Even with all the books and comics out there right now , Disney ’s new Star Wars canon is still in its earlier days , especially when it comes tothe time menstruation between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens . However , Claudia Gray ’s new Leia - centrical novel Bloodline , out this week , uncovers that mysterious era in some major ways .
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A admonition going in : there are major spoilers for the event of Bloodline below . The Good Book is well worth checking out for lover of Leia , so if you want to do so , twist back now before it ’s too belatedly !
The Republic is divided and faltering
Star Wars really has it in for its Republics , apparently . begin nigh two tenner after Return of the Jedi , Bloodline sees the New Republic Senate is almost as incapable of natural process as its Pre - Empire herald , despite being under the initial leadership of Mon Mothma ( Mothma has since stepped down as Chancellor due to malady )
By this point , the Senate has been almost evenly split into two cabal : Populists , who think might in the Republic should be evenly spread across extremity planet , and middle of the roader , who instead need the government of the Republic to be centralized in a single location ( as well as a return of the substantial fleet Mon Mothma ’s golden age belittle ) . The divide has left the Senate ’s efficiency seriously dull , with motions and rulings shin to pass in the deadlocked state of matter . This inefficiency and infighting plagues Leia throughout the novel , and shape the cornerstone of hergrowing distastefor what the New Republic has become in the wake of the Empire .
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Leia has a pretty badass nickname
At one point in the book , Leia discovers that there was recorded evidence of her killing Jabba the Hutt — a task which has earned her the impressive title of “ The Huttslayer ” among the alien raceway called the Nikto . It ’s an interesting choice morsel not just for the positive realization it clear Leia , but also because of events in our own world .
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of late last year controversy broke out whena rumoremerged that Disney was quietly planning to hold the creation of “ Slave Leia ” merchandise so as to create a more cocksure image for one of Star Wars ’ few female heroes ( and parry the uncomfortable slant of a family - well-disposed company advance “ Slave ” toys ) . The responses for and against — even from Carrie Fisher herself — were fierce , and a section of fan called to both sides with an charm to keep the merchandise being made , but under a new name : “ Leia the Huttslayer . ” Seems like Gray luxate in a quick nod to canonise the alternate claim .
Han and Leia had a long-distance relationship
The Force Awakens novelizationalready confirmedthe fact that Han and Leia were splice , but Bloodline fills in a trivial more of their relationship , explaining that the two got hitched before long after the fall of the Empire . lineage turn over a great deal into Leia ’s complicated feelings for Han , although Han ’s mien in the book itself is kept to a minimum .
What Bloodline separate us rather is that Leia and Han mostly live amicably apart . betimes on in their marriage ceremony they discovered that their lives were too different to be living together , so out of doors of visit and travel stint , Leia would remain her work in the Senate while Han gush off … becoming a starship racer , apparently . Meanwhile , following the liberation of Kashyyyk , Chewbacca retired to his home satellite , but keeps regularly in touch with both Han and Leia .
Leia doesn’t become a Jedi for a reason
By the time of Bloodline , it ’s wide known that Leia and Luke are siblings — and that Leia , like her comrade , is very strong in the Force . At one point in the novel it ’s asked of her why she did n’t join Luke in his quest to re - establish the Jedi and become a Knight herself ( something she did in the old expanded universe ) . Leia simply states that her living is devoted to politics rather than the Jedi agency , but it ’s clear that she has significant power , something we get glimpses of in The Force Awakens when Leia experience the death of Han through the Force .
Luke and Leia know who their real mother is…
Disney ’s unexampled canyon has done small to draw in elements of this posterior menstruation of Star Wars events to the prequels , but Bloodline does so with the revelation that the Skywalker similitude are now aware of their true parentage as the children of Padmé Amidala .
Leia is particularly inspired by her birthing female parent and her work as a Senator ( although Breha Organa , her take on female parent , is close to her heart and cite several times ) , having researched her life story in the backwash of discovering the liaison between herself and Padmé . Although it ’s not well known beyond Luke and Leia , certain band of the Senate and Leia ’s closest friend know about her history .
…but then everyone finds out about their father
And I do n’t mean Anakin Skywalker . Late on in the books , a Centrist senator appal Leia and the Senate to the core by publicly break that Leia is the daughter of Darth Vader ( Anakin ’s crepuscle to the Dark Side is not yet widely make love ) . It immediately has Brobdingnagian issue both on a professional and personal level for Leia .
first off , her fellow senator instantly distrust her , her support and practiced standing crumble almost entirely after years of work , her reputation greatly sully . Secondly — and this is the immense thing — Leia had n’t told her Word yet . Throughout the book Leia expresses concern over Ben ’s fledgeling capacity to potentially do high-risk thing with his power as one of the understanding she and Han have kept his grandfather ’s legacy from him , except now the closed book is out to the galaxy .
Leia leaves a teary - eyed holomessage for Ben that in the end reveals the truth , but it ’s not known if he receives it — either way , this perfidy of trustingness is likely to be one of the get factors that pushes the young Jedi towards his dark destiny .
The rise of the First Order and the Resistance
Leia ’s lowest point follow her revealing as the girl of Vader also sees the First Order ’s world finally follow to pass — or at least , the last stage of its on-key establishment .
Other books , and indeed Bloodline at times , have hinted about former majestic loyalist languish into the phantom after the Imperial end officially contract the Galactic Concordance after their defeat at Jakku . Bloodline oft observe reports of former Imperial fleets vanishing off monitor lizard systems , as the imperial beard consolidate their military in the farthest reaches of the extragalactic nebula . But Bloodline sees a major crippling of the New Republic as a bulk of the Centrists lead by one of Leia ’s political rivals reveal plans for a sezession from the Republic to form a government with the Imperial loyalists , combining their world-wide armies and finances with the hidden ( and growing ) Imperial fleets into the First Order .
Just as quickly as the final form of the First Order is revealed , however , the seeds of the Resistance are in place by the end of the books — largely driven by the Republic ’s own inability act in the wake of the secession , but also by the fact Leia no longer has ally among the senate . This leads Leia to retire and basically get the band back together , recruiting allies like Admiral Ackbar and discontented Republic military members to take form a Modern immunity movement against the terror of the secessionists .
… all of this happens only six years before The Force Awakens
This is without a shadow of a doubt the mad part of Bloodline . According to the Word , all the huge events that drive this fresh saga of movies — the instauration of the First Order , Ben Solo ’s fall to the obscure side , Han and Leia ’s separation , the slaughter of Luke ’s Jedi students and his disappearance — befall just a short six days before the state of the extragalactic nebula we see in The Force Awakens .
Some things definitely do n’t add up , particularly if , as many hoi polloi await , Rey ( who does not boast in the book , for obvious reason ) really was train at the Jedi temple and witness the Knights of Ren ’s tone-beginning firsthand . She would be 13 in this metre stop , much old than the child we saw dumped on Jakku in The Force Awakens . The book also hints that possibly the treachery of the Jedi happens during or before long before the script start , as Leia repeatedly attempts to contact both Luke and Ben , only to get no answer due to communicator wrongdoing . But surely as someone sensitive to the Force , Leia would have felt something like that happen ?
Either path , the state of the beetleweed we see in The Force Awakens patently come about much more quickly than anyone anticipate .
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