- To book -
It is no coincidence that of all John Jackson Miller A NEW DAWN opened the new era of the Expanded Universe and precisely selected to this item. 37 years full of novels, comics and video games have been this year, "Legends" and the canon is no longer relevant, as it would never happen. A New Dawn is the first work of the new unit continuity, to ensure that in future no more contradicts so much. An important task of the increased expectations on this novel immeasurably.
A New Dawn is up to the release of the next Star Wars novels also the first and only work with the "public" in search of Episode VII-spoilers can employ. This device is a Star Wars novel for the first time in years in the field of view of a public who had nothing with the EU, reboot fears and apprehensions to date on the hat. One could also say, the book is therefore already fallen into the hands of people who would not at all belong to the target group.
The attention should not really harm the book, however. The actually actually provided as tie-in was applied only as Roman history to the new TV series Rebels and tie-ins can be of often very modest quality indeed. In the case of A New Dawn but it has become much more. The work has to face, to save the honor of the new canons and to show that the new novels can be grown to quite often with cult status now revered "legendary" predecessors to the task.
It already catches the eye that A New Dawn comes about without the previously typical timeline and at least in the hardcover version also features a foreword by Dave Filoni. This underlines Dave Filonis priority in the new Star Wars universe, he has made in recent years with The Clone Wars a whole new generation of fans with familiar Star Wars. And Filonis TCW is also the first work in addition to the films, which was included in the new canon. Possibly probably practiced in TCW "work-up" of the old Expanded Universe also be a model for future works in text and image.
But as a connoisseur of the old universe, one is always a bit skeptical. So well THE CLONE WARS then had a contributed by Karen Traviss novel to film, which certainly better read as many of the Star Wars novels of this period and especially towards the end of the old EUs. But even this success proved not simply be transferred to the other Star Wars novels of the time. As much as I Traviss TCW-Roman also liked, so I was upset about some of their Republic Commando-Werke. In short, just because a launch is well done, the rest of the flight does not have to run as.
- Go To Content -
A NEW DAWN sounds from the premise forth very clearly for a "classic" Star Wars novel. For readers who are in Star Wars literature unfamiliar with these typical products of the last decades, classic means mediocre at best and somewhat predictable. A ruthless imperial governor of any locals makes life hell - this is outline for EU experts actually nothing new.
But that's not all, and those who know John Jackson Miller's past work might have already guessed. Miller makes the action look very typical, however, shows very quickly that he does not repeat here the error of the ancient canons and instead relies on a very rich and even use relevant story.
In A New Dawn Kanan Jarrus clearly plays the leading role, comparable to Darth Bane in the Bane trilogy. There may be other characters, but Kanan is the linchpin of the story, even if it Count Vidian temporarily steals the show. About Hera Syndulla you probably wanted to not give too much away, but we learn from Kanan both the name of his Jedi Master, as well as an explanation of what he has driven in the years since Order 66 and how he could so easily survive. One can JJM high credit for being here throughout is based on coherent explanations and has invested a lot of effort in this novel. However, the pairing Kanan Jarrus and author John Jackson Miller is also an ideal case, Miller has yet presented with KENOBI a Western-style Star Wars novel, which would make it the best choice for a story about the Cowboy Jedi Kanan. That KENOBI also among fans and critics highly regarded, and has won several awards makes JJM as Herold new era in Star Wars novels to a worthy occupation.
As in KENOBI succeeds JJM more than once to turn the tide and make heroes as villains challenges that you would not expect. At least for my taste JJM has done a narrative tour de force that can compete with Kenobi and many of the forgotten works of the past years can occur entirely in the background.
- The Heroes -
Rebels-creator Dave Filoni called Kanan Jarrus like the Cowboy Jedi and John Jackson Miller can slip in Kanan A NEW DAWN in this role. A NEW DAWN explains what is going on with this name and that there is more behind it than just a throwaway remark. The never long lasting in a place Kanan is a good person, but also not afraid of bats perch land and romances. As much as Kanan also tried to suppress his Jedi heritage, he can not help but occasionally act as lifesavers and stand in for the weak. However, unlike other such characters from the Star Wars universe Kanan is widely unloaded. He lives his life and does not have too many complaints. Kanan flees also not really in front of the Empire, he flees from boredom and of course as soon as he can no longer completely conceal his Jedi skills.
