In 2014 the Star Wars universe went via a large change.
Lucasfilm announced that each one beforehand printed Star Wars comics and novels could be rebranded as Legends. The tales would nonetheless be in print, however they’d now not be canon. Going ahead, all the new comics and novels could be canon and overseen by the newly kind Lucasfilm Story Group.
The Story Group could be tasked with making certain every part may match right into a cohesive timeline with none contradictions. This may additionally permit for better model synergy with the (then) upcoming Disney sequel trilogy.
John Jackson Miller has written Star Wars content material throughout the Legends period, and through the Story Group period. In accordance to the best-selling writer, the largest distinction is the dimension of the sandbox they will play with.
“We got broad sections of the timeline in the Legends days,” John Jackson Miller tells Popverse. “I used to be given mainly the complete universe in the couple of years during which Knights of the Old Republic was set, the comics, the Knight Errant novel and graphic novels, after they had been set. I had quite a lot of room to transfer round in as a result of there was nothing actually that I had to hue extraordinarily intently to. It is true that Knights of the Outdated Republic was coming seven years earlier than the online game. However I wrote one timeline 12 months of tales in 50 points.”
“I used to be actually not constrained an excessive amount of from having to guarantee that issues synced up with one thing else that was coming alongside. Whereas, you will have a state of affairs the place you are extra constrained by different issues which might be set. My most up-to-date novel, Star Wars: The Living Force, which got here out final 12 months, is set one 12 months earlier than The Phantom Menace. And this is a film the place by that time we all know loads about the place all people is and what all people’s doing and what their views are. We all know considerably much less about what they had been doing earlier than that second.”
Miller went on to say that the High Republic period reminds him of the Legends days. Since the High Republic is set a whole lot of years earlier than the movies, the writers have extra freedom to mess around with characters and ideas.
“I’ve the High Republic 200 years earlier than the movies to form of play off of. However once more, that is the case the place with the High Republic, they engineered a sandbox for everyone to play in the place they might remake the complete galaxy and form of have all of it coordinated. That does have a form of an identical really feel to what we had been doing again then.”
Miller brings up an attention-grabbing level. In the event you miss the Legends period, it is best to take a look at the High Republic novels and comics. For the authors, it recaptures the vibes from that period, so chances are you’ll end up pleasantly shocked.