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The next live-action Disney+ Star Wars show is almost upon us, with the first two episodes of The Acolyte hitting the service on Tuesday, June 4.
This series introduces Jedi Master Sol (Squid Game’s Lee Jung-jae) as he investigates crimes and comes into conflict with a former Padawan. It’s set around 100 years before The Phantom Menace–the waning days of an era known as the High Republic. Tech from this era appeared in 2023 game Jedi: Survivor and Disney Parks’ defunctGalactic Starcruiser hotel, while upcoming game Eclipse will take place sometime in this age.
The Acolyte will be our first time seeing the High Republic in live-action, but Star Wars books and comics have been exploring this period for years. It kicked off with the 2021 novel Light of the Jedi, which introduced nasty space pirates the Nihil and took place 200 years prior to the Skywalker Saga.
The publishing side is divided into three chunks: Phase 1 kicks off the Nihil’s campaign against the Galactic Republic and the Jedi, Phase 2 jumps back 150 years to reveal the Nihil’s origins and the early days of the Republic’s expansion into the galaxy’s outer reaches, and Phase 3 picks up from where Phase 1 left off.
So there’s a massive time jump between the literature and the show, but some Star Wars species are pretty long-lived (like Yoda and Yaddle) and we know of one major book character who’ll appear in The Acolyte (and it isn’t Yoda or Yaddle).
We can expect references to the bloody galactic conflict seen in the books and comics, so let’s run through some of that era’s major players and events.The following contains spoilers for the High Republic up to 2023 novel The Eye of Darkness.
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