Keep the Acolyte buzz going with an excerpt from the new Star Wars High Republic novel
In classic Star Wars fashion, the Jedi of the High Republic novels — who have now made the jump to live action in the form of The Acolyte — have spent much of the past few years veering toward disaster. Amid the “Great Disaster,” which provided an explosive opening to Charles Soule’s The Light of the Jedi, they were first responders. The cataclysmic events of Claudia Gray’s The Fallen Star made them victims. Now, after a prequel jaunt in The High Republic phase 2, phase 3 is in full swing with the second adult novel in the sequence, Tessa Gratton’s Temptation of the Force, in which the Jedi finally start fighting back.
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Following up George Mann’s The Eye of Darkness, Temptation of the Force reunites the Jedi of the High Republic Era after the marauder-terrorist group known as the Nihil staged a violent takeover of a portion of the Outer Rim known as the Occlusion Zone. Focused on the reunion of star-crossed Jedi Avar Kriss and Elzar Mann, Temptation of the Force promises to pay off some long-simmering character work while rallying for what ought to be an explosive conclusion in next spring’s Trials of the Jedi by Charles Soule.
In this exclusive excerpt from Temptation of the Force, ahead of its debut on June 11, we see the beginning of the Jedi’s offensive against the Nihil — one that doesn’t involve weapons of warfare, but words of inspiration.
While the Jedi take the fight directly to the Nihil, within the Occlusion Zone, a group of freedom fighters work to support the planets imprisoned in Nihil space, spreading a message of hope and freedom.
Cair San Tekka had been a lot of things in his relatively short life: a spy, a musician, a secret husband, a security aide, a secretary, a punk kid, a troublemaker, a pilot, and now a smuggler and freedom fighter. He wasn’t the only one running various rebellions throughout Nihil space, and several such rebel groups had found ways to access the constantly changing anti-scav codes to allow for safer travel out
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