As a African American STAR WARS fan from the beginning,(1977) I really appreciate how a writer like Charles Soule writes black characters like Lando Calrrisan(in the comics) and Bell Zettifar in LOTJ. He gives them depth, personality, a little swagger, and humor (without coming off as a buffoon) plus he gives black characters some "KICKASS " moments. Disney/Lucasfilm and Marvel have a rare treasure of an author on their hands, with a talent like he has. I am a fan! Hey Alex please tell him I said THANK YOU, for his part in keeping me as a proud African American STAR WARS fan 4Life. 💯🔥🔥🔥MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU ALWAYS!!! P.S. Light of the Jedi was AWESOME!!
Thank you for letting me know this. I was very upset with the treatment of non white characters in Star War. I too am African American and for the last year I have been holding a grudge against star wars with how we were treated in the last two movie. That said I love the books, and I love Charels Soule. I have yet to crack open his star wars stuff but your comment has made me excited to read anything SW by him.
@@zerozaku1468 you will not be disappointed, in my opinion. MTFBWY. P.S. I still ride with my man Finn. I got a feeling he will get his time to shine sometime in the future. 😉😄 Peace.
Absolutely loved the book. Can't say I was that hyped for the high republic, I was curious so read Light of the Jedi and it blew me away. So hyped for the rest now. Also, great job Alex with the interview! I'm sure you were geeking out inside
It all depends on the popularity and marketing. I believe the only reason we got Cardinal was to promote Galaxy’s Edge and he was a repaint. Most of these characters would require new sculpts. I want them so badly. Vernestra, Avar, and Burryaga are my most wanted.
Wow! This is such a surprise gem! Soule's Light of the Jedi is amazing, he deserves all the success and praise. Between the fantastic comics and now his novel debut, he is cementing himself as one of Star Wars all time best writers.
@Haljordan4life I love the OG Thrawn Trilogy. Honestly Im not the biggest fan of the latest Thrawn books. I liked his debut novel in the canon but I wasnt crazy about Alliances or Treason. Ascendancy was interesting because of the Chiss Lore but I thought Thrawn is becoming too predictable as a character that is always right and always manages to get the upper hand. Another thing I dont like is how Zahn's new canon characterization of Thrawn doesnt align with how we see him in Rebels, the Rebels version aligns better with the Legends Thrawn. Because in the new canon novels Thrawn seems like a good guy on the wrong side but in Rebels he is clearly evil when he kills the Bendu. I personally prefer to him to be more evil with some morals rather than a straight up "good guy" that Zahn makes him out to be lately. Especially if Thrawn is gonna be the "Thanos" and be this big bad across multiple shows, definitely prefer him as evil.
Just finished the book today.... im blown away death metal space vikings... I hope the ubisoft game takes place in this time period. And I hope you start as a youngling being trained by Yoda... thanks Charles your book was the perfect introduction to this era of SW
This was an AMAZING interview. I love The High Republic and am SO excited to experience what’s to come. You should substitute the “May the Force be with you” at the end of your videos with “We are all the Republic” for all your High Republic videos, Alex!
Great interview Alex! You nailed it with a lot of relevant questions that fans wanted answers to. New fan of the channel here and really like the calmness and value of the channel unlike a lot of click bait and constant complain channels the add now Value. Keep up the good work. ps: Was also great to clarify that Light of the Jedi is just starting to build the world and that we are only like 10% in. I liked the versatility and can't wait for them to focus on each of them and to have their own spinoffs.
I’ve always loved Charles Soules writing. For years now. With light of the Jedi. I am sure he is what Star Wars needs. Someone who is so excited to write and make the fandom reel in amazing storytelling. He needs to write us a show or movie next
It's Keven Tarr for me. I think Soule wrote his perspective as a nerdy tech guy very accurately in my opinion. I found myself worrying about the heat output of the droid array (much like computers and servers in real life) at the same moment Keven did in the book and I just found that so satisfying and validating.
Fantastic 1st effort by my fellow New Yorker Charles Soule. Absolutely loved the book from start to finish. Thank you!! Can't wait to read more from this awesome author.
