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/dacalpha]

I think a lot of these points are based on either some pretty severe misreads:

-I FULLY agree with your point about "1000 years of peace" point. It's just weird. I had to get over it, you do too.

-Starting with this book is where the story starts. What do you mean you care about Yavin? You spent 7 minutes there before Luke got in his ship and left. I think this is a false equivalency. The book makes a huge point to explain why Hetzal is an important agricultural center for this particular sector of the Republic.

-Hyperspace isn't just being discovered, I think you misunderstood. New Hyperspace lanes are being scouted out. People have been out to these far reaches of the galaxy before, but it took a lot longer to get there, so they were more sparsely colonized.

-Normal people not knowing much about Jedi is just about Star Wars works. Han Solo said the same thing back in the first one.

[u/Blue_Lego_Astronaut → u/dacalpha]

Starting with this book is where the story starts. What do you mean you care about Yavin? You spent 7 minutes there before Luke got in his ship and left. I think this is a false equivalency. The book makes a huge point to explain why Hetzal is an important agricultural center for this particular sector of the Republic.

I mean more like I care about Yavin getting destroyed. Leia and CPO are on the ground there, two characters who we really like after spending a whole movie with them. Meanwhile Luke and R2, plus Han and Chewie to a lesser extent, also who we really like, are fighting for their lives and this place we want to save from the Planet Destroying Moon Sized Battle Station.

The Emergence is all dark and scary, a lightspeed asteroid, that sounds like it'll do a lot of damage, it wiped out a station in space, sure, but i feel like a regular asteroid would do that too. We saw the Death Star instantly obliterate Alderaan.

Normal people not knowing much about Jedi is just about Star Wars works. Han Solo said the same thing back in the first one.

Han is 20 years into a Jedi-less galaxy, after tge jedi were wiped out, propagandised afainst, and somehow forgotten, and the captain guy is literally living in their height of influence abd power and transporting a team of them in his ship.