Books Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Resistance Reborn

Hondo has possession of the Falcon at the Disney World/Land parks, which means he gets it post First Order occupation. The bulk of the Black Spire novel takes place months after TLJ, which means Resistance Reborn, Allegiance, Spark of the Resistance probably take place in the months prior to that.

Resistance Reborn
Allegiance
Spark of the Resistance
Black Spire
all ST-era Flight of the Falcon/Pirate's Price
Crash of Fate

 

True! And it's probably a function of Galaxy's Edge, whose "Groundhog Day" is hella close to TROS, opening when it did and the related material being timed to go along with that.

 

I thought GE was meant to be somewhere around the halfway point between TLJ and TROS?

 

After the rather slow delivery estimates at both Amazon UK and Wordery, I’ve finally ordered the book from Speedy Hen and I’ve just received an Email several hours late informing me that a copy has since been dispatched. Thanks Jedi Ben!!


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SpeedyHen can be a bit erratic, their 'out of stock' listing doesn't always mean out of stock, but when they definitely have stuff - they are fast!

 

Coolios, thanks for the heads up.


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For OHC / Omnibuses they have some of the best prices on the net, only BooksEtc beat them sometimes but it's not consistent.

 

Also, Choose Your Destiny: A Finn and Poe Adventure is between Allegiance and Spark of the Resistance. I normally wouldn't throw that out there, since the CYD books are generally rather inconsequential, but Spark of the Resistance directly references the events in that book, so it's worth a mention.

 

From what I remember isn't all of this more a big lead up to the "Rise of the Resistance" Ride...Which now doesn't open until AFTER TROS...Ironically.

And then pretty much everything after that will fill in whatever gaps need filling.

Plus Resitance obviously should be part of that list...somewhere.

 

Oh yeah, that's basically right, we need the full story on Rise of the Resistance to really place the "day" of Galaxy's Edge. I guess that ride promo with the Resistance fleet made me assume it was on the very late side of the TLJ-TROS gap.

 

More or less that would be my guess.

 

Resistance (the TV show) so far seems to take place very close to TLJ, aside from maybe the most recent two or three episodes. So far it's very self contained though. Anything post-D'Qar could take place whenever. We'll have to see if it intersects with the main plot again at some point.

 

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ROGUE GROUP, THIS IS GENERAL RIEEKAN--

 

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ROGUE SQUADRON THIS IS GENERAL RIEEKAN

 

This is probably a reaction peculiar to viewers of a certain UK TV series, but

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every time Ambassador Yendor talks I'm hearing it in Rodney's voice from Only Fools and Horses

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So, we need to know - is he a plonker?

 

Doesn't seem to be so far but I haven't finished the book yet.

 

Finished the book last night and I can definitely say that

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Yendor isn't a plonker

. I liked the book - there are some characters there that I wouldn't mind seeing more of.

 

I actually really appreciated how tight it was. A lot of times in Star Wars books they start talking about some mission and I roll my eyes at the prospect of reading generic blaster fight #3 where we know how it ends even before it starts. This one skips past some of that redundant stuff and skips to where the plot actually moves forward. I never felt like we were really missing anything important.

 

I’ve been working to piece all the releases post-TLJ into order, with some timeline placements along the way. All the dates below are arbitrary best guesses. In all of the works set post-TLJ the are literally only a handful of references to ‘weeks’ or ‘months’ since the destruction of Hosnian Prime or The Battle of Crait.

I pitched an earlier draft of this timeline to Matt Martin, from the Story Group, over on Twitter who said “Most of your timing assumptions aren’t quite right but the order itself isn’t too far off”.

So, lets dive in:

The days after Crait: Poe Dameron Vol. 5. (Story must span a few days to allow for Poe’s journey from the Falcon to the planet Ikkrukk) 1-2 weeks after Crait: Resistance Reborn. (Story begins with Leia communicating with Poe on Ikkrukk)

6 weeks after Crait: Pirate’s Price, chapters 15-16. (Chewbacca and Rey leave the Falcon with Hondo on Batuu after “scouting around unsuccessfully for a few weeks” for parts) Adventures #14-18: Flight Of The Falcon (Bazine searches for the Falcon)

At some point the Resistance travels to Tah’Nuhna for supplies (referenced in Allegiance)

3 months after Crait: Pirate’s Price, frame story. (lets assume that Hondo had the Falcon for at least a month).

Flight Of The Falcon one shot (Chewie returns for the Falcon.)

4 months after Crait: Black Spire (based on a comment of “a few months since…..” TLJ. I estimate the story to cover at least a month).

5 months after Crait: Galaxy’s Edge Theme Park (continuing on from the Black Spire epilogue, with Kylo Ren and the First Order on Batuu searching for Vi Moradi. Continuity snaffle: Kylo has his old helmet that he smashed up in TLJ)

6 months after Crait: Allegiance (The Resistance has set up base on Anoat. The 6 month dating is just a nice round number to place the main ‘event’ comic at. My feeling is that the intention is that this story occurs 1 year after TLJ, halfway between the rumoured 2 year gap between movies, but Spark Of Resistance dosen’t allow for that dating to work)

7 months after Crait: Choose Your Own Destiny: A Finn And Poe Adventure (Finn and Poe on a mission to get bacta for the Resistance. I’m simply jumping a month with each entry from here to allow for a decent passage of time between movies)

8 months after Crait: Galaxy’s Edge (This comic series references the “botched job on the moon of Avedot” from ‘Allegiance’ and shows an increased First Order presence on Batuu from what we saw in ‘Black Spire’).

9 months after Crait: Spark Of The Resistance (references the CYOD adventures, as well as the ships gained at the end of Allegiance. 9 months since TLJ may be a stretch since it refers to the destruction of Hosnian Prime as “a few months ago”. To me that would imply 3 or 4 months but then there’s a lot of story to cram in between TLJ and this story, hence staying with 9 months.)

10 months after Crait: Adventures #27-29: Ghosts Of Kashyyyk (I originally planned to have this be the last story before TROS simply because it will be the final ‘Journey To…’ release before the movie comes out next month, and also for the presence, and first appearance, of Beaumont. However, the presence of Porgs on the Falcon have caused me to re-evaluate. See next entry for more info)

11 months after Crait: Galaxy’s Edge: Smuggler’s Run (the theme park ride has Hondo and Chewie working together to secure coaxium for the Resistance. I feel some time must have passed since Flight Of The Falcon for Hondo to be working so willing with (not for) the Resistance. The Resistance base on Batuu seems to be significantly larger and better equipped, which again indicates a decent chunk of time. During the ride itself (specifically travel off and back to Batuu) there is no sign of a First Order presence on the planet. Also, tellingly, there are no Porgs in the cockpit! )

1 years after Crait: Adventures #27-29: Secret Agent Droids (given my earlier reasoning for Ghosts Of Kashyyk to be the final entry of this timeline, I guess it’s only fitting that the honour actually goes to this back-up story. As of now only the first part has been released, and nothing in the story helps to cement a date one way or the other so here is as good as any).

Well, that puts us up to date. I would love feedback, let me know if there’s anything I’ve missed or failed to consider.

 

You failed to consider Star Wars Resistance. They obviously don't hook up with the Colossus crew until there's at least 6 episodes left of the season, but still.