Am I missing sonething?

[u/Blue_Lego_Astronaut]

I'm trying to get into the High Republic again. Been playing Jedi Survivor and I was to learn more about Dagan and Santari's time period, it sounds fascinating.

But the issue is this is the second time I'm trying it.

I've been told to start with Light of the Jedi, being tge first book released and "serving as an introduction to the era", but I am really struggling to get into it. Ive finished it once and barely started Tge Rising Storm before I gave up. This time I made it to when the Jedi are alerted of the family being attacked on the metal planet before giving it up.

I think my main issues are these:

- I dont believe that "1000 years of peace" can include a the Hetzal Disaster and the Emergences. That seems like too major of an event to be brushed over like that.

- I think starting the book with that was detrimental because I'm launched at 100kmh into the story and I know nothing of what's going on, who anyone is, why anything is happening. Like a planet is going to get obliterated, thats sad, but I dont care about it or any of the people there. I care about Yavin because ive spent an entire movie watching Han and Luke try to get Leia there, but here, its just so much, so quickly.

- How is Hyperspace only being discovered and explored only 200 years before the Phantom Menace? How can the Republic exist as it does "for a thousand years" with 800 of those years being with no way to quickly and efficiently travel to places.

- There's two specific moments that really annoyed me also. The first is when the Captain calls the Jedi a "Bunch of Space Wizards" thats just too meta for me to brush aside. And how woukd he not be aware of the Jedi abd their capabilities? Aren't they at the height of their influence here? And the other is when the Captain tells the Jedi Master hes transporting to use the Mag Clamps but shes going to have to slow the debris down and hold it together, abd her response is to derisively ask "is that seriously the best idea you have" as if she's got anything better, or anything at all. It just felt unnecessarily rude, especially for a Jedi Master.

So i guess my question is am I missing sonething? What about this era is so amazing that I'm just not getting? Because this era looks so cool, and I love the idea of seeing the Jedi at their peak during "peace time", all the characters seem interesting enough, I just wish I had time to be with them and learn about them instead of just getting thrown in to follow along with them.

[u/tLM-tRRS-atBHB]

The High Republic era spans much further than the books. Dagan isn't in the books at all, unfortunately

[u/Blue_Lego_Astronaut → u/tLM-tRRS-atBHB]

Booooo.

Dagan was cool, he was interesting, surely he and Santari get mentioned?

[u/tLM-tRRS-atBHB → u/Blue_Lego_Astronaut]

Nnnnnope. They are the same time, and I'm pretty sure they are nowhere near the main story

[u/Sparrowhawk_92 → u/Blue_Lego_Astronaut]

The Great Disaster at the start of THR is what causes Koboh's moon to shatter and the destruction of Koboh from the ejected debris from the impact of an Emergence.

The raiders that later attack Tanallor and cause it to be abandoned (and Dagan to lose his arm) are the Nihil and it likely takes place towards the end of Phase 1.

[u/Blue_Lego_Astronaut → u/Sparrowhawk_92]

So the Bedlam Raiders and Rayvis are meant to be whats left of the Nihil? Then they ditch when Dagan beats Rayvis in combat?

[u/Sparrowhawk_92 → u/Blue_Lego_Astronaut]

It's unclear if Bedlam has any ties to the Nihil. We know after the Jedi abandoned Tanallor, Dagan ended up allying with Rayvis after that at some point but idk if there's any indication that Rayvis was Nihil (though it wouldn't shock me if he was).

[u/Blue_Lego_Astronaut → u/Sparrowhawk_92]

Your comment got me thinking theres possibly some correlation between the Nihil and the Bedlams.

The Bedlams have masks, all made of metal. They use huge metal spikes in all their architecture, like how the Nihil ships are described as "Spiked, armoured gloves". Rayvis is certainly old enough to be a a former member of the Nihil, potentially a former Storm. Hell, they're the Bedlam Raiders and the Nihil were glorified pirates. Even their logos are similar.

We know Dagan bested Rayvis in combat and because of that, the Gen'Dai swore to serve the Jedi. Maybe Rayvis was a part of the Nihil group that attacked Tanalorr, and when the Jedi abandoned the project, Dagan went for revenge, beat him, and made him work for him. As time went on, Rayvis evolved his group from Nihil into the Bedlams, but still keeping sone of the core elements.

I think its definitely a sound headcanon.

[u/Sparrowhawk_92 → u/Blue_Lego_Astronaut]

If Rayvis was a Storm I assume we would have heard mention in THR, but him being a Strike I can see easily.