Star Wars: The Acolyte: Visual Guide
Decades before the birth of Darth Vader, explore the glorious High Republic era in the Star Wars galaxy. During this exciting time, the noble Jedi are protectors of peace and justice, and the Republic is thriving – but a threat to their power is growing in the shadows…
Explore The Acolyte’s High Republic era as it’s never been seen before:
A NEW ERA IN THE STAR WARS GALAXY: Go behind the scenes of Star Wars: The Acolyte through DK’s iconic visual guide format as it reveals all of the key characters, locations, vehicles, and technology from the Disney+ series
RICHLY DETAILED AND AUTHORITATIVE: Written by Star Wars insider Pablo Hidalgo, with a foreword by Osha/Mae Aniseya actor Amandla Stenberg
UNRIVALLED INSIGHT INTO THE ACOLYTE: The perfect Star Wars gift for fans who want to gain a better understanding of the Disney+ series
Packed with everything you need to know about Star Wars: The Acolyte, from key information to behind-the-scenes details, Star Wars: The Acolyte Visual Guide is a must-own volume for die-hard fans of all ages.
Author: Pablo Hidalgo
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
Publication date: June 17, 2025
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9780593958605
With the debut season of The Acolyte now a year behind us, the arrival of Star Wars: The Acolyte: Visual Guide from long-time Lucasfilm author (and story group member) Pablo Hidalgo with a forward from series star Amandla Stenberg couldn’t be better timed. Opening up a new era of storytelling, The Acolyte gave us new heroes, villains (along with familiar faces like Darth Plagueis, Ki-Adi-Mundi and the back of Master Yoda’s head), worlds, equipment, vehicles and more. Now have the chance to take an even closer look at the era, one that we might not be revisiting in live action for sometime, but which (for the time being) lives on in comics and novels.
First that foreword from Amandla Stenberg, one that very clearly shows the love and appreciation she has for the Star Wars galaxy and the films of George Lucas. Turn a couple of pages and you hit the first real treasure of the book, a galaxy map from the High Republic era overseen by Jason Fry and evocative of the maps in his iconic Essential Atlas (also worth noting, showrunner Leslye Headland mentioned Essential Atlas by name in interviews). There are zones that a century later don’t exist, like the Stormwall and Nihil Space out in the Outer Rim, and that detail leans in to this era being significantly different to the one we’re familiar with decades later.
Heading in, the book hones in on key moments and locations from the season, starting with the world of Ueda on the Outer Rim and the noodle shop. We get to take a closer look at the town, identifying where the hospitality quarter and the cemetary are, a look at the coinage of the time, the denizens of the town and the shop itself. There’s a droid that tests the food, the proprietor Cabuck has a young son who plays with a fidgit spinner, we look at assassin Mae and her equipment as she enters the shop on the hunt for Master Indara. For Indara we have a timeline and a Fact File (54 years old, from Corucant) which is helpful, additional details you might not find elsewhere.
We get a look at the Neimoidians of the Trade Federation, their vessel the Fallon (named for Jimmy?) and MekNek Osha and her personal multitool repair assistant PIP. Here we get a deeper look into the MekNek equipment and gear, fascinating insight that only adds to the experience of watching the show.
Throughout the book we get a look at the Jedi of the era; Yord Fandar (and his infamous clothes steamer) and his padawan Tasi Lowa, the younglings of the Jedi Temple (and a look at the exterior and interior of the temple itself), Master Sol, the wonderful Jecki Lon and Vernestra Rwoh. Information laced through the pages, all useful and all adding depth to the era.
Rolling through the book there are fascinating facts; the Palwick Prison Ship that takes Osha back to Coruscant and the variable geometry droids (aka the coolest headrests in the galaxy), the genetically modified Dybbuk silencer that nullifies criminals, the criminals of the prison break, the Polan GX-8 workhorse Jedi vessel…I could go on, there’s so much to highlight, to give it away would do the book an injustice as I can’t possiby explain the information anywhere near as well as Hidalgo and the books designers do.
There are speeders, the Stranger, umbramoths, more starships, more Jedi, BAZIL!, the history of Brendok, the witch fortress and the elders of the coven, the senate and the senators of the time, even the Jedi tests of the time, and ending with that final shot of Master Yoda we step back out of The Acolyte era and hope that this beautiful, deep, interwoven and connected era is revisited once again.
Hats off as always to Pablo Hidalgo for bringing all of this together, because a cursory browse through the Visual Guide makes you want to head back to Disney Plus and rewatch the season again, with a fresh appreciation for the era, the locations and most importantly the importance of the story within; this is the edge of the cliff that plummets to Order 66 and the demolition of the Jedi, and without The Acolyte (in much the same way the childhood of Anakin Skywalker is so vital in The Phantom Menace) we never truly appreciate just how far the galaxy fell.
