So she’s got to hold it together, even though it’s tough.”

She knows that she’s one of the few people who can bring these different personalities together. She knows that people are looking up to her. “I think she’s battling depression a lot,” Roanhorse says. But Roanhorse also took the opportunity to go deeper, exploring Leia’s thoughts on losing Han, her son, and fighting wars for most of her life. Leia plays a big part in the book as she leads the effort to rebuild, feeling a responsibility to make things right for the next generation. “I mean, he really messed up, right? So a lot of the book deals with coming to terms with his insubordination.”

“One of the main controversies is how do some of the older pilots, especially Wedge’s old friends that he’s going to round up and bring in, how do they feel about Poe?” she says. In turn, Resistance Reborn grapples with how guards old and new mix, and how the new generation of Star Wars heroes deal with the events of The Last Jedi. “Building out his backstory, figuring out who he is, what drives him.” “Getting to write Wedge was a lot of fun,” she says. And significantly, the story features older pilots, like the legendary Wedge Antilles, being brought into the fold to give the Resistance another shot. It picks up literally right after the events of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and tells how the Resistance rebuilds and seeks out new leadership after being essentially decimated by Kylo Ren and the First Order. Resistance Reborn was released last week, and it’s a key story in the lead up to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. I remember waiting in line outside the movie theater with my older brother and playing with the original action figures. “I saw the original Star Wars when I was eight or nine years old.

“But it’s something that I’ve lived with my entire life at the same time,” she says. “You know, you’re walking into somebody else’s universe and you’ve got to figure it out pretty quickly.” Just ask Rebecca Roanhorse, author of the new novel Star Wars: Resistance Reborn. From tone to the way, say, a rebel princess-turned-general might speak, there’s a specificity to the rhythm of Star Wars. In any medium, Star Wars can be tricky to write. Spoiler warning: This article discusses details and plot points of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn. The author of the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker prequel novel on bringing back Wedge, Leia’s leadership, and more.

Resistance reborn by rebecca roanhorse