His head swam and he looked to the console, trying to parse the readings as his instruments recalibrated themselves. Wyl’s harness dug into his chest as stars fell into place and the jade light of Midgor winked from the darkness. The glow of hyperspace faded as the jolt of deceleration hit.
Hear a preview of the audiobook, read by January LaVoy, below. In this selection, Wyl Lark leads a team of pilots on a routine mission that reveals the decay of the Imperial remnant. But that doesn’t mean the trick’s gone stale. Three books in, Yrica, Wyl, Nath, Chass, Kairos, Soran, and Hera all come to the end of their present journey.Ĭould I have done all that if I’d had to worry about laying the groundwork at the same time? If I’d had to explain the how of the Empire’s fall in the year after Endor, instead of charting the course of one very personal rivalry between Alphabet Squadron and the TIE pilots of Shadow Wing? It’s the end of a trilogy, and those always climax in spectacular fashion. There are dogfights and monsters and capital ships reduced to molten slag in the depths of space. Can’t talk about her without spoilers.)Īnd sure, there’s plenty at stake beyond the souls of our protagonists - in Victory’s Price, whole worlds see their existence upended within two chapters, and things escalate from there. I got to sketch the future of General Hera Syndulla, who may not feel altogether at home as the commander of armadas but who remains as noble, charismatic, and caring as she was in Star Wars: Rebels. With A-wing pilot Wyl Lark - starring at last on the cover of Victory’s Price! - I got to reflect on the question of how long a “just war” remains just, and when it’s time to recommit or time to go home. Would-be martyr Chass na Chadic and ex-pirate Nath Tensent became studies in what people drawn to the rebellion for the wrong reasons might face, and what it means to go from being the underdog to an enforcer of the status quo. Reluctant defector Yrica Quell let me ask what it means to live alongside your ideological enemies after defeat, and scrutinize the challenges of redemption. Through the eyes of five mismatched pilots (and an Imperial ace of aces, and a compassionate torture droid, and a spy, and a few others) I found a chance to explore trauma during a time of crisis and what it means to carry that trauma afterward.
To fill in the gaps, and ask, “If that’s what happened, what does it mean? What does it imply about the galaxy, what it dealt with, and what’s to come?” Note I said, “the most obvious questions” and not “the most important questions.”įor me, the Alphabet Squadron trilogy was an opportunity to dig beneath the surface. The most obvious questions - “Who’s going to win the war, and how?” “How did the First Order start?” “What happened to Luke, Leia, and Han?” - had been answered. We knew from The Force Awakens that the Rebel Alliance-turned-New-Republic would seize victory at the Battle of Jakku. In the case of the Alphabet Squadron trilogy, Chuck Wendig’s Aftermath novels and Greg Rucka’s Shattered Empire comic book had already charted the course of the galaxy’s civil war in the year after the Battle of Endor.
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In my first novel, Star Wars: Battlefront - Twilight Company, the original movie trilogy served as a backdrop for the grunts of the Rebel Alliance - the sort we saw in the trenches on Hoth, who fought the Empire without the idealism or destiny buoying the Rebellion’s greatest heroes but who contributed to the greater good nonetheless. With the video game Star Wars: The Old Republic, I focused on spy stories taking place in the shadows of an epic war while other writers chronicled the clash between Jedi and Sith. In anticipation of the book’s Marelease, we asked Freed to share his feelings on wrapping up his trilogy as way of introducing an exclusive excerpt.įifteen years of writing Star Wars stories, and I’ve got one basic trick: Let someone else lay the groundwork, then fill in the gaps left behind. In the new book Star Wars: Victory’s Price: An Alphabet Squadron Novel, author Alexander Freed reunites with his team of ace New Republic pilots, the Alphabet Squadron.
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