Book News: Lucasfilm to publish new Star Wars: The High Republic books

On Monday (Feb. 24th), Disney and Lucasfilm unveiled its next ambitious publishing project, Star Wars: The High Republic. The new stories will explore the galaxy 200 years before the Skywalker Saga and will focus on the Galactic Republic and Jedi Order which were at peace. However, there is something that will of course ruin that era of peace which I'm sure it will be explored in The High Republic.

With this not being connected to any of the current or legacy characters I wonder if The High Republic will be an easy or hard sale to get Star Wars fans (casual and die hard) interested in this project. Speaking of legacy characters, I wonder if Jedi Master Yoda will be featured at least in some small part because he was 900 years old before he died in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. I really can't see not including him.

At the moment, my interest is kind of on the medium to low side but I'm sure when more information about the stories and characters are released, I'll become more interested in it. So far, the project includes three books and two comic book series:

- Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule (novel)     Publication Date: August 25th

- Star Wars: The High Republic: A Test of Courage by Justina Ireland (middle grade)    Publication Date: September 8th

- Star Wars: The High Republic: Into the Dark by Claudia Gray (young adult)       Publication Date: October 13th

- Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures by Daniel José Older (comic book - IDW Publishing)

- Star Wars: The High Republic by Cavan Scott (comic book - Marvel Comics)