I personally have enjoyed soules writing and think he’s very good at character development, lord momin is a great example he has become one of my all time favorite comic characters. it’s super interesting to see what the sith consider a heretic and momins view of the darkside that could open so many possibilities.
Omg so looking forward to watching this but I haven't read the book just yet so want to avoid spoilers. Added to my watch later list for sure. It must be so exciting to work on a story colab like this
This is so cool. I never had the privilege to listen to the author talk about the process of writing the book while the book in question is delivered to me approximately on Monday. I love nerding out on storytelling topics so this peaking behind the curtain was like the best way to start a weekend. Thank you to you both 🙌🏼
i got to meet Charles Soule at Comic Con in Paris a couple of years ago and managed to get my Darth Vader 1 and Poe Dameron 1 signed, and he was so nice and interesting. His book Letter 42 was really good as well
Another great interview Alex, @starwarsexplained is crushing it lately. Thank you for facilitating these long form discussions with creators and performers.
Damn. Alex and Mollie has got some serious clout with these interview gets. First Paul Sung Lee and now Charles Soule. Disney/Lucasfilm definitely pays attention to the fans on the net.😉😅 Interesting.
Their not super negative or peddle qanon light conspiracy theories abt lucasfilm like a lot of other SW TH-camrs ,you catch more flies with honey then vinegar:) And well deserved ,they are incredibly likable.
Wow!! This is an amazing channel and Charles is an great author. This absolutely is an awesome video. Congrats to Alex and Charles. We are all the republic!
This was a fascinating interview! 34:00 I like that they planned the whole thing, outlining the entire three phases before they began writing it. Imagine if Lucasfilm had put the same level of planning into the sequel trilogy! I'm looking forward to reading through the High Republic. It's going to be a fun ride. My goal is to read all of the content.
The broad strokes of the sequels were planned, such as character arcs. Details changed along the way, as I’m sure they changed for THR. Not to mention, book production and film production are wildly different beasts.
I got about a third of the way through Light of the Jedi and stopped to pre-order every other book that’s been announced. I’m now about halfway through A Test of Strength, and I am loving it. The High Republic is a delight.
What a treat to see Charles Soule as your guest this week. Great job with the interview Alex! I loved the audiobook so much I bought the hardcopy to see how all the names were spelled. After hearing CS say it, I was surprised to find Marc Thompson had the wrong pronunciation for Marchion Ro in the audiobook.
Good for you Alex in getting this. For LF to allow this to happen shows the caliber and maturity of your content. And that you are far from the stereotypical infantile fan.
Fantastic interview 👏. I'm very excited to see more high republic material and see where it goes. I had no idea the huts lived a thousand years very interesting. Charles if your reading can we get a Cathar jedi main character at some point i just want to see some Cathar love back in Star Wars their my favorite species in that universe.
Bell Zettifar is my favorite character so far because he looks like me, plus he is not the perfect Padawan Jedi but when it's time to get down business he's a pretty good fighter with room to grow... hopefully. 😊
Yes, he was very relatable!! And frankly I appreciate the way the writer handled him. Bell wasn't just another "token representation" character. He had quite an important role in the book, a unique personality and voice. I can't wait to read the books casting him as the lead hero!
@@MatthewPalanca Yes he is. He is a great Jedi Master, and Bell is lucky to have him as one. Bell Zettifar could learn a lot from Master Greatstorm...if he survives his training of course. 😉😂
@@byronharris2900 Likewise Byron. This is an exciting time to be a SW fan. We are finally united in something entirely new. I was so excited, had to release my own review of Light of the Jedi))
This guy have written some of my favourite Star Wars projects I now realize. I wish you could have asked him about the few things in his book that seems a little strange like "a few hundred years ago when the galaxy was only pulling itself together" when its clear the star wars galaxy is kind of ancient,
That kinda thing made me wonder too, I think that was just implying how within SW lifetimes things rise and fall, maybe 300 years ago the republic was made small again. Idk, I was specifically interested in that
I love how with each era of the literary EU we can clearly identify which ones clearly are the masters in their field, the authors that many will look on fondly despite whatever stories will come out. Pre-prequels EU, we can name Brian Daley, Timothy Zhan, Michael A Stackpole, Aaron Allston. Post-prequels EU, we can name James Luceno, Drew Karpyshyn, John Jackson Miller, Michael Reaves. And for current EU, we can name Charles Soule as one of the standouts. I’ve yet to see any outright bad story from him. Any others we can add from the different eras?
