Reign of the Empire (19 BBY - 6 BBY)
19 BBY - ???
We covered S1 E1 of this series through Omega's intro (0:00-21:25) during the Revenge of the Sith Mashup. At this point you can pick up where we left off at S1 E1 21:25 and continue through the rest of the series, which can be watched concurrently with the the Darth Vader Comic and the novels indicated below.
Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith
19 BBY
Read the remaining portion of these comics concurrently with the entries below.
Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel
(Chapter 13)
19 BBY
We did Chapter 12 just before ROTS and now we'll do Chapter 13 just after. We'll pick up the rest of this book a few entries down. Listen to concurrently with Vader comic above and the first season of Bad Batch.
Thrawn Ascendency: Greater Good
18 BBY
This is the second book in the Thrawn Ascendency Trilogy. You can listen to this concurrently with the 1st and/or 2nd season of The Bad Batch. Listen to all of the Memory Chapters first and then listen to the rest of the book.
Thrawn Ascendency: Lesser Evil
18 BBY
This is the third and final book in the Thrawn Ascendency Trilogy. We covered the Memory chapters earlier so you can skip those as you come upon them. Listen to concurrently with The Bad Batch Season 1 and/or 2.
(Part Five Interlude: The Imperialis,
Twenty Five Year Ago)
19 ABY
This is a follow up on our previous entry from Empire's End, which was shortly after Episode 1. And this may be one of the coolest glimpses into the mindset of the ever so spiteful Emperor Palpatine. You can listen to this concurrently with the first season of Bad Batch.
Tales of the Jedi - Episode 6: Resolve
18 BBY
In an article published by Nerdist.com, Dave Filoni explained that Resolve "is based on the same outline [he] gave publishing for the novel. It was always the same story." As that is the case, watch the episode after finishing the book.
Continuity Check: Skip the Introduction to this book as its events have been contradicted by The Clone Wars, Season 7, Episodes 710 - 712.
Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel
16-17 BBY
We left off with this book at the end of Chapter 13 just after ROTS. So now we can pick this up with the beginning of Chapter 14 and finish the novel.
14 BBY
This game takes place 5 years after Revenge of the Sith (14 BBY), which means it can be played contemporaneously with the Lords of the Sith and Tarkin novels below. Finish before starting the novel Jedi: Battle Scars.
13 BBY
Skip over all the "Month #_" chapters in this book as we're going to do them all right before Rogue One. So skip "Month 1" and jump to Chapters 1-5 of this book for now. We'll pick this back up soon.
12-10 BBY
We're going to do things a little out of order and listen to this novel and introduce the video game below before all the Solo stuff to keep it as close to Jedi: Fallen Order as possible.
9 BBY
Play this game contemporaneously with the remaining Reign of the Empire entries below.
(Fyzen Gor & Lando Flashbacks)
20-15 BBY
This book has a present day storyline that takes place around 7 ABY, however, it also has three different flashback stories concerning Han Solo, Lando Calrissian, and the main villian in the book, Fyzen Gor. At this point in our chronological marathon, we'll just focus on Lando and Fyzen. Again, we're slightly out of order here but it makes more sense to keep all the Solo stuff together.
Continuity Check: Last Shot contains the biggest continuity blunder since Disney took over the franchise as it is shockingly careless with its dates. For example, when taken at face value, you'd have a flashback with Lando and L3 flying the Millennium Falcon at 8 BBY, which is two years after Solo: A Star Wars Story and thus an impossibility based on the events in the film. A simple fix, and most likely how they screwed this up, is to change "15 years ago" to mean "15 BBY." That would put Lando's flashback to be years before Solo and it would put Han's flashback to be shortly after the events of Solo, which would fix another continuity error that relates to Han's age. With that problem solved, let's get to our binge...
This book doesn't have chapter numbers but the chapter titles are very descriptive making it easy to find everything. First we'll do Fyzen's story, which consists of 4 chapters. However, we are only going through 3 of those right now for chronological purposes:
Part I: Utapu, About Twenty Years Ago
Part II: Utapu, About Twenty Years Ago
Part III: Utapu, About Eighteen Years Ago
Then comes Lando's flashbacks which are as follows:
Part I: Weigh Station Karambola, About Fifteen Years Ago
Part II: The Millennium Falcon, About Fifteen Years Ago
Part II: Mesulan Remnants, About Fifteen Years Ago
Part III: Mesulan Remnants, About Fifteen Years Ago
Part V: The Millennium Falcon, About Fifteen Years Ago
13 BBY
This young-adult novel provides a great backstory to Han & Qi'ra's relationship before the events in Solo. We also get an in depth look at life on Corellia, both the seedy underworld as well as the growing Imperial presence there.
(Han's Flashback)
10 BBY
Per the chronological adjustment to this book that we covered earlier, we've moved this flashback to 10 BBY, which would be shortly after the events of Solo. I think this is clearly what was intended as Han is still freshly heart-broken from Qi'ra. There are a total of 9 Han flashbacks but first there is another flashback with Fyzen Gor, which serves as the introduction to this part of the story:
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Part IV: Cantonica, About Ten Years Ago
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Part I: Han: Takodana, About Ten Years Ago
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Part I: Han: Takodana, About Ten Years Ago
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Part II: Han: The Millennium Falcon, About Ten Years Ago
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Part II: Han: The Millennium Falcon, About Ten Years Ago
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Part III: Han: Freerago's Satellite Diner, About Ten Years Ago
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Part III: Han: Freerago's Satellite Motal, About Ten Years Ago
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Part III: Han: Freerago's Satellite Motal, About Ten Years Ago
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Part III: Han: Freerago's Satellite Motal, About Ten Years Ago
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Part III: Han: The Millennium Falcon, About Ten Years Ago
11 BBY
While A New Dawn and the beginning of our next entry take place chronologically before the later parts of Solo and Han's Story in Last Shot, keeping the Solo stuff together just flows better. Also there are no continuity issues that occur as a result.
Prologue
11 BBY
We're going to be splitting Lost Stars Up into many different sections because it's story weaves in and out of the Original Trilogy and other media. In this first entry, do the Prologue here, we'll pick back up with this story during the 1st Season of Rebels.
7 BBY
We left off earlier at the end of Chapter 5, so now we'll pick up at Chapter 6 and go through the end of Chapter 10. We'll come back to this book during Season 1 of Rebels.
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