Jedi: Survivor is gearing up for a Star Wars universe defined by the High Republic

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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor puts the Empire in the back seat. It's one of the things I most enjoyed about its story – in my Star Wars Jedi Survivor review, I talk about how Respawn's sequel is a benchmark for what modern Star Wars can be as Disney moves ever further away from the Skywalker saga. And key to that effort is Survivor's exploration of one of the most iconic but least-explored eras in Star Wars history. 

 This article features minor story spoilers for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. 

A few hours into Cal's new adventure, the protagonist enters a ruined building on the planet of Koboh. As he explores that building, he comes upon an inert droid trapped beneath rubble. Approaching the bot, Cal uses his ability to sense the memories attached to objects to look into the droid's past. Immediately, his mind opens to a scene hundreds of years in the past, to an era known as the High Republic.

Generally explored through novels and comics, rather than movies, games, or TV, the High Republic is an era of Star Wars history running for around 400 years – from 500 years before the events of A New Hope to 100 years before that original trilogy. It's an era in which the Galactic Republic was at the height of its powers; an era of peace and exploration throughout the galaxy in which the Jedi Order was also at its peak.

It's also an era of rampant spice piracy, which is where characters like The Force Awaken's Maz Kanata tie in. Survivor makes brief reference to the Nihil, a band of terrorists who harry the Jedi throughout the High Republic era, and which several books set during that time period focus on.

Survivor, however, is not particularly interested in the biggest players in the Republic – Cal, after all, strives to exist under