The drifter Kanan is a result of his Jedi training. Even as a Padawan Kanan was used not too much comfort and was taught as little emotional connections to the world around him to respond. This allowed him his escape from Coruscant and the Core Worlds to handle a relatively painless affair. At the time he was 14, now it is early 20s and has become accustomed to a life as a womanizer and Jobhopper. Although he remembered the basic features of Han Solo, but has a friendlier nature and is placed also more fun.
About Hera Syndulla we learn, however, less. She is a woman with a mission and a remarkable skillset. Hera is left for Gorse to study Count Vidian and to meet an informant. Your self-description by Hera is an activist with politically alert mind. In Heras head already buzzing around the idea of a Rebel Alliance, but nor is it just an activist on the way to the Galaxy. Hera, however, has seemingly everything that one would expect from an agent of the Rebel Alliance, spaceship, training and experience. One wonders whether Hera not perhaps already is part of an organization. Heras political commitment reminiscent of Princess Leia, but their talents they move more in the direction of Mara Jade, though her for missing the Machtempfänglichkeit. Hera has an idea and Rebels will probably also show how this idea at the right people as Bail Organa will fall on sympathetic ears.
Zaluna Myder is a sullustanische monitoring specialist and up to Count Vidians arrival actually a loyal support of the system. Since the days of the Republic directs Zaluna her team to monitoring experts, who call themselves lovingly Myders mynocks to browse through an extensive network of cameras and listening devices to crime. Long ago Zalunas monitoring company employed more so for marketing, and the like to gather relevant information, but those days have changed rapidly with the Clone Wars. The theft of explosives was to clarify and increasingly also joined the monitoring of criminal doubtful cases and potential traitors to the fore. With the rise of the Empire, the loop will be drawn ever closer and people disappear without a trace after they have given about antigovernment slogans of itself. And the imperial repression does not take hold even for Zalunas mynocks.
The Klonkriegsveteran and demolition expert Skelly, however, is the typical crazed war veteran who lost at the end of the Clone Wars an arm and probably also parts of his mind. After the war, he was practically on the street, as well as many other war veterans. Unlike the clones, the volunteers found probably not all included in the Imperial forces. Skelly has next to some quite plausible conspiracy prescribed also the question of what could cause the blasting operations on the moon Cynda.
- The rogue -
With Count Vidian John Jackson Miller is an amazingly complex antagonist has managed what makes me suspect the same as a connoisseur that he in his comics never had the leeway to give his antagonists even approximate depth.
At Vidian first everything seems to be pretty straightforward. An imperial bureaucrat with no conscience that you know but from hundreds Star Wars stories of recent decades. One waits initially being read only on Vidians biography and this makes the Count first of all tangible in his actions. Such a short outline of the background story, which is giving the antagonists but additional depth and the reader a key to understanding Vidians actions something that would already make a good Star Wars novel.
After Vidians motivation is clear and also makes his methods are becoming clearer JJM these villains still human. He may be a cyborg who had to replace all parts of the body due to a flesh-eating virus, but he is also a man driven. Vidians motivation efficiency was the way out for to exert revenge and to reinvent itself him from his sickbed. According to the Count also has additional body parts voluntarily sacrificed because that makes him even more efficient.
Vidian is not just any malicious bureaucrat, he is a man with a unique backstory and how Darth Vader someone he survived incredible odds because he clung to a very dark motivation. Vidian is a man who has realized that he can not continue to live and let his pain behind him when he moves forward. However, his fate has predestined him to be someone who enjoys a sort of celebrity status and in accordance with successful management counselors was. In a way Vidian is a soul mate Darth Vader, which can also be seen as an example and role model for the overcoming of fatal injury and a life-destroying crisis well.
But no matter how powerful we Vidian appear in a moment, in the next visually somehow very close to Grand Moff Trachta (a character of the old Star Wars comics) oriented Count is another doormat in the imperial hierarchy. Even a moment before he acts as the personal governor of the Emperor since overtaken him the call of a subordinate who informed him smugly about the increased demands of the Emperor. Vidian is under enormous pressure to perform and is really the victim of an intrigue of his aides Baron Danthe who is the heir of a courtier Droidenmanufaktur and significantly more able to move brilliantly in the empire. On the other hand, the higher-ranking climbers Vidian without aristocratic connections a sitting duck.
