#star wars njo

[theresistanceneverquits]

Anakin’s final scene in Star By Star

[daisyridleyedits]

"I think I feel every project is a discovery. The last time I filmed [Star Wars] was many, many years ago. So I feel like it will feel like a new thing. Personally, a lot has changed in the past while for me. I feel like an adult now (might not be). So it feels like I'm revisiting something... But it feels like such a new challenge [with] a new team. Very exciting, but will feel like— I don't feel like, strangely, I'm stepping back into it. I feel like I'm stepping forward into something new. The reaction has been amazing."

—Daisy Ridley on how it feels coming back to Rey for New Jedi Order

[saphronethaleph]

The Second Order

Ben looked up at the sound of voices.

“...just saying,” someone was just saying. “Why Ossus? I get that it’s not a bad place to be sited, but Yavin Four was right there.”

“I considered both,” Uncle Luke replied. “And several other places. But there was… so much to learn, on Ossus.”

“I’m just too used to Yavin Four, I guess,” the other person replied, as they rounded a corner, then glanced up. “Oh, good… uh, is it morning? I’m not sure if it’s morning.”

“It’s the afternoon,” Ben said, putting down his calligraphy set. “Who are you?”

“Master Katarn,” the man introduced himself. “Or, Kyle, I guess. Kyle is probably better, really, it’s just… you know. Jedi Temple.”

“This is my nephew, Ben Solo,” Luke said. “He’s a fine apprentice.”

“Nice to meet you,” Kyle said, holding out his hand to shake, and Ben took it hesitantly.

Much to his relief, the strange Jedi Master – and how did that work? Ben thought he knew everyone who could even try to claim that title – didn’t try the old crusher-grip trick, instead giving him a firm handshake before letting go again.

“Master Skywalker, who is this?” Ben asked. “How don’t I know about him?”

“I’ll let him explain,” Luke invited.

Kyle had looked faintly confused, for a moment, then shrugged it off.

“So there’s this thing called flow walking,” he said. “And I was doing it to try and get out of a Vong ambush, and I ended up here. Fortunately it looks like they didn’t manage to follow me here.”

“...what are Vong?” Ben said.

“If you haven’t heard of them…” Kyle began, then frowned at Luke in an assessing sort of way. “What year is it?”

“You think you might have travelled in time?” Ben asked, realizing what that meant. “It’s, uh, 8004 CRC… um, the New Republic calendar is based on years after the Battle of Yavin, did that happen in your world?”

“Yeah, that happened,” Kyle agreed. “Your uncle destroyed the Death Star, right?”

“Correct,” Luke said. “It’s currently the year twenty-seven, by that reckoning.”

“Great, so I only travelled between universes,” Kyle said. “So… that means the Vong probably aren’t a problem for you, unless they’ve been delayed… have you had any other serious crises that we haven’t? The Yavin academy was assaulted several times, but we’ve always bounced back… did you have the Empire Reborn? Or the Cult of Ragnos?”

Luke and Ben exchanged glances.

“I… don’t know what those are,” Ben admitted.

“I’ve never heard of such a thing either,” Luke agreed. “The only real crisis we’ve faced was the Knights of Ren, but fortunately they didn’t take the lives of any young Jedi.”

“Lucky you,” Kyle said, sounding like he meant it sincerely.

“How are you a Jedi Master?” Ben asked, suddenly.

“It took me a while to accept the title, believe you me,” Kyle replied, with a chuckle. “I’m about… thirty, forty percent self taught, Mara did another twenty percent, and the rest was reciprocal learning from the rest of the Academy. Ultimately Luke’s… counterpart, I guess, named me the Academy’s Battlemaster, but it’s still a struggle to convince myself that I deserve the term.”

He shrugged. “Still, you must have the same kind of problem here, right? Though you didn’t have any of those attacks… any sign of Dark Jedi or rival Sith academies?”

Uncle and nephew both shook their heads, and Kyle seemed to be doing some internal calculations.

“You started your academy in, what, eight to twelve ABY?” he asked. “If you’re much like the Master Skywalker I knew.”

“Eleven,” Ben provided. “Though I didn’t join at that point, I was only six.”

Kyle nodded.

“That means… you must have, what, a hundred and sixty?” he asked. “Two hundred?”

“...um,” Luke began. “Two hundred what?”

“Jedi?” Kyle replied, looking confused.

Ben coughed.

“We have twenty-three,” he said. “I’m one of them, in case it wasn’t clear.”

Kyle just kind of stared for a moment.

“...with all due respect to a fellow Jedi Master,” he began. “What have you been doing with the last sixteen years?”