Absolutely awesome story. Go and read this book. However, did anyone notice when the navidroids starting dropping from the array, the numbers of remaining droids were completely off? Lol. Starting with 57,817. Then a few pages later we lose over 300 droids but he says there are 57,816. Numbers pulled from my memory but point still shown lol.
So I have a question for your weekly Q & A: We see Yularen as an admiral in The Clone Wars, but then in Rebels and A New Hope he's a colonel. Did he get demoted?
In Rebels and ANH he is in the ISB which is a different branch than the Navy. Ranking is different based on the branch and doesn't always translate smoothly.
An older Galactic drift perhaps. Peaceful co-exisistance = Disorder This is interesting . Beacons and Human relativity, keep them coming. Very interesting insight like a mind walk. Thankfully planets take over two hundred years and any known life to form, it's interesting how they are destroyed or vanish. The cardi vscular excercise run, not quite Corellian but pathways explain everything like what Grid sector is Hetzal i,m still not sure, assume it's shifted in the galactic shelves somewhere.
Having him talk about the freedom to determine these new characters fate and then using Burryaga as an example. A being that can live for hundreds of years and isnt around for the prequels....Bruh...please dont do this I beg of you...he has a lightsaber and goes “grrrrrr” hes too cool
On the paths: I get what he's trying to say. But the thing is, most of the important core places you are worried about them appearing are places that you CAN show up without warning. I mean, with regular hyperlanes, you don't know if a ship is coming or about to pop out of hyperspace right? So I'm still not sure what the real difference is. Maybe it's that long hyperlanes are not contiguous. There are systems along the way, where you have to come out, fly across the system, and then re-enter the lane because that's the point it was charted from. That would create road blocks where you could monitor who is coming or going along a major hyperlane (other than interdiction, which they don't normally do). IF hyperlanes have points in them like that, then the danger of the paths would be more apparent. Do they? (I think they do). Or, maybe there is a way to monitor/scan ships passing by inside a hyperlane? If so, that would create a notable difference in threat level too.
The issue is that normally hyperspace doesn’t work inside of a planet’s gravity well, but with the paths that doesn’t matter. When Marchion says he could drop a ship right on top of Lina Soh’s office, he means right on top of it inside the planet’s atmosphere. Under normal circumstances a ship would appear outside of the planets gravity well, and that gives the defenders time to formulate a response, but not in this case.
That’s also why interdiction technology is so important in the Imperial era. Imperial Interdictor Cruisers can create an artificial gravity well that prevents enemy ships from just jumping into hyperspace and fleeing a battle. If the Rebel Alliance had had access to the paths they would have made interdiction completely useless.
I would think of the hyperlane exits like large highway exits, everyone exits out of hyper space at Coruscant in predetermined zones or areas and all ships are scanned when they arrive. Even when the droid army at the start of Ep 3 attacked Coruscant they appeared out of hyperspace all together at one of these exits and the republic knew where to go fight them. The Paths allow them to steer off the highway or take backroads around to avoid the highway exit entire, getting around any blockade. They can exit theoretically anywhere outside atmosphere.
@@EvWine ordinarily I would agree with you, but Lourna Dee’s Nihil fleet jumps out of hyperspace in an area with massive gravitational and magnetic distortions near Elphrona when they ambush Loden, making me believe that, as long as they know the path, they can show up literally anywhere. That includes in atmo.
@@willcaster819 i guess?, I feel like if they could do that they would have instead of exiting in space above the planet. Moving at hyperspace through air would be like hitting a brick wall, even a tiny bit of space dust would be devastating to anything moving that fast
Star Wars Explained, please answer this question in your Q/A video of January 16th 2021 and my question is: What is Adywan's Star Wars Episode IV (2008) fan film version of Star Wars Episode IV (1977) film?