The big reveal regarding Vidian comes in a later section of the book, leaving the first such command and one-dimensional villain acting appear elaborated even more sophisticated than one would have thought it a simple "tie-in novel" possible. Vidians limited skills in social matters and his victim against the scheming Danthe can perhaps be traced back even to Vidians true backstory. Once small bureaucrat and doormat, always small bureaucrat and Fußabsteifer?
Another contrast is Kalliber Baron Danthe. The young industrialist and heir of a handsome family property belongs to the new imperial elite. As created by Marvel Tagge Dynasty is Danthe an important pillar of the Empire, but what remained unclear at the Tagges becomes clear when Danthe. Danthes high social position in the empire is not only based on its background as an aristocratic industrialist, but what his factories produce, namely precisely those Minendroiden that also Count Vidian would need to break down the raw materials needed. In the Clone Wars most Droidenhersteller ended on the side of separatists. Now the war is over a number of years already and the factories of the former enemies of the state were canceled and partly distributed to minions of the new regime. So the loyalists and war were powerful on the part of Palpatine and the supports of the empire.
Another face of the empire's Captain Rae Sloane. The imperial officer is only 30 and already ascended to the rank of captain, but their position is by no means certain. As Baron Danthe it belongs to the new generation, the first in the empire really grown Imperials. But while Sloane Danthe is one of the truly evil this new era more a prisoner of the system, as well as Count Vidian. Sloane's way out of a meager existence in the factories of their homeworld was the Imperial Academy. It was Fleet officer and is not only committed to the empire in this way but also fall. Without this ever-growing army Sloane could not have done it from their home world away. Without this enormous empire and military machine many Imperiale were simply unemployed or condemned to a unenviable existence.
So little facets JJM Sloane has also given, it is an important part of this book, even if it does not emit too memorable character. On fate Sloans two things are clear on the one hand, that the Empire has more troops than ships, on the other hand, that you will give still more powerful. The Empire is located at the time of A New Dawn only at the beginning of his rise. Losing projects like the Death Star is a bitter blow, but not a little back to be corrected defeat for the Empire. The Empire recruited not just an unscrupulous pack or clones, but those who have no other chance. It offers people a career, a roof over their heads and regular payment. The fact that results in a considerable loyalty to the Regine is probably self-evident. Only these aspects has precisely to A New Dawn ever brought no other author so bluntly discussed. The new canon undertakes been here in a work that could be inconsequential actually, a lot more for the creation of a logical continuity than the majority of novels and comics in recent decades.
- Count Vidians Code -
Keep moving! Destroy barriers! See everything!
Sounds almost like the motto of the newly installed Story Group, as well as Vidians:
Forget the old way!
To break new ground is the task of the proclaimed by Palpatine Empire and so take Vidians Tags probably also the lifestyle of the new generation of young Imperial together, which will henceforth determine the fate of the galaxy.
Keep moving: With an able body, the mind can achieve anything
Destroy barriers: Get information Directly, whenever possible
See everything: He Who has the data has the upperhand
Interesting how Vidians vitalism actually seems to fit well on Darth Vader. The Sith Lord acted already in the comics of the bygone era often by these directives. Why does Darth Vader even speak with an agent or personally participate in any campaign? "Destroy barriers!"
Count Vidians Code opens up interesting possibilities for future stories, as Vidian was indeed shown in A New Dawn as a fairly prominent character in recent years. Even with his fate a return in some form is not impossible yes. After one has created such a versatile ideological basis for the tried hard to efficiency empire in the first novel it might feel a strong unit continuity still clearly substantiate when Vidians Code will not be forgotten and will find already in a publication of next year use ,
- The importance of this book for the Extended Universe -
A New Dawn is an interesting work in many ways. It marks the beginning of a new era, but to what extent it will already be characteristic of his era is completely open. Only one thing is certain, what A NEW DAWN already used and reintroducing must also necessarily part of the new unit continuity remain. Imperial-class Star Destroyer, construction projects such as the Super Star Destroyer and Death Star, confirmed everything, as well as the existence of non-cloned soldiers in the Clone Wars.