“I have no idea how to teach!” Luke countered. “I don’t know what your Luke’s training was like, but my training was half an hour with Old Ben in a starship blindfolding me and shooting me with a remote, then I went to a swamp and got… a few months of training, but it was a few months of training from a man who I have now realized was probably crazy before he spent two decades alone in a swamp.”

Kyle nodded along. “Yeah, that’s about right,” he said. “You learned how to touch the Force, and a lot of the rest is just instinct. Most of the education that takes place in a Jedi Academy is when to use the Force – and when not to use the Force.”

He shrugged. “It’s honestly more important that someone learn how to honestly self-assess themselves and how to resist the temptations of the Dark Side than it is to make sure they know exactly how to perform a lightsaber form. If someone needs training on a specific kind of Force skill, teach them at that; don’t feel that someone’s training has to be complete before they’re graduated as a Knight, or even able to be a Master. Learning is continuous.”

Luke looked like he was trying to work out which of several different emotions to be, including embarrassed, offended, contrite and mid-revelation.

“Actually, about a year ago I was in a meeting with the temple management, on how to deal with the war,” Kyle went on, rummaging in his pockets. “We were discussing the best way to implement viable recovery procedures… do I have it on me…”

“I don’t know what those are,” Luke admitted.

“The Vong war on my side of the divide has been causing a lot of casualties,” Kyle explained. “They’ve been going after Jedi especially, and it’s the first time the New Jedi Order’s numbers have contracted… and after what happened before, with the Purges, we were talking about the best way to make sure that the New Jedi Order could flourish and rebuild more quickly. Calista said that she was aiming for the ability to double the Order’s size every four years on average from incoming students… aha!”

Pulling a small cube out of his pocket, Kyle held it up – heedless to the astonished reactions of both Ben and Luke to that statistic.

“I’ve got another one of these back on my ship,” he explained “Calista is pretty sure that these are basically the same as the old Holocrons, and the idea is to share information among all of them to make a distributed archive of knowledge for the New Jedi Order. This one’s… probably mostly up to date.”

He tossed it to Luke, who caught it.

“Feel free,” he said. “Like I say, I’ve got another… I can probably stick around for a bit to help, it should take a few days for the Vong back home to decide that I’m missing and I want to take at least that long before I try going home.”

Ben was trying to recover from everything he’d heard over the last few minutes.

“...actually, now I come to think of it, have you heard of me before?” Kyle asked, most of his focus on Luke. “Because I might need to borrow a starship and take a quick trip to Ruusan to avoid giving you a very serious problem at some point… is there anything that would stop me getting there? I’m not really very clear on politics here.”

“Where’s Ruusan?” Luke asked, tearing his eyes away from the holocron.

“Teraab sector, mid-rim,” Kyle replied. “P-11 on the grid square map.”

“That should be fine,” Ben said. “The First Order isn’t anywhere near there.”

Kyle frowned. “What’s the First Order?”

Ben did his best to explain.

By the end of the explanation, Kyle looked like he was planning on using the starship he planned to borrow to fly into First Order space and look for a fight.

Ben had the oddest feeling that Kyle might well win.

“Did you learn anything from it, yet?” Ben asked, some hours later, after Kyle had left in a borrowed shuttle. “I’ve never actually seen a modern Holocron.”

“Neither have I,” Luke replied, looking up from his study of the little cube. “And, for some reason, this one keeps interfacing with me using a face I’ve never seen before. But I have the strangest feeling she knows me.”

He sighed. “And… I don’t know what I’ve been doing wrong, not yet, but I’m now quite sure I’ve been doing something wrong. I’ve been too afraid of getting things wrong, to do them right.”

After a moment, Luke caught Ben’s eye.

“Ben, I want to tell you something,” he said. “It’s a secret that your parents asked me to keep, and I agreed, because… when I learned it, I was about the same age you are now. And I didn’t take it well.”

“You… didn’t take it well?” Ben repeated, trying to reconcile that with his uncle the Jedi Master.

“Well, I did try to jump into a gas giant not long afterwards,” Luke said. “So I’d say I didn’t take it especially well, yes… but you have to learn some time. I can’t shield you from the painful truth forever.”

He sighed. “So… I’m going to tell you about my father, your grandfather. About who he was, and who he became, and who he still was, deep inside, all but suffocated under the lies of an evil man who wanted to use him as a weapon. I’m going to tell you the full story of Anakin Skywalker.”