All Disney-Star-Wars-Nay-Sayers need to do is listen to this interview, or better, yet, read Light of the Jedi, to re-instill their faith in Star Wars and its trajectory and momentum under Disney. 🤷♂️
As a African American STAR WARS fan from the beginning,(1977) I really appreciate how a writer like Charles Soule writes black characters like Lando Calrrisan(in the comics) and Bell Zettifar in LOTJ. He gives them depth, personality, a little swagger, and humor (without coming off as a buffoon) plus he gives black characters some "KICKASS " moments. Disney/Lucasfilm and Marvel have a rare treasure of an author on their hands, with a talent like he has. I am a fan! Hey Alex please tell him I said THANK YOU, for his part in keeping me as a proud African American STAR WARS fan 4Life. 💯🔥🔥🔥MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU ALWAYS!!! P.S. Light of the Jedi was AWESOME!!
Thank you for letting me know this. I was very upset with the treatment of non white characters in Star War. I too am African American and for the last year I have been holding a grudge against star wars with how we were treated in the last two movie. That said I love the books, and I love Charels Soule. I have yet to crack open his star wars stuff but your comment has made me excited to read anything SW by him.
@@zerozaku1468 you will not be disappointed, in my opinion. MTFBWY. P.S. I still ride with my man Finn. I got a feeling he will get his time to shine sometime in the future. 😉😄 Peace.
Even Loden Great storm, who may be green but is definitely the coolest of black uncle's ♥️
I agree. I feel seen in this series. Bell is me.
@@EugeneSmith88113 Yes. Agreed 💯%, Bell is me. I am Bell and The Force is with me. 🤓👍🔥🔥🔥🔥
I could listen to Soule talk about crafting ALL DAY!! Awesome interview, Alex! 😃
Best part is Charles saying the phases are planned, the ending is known. Glad they're not just winging it from phase to phase.
thats how the original and sequel trilogy were made. the only planned trilogy was the prequels. rest were winged as they went along.
"Porter Engle, who's the best."
You're god damned right he is.
Write a book on him lmao. He's been around only 300 years
@@minergmaingx2000 We're getting a comic now!
Absolutely loved the book. Can't say I was that hyped for the high republic, I was curious so read Light of the Jedi and it blew me away. So hyped for the rest now.
Also, great job Alex with the interview! I'm sure you were geeking out inside
The real question is: When do we start getting High Republic action figures?
Yes!! I would kill for a High Republic collection.
We’ve gotten a few book and comic figs like cardinal or aphra so it could happen
It all depends on the popularity and marketing. I believe the only reason we got Cardinal was to promote Galaxy’s Edge and he was a repaint. Most of these characters would require new sculpts. I want them so badly. Vernestra, Avar, and Burryaga are my most wanted.
dude, I’d be so thrilled for high republic figures. my bank account might not feel the same way, but it’s all worth it haha
Lego sets too! (And/or a minifigure series.) Less likely perhaps, but hopefully someday.
Soule "I'm dating myself" talks about CD stores.
Me : cries in 8track and vinyl
Light of the Jedi comes out and it’s amazing
Me: MORE MORE MORE
Wow! This is such a surprise gem! Soule's Light of the Jedi is amazing, he deserves all the success and praise. Between the fantastic comics and now his novel debut, he is cementing himself as one of Star Wars all time best writers.
@Haljordan4life I love the OG Thrawn Trilogy. Honestly Im not the biggest fan of the latest Thrawn books.
I liked his debut novel in the canon but I wasnt crazy about Alliances or Treason. Ascendancy was interesting because of the Chiss Lore but I thought Thrawn is becoming too predictable as a character that is always right and always manages to get the upper hand. Another thing I dont like is how Zahn's new canon characterization of Thrawn doesnt align with how we see him in Rebels, the Rebels version aligns better with the Legends Thrawn. Because in the new canon novels Thrawn seems like a good guy on the wrong side but in Rebels he is clearly evil when he kills the Bendu.
