Marvel’s Star Wars Comics Are Going to the Battle for Jakku, via a Scrapped Mobile Game

Recently Marvel announced that it was bringing to an end its existent epoch of Star Wars comics—bringing an extremity to the progressively unhinged magnitude of things it’d managed to worldly successful the azygous twelvemonth of the Star Wars timeline between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Now, the steadfast is opening to tease what’s next. And what is next? Well, it surely looks similar a mobile crippled from 2015.

Today the official Star Wars website revealed the latest successful a trickling acceptable of teasers for Marvel’s plans for its Star Wars comics aft it wraps up the existent volumes of Star Wars and Darth Vader aboriginal this year. All signs were already pointing to the steadfast going into the contiguous aftermath of Return of the Jedi—first with a caller Ewoks miniseries acceptable soon aft the Battle of Endor, and present with Star Wars: Battle of Jakku – Insurgency Rising, a four-part miniseries from writer Alex Segura, and artists Leonard Kirk and Stefano Raffaele. Insurgency Rising volition spot the recently formed New Republic look its archetypal large situation erstwhile a “mysterious” caller Imperial goes connected the offensive… and each roads volition yet spot the Imperial Remnant and the nascent Republic spell to conflict implicit the satellite of Jakku, agelong earlier it becomes Rey’s home.

The happening is, the caller Imperials are not rather truthful “mysterious” erstwhile you get a glimpse astatine Phil Noto’s covers for the series. Anyone who was astir for Lucasfilm’s archetypal large canonical selling propulsion for caller storytelling backmost successful 2015’s “Journey to The Force Awakens” transmedia inaugural astir apt recognizes astatine least, Governor Adelhard and Purge Trooper Commander Bragh, the villains of the short lived mobile telephone game Star Wars: Uprising. One of the archetypal games to beryllium canonized arsenic portion of the rebooted Star Wars continuity, Uprising told the communicative of Adelhard’s Iron Blockade, a implicit shutdown of the Anoat Sector—a large commercialized assemblage of value owed to Tibanna state mining connected Bespin—in the aftermath of the Empire’s decision astatine Endor, forcing section insurgents to set unneurotic to effort and defy against the Imperial blockade, unaware that the Empire has statesman to autumn astir them.

© Phil Noto/Marvel Comics

It was an absorbing idea, and of import fixed that it was 1 of Star Wars‘ archetypal salient sources for post-Return of the Jedi-era stories successful the aftermath of the continuity reboot. But it was besides 1 Star Wars didn’t truly capitalize on, and faced a benignant of occupation it seldom had to woody with successful the property of the Expanded Universe: Uprising was not a peculiarly palmy mobile game, and unopen down conscionable implicit a twelvemonth aft it launched successful November 2016. Suddenly, entree to this narrative—quote unquote “important” to authoritative Star Wars continuity—was intolerable extracurricular of 3rd enactment sources to play offline versions.

Now of course, successful the days of the EU, definite sources got harder and harder to get implicit the years—books and comics could get reprinted, games could inactive beryllium recovered connected the aftermarket oregon ported to different platforms. Rarely did thing conscionable wholly popular retired of beingness and stay inaccessible truthful soon aft it archetypal released—even if you look astatine the closest analogue, the tumultuous communicative of the Star Wars MMORPG Galaxies, that crippled astatine slightest ran for 8 years. There are astir apt much radical playing it present done backstage servers than determination are Star Wars: Uprising! Issues similar those faced by the likes of Star Wars Uprising conscionable weren’t truly a happening successful the EU’s heyday, but they abruptly mattered successful a revised continuity wherever each azygous authoritative merchandise was deemed to beryllium canonical.

Just however much Insurgency Rising straight takes from the communicative of Uprising remains to beryllium seen, extracurricular of cardinal figures similar Adelhard and Bragh. But astatine slightest immoderate elements of that communicative volition beryllium much accessible again—whether you find the bid connected shelves oregon digitally, erstwhile it begins October 2.

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