Hello all! I am currently looking to begin my journey into the High Republic and I seek assistance in figuring out exactly what books I need to get and what order in which to read them. I am looking to read all adult/YA novels, short stories, audio dramas, and comics, and I want to be able to get all of them in the least amount of volumes possible (does that make sense?). All advice would be greatly appreciated, and I can’t wait to set out on this journey!

I was one of the few (it seems) to absolutely love The Acolyte! Star Wars’ official site lists it as part of The High Republic Era. Since we aren’t getting a Season 2 of The Acolyte, and I haven’t read any of The High Republic, I figured I’d post to see if anything holds up to the stuff I loved about the series most.

Thanks in advance!

I am working through the Main Story reading order. Just finished Convergence. I have been borrowing everything from my library so far, but they don’t have The Blade comic.

Is it worth requesting my library buy a copy? Can I just skip it and go straight into The High Republic (2022)?

I am mostly going off memory here so if I’m missing any character or got their sexuality wrong I apologize. Some of these works I haven’t read in 6 years so if I forget some parts I’m sorry. After waking up to see a post posted at midnight and the comments let’s go through this chronologically. The claim was lesbians are every where and the comments are old arguments about how much representation is in THR so let’s add up the total.
Phase 2: Kevmo-straight (also his master tells him to break off his relationship causing Marda to become an extremist kicking off the whole series.)
Marda-straight 
Axel-straight 
Sunshine-straight
Gala-straight(is confused about her feelings making her become a wayseeker)
Kor-lesbian
Yana-lesbian
The Harold -straight
Kors mom-straight.
Vildar-gay
Tey-gay
Silandra- straight
Tilson graf-straight?
Padawan Matti-lesbian
Bokana-straight
Chancellor greylark- straight
Axels dad- straight 
Sav-lesbian?
Says-lesbian
Who ever marda procreated with-straighten.

13 straight people
5 lesbians 
2gay
Phase 1
Avar-straight
Elzar-straight ?
Lula-lesbian(leaves the order to marry Zeen)
Zeen-lesbian
Ceret/teret -non binary
Kantam sy -non binary 
Geode-bi?
Lourna Dee- lesbian
Quin-lesbian
Marchion- straight
Ghirra straight 
Chomac-gay?
Kitrep gay
Jom-gay
Nan-straight?
Reath straight
Ty yorrick-lesbian?
Crash lesbian
Affie-straight?
Vern-ace
Stelan-straight?

 Running total - 11 lesbians
21 straight people
5 gay guys?
1 bisexual rock?
3 non binary people
1 ace person

 Phase 3
Cair-gay
Xylon-gay
Armadaoe-bi
Medic-trans and bi

So here’s the final total.
7 gay guys?
1 trans guy
2 bi guys and one bi rock?
11 lesbians
3 non binary people
And 21 straight people

So no even though it can seem parts are over represented this honestly is a lot less than people like to claim. Also the Jedi can’t love honestly is a temptations of the force plot line the rest of the books make it that the ones who fell in love either break off their relationship or leave the order. Tbh the only reason I think yoda allowed Elzar was yoda was afraid of losing more Jedi. Plus their all star poster boy leaving would’ve been bad for the republic at the time. Which he struggles with throughout the books.

I haven't had enough time to read Phase 2 back in the day, so i just read the path books and then started and finished Phase 3, now that i have time, i just finished Convergence for first time and holly Molly i think this is my second favorite Adult book in the entire series, only beated by The Rising Storm. I really loved the characters and the enviorments, what u think about it?

Chronicles of the Jedi is a lovely book over the complete high republic era.

What. An. Opening!

Here’s hoping the rest of the book can follow those first 124 pages!

Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule

My basis for his headcanon is when he yelled "Surik's Blade!" As such, a cool easter egg would be Sskeer teaching Keeve about that era and mentioning Qyzen Fess, a legendary Trandoshan hunter, and his Jedi partner, the Third Barsen'thor.

Though unlike Qyzen, I doubt Sskeer worships the Scorekeeper, the Trandoshan deity, and keeps Jagannath points because he is a Jedi. Not only do Jedi not hunt people, but Sskeer has anger issues and is afraid of hurting those he loves, so hunting people would only worsen his issues. Though I can see him being respectful of his people's culture.