I personally prefer to him to be more evil with some morals rather than a straight up "good guy" that Zahn makes him out to be lately. Especially if Thrawn is gonna be the "Thanos" and be this big bad across multiple shows, definitely prefer him as evil.
Thank you Charles Soule! 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
Soule is just the nicest guy
Just finished the book today.... im blown away death metal space vikings... I hope the ubisoft game takes place in this time period. And I hope you start as a youngling being trained by Yoda... thanks Charles your book was the perfect introduction to this era of SW
that would be so cool but i have a feeling it won’t be set in the high republic era. i do hope we get some high quality games in this era
You have been knocking It out of the park with your Guests and Interviews lately :)
Burryaga and Loden Greatstorm are definitely my favorite characters. Hope we see them expanded on.
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@@ScottCastle hahhaha
@ 10:40 Charles Soule confirms he's a Star Wars Explained viewer!
Alex had to be very impressed for that, you can see it on his eyes!
Or he just looked up the guy who was gonna interview him
@@Stekey21 they’ve known each other for years. Alex bumped into him at conventions here and there. This is not the first time they’ve met.
The show runner for The Acolyte has also said they watch him. Which is awesome. If I had to pick one must watch SW TH-camr it would be Alex.
I’m not surprised. Of all the Star Wars channels on TH-cam is Star Wars Explained. His material gets in depth and is entertaining.
This was an AMAZING interview. I love The High Republic and am SO excited to experience what’s to come.
You should substitute the “May the Force be with you” at the end of your videos with “We are all the Republic” for all your High Republic videos, Alex!
Charles Soule and Claudia Gray are the Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau of the STAR WARS comics.
I'm thrilled that you're able to get this interview.
Great interview Alex! You nailed it with a lot of relevant questions that fans wanted answers to. New fan of the channel here and really like the calmness and value of the channel unlike a lot of click bait and constant complain channels the add now Value. Keep up the good work.
ps: Was also great to clarify that Light of the Jedi is just starting to build the world and that we are only like 10% in. I liked the versatility and can't wait for them to focus on each of them and to have their own spinoffs.
I’ve always loved Charles Soules writing. For years now. With light of the Jedi. I am sure he is what Star Wars needs. Someone who is so excited to write and make the fandom reel in amazing storytelling. He needs to write us a show or movie next
I never had a c- or d-list character that I really liked until now. I identify with Peeples so much
It's Keven Tarr for me. I think Soule wrote his perspective as a nerdy tech guy very accurately in my opinion. I found myself worrying about the heat output of the droid array (much like computers and servers in real life) at the same moment Keven did in the book and I just found that so satisfying and validating.
TFW you're an adult Anzellan that just nearly died in a disaster and some bug man is holding you like a baby
Mas Amedda for me.
I appreciate the explanation of how the "Paths" work! I was a little confused but it's still a cool idea.
Fantastic 1st effort by my fellow New Yorker Charles Soule. Absolutely loved the book from start to finish. Thank you!! Can't wait to read more from this awesome author.
Great interview, Alex! Thank you!!
I personally have enjoyed soules writing and think he’s very good at character development, lord momin is a great example he has become one of my all time favorite comic characters. it’s super interesting to see what the sith consider a heretic and momins view of the darkside that could open so many possibilities.
So insightful, I love Charles. Thanks for making this happen Alex!
This was excellent, thank you!
Omg so looking forward to watching this but I haven't read the book just yet so want to avoid spoilers. Added to my watch later list for sure. It must be so exciting to work on a story colab like this
Awesome! Finished the book today, It was some quality star wars
This is so cool. I never had the privilege to listen to the author talk about the process of writing the book while the book in question is delivered to me approximately on Monday. I love nerding out on storytelling topics so this peaking behind the curtain was like the best way to start a weekend. Thank you to you both 🙌🏼
i got to meet Charles Soule at Comic Con in Paris a couple of years ago and managed to get my Darth Vader 1 and Poe Dameron 1 signed, and he was so nice and interesting. His book Letter 42 was really good as well
Excellent interview! I really appreciated the look into his process and his motivations. Thank you!
