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Reign of the Empire (19 BBY - 6 BBY)

Bad Batch

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The Bad Batch: Season 1

Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith

Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel

Reign of the Empire: Mask of Fear

Aftermath: Empire's End

19 BBY

We covered S1 E1 of Bad Batch 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 rest of the Darth Vader Comic (we also covered Book # 1 during the Revenge of the Sith Mashup) and the novels indicated below:

Catalyst - Chapter 13
Reign of the Empire: Mask of Fear - Read book in its entirey
Aftermath: Empire's End - Listen to Part Five Interlude: The Imperialis, Twenty-Five Years Ago.

The Bad Batch: Season 2

Thrawn Ascendency: Greater Good

Thrawn Ascendency: Lesser Evil

19 - 18 BBY

Watch the second season of Bad Batch concurrently with the following novels:

Thrawn Ascendency: Greater Good - Listen to all of the Memory Chapters first and then listen to the rest of the book.
Thrawn Ascendency: Lesser Evil - We covered the Memory chapters earlier so you can skip those as you come upon them.

The Bad Batch: Season 3

Ahsoka

Tales of the Jedi - Episode 6: Resolve

Last Shot

18 BBY

Watch the third and final season of Batch Bad concurrently with the Ahsoka novel and a flashback from Last Shot, specifically Part III: Utapu, About Eighteen Years Ago. We covered a couple of flashbacks earlier during the Clone Wars and this is the next installment.

Once you finish the Ahsoka novel, watch Epsidoe 6 of Tales of the Jedi: Resolve. 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."

Continuity Check: You can skip the Introduction to Ahsoka as its events have been contradicted by The Clone Wars, Season 7, Episodes 10 - 12.

Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel

Tales of the Underworld; Episodes 1-3
17-16 BBY

We left off Catalyst 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 contemporaneously with Episodes 1-3 of Tales of the Underworld. We covered the Introduction of Episode 1 earlier, so we can skip over that and start Episode 1 at the 3:50-minute mark.

Fallen Order

Jedi: Fallen Order

Lords of the Sith

Tarkin

14 BBY

Play Jedi: Fallen Order contemporaneously with the Lords of the Sith and Tarkin novels below. Skip over the flashbacks in Tarkin as come up. Be sure to finish the video game before starting the novel Jedi: Battle Scars below.

Rogue One

Rebel Rising

13 BBY

Watch Rogue One's introduction (0:00 - 7:44). Then start Rebel Rising. 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 listen to Chapters 1-5 of this book for now.

Jedi: Battle Scars

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.

Last Shot

15 BBY

Most Wanted

13 BBY

Jedi: Survivor

9 BBY

Again, we're slightly out of order here but it makes more sense to keep all the Solo stuff together. Play Jedi: Survivor concurrently with Last Shot flashbacks and Most Wanted. We've done a few Last Shot flashbacks already about Fyzen Gor. Now we come to Lando's story, which goes 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

Solo

Solo: A Star Wars Story

13 - 10 BBY

Lost Stars

11 BBY

Watch Solo contemporaneously with the Prologue from Lost Stars. FYI- 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.

Kenobi

9BBY

10 BBY

11 BBY

7 BBY

Watch the Obi-Wan Kenobi series contemporaneously with the following novels in this order:

1) Last Shot flashbacks - see instructions below;

2) A New Dawn in its entirety; and

3) Chapters 6 - 10 of Rebel Rising.

NOTE: While A New Dawn takes place before during the movie Solo, and before these Last Shot flashbacks, keeping the Solo stuff closer together just flows better.

Per the chronological adjustment mentioned earlier, we've moved these Last Shot flashbacks 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:

Part IV: Cantonica, About Ten Years Ago
Part I: Han: Takodana, About Ten Years Ago
Part I: Han: Takodana, About Ten Years Ago
Part II: Han: The Millennium Falcon, About Ten Years Ago
Part II: Han: The Millennium Falcon, About Ten Years Ago
Part III: Han: Freerago's Satellite Diner, About Ten Years Ago
Part III: Han: Freerago's Satellite Motal, About Ten Years Ago
Part III: Han: Freerago's Satellite Motal, About Ten Years Ago
Part III: Han: Freerago's Satellite Motal, About Ten Years Ago
Part III: Han: The Millennium Falcon, About Ten Years Ago

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