Books Star Wars: Inferno Squad

I saw the title and the blurb that it was a direct tie-in to Rogue One, and I was immediately excited. And then I read about how it will focus on hunting down Saw's partisan fighters... why them? Hope it turns out to be great, but I went from instant excitement to instant lukewarm.

 

dark disciple was trash contradicted the movies so many times. and made anakin/obi wan/yoda look weak for a crappy character.

when reading about it i did get imperial commando 2 vibes from it (damn i wish they continued that series) willing to give golden another chance and see how she does this time but im not expecting much

 

Probably because the Marvel comics are already covering what is happening with the major players of the after effects of the Death Star destruction.

 

I personally didn't mind that at all, because I found the Ryloth rebels to be very engaging characters. Cham in particular is one of my favorites.

 

Right, but even glassing the planet clearly didn't wipe the partisans out.

 

Everyone at the time of R1: The Partisans are an exciting concept; Rebels who aren't good guys!

Everyone now: Partisans? Meh.

 

I'll definitely pick up this book. I'm surprised that they focused on Saw's Partisans. I was under the impression that his rebel cell was already whittled down to bare bones at the start of Rogue One. Post-RO, what is left? I assume that the Jedha cell wasn't the entirety of his faction, unless we suppose that this story is focused on tracking down the handful of potential survivors. Either way, it seems that these remaining Partisans don't fold into the mainline Alliance post-Scarif/Yavin.

--Adm. Nick

 

Guess we will find out that the Partisans were a very large group and the ones we saw in the movie was just a very small portion of them.

 

Yeah I thought the same about these partisans, and that they were destroyed on Jedha completly. No idea where they are now though. I wonder if some of them participated in the battle of Scarif.

 

Did the Rogue One novel say if there were more Partisans across the galaxy or not?

 

I think Saw mentions that his lieutenants know where their next rendezvous is, so that they can keep fighting. I'm fairly sure that the only casualty the Partisans suffered on Jedha was Saw. All the others are nowhere to be seen when the main cast leave, so I assume they got on their ships and fled.

 

Hmm. Good to know. Really need to read the novel.

 

I told you guys that the new canon novels was not going to be as aggressive with the OT characters like the ones from legends. This is about the side characters and stuff like that. The idea is to tell stories but nothing that contradicts anything coming out in movies or animation. Those arenas will have the bigger stories. Comic books will tell some but trust me, they are nothing compared to what has been told in legends. Still, I can't wait for this book as it has an Imperial Commando gist to it. Now its the Empire's turn to do there thing.

 

when the rebel troopers landed on the beach they yelled for Jedha. Maybe a few were actually partisans who had arrived at Yavin IV offscreen? Or wherever the fleet was assembled. But I guess they die anyway.

 

Yeah, we see at least one X-wing outside the hideout, and they're running toward it before Jyn and co. even leave, so I'm sure they had plenty of time.

 

All right, this is... sort of headed in the direction I've long wanted, but... we'll see. Not sure yet. Of course, it's another story more focused on special ops/covert ops kind of stuff, but I'll try to give it a chance even if it's not quite what I want. I'd love a pure Stormtrooper story; the HoJ bits of Allegiance and Choices of One weren't quite it, either, since they were rogue troopers.

 

Yeah, everyone complained in the pre-reboot days that all we got was Big Three stuff. Now it's common to see people complain that we don't get enough Big Three stuff and I'm like...what?

 

The nature of fandom.

 

Wrong, in the pre-boot days we got the big three in situations that weren't consistent, now in new canon things are more stream lined and yes less of them in novels and more in animation and movies, with live tv series is better.

 

How is he wrong? You're assuming we're getting the big three in movies and animation, when they've been very conservative with showing them off. I like the nucanon's way of handling things.

 

I'm not a fan of Saws extremists being the enemy here. Doing so creates a evil vs evil situation. It also feels like it's taking the safe route. By making the enemy this dark offshoot of the rebellion, they get less sympathy from us. I would argue if the extremists are wiped out, this squad would actually be doing the rebellion a favor. After all these dark rebels are not helping the rebellion image. So I would prefer if this book was about the squad attacking the actual Rebel Alliance. Sure it would result in the squad killing good people and helping Space Nazis, but it would fit better with the theme of Empire vs Rebellion.

 

I definitely hold the opinion that more Big Three novels would be good. Back in the 90's era, the Big Three stories were very bold and large scope. In later times just before the pre-boot, they were more mild. Between the two it's just a matter of preference, but now not only do we not have the Big Three in most novels, but the scope of the stories are all also small. Even Aftermath was small scope. (Life Debt was a little bigger sure, but that's only one.) I would like one of the two at least. A larger scope story, or a Big Three novel. These books are always small scope and contained minor characters. Don't get me wrong, I like them, I just want some variation.

I think everybody is itching for the Luke's New Jedi Order story. I know they don't want to rebrand whats been done before (KJA) but in TFA they showed that Luke had basically established a New Jedi Order.

That is a huge deal! We know nothing about it! In the 90's that story would be the flagship book series. The rise of the First Order? HUGE! I understand they might be withholding these stories as to not spoil episodes 8 and 9, and if so then I can be patient. But I am very eager for those stories.

In the mean time, I would rather one of two things. Some larger scope stories, or a couple Big Three stories.

For Inferno, it seems to be another story of characters we don't know, in a small scope setting. Really though, I'm still excited for it. Seems awesome and I think Golden will do a fine job now that she isn't tied to some hardly finished TCW scripts.