I had a funny feeling a few weeks ago. I was starting Andor season two, playing a couple coop missions of Battlefront Two, and what do you know? I started to feel nostalgic for Star Wars. Uh oh.

Star Wars is a bitch who broke my heart. I was so unimpressed with the sequel trilogy and the Disney+ slop that I stopped keeping up. Although the first season of Andor was the best Star Wars I’ve seen, maybe ever, it didn’t really FEEL like Star Wars, you know? It felt like a crime thriller in space. I began to feel nostalgic for Star Wars because it represents the known and unknown. I know the movies like the back of my hand. I’ve played the games throughout my childhood. I even love the Role Playing game that few enough of my friends enjoyed to keep playing. There was one frontier that I hadn’t looked at yet, that represented the object of my curiosity. The books.

In my current mood, I hate corpo junk that is “made for everyone”. The Star Wars EU represents the idea to me that Star Wars is for anyone, but not everything within it is for everyone. If you want the fate of the universe type beat with the Thrawn books, go for it. If you want to fuck around in specific locations you know with characters you already love, there’s a lot of that. My introduction to the EU was Coruscant Nights. And boy, was this story written with me in mind.

A crime novel, set in Coruscant, with a party of unique characters, lead by a hardboiled Jedi, following the events of order 66, with the promise of a confrontation with Darth Vader. You had me at hello.

I’m excited to see where it goes, it reads like junk food and I want the author to make his lightsaber yellow and not blue like the fucking cover shows because I think the Jedi Sentinals are cool.

Have no fear

C Randir