#Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

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Star Wars: X-Wing: Rogue Squadron #27 (Family Ties #2 of 2) - TYE-Wing by Jim Hall and Drew Johnson

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I declare these Olympic Games…

OPENED!

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Onto the third Rogue Squadron book and I seriously wonder if Michael Stackpole is the Graham McNeill of Star Wars. He's held in extremely high regard, but frankly he had contemporaries back in Legends (though maybe not actually quite the same period) who could write rings around him in terms of prose, and a pretty large portion of the new canon's writers too.

To be clear, I'm leaving out the character stuff here, and just focusing on the writing itself.

I get that people love how much detail he puts into his starfighter action, but it gets to the point that much of the time, I'd rather skip the bit where Corran presses the paddle to move the etheric rudder, pulls on the control yoke etc and just have him take the damn X-Wing into a dive. Yes it's rich in detail, but it also pulls me out of the moment. Everything seems to happen in slow-mo, and therefore I feel a million miles away from the fast-paced combat which the heroes are actually experiencing. Sometimes I'd just like things to play out a little more directly.

But then Stackpole seems allergic to phrasing anything directly at times, or slimming down his word-count. It's very very easy to imagine Wedge asking Pash why he wants to trade a nippy little A-Wing for an X-Wing - wouldn't that slower speed drive him crazy? But no, Wedge has to tell Pash that A-Wings are faster than X-Wings, and more manoeuvrable, and only then can we get to the question which actually matters. Time and again there's the option to couch information in a manner that's characterful and doesn't just amount to characters bluntly stating stuff to one another, so the reader definitely gets it.

Put that together with metaphor, which in his hands is a great big heavy electrohammer which he swings with incredible force and turns nuance to dust, and it all becomes a bit "WE GET IT."

Actually, I'm not sure Stackpole trusts his readers at all, given how heavily loaded the books are with reminders of past events. As if I could ever forget the book in which the Otterfuckening happened...

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"Aspyr has brought back all of these brilliant Star Wars games: Jedi Academy, Episode 1 racer, OG Battlefront 1 and 2, republic commando and the KOTOR games." A sigh escapes his mouth. "Now I believe I speak for countless star wars fans when I ask this." He takes a deep breath. "When will the Rogue Squadron Trilogy get this treatment?"

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Patty Jenkins Back at Lucasfilm?

Patty Jenkins is claiming she is back at Lucasfilm working on her film Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. If you remember, back in 2020 Lucasfilm announced that the Wonder Woman director would be helming a new Star Wars film titled Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. Lucasfilm released an official teaser for the film, which featured Jenkins talking about what she hoped to accomplish and why she wanted to create a…

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Rogue One (2016) directed by Gareth Edwards

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Wedge Antilles, Leader of Red Squadron by David M. Buisan

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After the reconstruction of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, Han Solo's constant presence at the Temple begins to confuse the younger knights and apprentices.

At first, it makes some degree of sense. He usually shows up with Leia or one of his kids, and he is well-known as a friend and ally of the Order, so it makes sense for him to eat meals with Jaina, or attend meetings with the Masters, or assist Corran Horn in overseeing pilot training, or walk little Ben around the Stealth-X hangar. Plus, Lando Calrissian, Wedge Antilles, Booster Terrik, and Talon Karrde, also prominent allies and friends, are frequent visitors as well, so it makes sense.

But one day, some of the apprentices start noticing that Han is around a little bit more often than a non-member really should be. Maybe its been a while since he came for a briefing or training exercise, and maybe his reasons to visit lately have become a little too casual. Now, he's showing up alone just to try out the flight simulators new Chiss clawcraft program, or because it's nerf sausage day in the cafeteria, and more often than not, its on days where his kids are off on missions and Luke and Mara are tied up in council business.

It reaches a whole new level during a pilot exercise led by Corran, Kyp, and Jaina, when one of the apprentices ask who's the best pilot they know, and three of the Order's premiere pilots, two of whom are Rogue Squadron veterans and all three of whom spent most of the Yuuzhan Vong war in a cockpit, unanimously agree on Han Solo.

