the High Republic Luminos Initiative. It gives us a young parlour by the name of Bel Cérify, who's extremely important for this book, his master, Lord and Grace, and for his story and his confrontation with Mark and Row.
Again, Mark and Row, the new mysterious villain in Star Wars, he's already in that pantheon of favorite Star Wars villains. He has a plan, he sets a plan in motion that's going to rewrite the galaxy, shows us how the Jedi connect to the Force, which is something new, how each Jedi senses are a little bit different for Ava Chris. The character is a song for Elsormand, it's waves crashing in the ocean, so they saw this new lore that's introduced into it. If you only read one book before the Star Wars of the Jedi, make it light of the Jedi, a lot of the characters will jump back and forth.
At least you have an idea of what's going on in the galaxy, why the Nile are attacking the Republic. Basically, there's no confrontation between Mark and the main Jedi. But there's a big thing that happens, of course, with Lord and Grace Stone on Mark and Row, that will affect Bel Cérify going for the following stories. So again, light of the Jedi, if you only read one, make it light of the Jedi, plus it's a great book, it's a great way to kick off the High Republic.
After light of the Jedi, the second one would be the Rising Storm, which is the next novel by Kevin Scott. I believe it's all this favorite High Republic book, at least back when the first one faced two were done. So like I put on something I wrote a couple days ago for the website, if light of the Jedi showed us what the Jedi were capable of, Rising Storm shows us what the Nile are capable of, and what Mark and Row is capable of. So we have Lena Sol, the Chancellor, trying to give the Republic so great works, trying to bring everyone together as this Republic fair on Valu.
And then, then I'll just come and wreck everything. I'm just gonna leave it there. But it shows us how much of a manas they are, they show how much of a manas Mark and Row is, even though he's working behind the scenes. We get a lot with the Tempest Breakers, which are Tempest runners, I should say, Lorna Dee, come on together about mena, she's the one that the Jedi think is the eye of the stone, they think that she's leaving the Nile, she's great.
He finally gives us the Jedi Master, which is my favorite character. I think right there with Ernesto, my favorite character, sorry with Olegirami and Coma Guella in this era. So that's why. He gives us the Jedi Master, that scene with him, and the Chancellor at the end is classic.
It's one of the best stars ever. Also gives us Elsar Man, which is the Anakin Skywalker walk of this era. He's tempted towards the Dark Side. I don't want to say he's tempted towards the Dark Side, he has the Dark Side tendencies.
He's emotional, he's got the best of him, and that's not that we'll go on all the way to trials of the Jedi. And we got the introduction of Tijorik, Monster Hunter, X Jedi, Turn Monster Hunter, Elsar Man, and again, that relationship moves forward. And there's a reason that we need her towards Trials of the Jedi, because she's there. And here we get the introduction to the character.
Wagon is marking on Row, and the Nile showing us why there's such a menace and a threat to the Republic and to the Jedi in their self. This is why. So, Rising Stone, right there, it will be the next book that I recommend that you need to read before you jump into trials. So, you get a sense of what Mark and the Nile are capable of and what they've been doing to then have the Republic and the Jedi always constantly behind them.
So, Trials of the Jedi, I mean, Lateral the Jedi and then the Rising Stone. And we'll finish with the first one, the third adult novel, which is The Fallen Star by Claudia Gray. Claudia Gray, one of the Gold Star Wars writers of all time. This is, if you were to do the High Republic trilogy, it will be Lateral the Jedi, Right in Storm and then Fallen Star.
The Fallen Star, Claudia Gray had said, she looked at this like, we said the Poseidon adventure and Titanic, that things just keep getting worse and worse and worse. And you think you've fixed something, but two other things, it's just a countdown of things going down and getting worse by the minute. So, here we have Mark and Row, basically, finally unleashing the animals, the Jedi eaters, the Force eaters that will take that force away from the Jedi. Here we see how it actually affects them, all the fear, all the, I don't know, everything, the dark, sorry, the Jedi are feeling and when the name gets close here, we get that in detail.
It also gives us the best version of Sten and Geos, so he knows that he's not only one of the best players out there, we see even a greater person. And also Elsar, man, having those dark side tendencies that unfortunately lead to some bad decisions, we have the return of all that Duran, he kind of put in both of those Jedi's in their place. But by the end, it's Mark and Row announcing himself to the Republic that he is the Iodina, he's the one that's being caught in chaos, and that the Republic is his. So, this is the book that we think that Jedi is going to be able to save the day, but by the end, it's Mark and Row announcing himself.
And then basically the galaxy is at his fingertips. So by the end, we get to try out the Jedi, this is why the Jedi and the Republic have been reeling for so long, and for the last two or three years, story-wise, why they haven't been able to get to him, it all starts here. So those three adult novels from Phase One are some of the most important to get the feel of the characters that you will be dealing with when you get to try out the Jedi. Ah, in one second.