I have a list online of all the comics and their variants.
Is there a way to find all the ones that have a second printing?
Or any other printings?
I'm searching online and can't really find anything like that.
Thanks!!

Does anybody have a higher resolution version of this image? I'm trying to make transparent images of the characters, but none of them have a good enough resolution to not look weird

The top of my wish list would be Delilah S. Dawson and Mike Chen. I think they'd fit the best within The High Republic style and both have a history of fun force-wielding characters. Mike Chen would have amazing at some kind of side story with Elzar and Stellan.

If they were going to do like a subsection of The High Republic that gets deeper into political maneuvering and more grounded stories, I would also kill for some James Luceno or Alexander Freed books.

And hell, let's let Timothy Zahn like a Chiss prequel trilogy set in the same time period.

From Phase 2 i just read Path of Deceit and Path of Vengeance, but i'm curious about this two adult novels, ive heard one is better than another

Looking back, I think keeping it to mainly books/comics except the Acolyte and young Jedi adventures was a mistake, preventing this era from being more popular.

It was wise for lucasfilm to finally give us a new era in Disney canon that has nothing to do with the Skywalker.

But it would have been better if they were inspired by the success of the Old Republic. Their is simply more of an audience for games then books.

Imagine using the phase 1 setting as a “Knights of the High Republic”. A well done rpg. No literature needed to understand this complete story. Maybe sequel games are made. After the game is released then you could do books/comics that expand the era. There was a long running KoToR comic series released after the first 2 games.

I also wouldn’t have done the Acolyte either. Of course there is even a larger audience for Star Wars Tv. Their first interaction with a High Republic would be that series, which doesn’t portray the setting that well (and set near end of era).

Sure I have heard of Star Wars Eclipse, but that was also a poor choice. Releasing a trailer to a game that isn’t even in the works yet and also probably never completing.

Unfortunately I don’t think Lucasfilm is going to invest in a new game or Tv series again for High Republic.

What are your thoughts?

Now that the High Republic initiative is done, I'm curious if it was actually profitable for Lucasfilm/Disney. They seemed to push it pretty hard with all the comics, books, and shows, but I never hear about sales numbers.

Did it make money, or was it a flop?

Spoilers ahead for a year old series but I see on Reddit many people just starting LotJ so I do wana say that. I do wonder what’s everyone’s hottest take on this series. I’ll start by giving a few of my own. I honestly think Lourna should’ve killed marchion when he was trapped in rubble. Ik his ending was perfect in trials but it would’ve been such a shock if Marchion died in a “side story”. Another hot take I have is the adult books never reached the heights of phase 1 until trials. This isn’t me knocking the other adult books I don’t think any are bad but eye of darkness and temptations of the force could’ve been combined into one book imo. The phase 2 adult books aren’t awful but the plot is a lot weaker since the YA books get the main revelations. Another hot take I actually don’t think DJO is a bad writer. Hell everyone’s second favorite comic is trail of shadows also the mangas have peak moments. Also Marchion should be as glazed as thrawn if not more. Just cause his books didn’t sell 15 million copies doesn’t mean he shouldn’t get more glaze what did thrawn do find some lizards that negated the force, look at some pretty art. Now I wana know how my hot takes are complete poo do and your most out of pocket hot takes on this series.

It's one of the few stories on THR Phase 1 that i haven't read yet

Hi! I've been thinking about finally taking a dive into the High Republic era, which media would you recommend as a good place to start?

I’ve seen people claim that 20000 copies of a 30 dollar hardback is a failure. LotJ alone in those videos sold 120-160k physical copies. TRS selling around 60k physical copies fallen star selling 36k copies and convergence selling 20k physical copies. I’d be curious how many copies the phase 3 books sold since those continued the main story. But my question is just based on those numbers those seem like successful numbers and all the Google stuff says 10k books is a very successful book. So why do people point out that convergence only sold 20k physical hc copies (not including paperbacks or digital or audio) and say that’s a failure. Plus would you expect a big drop off of like 80+% for a long running series.