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- Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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It doesn't seem like there's much room for Bakura. Aftermath is set a few months after ROTJ, so the timeline would certainly work, but I got the impression that there hadn't been a battle that big since Endor (I can't remember if this was explicitly stated, though). If it happened, no one's talking about it.
This is indeed the first canon work set after ROTJ, but originally the Shattered Empire comic was supposed to be released a couple days before. That got pushed back to this Wednesday. As far as I know, that actually begins as the Battle of Endor is ending, so that's where we're likely to see the immediate immediate aftermath of Jedi.
Luke is referenced in both Wedge's and Han's POV sections, but they don't get into what he's actually doing. It just kind of confirms that he's still around at this point. Other characters also refer to him, but really only because he's famous. Probably the most noteworthy instance of this is when one of the Imperial big-wigs (who was previously an advisor to Palpatine and is versed in dark side lore in spite of not being Force-sensitive) laments that the Sith are extinct and that the last Jedi has an "untouchable soul . . . at least for now" or something like that.
EDIT: I also read the Luke YA book today. Largely unremarkable. Covered a lot of the same "figuring out the rudiments of the Force on your own" ground that Heir to the Jedi did. It was mercifully much shorter, though; I think I got through it in under two hours. Overall it felt like a Monster of the Week episode of a TV series, if that makes any sense. There were really only two things that I think will have any bearing at all on TFA:
1. The Sarco Plank character that we've seen teased got a hell of a lot of screen time, which makes me think he'll have at least a little more to do in TFA than standing in the background like the Vanity Fair spread seemed to imply. He reminded me a lot of Boba Fett in the Holiday Special cartoon.
2. The book opens and closes with scenes set in the TFA era, where there's a frame story of a Resistance pilot asking C-3PO for a story about Luke. During the actual ANH-era story, Luke and the droids go to Devaron and meet a young girl who ends up helping them. They also find some Jedi ruins, and Luke promises he's going to come back when he's a Jedi and try to restore the place. Back in the TFA era, the Resistance pilot asks 3PO if they ever saw the girl again. He says yes, they saw her years later when Luke made good on his promise and went back, by which point she was a young woman. So that seems to suggest that Luke sticks around doing Jedi stuff for at least a few years after ROTJ.
Since the YA books are s'damn short, I expect I'll be through all the Journey to TFA stuff by the end of the week. I'll keep posting about them here if there aren't any objections.