Books Star Wars: Inferno Squad

Yeesh, I get it. Innocent was a bad choice of words.

What I meant was that seeing a group of morally righteous, good-natured and well-intentioned heroes getting slaughtered and that being glorified is not something I like to see, especially in Star Wars.

Order 66 was bad enough but at least the Jedi were jerks enough for me to divorce myself from what was happening*.

*I don't think the Jedi deserved to die.

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Yeah but even then that still does not help you deal with the true tragedy there.......Boga's death

 

the Partisans are the perfect choice for an Imperial POV book. Even the Rebellion thinks they're too extreme. I hate this whole black-and-white "Empire bad, all their enemies are good" nonsense. If there was a book with Luke and Leia trying to take down the Partisans, people be rooting for Luke and Leia and not be complaining that the book is glorifying violence against innocent heroes. Also, Vader took down an entire Rebel battalion in Vader Down and no one got upset about that. Lost Stars was full of sympathetic Imperials. What's the difference here?


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I'm actually looking forward to reading more about the partisans, other than Saw we don't know much about any of their backgrounds. Who are these ruffians, who are willing to go up against the evil empire but who are also willing to use any means necessary? I think it's also important to remember that the rebellion hasn't been around all that long, while the Empire has been using fear to control the galaxy for decades. Any one looking to fight back doesn't have a whole lot of choices, so it's easy to see how some would turn to a group like Saw's.

 

I saw that the price on Amazon was cheaper than the usual price of new SW books, so I've taken a chance and pre ordered it now. I see a lot of people don't like the author's other books but I really enjoyed Dark Discple so hopefully this will be good too.

 

The Partisans definitely make good propaganda for the empire.

 

Villains who take sadistic pleasure in beating heroes is all fine and good, but those stories just don't do much for me, especially with this series. That's all.

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Generally the way you do a pro-villain / anti-hero story is you set them up against something worse.

So Frank Castle is a mass murderer, but to quote Arnie "they were all bad". So, Partisans who started off as Rebels but have gone so far away from that that the Rebels would be try and take them out if they could qualify.

 

For some reason I missed this! So we get the evil counterpart to Twilight Company.

 

Eh I'm confident at least one of these Imps is going to defect.

 

Not sure if its been said yet but the books up for pre-order on Amazon UK.

 

Also at Wordery for £13.99, who sent off my copy of EE a week and a half early!

https://wordery.com/star-wars-inferno-squad-christie-golden-9781780894829?cTrk=NDA4ODk0NzR8NThiMDExMDEyNTU0YzoxOjE6NThiMDEwZjZhZDkzNjcuMDk0Mjg3MDY6ZDMzMGViOTI=

 

Are Inferno Squad a unit of the 501st Commando, I wonder....

 

But it doesn't have to be glorified. After all it is the nature of war that sometimes good men fall.

I would have problems if the author tried to make us think this squad is awesome/cool and their actions are just if they kill good men of the Rebellion, but if it isn't presented like that, and the message is clear this squad are the baddies, I would see no problem in making it evil empire perspective vs good rebels.

 

I'd love if Inferno Squad was made up of surviving Death Troopers. I'd like to learn more about them and how they're perceived within the Imperial military.

 

Don't have much confidence for this novel. Golden's Dark Disciple was a horrible mess.

 

ICAM! I don't want to see IS portrayed as the good guys slaughtering the partisans. It has to be written very carefully IMO to make a compelling story.

 

Inferno Squad are said to be Navy, while the 501st is Stormtrooper Corps, and thus Army.

 

Anyone wanna bet that in a few months time we're going to get a massive "exclusive" on this book on the star wars show

"We're proud to announce that Inferno Squad's main villain will be.....Two Tubes!"

Followed by some unfunny space monkey references

 

The Star Wars show is too cringe for me. I'll just wait for text based news.

 

Don't forget the must have kitster...

 

that's confusing as hell lol.... During the clone wars the entire force was talked about as the grand army of the republic... They didn't start using the term "Navy" until the Empire was heavily entrenched already, if I remember right. Stormtroopers serve on ships, land, and moon sized space stations, so it's hard to tell what nomenclature they are using at any given time.