# Review: Star Wars: The High Republic #1

- Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/review-star-wars-the-high-republic-1/
- Published: 2021-04-14T08:00:00-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

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Star Wars: The High Republic #1
Marvel ComicsPublished: January 6, 2021Marvel Unlimited:
April 12, 2021W: Cavan ScottA: Ario Anindito, Annalisa Leoni

When 2021 started, so did the High Republic era of Star Wars; novels were released
with these comics, and eventually we’ll get the story in other mediums. We also 
got a new timeline; along with the **High Republic** era, we got the **Fall of the
Jedi** (prequel trilogy, _The Clone Wars_), **Reign of the Empire** (_The Bad Batch_,
_Solo: A Star Wars Story_), **Age of Rebellion** (_Rebels_, _Rogue One: A Star Wars
Story_, the original trilogy), the **New Republic** (_The Mandalorian_), and the**
Rise of the First Order** (_Resistance_, the sequel trilogy).

This story takes place after the events of the first High Republic novel, _The Light
of the Jedi_. The Republic’s Starlight Beacon space station is about of officially
open (which is details a little more in the novel). We start on Shuraden, where 
Padawan Kanrii Trennis is about to start her trials to become a Jedi Knight. During
the first trial, a swarm of insects start to destroy everything in their path. Trennis
abandons the the trial to help save the planet. At the same time, Jedi Master Avar
Kriss, aboard the Starlight Beacon, is discussing changes to Jedi Master Sskeer (
Trennis’s master) with Jedi Master Estala Maru; they discuss his recent accident,
but determine his issues are more than his injury. They are interrupted by Jedi 
Grandmasters Veter and Yoda; they inform Kriss that she will be the new marshal 
of the Starlight Beacon.

The story moves back to Trennis, who realizes the Starlight Beacon, which sends 
a message to everyone throughout the Outer Rim, is disrupting the frequency the 
insects follow to get home; this is causing the issues on Shuraden. Trennis gets
the Starlight Beacon to change it’s frequency and uses her ship to get the insects
back on track. Trennis returns to Sskeer to apologize for disappearing during the
trials and losing their ship.

Sskeer and Trennis return to the Starlight Beacon, where she learns that the insect
issue was her actual trial and she’s now a Jedi Master. The issue ends with the 
grand opening of the Starlight Beacon.

It’s a solid set up issue. The writing is pretty standard for a Star Wars comics,
which isn’t surprising since Scott has written Star Wars canon material.

The issue with the story is it gives some minor spoilers to _Light of the Jedi_,
specifically that Sskeer is injured and another Jedi is killed; since I haven’t 
finished _Light of the Jedi_, this could impact my enjoyment of the book. I wish
they would have noted this at the beginning of the book.

The art is pretty good. The characters look like they are from Star Wars and the
colors are pretty vivid.

**Rating:** 4 out of 5. It’s a solid set up issue for the next era of Star Wars 
stories. There is a lot of potential here and it appears that they are going to 
not waste it.

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