TheForce.net caught up with Disney/Lucasfilm Creative Director Michael Siglain at last weeks New York Comic Con to discuss the latest Star Wars book and comic releases including the forthcoming novel by Alexander Freed, Alphabet Squadron.
MS: It started with us thinking, what if the hunters became the hunted? We had that idea around the same time were discussing stories that we all love like Rogue Squadron stories and fighter pilot stories. We thought it would be cool if we had this squadron that was this rag-tag team that included an A-Wing, a B-Wing, a Y-Wing, an X-Wing and a U-Wing. If you had this Imperial strike force that was taking out all of these teams, and then you had to bring the survivors of these teams together to stop this strike force that was stopping all of them.
It’s looking a little bit at the horrors of war and the aftermath of war. We’re looking at what happens to these rebel pilots during the time of the Galactic Civil War and then once the final battle happens, where do they go from there. We wanted to explore the time after The Return of the Jedi, we wanted to explore these Rebel pilots and what they’re dealing with both pre and post the destruction of the second Death Star.
There’s a bigger story there that we are not ready to reveal at this moment, but this book in particular is one to watch out for. It will lead into and branch out into several other stories and areas.
