The Dangerous Batch Returns In a New ‘Star Wars’ Novel

It’s been over a 12 months since Star Wars: The Bad Batch ended, nevertheless it was a given Clone Force 99 would ultimately dwell on past the display. Subsequent month, we’ll examine again in with the staff of their first novel, Sanctuary.

Written by Lamar Giles (Smash Street), the story takes place in direction of the tip of season two after the episode “Pabu.” Now that they’re working with pirate hunter Phee, the Clones—Hunter, Omega, Wrecker, and Tech—are on useful resource gathering responsibility after the planet’s latest tsunami. That results in them working two completely different jobs fairly shut to one another: stealing a relic from an public sale to return it again to its folks, and ferrying a pregnant couple on the run. Hunter desires to be smart and simply do one job at a time, however that’s not doable, and to additional complicating issues, there’s an ISB agent gunning for the couple, who’re as a result of give beginning any day now.

Giles informed Polygon he hopes the novel looks like “the sensation of an prolonged bonus episode the place our favourite characters received thrilling moments that felt contemporary and acquainted. I needed it to really feel like seeing previous pals after a while aside amid an intense journey.” You possibly can learn an excerpt here, which options the Clones making an attempt to get the relic by standard public sale means earlier than issues inevitably pop off.

Sanctuary: A Dangerous Batch Novel releases August 5. In case you’re trying to revisit different Star Wars eras by books, there’s additionally Finn and Jannah’s YA story The Last Order coming October 21 from Kwame Mbalia.

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