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For those who have been following Star Wars’ High Republic series since it began in 2021, it’s been a whirlwind. The Great Hyperspace Disaster, the rise of the Nihil, the fall of Starlight Beacon, the Nameless, the Stormwall, now the blight—each time our heroes seem about to get a bit of daylight, they’re whipped around by something even worse.

And for Charles Soule, whose upcoming Trials of the Jedi novel marks the conclusion of the High Republic series, the whirlwind is the idea he’s had in mind from its start. “The cyclone is a motif has been present in the series throughout the books,” he notes. “At its top, it’s wide, there are all kinds of things swirling around. There’s all these different events, all these different things happening. Which is how the first chapter, the Power of the Jedi, works.”

“But as the books continue, some of those get resolved, some of those change, some of these meld together, and the cone of the tornado gest narrower and narrower, and the winds get faster and faster and faster and more intense.”

 With Trials of the Jedi, we are now at the sharp point at the end of the cyclone, Soule says, and with it absolutely everything is up for grabs. “Literally every character that you have fallen in love with, that you’ve read stories about, that you’ve learned to care about, that you miss, everyone from Churro to Avar, all of their lives come down to 4 or 5 pages toward the end of the book. And you will feel it.”

Star Wars: Trials of the Jedi will be released June 17, 2025.

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