Rumor - Star Wars: 2022 High Republic Era — Page 2

OutboundFlight said:

DominicCobb said:

There’s no reason there has to be peace for a thousand generations. Ben just says the Jedi were the guardians of peace in that time.

Palpatine in AOTC says the Republic has stood for a thousand years. Potentially a discrepancy between that and Ben’s line, but you could explain it. Either way neither of them says there was no war at all for that long.

Ah, nice. So going off that we could say:

The Jedi have stood for a thousand generations, acting as a separate religion, and when the Republic was formed they became their guardians of peace and justice. It makes sense for Ben to group the two together when explaining to a young boy with a limited attention span.

The Republic was founded one thousand years ago, and could have had all the major conflicts Disney wants to fill their story. Personally I’m very excited to explore this period.

Yeah. You could argue though that Ben’s says they were the guardians in the Old Republic, which implies that was there for a thousand generations too, but who cares. You could even just say there’s been multiple iterations of the Old Republic, like there was a new constitution a thousand years ago. Either way, I think it’s all ambiguous enough that they could pretty much do whatever they want.

If you wanna go by current canon, a distinction is drawn between the Old Republic and the Galactic Republic. The Old Republic lasted a thousand generations; the Galactic Republic a thousand years.

DominicCobb said:

OutboundFlight said:

DominicCobb said:

There’s no reason there has to be peace for a thousand generations. Ben just says the Jedi were the guardians of peace in that time.

Palpatine in AOTC says the Republic has stood for a thousand years. Potentially a discrepancy between that and Ben’s line, but you could explain it. Either way neither of them says there was no war at all for that long.

Ah, nice. So going off that we could say:

The Jedi have stood for a thousand generations, acting as a separate religion, and when the Republic was formed they became their guardians of peace and justice. It makes sense for Ben to group the two together when explaining to a young boy with a limited attention span.

The Republic was founded one thousand years ago, and could have had all the major conflicts Disney wants to fill their story. Personally I’m very excited to explore this period.

Yeah. You could argue though that Ben’s says they were the guardians in the Old Republic, which implies that was there for a thousand generations too, but who cares. You could even just say there’s been multiple iterations of the Old Republic, like there was a new constitution a thousand years ago. Either way, I think it’s all ambiguous enough that they could pretty much do whatever they want.

Rewatching TCW, Pre Vizla says that the darksaber was stolen by his ancestors from the Jedi temple during the “fall of the Old Republic.”

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Fall_of_the_Old_Republic

What that means for the High Republic, who’s to say, I guess there’s isn’t anything established. I think I’ve said it before but showing the Old Republic Jedi vs. the Mandalorians seems like such an obvious next step but what do I know. Maybe they’re saving it for later.

From what I understand, the Old Republic has existed in some form for a thousand generations, 25,000 years. I’m sure it has changed a lot, grown and shrunk, survived countless wars and conflicts. But the fall of the Old Republic basically was the near or total collapse of the Republic a thousand years ago, coinciding with the “destruction” of the Sith. After that war was over, the Republic was reformed (in Legends it was known as the Ruusan Reformation), which led to the creation of the Galactic Republic we see in the OT.

Based on the time period, you could say the “High Republic Era” was the golden age of the Republic. A Pax Republica. It’s the High Republic because it was the Republic at its best. I guess as conflicts have begun to arisen again leading up to the films, people saw the High Republic Era as over.

So they’re confirming that publishing’s “Project Luminous” campaign will indeed be about the High Republic. In my mind that means that the rumors that the next trilogy will take place in this timeframe are probably false/misreported. Part of the beauty of setting a film in that time would be a blank slate, so I doubt any filmmaker would want to be strapped down by preexisting books and such. There’s always the chance of course that the films and books would be interconnected, but if that was the case they wouldn’t be releasing the books two years before the films.

Is this even a movie/TV thing or just another weird multimedia project?

The way I’m seeing some people talk about this online has me worried a little. Despite Lucasfilm trying to do something brand new, people are already comparing it to the Old Republic, and saying how they would’ve preferred that.

Guys, give it a chance. People want new things, and you give it to them and then they complain that it’s not the old thing. I’m sure they will do Old Republic content eventually, but maybe they’re saving it for movies or tv. Maybe they’re just working their way back through the timeline.

I’m also seeing people complain that it is only 200 years before the prequel trilogy rather than 400 as it was reported. The entirety of the Skywalker Saga was what, 70 years? I don’t see how the 200 year difference is a detriment.

RogueLeader said:

The way I’m seeing some people talk about this online has me worried a little. Despite Lucasfilm trying to do something brand new, people are already comparing it to the Old Republic, and saying how they would’ve preferred that.

Guys, give it a chance. People want new things, and you give it to them and then they complain that it’s not the old thing. I’m sure they will do Old Republic content eventually, but maybe they’re saving it for movies or tv. Maybe they’re just working their way back through the timeline.

I’m also seeing people complain that it is only 200 years before the prequel trilogy rather than 400 as it was reported. The entirety of the Skywalker Saga was what, 70 years? I don’t see how the 200 year difference is a detriment.

In a 200 year span all the humans would change. So no one alive in the new stories would still be around for TPM and no one in TPM would have been born yet. Even Chewbacca wouldn’t have been born yet. Yoda yes, but we don’t know of any other species that lives that long. Maybe the Hutts. So 200 years is enough time to completely change the characters maybe a handful of exceptions. And even 400 years before TMP, Yoda would be around. So that 200 year difference doesn’t matter. I don’t think the Sith line would be to Darth Plagueis yet and the Jedi had thought the Sith long gone so it shouldn’t be a Jedi vs. Sith tale whether it is 200 or 400.