“The Jedi are the merest breeze. They can change nothing. While I, Marchion Ro, am a great, roaring hurricane…”
Marchion Ro
The Jedi embark on the final mission against the Nihil, the Nameless, the blight, and everything the Jedi stand for.
Light and Life.
The Luminous Nine! Armada at Eriadu! The Blade and the general! And the Nameless homeworld!
Charles Soule brings The High Republic storytelling initiative to a close with this EPIC finale.
And it’s nothing short of perfection.
SLIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD!
Luminous Beings Are We
The final mission is at hand. The Jedi must journey to the Nameless homeworld to stop the blight, Marchion Ro, and the Nameless. The mission consists of the Luminous Nine. Avar Kriss, Elzar Mann, Burryaga Agaburry, Bell Zettifar, Terec, Ty Yorick, Torban Buck, Reath Silas, and Azlin Rell. Against unimaginable odds, the Jedi must succeed lest the blight snuff out everything in the galaxy.
We Are All the Republic
Meanwhile, the Nihil and Republic forces have converged at Eriadu. The Nihil have turned their full attention to destroying their enemies. General Viess leads her fleet against the Republic Defense Coalition, but one Jedi is coming for her. Porter Engle is determined to end Viess’s reign of terror, even though he will have to go through her fleet to do it.
Shouldn’t be a problem for The Blade.
Ride the Storm
Marchion Ro heads to the Nameless homeworld to finish the Jedi once and for all. In fact, he plans to destroy all light and life in the galaxy. With the Rod of Power in his hands and countless Nameless in his thrall, do the Jedi even stand a chance?
Bits and Pieces
From the beginning of this publishing initiative, the authors have woven together a brilliant tapestry of characters, worlds, and events to fill out this new era. Throughout each phase, the stories have built upon each other and taken these new characters on their own intricate journeys as the events unfolded. Charles Soule, who ushered us into this era with Light of the Jedi, now gives us the epic finale we’ve been waiting for. I normally try to evaluate each book release on its own so as not to overwhelm new readers and leave space for the possibility that each book might be someone’s first. This book could be that for someone. It’s filled with plenty of dimensional and interesting characters. There’s an overwhelming amount of action, from space battles to blaster shootouts, and of course, lightsaber duels. There’s lots of Force lore and Jedi mysticism. Filled with moments of heart, hope, light, dark, and tragedy throughout. All of it could be an amazing self-contained Star Wars adventure one could pick up off the shelf (or ebook reader, I don’t judge. I’m an audiobook dude myself) and enjoy.
However…
If you’ve been following The High Republic publishing, then this book will be much more than that. I read everything. Young adult books. Manga. Middle grade readers. Audio Dramas. Maybe you only like comics. Maybe you only read novels. If you’ve followed these characters and events this far, then this book is a glorious crescendo of storytelling that builds upon everything that came before it. Charles Soule brings us an amazingly mythic finale to the stories we’ve been so invested in throughout this era. This has been one of the best publishing initiatives in Star Wars storytelling, and this book gives us the send-off we deserve.
This is a must-read finale for each and every High Republic fan who loved these stories of light and life.
- Sal P.
“You are our hope. Luminous you are.”
Yoda
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