It’s an interesting question regarding The High Republic; how do you write a major Star Wars storyline without a war as the backdrop. Star Wars is about far more than military conflicts, and Charles Soule, Daniel Jose Older and Claudia Gray discusses the major threat of the era, known as the Great Disaster which sees starships breaking apart during hyperspace jumps and their wreckage smashing into planets galaxy-wide, and how the Jedi of the time tackle this catastrophe in ways that can’t be solved with diplomacy or a lightsaber.
It’s not really a spoiler to say that the Republic and the Jedi meet the ramifications of the Great Disaster head-on—otherwise, it’d be a pretty short story that suddenly lays this “peak era” for these two establishments low. However, in what it means to see these institutions succeed in triaging the fallout of the Great Disaster, there’s a sense of hope. “I think that speaks to something that’s so cool about this whole initiative, which is we’re so used to science-fiction—especially in YA—of thinking how bad things can go wrong, right? That’s what we know about sci-fi,” Daniel José Older, the writer of IDW’s High Republic Adventures comic, added. “It’s rare we get to use science-fiction to imagine how things can work really well. That’s not to say it’s without conflict, because, as we’re learning increasingly, we know how bad things can get even when they’re done really well. But for once, we’re getting to see good governing and an amazing world that functions on so many levels—instead of a Republic that lives up to its promise of being a doomed, corrupt enterprise.”
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