Lit Insider #154 - NEW FICTION - The End Of History

Has anyone picked this up yet? What's it about?

 

Fukuyama writes SW.

 

Curse you misleading title! I bet they pulled that move on purpose.

 

Yea, I was thinking the same thing. But unless its a story that immediately over writes existing EU, then it is a misleading title indeed

 

Spoiler

A Corellian Resistance Agent crashes on a remote colony and runs into a historian who used to have Jedi connections. They try to hide from the Imperials that are after the Agent whilst having philosophical differences on what should be done about the Empire and it ends in a rather tragic choice.

 

I'm sure Star Wars: An Inconvenient Truth and Star Wars: The Coming Insurrection are well on their way.

 

I'd like to say the title is surprising, but clever cheap sales and marketing tactics aren't that surprising.

 

So im guessing 2-1 bby?

 

No date given, though it would feel pretty well at home at happening at the same time as Rebels. So ~5 BBY.

 

My thoughts:

• Fascinating passing references to previously unheard of Jedi and Sith.
• Ossus is canonized!
• With all we hear about Ep VII potentially involving sith/jedi relics, it seems that just the concept behind the historian character in this story, if probably not the character herself, is quite relevant going forward. Love it.

 

And I thought history begins, where legends end.

 

I wonder if Ossus will appear in TFA.

 

That confirms it. Andy Serkis is Ood Bnar.

 

The End of History is also a term from some Communist regime, like Red Khmer. Like, with their rule, history would end, because there's no use for any knowledge except what the new government would provide.

 

They also predicted the "end of history" when the Iron Curtain fell and we all know, what became of that.

 

If part of wiping out the Jedi was to remove as much trace of them is possible, so that by a generation later it is just understood in culture as some old religious sect that had power from time to time, where would anyone go for another version of the story? This historian is absolutely right.

Luke showing up as a Jedi following ROTJ wouldn't suddenly be hailed as a returning hero. Apart from within cells of the Alliance where the Jedi might be seen as folk heroes, He'd be seen by the majority of the population as a weird and likely dangerous Neo-Jedi cultist.

 

Mon Mothma was a Senator during the Clone Wars, so wouldn't she remember the Jedi?

 

Of course Ossus would be used. Loved the story and agree with the assesment. Remember, this new canon is going to use the stuff from the old canon and rebrand under the new, much like TCW did. People are forgetting this and of course when they are reminded they get upset because they once again relize that the old stuff will be mined and stripped to fuel and fund the new. Great story though.

 

Akbar knew them, too. Folk Heroes are generally made by the telling of stories about them by those who had/claimed to have firsthand knowledge of them to the next generation who wouldnot have first-hand knowledge. And then the stories are told and re-told.

 

I don't know what people are on about regarding the title.

 

"The End of History and the Last Man" was a big neoconservative work that Francis Fukuyama wrote just after the dissolution of the USSR which later turned out to be completely wrong in its claims. It's also a phrase used in the last issue of Legacy (which I thought was not only clearly intentionally nodding to Fukuyama but in the context a pretty blatant nod to the readers that the Sith weren't really gone).

 

No, I picked up on that. I'm talking about the people complaining that the title was "misleading".

 

Ackbar even used the term "May the Force be with us", as did other Alliance commanders.

People who don't understand sarcasm, I guess.

 

Is this story worth a read.