In Wild Space, nothing happens! No, seriously, it's a bunch of wild goose chases and oodles of character development! The book is fantastic and sets up so much growth and tension between characters - the blurb on the back saying it's filled with never-before-revealed insights is actually accurate!

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Join us next time for The Clone Wars: No Prisoners

This week we dive into the novelization of The Clone Wars animated movie. This gives us our first look at Ahsoka and the clone army, as well as delivering insights on Anakin and Count Dooku, their personal philosophies, and why they fight.

Our next episode continues to delve into the clone wars with Wild Space, by Karen Miller, part two of this five-book series.

We get closer and closer to the Clone Wars - in this final novel before war breaks out across the galaxy, we follow four Jedi trying to keep one small, insignificant (but actually super important) planet as a part of the Republic! It's a little repetitive, and not the best offering, but still gives an interesting foundation for Bariss Offee (introduced in this novel) and develops the narrative of Anakin's fall a little bit more!

We're back from our (longer than anticipated) hiatus with Outbound Flight by Timothy Zahn. This is our first book by Zahn, and it introduces a long-running character - Mitth'raw'nuruodo. We talk about the philosophy of Jedi Jorus C'baoth, the tactics of Captain Mitth'raw'nuruodo and how the philosophy of the Jedi as a whole overlap with that of the Chiss Ascendancy. 

As we move to the pre-war period, we get our first story that truly features Anakin Skywalker as a primary character, in Rogue Planet, written by Greg Bear. While I am critical in many ways, I think this book is important to see some of the early development of Anakin, as this is the only legends novel (there are some YA books) that covers him at age twelve, and one at fifteen, before we see him going from nineteen to twenty-two over the course of the Clone Wars.

Join us next week as we tackle Outbound Flight, by Timothy Zahn

After great delay, we finally reach episode 15, Darth Plageuis, by James Luceno. This book is absolutely fantastic with absolutely massive amounts of detail that's connected to all sorts of things. This is our longest episode yet by a *lot* clocking in at nearly two and a half hours, so save this for a longer drive.

We talk about the development of the Sith and the execution of the Grand Plan set in motion by Darth Bane a millennia earlier. That's underselling it.

I do want to apologize for the delay in getting this one out - as you can see, it was a massive episode and it took longer than I would have liked. Next week we return with Rogue Planet by Greg Bear, which should be a tamer affair.

We take a quick break from the deeper dives on longer novels to look at two short stories featuring Darth Maul, both written by James Luceno, before his appearance in Shadow Hunter. These are relatively light and quick but do provide some good background information on the character, and some insight into his experiences.

We come back next week with Darth Plagueis, by James Luceno, to finish out the unofficial pre-Phantom Menace Sith Quartet.

We return to the "galaxies deadliest killer" - Darth Maul. In this book, by Michael Reaves, we follow Darth Sidious' apprentice on Coruscant as he tries to prevent information about the plans of the Sith from getting to the Jedi.

Next week is a half-break, where we'll touch on Maul: Saboteur and Maul: Restraint in a bonus episode covering two short stories, before returning to Darth Plageuis, by James Luceno the following week.