Then, two months later, when the Temple's security system is being updated and Master Kyle Katarn gives strict orders that no one is to enter or exit the temple until the update is completed, Han casually walks right up to the two senior apprentices guarding the temple entrance. When told that there's a security lockdown due to system updates, Han doesn't "want to hear about security updates, I want to know where my wife is. It's our wedding anniversary and I'm taking her someplace nice in the Falcon, now tell me where she is so we can get going." After several minutes of arguing, a visibly frustrated Han decides to just go get her himself, and when one of the apprentices tries to stop him, Han somehow disarms him of his lightsaber and throws it outside of his telekinetic range, leaving him chasing after his weapon and his partner following Han, trying to talk him into stopping. All while Jaden Korr is watching, shaking his head, and mouthing, "You'll be sorry."

Han quickly finds Jedi Knight and former New Republic Chief of Staff, and SHOCKS the two apprentices with his absolute immunity to her infamous and feared anger before sweet talking the lifelong diplomat into leaving the temple in the middle of the lockdown for an anniversary escapade. Then, he casually walks out of the Jedi Temple in the middle of a security lockdown like it's kriffing nothing with one of the most prominent Knights in the Order. And when the two apprentices finally get a hold of Master Katarn to advise that Han Solo just infiltrated the Temple and absconded with Jedi Organa-Solo, his reaction is something like "<pause> and you idiots actually tried to stop him?" "Well, yes, Master, you said no one comes in or out." "<pause> Yes, but what in the Sithspit made you think that you should try to stop Han Solo from getting to his wife on their anniversary?"

A month after that, he walks up to the High Council chambers right in the middle of a serious meeting. The apprentices standing watch outside (one of the same from the security incident) assume that he's been summoned to answer to the rumors that he started hosting a weekly Sabaac tournament in one of the temple classrooms (the rumor is completely true, just last week Kenth Hamner nearly ragequit after Han cleaned him out for the fifth consecutive week) and assure him that the Masters will call him when they're ready for him. Han ignores this and walks right in, right as the masters are in the middle of a discussion about potential Dark Jedi sightings on Corellia, to demand that Mara make good on all the lost bets she owes from the previous few Sabaac nights. After several minutes heated discussion (the Dark Jedi are almost forgotten at this point), the entire council comes out, and Master Cilghal informs the incredulous apprentices that Mara owes Han so many lunches from the Sabaac nights that it was agreed that she would just treat the entire council, as well as Han, to clear her tab. Mara is semi-sternly lecturing Han about interrupting council meetings for something so trivial, while Han is good-naturedly wondering if she's been deliberately scheduling meetings at lunchtime to avoid paying up, causing her to go curiously quiet (the apprentices are FLOORED that the infamously terrifying Mara Jade Skywalker isn't plugging him full of laser bolts for this whole interaction).

As the last one to leave, Luke stops to ask the apprentices if they're okay, having sensed their immense confusion.

"Well, Grand Master, it's just... it seems like Captain Solo gets away with whatever he wants. It's like the rules don't apply to him, and some of us have been wondering..." she gulps before continuing. "If it's maybe possible that Captain Solo is secretly not only a Jedi, but more powerful than you, and secretly the real Grand Master of the Order."

Grand Master Luke Skywalker, completely unable to resist this particular urge, rubs his chin thoughtfully, pretends to carefully consider the question for a moment, and then, with a small grin, responds: "That's a interesting question, Apprentice. Perhaps he is," before walking away, grinning like mad, while the apprentices stare incredulously at his back.

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Them: Who’s your favourite Star Wars character?

Me: (Pulls out 10 X-Wing Star Wars legends books) So his name is Wedge & he’s just a lad who wants to run his squadron in peace & no one he hangs out with is sane

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reading the X-Wing books again

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Did Skywalker make that shot?