Aram Zucker-Scharff

Wait… so the big conclusion of The High Republic prequel series is: “what if the Iraq War happened with space wizards and also if the ‘bad guys’ really did have weapons of mass destruction?”

I think the weirdest thing about modern Star Wars is that in the original trilogy it had an idea about what a fascist political entity with the resources of a significant portion of a galaxy behind it could do (build multiple moon sized superweapons an…

Wait… Is phase two of Star Wars: The High Republic a prequel to phase one? Fkin why?!? You’re making up entirely new stuff, why do it this way at all? Why not release your story in, I dunno, a coherent order?

Also, will someone explain to me why I should care about The Gaze Electric? It’s all but the central focal point of half a dozen of these books and they keep trying to paint it a severe looming threat but, as far as I can tell, it’s just a …