So jump in a little to comic books now, I want to forget about those. So it's Star Wars the High Republic, Iodistorm, this comic series written by Charles Souls and by the Jedi and MoSanna. So it's just two issues. So it's a pretty quick read.
It's great, here you get the backstory of Mark and Row, his family, his people, the Everini, where the Everini came from, why they've been shown by the Republic or by the galaxy in general, who was Asa Row, who's Mark and Dad, why, how did they get their hands on so many nameless, who get to go to Planet X. And we start to understand a little bit more about why he hates the Jedi, why Mark and hates the Republic, we get some with Mark and Row and the path, how they work, why that relationship between her and Markion, but also the nameless. What are these creatures, where do these creatures come from, why do they affect the Jedi, even that it's not 100% expanding this novel, we start, sorry, in the comic series, we start getting an idea for those characters, which again, very important for definitely. So start with the Harry Republic, I auditioned two comic books written by Charles Sow and Gijem MoSanna, a great read.
And then we have The Eye of Darkness by George Mann, this was, I believe, the first book that came out for Phase 3 of the Harry Republic. You'll see right now, I don't have any books from Phase 2, and I don't think you need to read any Phase 2 book to understand and to enjoy Trials of the Jedi. There's some things that do kind of come into play, I don't think you need to go and read everything in Phase 2 to know what's going on with Trials of the Jedi. So jumping down to Phase 3 and The Eye of Darkness by George Mann, this is basically Mark and Row, you'll say, I'm here, what are you going to do?
It's been a year since I've followed Starlight, Mark and Row, Bruce the Galaxy, not the Galaxy, the Occlusion Zone, so he put basically a barrier around half the Galaxy. And the Republic's on that end, we have the Storm Wall, this unpernetrable invisible fence basically, and behind this Occlusion Zone, which is all the planets that he controls now on his side on Nilespace. And he can expand it however he wants the Snow Way for the Jedi to go through it. You can't, they now have a way to go back and forth, the Republic can, the Jedi can, there's Jedi Trapp behind this Storm Wall, planets are facing, famine, there's no food, there's no supplies.
It's just Mark and Row being the main, excuse me, that he is. So this is just what are we going to do now? But again, we're just darkness, there's hope, and behind this Storm Wall, who's there, Ava Chris, the best of us, the Sunk of the Jedi, the light of the Jedi also. She's there helping people, especially Ken is doing what Jedi know to do best, he's helping people in need, we're getting through, we're getting through, because he was interested in Phase 2, he's for the angle, actually he was interested in Phase 1 as the Blade of the Balladot, I love his story also from Phase 2, he's there on Phase 3, behind this Storm Wall, he's confronting this Nile General, her name is General V, and all names is from Phase 2, now on Phase 3 they've been, you know, the other side of the wall.
From Phase 3 they've been going at it for 150 years, and that's still, again, all those characters come back by the end. Also, man and Lena so have survival skills from what happened in the Fallen Star, they're trying to find a way to get into the occlusion zone, and behind this Storm Wall, else are man, again, not the best of making decisions, things happen, he goes more into his shell, Lena so has lost 10 on Geo, so was her contact inside the Jedi, so now those two have to figure out how to work together, Ava Chris is doubting her leadership skills, because she wasn't present during the events of the Fallen Star, so basically our heroes are down. But again, there's always hope, where there's darkness and where there's daylight, there's always hope, and it starts giving us a little bit of the dynamic between the Republic and now Space, we have Gira Staros, we used to be a senator in the Republic, now we work with Mark Yorosh, he wants to try to make the now more of an actual political party if you want to call it that, something that rivals the Republic, see that their way might be better, so again, it's a new state of the galaxy, very different to what we saw in the latter of the Jedi, now here in the darkness we see that the Balancer Shift, like now that now have the open hand, not the open hand, but the open hand, and the open hand. Anyway, on the over hand, and what can our heroes do?
Very important, this book is very important also as we get closer to the end. Two more that I think are necessary reads before we get to the J.L.I. 10th page on the Force, but that's a gratin. Come on, one of the best from Phase 3, 10th page on the Force, the cover says it all, the title says it all, Ava Chris and Elsormand have been reunited, they finally give into their feelings, their attraction, can J.L.I.
have relationships with relationships without falling into compulsion, and I forgot possessiveness and selflessness, selfishness, can they have a relationship without having those attachments? Our attachments, what type of attachments work as Yoda given relationship advice, suggest in that sense to see how two Jedi's and former relationships together, while being two out of three because we're still missing Stylan Jios, and how Stylan's life still affects their own lives. So, a great examination of Jedi's life, but how Jedi compose themselves when it's just two of them around, with all the weight of what happened before still hanging on. So, a great explanation of how those two characters work.