Another great interview Alex, @starwarsexplained is crushing it lately. Thank you for facilitating these long form discussions with creators and performers.
I love all the new characters in the book! Charles Soule did an awesome job!
I love this book with every part of my heart. One of the best novels in star wars I have ever read....WOW!!!!!!
Damn Charles knows his shit
Damn. Alex and Mollie has got some serious clout with these interview gets. First Paul Sung Lee and now Charles Soule. Disney/Lucasfilm definitely pays attention to the fans on the net.😉😅 Interesting.
Their not super negative or peddle qanon light conspiracy theories abt lucasfilm like a lot of other SW TH-camrs ,you catch more flies with honey then vinegar:)
And well deserved ,they are incredibly likable.
Charles soule and Paul sun Guangzhou lee both constantly did random podcasts before being involved in star wars
Sun-hyang
@@aarongoforth8624 I'm sorry 🥺 My mistake.
Light of the jedi is fireee🔥🔥🔥🔥
Wow!! This is an amazing channel and Charles is an great author. This absolutely is an awesome video. Congrats to Alex and Charles. We are all the republic!
This was a fascinating interview! 34:00 I like that they planned the whole thing, outlining the entire three phases before they began writing it. Imagine if Lucasfilm had put the same level of planning into the sequel trilogy! I'm looking forward to reading through the High Republic. It's going to be a fun ride. My goal is to read all of the content.
The broad strokes of the sequels were planned, such as character arcs. Details changed along the way, as I’m sure they changed for THR.
Not to mention, book production and film production are wildly different beasts.
I got about a third of the way through Light of the Jedi and stopped to pre-order every other book that’s been announced. I’m now about halfway through A Test of Strength, and I am loving it. The High Republic is a delight.
Awesome! I really enjoyed this interview as I'm just about to dive into Light of the Jedi!
What a treat to see Charles Soule as your guest this week. Great job with the interview Alex! I loved the audiobook so much I bought the hardcopy to see how all the names were spelled. After hearing CS say it, I was surprised to find Marc Thompson had the wrong pronunciation for Marchion Ro in the audiobook.
One of the best star wars authors!
Soule: why wouldn't you want to make Jedi awesome?
Karen Traviss's eye twitches
She did not. She rather infamously called them "spoonbenders" and accused them of supporting slavery.
@@gregoryhayes7569 Prequel era Jedi especially, yes.
In the book No Prisoners she does look at more 'heretical' Jedi a lot more favourably.
Wow! This is amazing! I audibly swore when I got the notification
I’m really happy for you Alex! Keep up the good work!! Greetings from Paraguay
One of the best storytellers in Star Wars
Excellent and informative interview. Thank you.
Nice! Thanx Alex and Mollie. This is awesomely
Oh snap, you got him on the show! Noice.
Good for you Alex in getting this. For LF to allow this to happen shows the caliber and maturity of your content. And that you are far from the stereotypical infantile fan.
I absolutely love burryaga. Great interview!!
Great interview. Love that Charles left the door open for my favorite Hutts to make an appearance.
This was the first star wars novel I read and I loved it. I hope charles does more high republic novels
This channel is awesome!
If Loden dies, I will riot. I like him so much I named my Twilek Jedi Knight in Star Wars: The Old Republic after him. Esran Greatstorm is his name.
This interview was the final decider in buy both the digital and audio book immediately.
Light of the Jedi is big time the best star wars book I've read since Lost Stars or Darth Plaguies
Soule knows what he’s doing.
Great interview, keep up the great work!
Yooooo you get Charles Soule, awesome Alex!
I'm curious about his original novels now. I'm gonna buy them on my Kindle and read them over the next few weeks!
Great interview!
Fantastic interview 👏. I'm very excited to see more high republic material and see where it goes. I had no idea the huts lived a thousand years very interesting. Charles if your reading can we get a Cathar jedi main character at some point i just want to see some Cathar love back in Star Wars their my favorite species in that universe.
