Everything you need to know about Star Wars: The High Republic

polygon.com:

One of the most ambitious and large-scale Star Wars stories happening right now hasn’t been on Disney Plus or in movie theaters — at least, not yet. It’s the High Republic, a massive multimedia project set centuries before the movies telling an ambitious, large-scale story about a different era of Jedi Knights facing a different kind of menace than fans have seen before. Soon, the High Republic will find its way to Disney Plus with the forthcoming series The Acolyte, bringing a wave of new fans into the newest corner of Star Wars lore.

With this specific and fairly new era of Star Wars history about to get its TV close-up, there’s no better time to dive into this impressively huge — and still ongoing — story.

The High Republic is primarily a sprawling publishing initiative from Lucasfilm that comprises myriad books, comics, and audio dramas all set in a previously unexplored era of Star Wars history. The goal is to tell a diverse set of stories all centering on a new cast of characters responding to huge, status-quo shaking events.

While the High Republic is mainly overseen by a brain trust of authors writing its stories, it’s also similar to a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting, like the Forgotten Realms or Planescape: a self-contained chunk of a very popular whole, one that’s ripe for exploration across all sorts of media. Soon, the High Republic will be featured on screen for the very first time in the forthcoming Disney Plus serious The Acolyte.

Most of the action takes place about 200 years before The Phantom Menace. The general idea is that these stories depict what is effectively the last golden age of the Jedi Order, before the institutional rot that made the order so stodgy and ripe for obliteration by