For Mark and Row, now we have the Blight, which is this new thing that came up, sorry, I forgot where the Blight was introduced in the Eye of Darkness. No, actually no, the Blight was introduced in, I'm going to talk about it, and I mean, the fight is done. So, we have the Blight, this thing that's destroying everything. Everything I've taught you, this disease has taken over planets, so Mark and Row is studying the effects of the Blight, its connection to the nameless, Brissis Corrosan, Stylan, hey, if you want someone to fix this, I'm your guy.
I'm the savior now, so before he was this Republic, or this galaxy, it's mine. And now he's basically saying, yeah, I know I've killed a bunch of Jedi, killed a bunch of the Republic people, and I have your only hope, so come on, give me a chance. It's the only up. And then, Linna, so it's time to figure out what they have to do, because she's running out of options of how to spread these diseases affecting all those planets.
I think what we get to also the Jedi, they do say how many planets have been in effect, I won't go into it. But it's finally also the intention of the Force, the Jedi have been able to find a way to go back and forth behind the Storm Wall and to the Occlusion Zone, they've been helping people and planets on that side, trying to bring refugees back into the Republic space, while they're finally confront and nameless and are able to find a way to fight those creatures without dying, basically. A lot of it goes into it, Buriaga, the Jedi Wookie has a lot to do with that, how to control that. Again, it's very important in this book, I'm going forward.
So yeah, this book, again, Phase 3 is mostly about Elsar and Eva Creason, a lot of Buriaga. Reed's Silence, which I haven't talked about here, he does have a big heart to play in Talsar, the Jedi has a bigger part to play some of the other books in Phase 3, but those right now, Eva Creason and Buriaga are very important to the stories in Talsar, in Trentation of the Force, and then going into Talsar the Jedi. So yeah, Talsar, Trentation of the Force, even if you don't read Talsar the Jedi, check this book out, it's a great addition, it's a great job. And then finally, in terms of essential reads for Talsar the Jedi, if you only read one book before, make it Light of the Jedi, if you read two, make your second one, Trentation of the Nameless.
I think this is the second most important book for people out there to read before they jump into Talsar the Jedi. And I've just gave you seven books that I think are a great read to know everything and all the characters and where their galaxy is at the moment before you go to Talsar the Jedi. But if you can only read two, you don't have time to read all those books, which I understand, I just don't remember the monetary commitment, it's a lot. And then the Jedi and tears of the name.
Here we have Jedi Knight at this point, Reed Silas, the return of his master, Koma into the Spidely, the Akang, one of the first anthology stories, great character, great palawan, but those three, basically an Indiana Jones kind of adventure. They're looking at artifacts, looking at all civilizations, trying to figure out puzzles, lots of civilizations with not gods, but three deities. It kind of doesn't feel a lot like Star Wars, but it does, but it's Indiana Jones kind of adventure element into missing civilizations, all in all to find a scientific approach and solution to the Nameless slash the Light problem. And those three characters, especially Reed Silas, which was an academic, basically, he didn't want to leave Coruscant and Jedi Ojkash now leaving Nations and being involved in trying to figure out how to solve the Nameless and the Light problem.
We have Fallen Jedi, Aslyn Rail, which is one of the additions from Phase 2, comes back on this book, how he's basically gone to the dark side, he survived a Nameless attack, and he's trying to be this mentor to Reed, even though everyone's telling him not to trust anything that Aslyn said, but Aslyn's knowledge from the Nameless is very important to the story that Reed is conducting. It's a great dynamic that all those characters have. I have another villain that comes into this book, a lot of Nameless. We have Vernetra, Ro, matching up against Markean Ro, again Vernetra, we know she's alive because of the Aqualabas still, we have that, oh, my god, what's gonna happen to my girl, the way to enter Vernetra.
So it's a great book and very, very, very important to the events of Charles of the Jedi. So again, we just talked about the Light of the Jedi, the Rising Storm, the Fallen Star, the Eye of the Storm comic series, Eye of Darkness, Temptation of the Force, and Tears of the Nameless. Those seven books, I think, are the most important out of the almost 30 stories out there that people should read to understand everything that's happening in terms of the Jedi, all the character motivation, why the Republic is at the state that it is, why Markean Ro and the now might not be in the same wavelength, why Dira Starros, it has a different vision for the future, and why the Jedi send those nine Jedi two, fix the Nameless problem and the Blade problem, these seven books cannot touch on all those points. So those are my main additions, or my main suggestions for you guys out there.