Such a good interview
Bell Zettifar is my favorite character so far because he looks like me, plus he is not the perfect Padawan Jedi but when it's time to get down business he's a pretty good fighter with room to grow... hopefully. 😊
Yes, he was very relatable!! And frankly I appreciate the way the writer handled him. Bell wasn't just another "token representation" character. He had quite an important role in the book, a unique personality and voice. I can't wait to read the books casting him as the lead hero!
Loden Greatstorm is pretty cool too
@@MatthewPalanca Yes he is. He is a great Jedi Master, and Bell is lucky to have him as one. Bell Zettifar could learn a lot from Master Greatstorm...if he survives his training of course. 😉😂
@@starwarstimeline Yes, yes and yes. 😉👍 May The Force Be With You my friend.
@@byronharris2900 Likewise Byron. This is an exciting time to be a SW fan. We are finally united in something entirely new. I was so excited, had to release my own review of Light of the Jedi))
Woah! I hope you asked him his thoughts about Grakkus the Hutt. The monster unit
Nice work Alex!
Curse Words by Charles is an amazing comic series, so much fun
Wooow started it nowww. Its amazing so far.
charles rlly knows his stuff 👏👏👏
Need High Republic Funko Pops asap
I know about Charles Soule because of this channel.
This is epic !!!
To the good and sensible people reading this - you're awesome, you're loved, you can do this, have a great day :)
I cannot wait for Charles next star wars book
The book was awesome
This guy have written some of my favourite Star Wars projects I now realize.
I wish you could have asked him about the few things in his book that seems a little strange like "a few hundred years ago when the galaxy was only pulling itself together" when its clear the
star wars galaxy is kind of ancient,
That kinda thing made me wonder too, I think that was just implying how within SW lifetimes things rise and fall, maybe 300 years ago the republic was made small again. Idk, I was specifically interested in that
@@smansam I just hope they havent made some wild retcons,I kinda want my headcanon to at least have some internal consistency to it;P
@@Ulyssestnt I think existing material already shows older stuff than that, like Aphra uncovers oooold stuff I think.
@@smansam I really like the idea that an archaeologist go research ancient stuff thats still pretty high tech,,it gives the galaxy a feeling of depth.
@@Ulyssestnt Have you read the Aphra comics then? Pretty up your alley!
I love how with each era of the literary EU we can clearly identify which ones clearly are the masters in their field, the authors that many will look on fondly despite whatever stories will come out.
Pre-prequels EU, we can name Brian Daley, Timothy Zhan, Michael A Stackpole, Aaron Allston.
Post-prequels EU, we can name James Luceno, Drew Karpyshyn, John Jackson Miller, Michael Reaves.
And for current EU, we can name Charles Soule as one of the standouts. I’ve yet to see any outright bad story from him.
Any others we can add from the different eras?
Mathew Stover and Luceno in the New Jedi Order / Clone Wars publishing era.
Claudia Gray is one of the best of the new canon
Luceno is the best
Absolutely awesome story. Go and read this book.
However, did anyone notice when the navidroids starting dropping from the array, the numbers of remaining droids were completely off? Lol. Starting with 57,817. Then a few pages later we lose over 300 droids but he says there are 57,816. Numbers pulled from my memory but point still shown lol.
So I have a question for your weekly Q & A: We see Yularen as an admiral in The Clone Wars, but then in Rebels and A New Hope he's a colonel. Did he get demoted?
In Rebels and ANH he is in the ISB which is a different branch than the Navy. Ranking is different based on the branch and doesn't always translate smoothly.
Does Charles know the audio book seems to mispronounce a few character names compared to how he's pronoucing it?
The way Charles pronounces Marchion Ro just feels weird to me. Maybe Marc Thompson ruined me lol.
@@charlieefreak1362 not just you. I read the physical copy of LOTJ and prefer to pronounce it as March-eon Ro.
Oh, cool, a Youtini shirt!
2 or so years later.. imagine that group chat...
Very Nice Video
rock... ROCK... ROCK...
An older Galactic drift perhaps.
