Project Luminous officially announced as Star Wars: The High Republic

After teasing the mysterious Project Luminous for some time, last night Lucasfilm fully revealed the campaign as Star Wars: The High Republic.

Set 200 years before the events of the Skywalker Saga, The High Republic promises new characters, worlds and stories that fans are sure to love. The era is currently set to be featured in numerous upcoming books and Marvel comic books, with the first book, titled Light of the Jedi and written by Charles Soule, releasing in August.

The High Republic will feature stories for all ages, including adults, teens and kids, and promises that there will be a story that will appeal to every Star Wars fan. The stories will also be interconnected, spanning across multiple books and comics and extending for multiple years, featuring a core group of heroes and villains.

A video was made available detailing The High Republic.

According to the writers team, the High Republic era is one of peace and calm, with the Jedi acting like rangers, exploring and protecting the galaxy similar to the Knights of the Round table. Also promised were new smugglers, scoundrels and bounty hunters, as well as a new group of villains known as the Nihil, who were compared to space vikings. According to the writers team, the Nihil were designed with the intention of making them as different from the Empire or the First Order as possible. The era will begin with an event the writers referred to as "The Great Disaster", though they didn't elaborate much on what that will be.

Currently The High Republic is only set for books and comics, though rumours have been floating around that the next movie trilogy, set to begin in 2022, will also be set in the High Republic era and feature a younger version of Yoda.

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