Again, if you only have time to read two before Charles of the Jedi make it, Light of the Jedi, and Tears of the Nameless. All right, so just to finish up some supplemental reading, again, I need a little water break. All right, so some supplemental reading. So these following titles don't enhance the story, they'll give you a little bit more character information.
They're not necessary to understand and to enjoy Charles of the Jedi, but they do give you a little bit more behind the scenes knowledge of all the characters, how certain people got to the places that they're at. First one Into the Dark by Claudia Gray, this is kind of a selfless kind of pick, because it's my favorite Star Wars book of all time. It's shown me what the force and the Jedi actually how things work, and the other ways you can look into the force and into the Jedi over there and the cosmic force and where those things fall, where should the Jedi fall. But also into says, Reed Sagas and Comak Veros are just talked about.
This book is very important to the journey. Also as Olaj Arane, who was, I can mention big part to play in the fallen star, she's here and her interactions with Comak Veros are actually important, and one of my favorite things I will start with is in this book. In terms of the dream game, we show plans that just care about me and eating, but basically mostly so you get your introduction to Reed, Comak Olaj Arane, and so the other now players are around. That's why that's my favorite book, so yeah, I'll read Into the Dark.
So was the High Republic, the monster of Temple Pick, Comak series written by Kevin Scott with art by Rachel Stott. This is the introduction, introduction, because she was interested in the rising stone, but we get the behind, I always call behind the scenes, but the history of Tai Yorick, why she left the Jedi Order, why she's a monster hunter? And being a monster hunter might be important when you get to transfer the Jedi, you need to hunt some monsters in the name list. Now you have an idea of this character.
Again, the story itself doesn't add anything to the child's of the Jedi, just that you know the history of Tai Yorick. So yeah, plus it's a great comic, great art, Rachel Stott does a great job in those three comics. I think it's a four-issue, four-part issue. And this is the first, the only, I'll talk about phase two novel, and it's Path of the Seed by the Sigrator, Nastina Arlan.
It's the first novel in phase two, so I'll show it right here, Path of the Seed, great cover, great cover. It gives us Aslyn Rael, showstopp here for the first time, some introduction, Aslyn Rael, as a Jedi before he falls to the dark side that happens in one of the comics. So the Path of the Open Hand where the villain at this point, the mother role, which is like Markham's role, great great something, something. They surface as an enemy to the Jedi in two-day order.
We have the first time that the Path of someone related to Markham's role goes out and finds the name list and brings back some eggs and they hatch, and then we get baby name list. And their effect on Kefmos Inc, sorry Kefmos, we love you. We have Path of the Seed, the introduction to a lot of those concepts from phase two. The Tales of Light and Life and Tology, the story called All Jedi Worked Their Own Path by Charles Saul.
This is after the events of the final store, Mel said if I'm not giving up on Buriaga and doing everything is forward to find Buriaga, it's very important to see the development of Bel and how his friendship with Buriaga then plays all the way through the entrance of the Jedi. Very cool story, and most of the Tales of Light and Life, all those ontology stories are great if you can just get it. But if you only read one before Trials, All Jedi Worked Their Own Path. And then finally, Defy the Storm, also my Desa Grandon and Justina Arlan is the introduction of the Blight as a new problem to the galaxy.
So if you want to know what the Blight is or how it got introduced, or the first time they got introduced and why people are not really knowing what's going on, then Defy the Storm by Desa Grandon and Justina Arlan. So those last 5 or 6 that are main charges, some supplemental reading were not necessary essential for knowing everything that's going on in Trials of the Jedi. Alright, so that does it. Again, if you're a fan of Star Wars, Star Wars storytelling and you haven't gotten into the High Republic, it does feel like a lot, and it is a lot.
I think those 7 books I mentioned when we started talking are the most important to then get to Trials of the Jedi. So if you want to dedicate some time, invest again on Fortridge Song credits into it, you don't need to read all 20-something books, all the hundreds of comic books are out there. I think just focus on those 7, especially the first one and the last one that I mentioned, Lido Dejaland, Tear of the Nameless. So if you can do the others in the middle and then jump into Trials of the Jedi, you'll enjoy it tremendously.
You won't feel that you're missing out on any other story bits. I'll say Charles Soul does a great job in connecting Dust if you haven't read everything. It doesn't feel like just blatant exposition. It does make sense if you don't have time to go through everything.
It does help to have a general understanding or a bigger understanding of what's going on out there, why some characters make some of the decisions that they make. Why they're so set or involved in solving those problems. Alright guys, so that does it. Let me know what you guys think.
If you've read everything in the High Republic, you think what I mentioned. I want the people out there to think about the things that you can do to the characters that you can't get on the table. Or if there's some books that you've read before, you're not sure. If you've heard about some of the books and you don't know if you need to read them, just let me know.
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