Peaceful co-exisistance = Disorder This is interesting . Beacons and Human relativity, keep them coming.
Very interesting insight like a mind walk. Thankfully planets take over two hundred years and any known life to form, it's interesting how they are destroyed or vanish. The cardi vscular excercise run, not quite Corellian but pathways explain everything like what Grid sector is Hetzal i,m still not sure, assume it's shifted in the galactic shelves somewhere.
the nihil are ruthless and wreckless and yes it is terrifying
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Having him talk about the freedom to determine these new characters fate and then using Burryaga as an example. A being that can live for hundreds of years and isnt around for the prequels....Bruh...please dont do this I beg of you...he has a lightsaber and goes “grrrrrr” hes too cool
Does this video mention heavy spoilers? I want to watch but I am only about halfway through the book and don't want to ruin it for myself.
No heavy spoilers, just character names , writing and loosely abt the galaxy during this time.
@@Ulyssestnt Awesome thanks!
On the paths: I get what he's trying to say. But the thing is, most of the important core places you are worried about them appearing are places that you CAN show up without warning. I mean, with regular hyperlanes, you don't know if a ship is coming or about to pop out of hyperspace right? So I'm still not sure what the real difference is. Maybe it's that long hyperlanes are not contiguous. There are systems along the way, where you have to come out, fly across the system, and then re-enter the lane because that's the point it was charted from. That would create road blocks where you could monitor who is coming or going along a major hyperlane (other than interdiction, which they don't normally do). IF hyperlanes have points in them like that, then the danger of the paths would be more apparent. Do they? (I think they do). Or, maybe there is a way to monitor/scan ships passing by inside a hyperlane? If so, that would create a notable difference in threat level too.
The issue is that normally hyperspace doesn’t work inside of a planet’s gravity well, but with the paths that doesn’t matter. When Marchion says he could drop a ship right on top of Lina Soh’s office, he means right on top of it inside the planet’s atmosphere. Under normal circumstances a ship would appear outside of the planets gravity well, and that gives the defenders time to formulate a response, but not in this case.
That’s also why interdiction technology is so important in the Imperial era. Imperial Interdictor Cruisers can create an artificial gravity well that prevents enemy ships from just jumping into hyperspace and fleeing a battle. If the Rebel Alliance had had access to the paths they would have made interdiction completely useless.
I would think of the hyperlane exits like large highway exits, everyone exits out of hyper space at Coruscant in predetermined zones or areas and all ships are scanned when they arrive. Even when the droid army at the start of Ep 3 attacked Coruscant they appeared out of hyperspace all together at one of these exits and the republic knew where to go fight them. The Paths allow them to steer off the highway or take backroads around to avoid the highway exit entire, getting around any blockade. They can exit theoretically anywhere outside atmosphere.
@@EvWine ordinarily I would agree with you, but Lourna Dee’s Nihil fleet jumps out of hyperspace in an area with massive gravitational and magnetic distortions near Elphrona when they ambush Loden, making me believe that, as long as they know the path, they can show up literally anywhere. That includes in atmo.
@@willcaster819 i guess?, I feel like if they could do that they would have instead of exiting in space above the planet. Moving at hyperspace through air would be like hitting a brick wall, even a tiny bit of space dust would be devastating to anything moving that fast
Any questions about what Mandalorians were doing around the High Republic era?
Star Wars Explained, please answer this question in your Q/A video of January 16th 2021 and my question is:
What is Adywan's Star Wars Episode IV (2008) fan film version of Star Wars Episode IV (1977) film?
Cool vid! Can’t wait for the High Republic. My channel makes Star Wars content too!
I am actually reading the book as I am listening to the interview
25:02 the good chancellor lmao. First I've heard of it bc pretty much every other chancellor's been a dickhead.
Looking at you Saresh.
All Disney-Star-Wars-Nay-Sayers need to do is listen to this interview, or better, yet, read Light of the Jedi, to re-instill their faith in Star Wars and its trajectory and momentum under Disney. 🤷♂️
The audiobook says "mar-shan" but Charles say mar-kee-on" for Marchion Ro :|