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A New Dawn
by John Jackson Miller
Like many Star Wars fans, I have become enamored of the new Disney XD series Star Wars Rebels. It's a great animated series about a ragtag band of burgeoning Rebels in the years between Episode III and Episode IV. What I didn't know is that there is a novel that came out last fall all about how two of the main characters in Rebels met. Those characters are Kanan Jarrus and Hera Syndulla. And their story is pretty interesting.
Ten years after the extermination of the Jedi by Order 66 and six years before the events of Star Wars Rebels, Kanan Jarrus is living life on the down low. He works as a pilot and excavator on the planet of Gorse and its orbitting moon Cynda collecting Thorilide for the Empire to use in construction of Star Destroyers. This is one of many jobs that Kanan has had in the last decade as he carries out his otherwise nomadic existence with no ties anywhere.
Until he meets Hera, a beautiful and mysterious Twi'lek who he declares he'd follow anywhere. What he doesn't know is that following her, one of the early Rebels, brings him square in the crosshairs of the Empire. Oh yeah, did I mention that 10 years prior to this book, Kanan's name was Caleb Dume and he was an apprentice to Jedi Master Depa Billaba and watched as Clone Troopers, who once fought alongside them, turned their guns on the two of them? Caleb narrowly avoided assassination while Master Billaba covered his escape.
It's a pretty interesting story of the early stages of the Rebel Alliance and how characters played into the deepening rift between the Empire and the people of the galaxy. But it's also, oddly, a book about business and ethics that you just have to read to believe.
Give it a shot.
I listened to the Audible book and, while the narrator did a good job with most voices, actually sounding like Freddie Prinze Jr. (who lends his voice to Kanan on the TV series), he was utterly annoying trying to do Hera's voice. Why couldn't they have gotten Vanessa Marshall to do it?
Ten years after the extermination of the Jedi by Order 66 and six years before the events of Star Wars Rebels, Kanan Jarrus is living life on the down low. He works as a pilot and excavator on the planet of Gorse and its orbitting moon Cynda collecting Thorilide for the Empire to use in construction of Star Destroyers. This is one of many jobs that Kanan has had in the last decade as he carries out his otherwise nomadic existence with no ties anywhere.
Until he meets Hera, a beautiful and mysterious Twi'lek who he declares he'd follow anywhere. What he doesn't know is that following her, one of the early Rebels, brings him square in the crosshairs of the Empire. Oh yeah, did I mention that 10 years prior to this book, Kanan's name was Caleb Dume and he was an apprentice to Jedi Master Depa Billaba and watched as Clone Troopers, who once fought alongside them, turned their guns on the two of them? Caleb narrowly avoided assassination while Master Billaba covered his escape.
It's a pretty interesting story of the early stages of the Rebel Alliance and how characters played into the deepening rift between the Empire and the people of the galaxy. But it's also, oddly, a book about business and ethics that you just have to read to believe.
Give it a shot.
I listened to the Audible book and, while the narrator did a good job with most voices, actually sounding like Freddie Prinze Jr. (who lends his voice to Kanan on the TV series), he was utterly annoying trying to do Hera's voice. Why couldn't they have gotten Vanessa Marshall to do it?