Perhaps it is only on the REBELS and TCW-Connection, but A NEW DAWN also seems clear bemühter as last novels to explain relationships and embellish the universe something. So it seems to me A NEW DAWN as The Clone Wars to try to provide an explanation as to what happened at the end of the Clone Wars with the separatists companies. As TCW explained that the Banking Clan and the Trade Federation until the end of the Clone Wars supplied both sides, as explained A New Dawn now that probably after the war many of the enemy companies eliminated and the bankrupt was slammed loyalist friends of the Emperor.
Novels that quite a bit more to go as far as the history of the Star Wars universe in depth, which makes me happy. But AND accomplishes a great deal more. The novel combines old with new and seeks answers to open questions, but also creates a docking point for future works. If an industrialist like Count Vidian already at the launch of the new unit continuity plays such a role, what might happen in the new Star Wars Marvel Comics? In the antiquated Marvel Comics of the 70s and 80s there was at that time the Tagge Dynasty, potential successors Baron Danthes and Count Vidians. The Tagges had fought in the Clone Wars on the right side and then practically conceded former rival firms as war booty. They served from now on as Industrial and high-ranking officers of the regime imperial Emperor Palpatine. In a political climate that sees the Tarkins a new generation in unscrupulous managers and industrialists could in the coming years in REBELS, the comics and maybe even the novels imminent return of Tagges.
- The new and the old cannon -
"There are truths, and there are legends touched with truth, and all can teach you something"
Just because the old Star Wars novels now "Legends" are not necessary to dispose of them, unless there are perhaps those works that could have been given away in any case prefer to be back. Recreate 27 years of Star Wars Tales and replace will require a lot of time, which is why it can be done for practical reasons already pure, that some of the legends may be more relevant than others again.
Even if a story seems irrelevant because of the new continuity totally opposed continuous output that is occurring events and motives may well be part of the new canons. Some might resurfaces.
Rather than dispose of everything and from 0 to start again you've already taken some things again. The Tarkin-excerpt tells us about the existence of Victory Star Destroyers. An entire class of ships that never occurred in the movies and TCW. But the headhunters (who in The Clone Wars occurred) be mentioned. The X-wing predecessor appears in the new canon just to be part of the early rebel armada like in the old canon. Even in the few pages of this Moff Tarkin is an excerpt already depicted as a militarily adept man who perhaps could become a kind of substitute for Grand Admiral Thrawn in future novels. Which brings us to a by A New Dawn and TARKIN feeling these new times.
The practical entrümpelte Dark Times and Rebellion era is a very terrible area. It was here in the old cannon just way too many stories and many were by no means memorable. Now to create a new order for this era and in any case always problematic relationship prequels and classic trilogy to procure a smooth transition is a daunting task, the only means of re-boots was possible.
And let's be honest, most of the fascination of a post-Endor era came therefore because here a lot of stories were written that dealt with the struggle of the rebels against the Empire. And these stories will be available in the next 10 years at the center. No solo grandson and Corellian civil wars more, but simple Imperium vs. Rebellion banter. After 37 years on various Abwegen one is on the verge of just writing those additional Star Wars stories that were recently submitted to us 20 years ago. Tom Veitch, Timothy Zahn, Aaron Allston and Michael Stackpole were next to Dave Wolverton the only Star Wars authors who were really busy in detail the post-Endor-phase and a tremendous amount contributed to the Lore. Her works are no longer part of the continuity, but their legacy remains.
The succession crisis of the empire, after Episode VII probably also offer a large play area for the authors to dig out everything possible from the golden age of the Star Wars novels again. But Star Wars novels are read again in the future more like Star Wars and not as in the case of the Dark Nest trilogy more as Enders Game or Starship Troopers.
The Story Group has also guaranteed that future Star Wars stories also act as well from a single source, at least for the next few years. It is no longer wild shot through all eras and REBELS can also cook their own thing no more, everything must now be coordinated and must not contradict each other. This also creates greater security for us fans, that what we read in the novels, even on the big screen is still correct and vice versa. Whether these new restrictive license policy of creativity or quality of the new plants, however, conducive to be seen. The fear the annual Star Wars movies would sacrifice much of their uniqueness and evolve more towards the Marvel movies is certainly justified. But for the next few years one can live well from films and stories that still need to go no really own way and can be tightly bound to the source material.
- Conclusion -
A good start for a new era and a far better book than I would have expected. John Jackson Miller's first novel KENOBI was already a kind of masterpiece, his second novel underlines Millers talent yet to be able to conjure up a little exciting or significant action premises a great story itself.
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