(Legends New Jedi Order:

Foundation of the Praexum 11 ABY

Relative peace 11-25 ABY, with several major crises they had to deal with (which caused casualties)

By 25 ABY, there were at least 100 Jedi, with several of the students now Masters in their own right and actively training new Padawans.

The resultant force was very robust, managing to handle serious casualties (they got cut in half in the Vong war of 25-29 ABY, but rebounded to over 200 by 35 ABY) and had mastered rapid recovery - by 44 ABY they are up to over a thousand, despite another war in the interim.

Disney Canon New Jedi Order:

Foundation of the Academy around 10-11 ABY

Almost total peace 11-28 ABY

Then Ben Solo turns to evil and destroys the whole thing in one go, leaving about three survivors who hadn't been present at the time.)

[krisslegacy]

my thoughts are consumed with queen mother tenel ka djo

[jayaorgana]

As someone currently reading YJK this is what I assume the plot of NJO will be. Anyways, please look in the notes, there is four more of these and IMO they are some of the funniest ones.

[short-wooloo]

I will always like Rey better than Ahsoka, because Rey actually admires and wants to be like the Jedi, being a Jedi is a dream come true for her, whereas ahsoka is a sanctimonious prick who blames the Jedi for their own genocide

[magnetarbeam]

I feel like Wes hitting on Jaina over squadron comms, not knowing who she was, is another good comparison for why Allston is so much better of a writer than the people he worked with in Star Wars.

Because when Wes does find out, his reaction is "I guess I'd better apologize to her and then throw myself on her lightsaber." It's fully called out, and in pretty short order.

Like, Stackpole would have done that and then just glossed over it.

Denning would have actually tried to get them together.

[vorbarrsultana]

star wars legends ➝ the new jedi order

"The only power I have – the only power any of us have – is to be who we are. That's what I'm going to do here. Be who I am." "You're not making any sense! How old are you? Seventeen? Eighteen? You don't even really know who you are!" "I don't have to know. All I have to do is decide," Jacen answered serenely. "Choose, and act."

[tahiriveilasolo]

A Discussion

Jaina Solo: Give me a lightsaber and an X-wing fast enough, and I shall save the galaxy.

Anakin Solo: Give me a call, and I shall save the galaxy.

Jacen Solo: Give me a fulcrum and my strength, and I will try to save the galaxy.

Jaina Solo: And who’s gonna save the galaxy from you, Jacen? Me?

[elli-incarnate]

Headcanon accepted neither confirmed nor denied

[thefinnpoefiles]

Looks like Finn and Poe won’t be in the NJO movie guys.

But that’s okay we are just as excited to see Rey go on her own journey and pioneer a new future of Star Wars. The way Daisy’s been talking about it has me excited.

A W as far as I’m concerned.

(source: Variety)

[unknownunseenunheard]

Was anyone gonna tell me that there was honestly a real legitimate possibility that several members of the NJO were swapped out with clones and that the 'It was Jaacen all along' joke by Timothy Zhan might have been spot on?

[legends-expo]

We are so excited to announce that beloved author Matthew Stover will be attending LegendsCon! He will be available to meet with fans, sign autographs, and appear on panels all weekend!

Buy tickets now on Eventbrite, and join us for a celebration of all things Expanded Universe at the Marriott Convention Center in Burbank, California on September 9th-10th 2023!

[corelliaxdreaming]

My thought process upon learning the Vong have apparently found a way to neutralize bacta:

Finally, something interesting happened in this novella.

Everybody go out and buy kolto stocks now.

and, trailing: If the entire universe did come crashing down because everyone’s been so reliant on bacta for so long they’ve basically forgotten conventional medicine, that would be pretty damn hilarious, actually.

[krisslegacy]

do i think luke skywalker is a gay man? yes.

do i also love him and mara jade together? also yes. i will not elaborate.

[bornitereads]

Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial - James Luceno

Star Wars: The New Jedi Order book 4

Reread: Nov 2023

So Agents of Chaos is about what Han Solo is up to. Which after Chewbacca got mooned, turns out to be running from his family in grief. It's a lot of dipping back into his old smuggler circles until he ends up with a new friend, Droma, and they do heroic stuff. Because of course they do.

This book revolves around the fake defection of a Yuuzhan Vong agent. Ultimately she is not important, but the characters around her are. Vergere, who is not Yuuzhan Vong, but Fosh and an Old Republic Jedi Master. But somehow on their side. And Harrar, a Yuuzhan Vong priest, so doesn't seem that important until near the end of the series. There's a lot of spy stuff in this book and it's kind of fun to see New Republic Intelligence working. Although I guess not that well, if Han has to come to the rescue haha.

Info: Del Rey; 2000