The Jedi take their eye off the ball as the Sith return thanks to Palpatine’s masterful long-gestating plan to turn the Republic against the Jedi while tempting the Chosen One to the dark side. The prequel era consisting of The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, The Clone Wars, and Revenge of the Sith. In time, The Acolyte will sit in this era.

Keen to include all corners of the cosmos, the Chancellor of the Republic endeavours to carve a brave new future for the galaxy, but as always in the Star Wars galaxy it’s never quite that easy.

Set two centuries before the events of The Phantom Menace, The High Republic era shows the Republic at its glorious peak as the galaxy prospers without war or the threat of the Sith. The eras of Star Wars were recently classified as the Age of Empire, Age of Rebellion and Age of Resistance, with the freshly announced mega blast of new projects coming our way, those are no longer sufficient to explain the history of the saga, and so Lucasfilm have switched it up and redefined the timeline once again into six distinct eras. While in days past we may have jumped a century ahead with Star Wars Legacy and eons back in Dawn of the Jedi, those no longer define the breadth and depth of the Star Wars story. For a franchise that’s now over forty years old, a lot of content has flowed through the power generator of the saga.

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