Star Wars Outlaws
Summary
With the forthcoming release ofStar Wars Outlaws , the franchise ’s video recording games are finally returning to an important geological era last visited in this medium almost 30 year ago . Kay Vess ' level carry berth betweenStar Wars Episode fin : The Empire Strikes BackandStar Wars Episode VI : Return of the Jedi , somewhere between 3 ABY and 4 ABY .
This geological era was last explored inStar Wars : vestige of the Empire , a multimedia event that spanned game , novel , and comic , with a wealthiness of merchandise produced , including a soundtrack and action figure . The design was to create a story with all the commercial-grade hypothesis of a full motion picture release without really making a film , in an attempt to reinvigorate involvement in the dealership ahead of the theatrical Special Editions of the originalStar Warstrilogy being released in 1997 , and the first of the prequels , The Phantom Menacein 1999 .
The Star Wars franchise is huge and encompasses a span of several decades deserving of adventures . Here ’s where Star Wars Outlaws will fit in that .
Shadows Of The Empire Introduced An Original Character
Dash Rendar Would Go On To Lead The Video Game
While primitively Lucasfilm want the project to center on the main character between the events of the originalStar Wars(which had since adopted itsA New Hopetitle ) andThe Empire Strikes Back , the game interior decorator for 1994’sStar Wars : Dark ForcesandTIE Fighter , Jon Knoles , intimate telling a Modern fib between the latter films in the trilogy instead . This was unexplored territory at the time , as novel had cover story after the trilogy , andDark Forcescovered an substitute prequel toA New Hopeas its champion Kyle Katarn help secure the Death Star architectural plan - something that was since retconned by 2016’sRogue Onemovie - before jump out forward to a year afterA New Hope ’s events .
Star Wars : Dark Forceshas recently been remastered by Nightdive Studios for PS4 , PS5 , Xbox One , Xbox Series X / S , Nintendo Switch , and PC , and was released in February 2024 .
Steve Perry’sShadows of the Empirenovel focused on what the main characters were doing in the large time jump betweenThe Empire Strikes BackandReturn of the Jediwhile introducing a new fibre , the Rebel ally Dash Rendar . Rendar was a veteran of the Battle of Hoth whom Leia , Chewbacca , and Lando Calrissian hired to assist find Boba Fett and Han Solo , the latter of whom was frozen in Carbonite at the time . Rendar would afterward save Luke Skywalker from slide cycle rider hired by Dash , help the Jedi to develop the second Death Star plan , and sneak into the criminal offence lord Prince Xizor ’s castle to save a captivate Princess Leia .
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While much of the novel ’s focussing remained on the original characters , with Rendar in more of a supporting role for theShadows of the Empirethird - someone shooter video game , LucasArts insure Rendar as the obvious choice for a booster as his taradiddle would interact with key characters , but could also be expanded upon to venture outside of the events in Perry ’s novel , making for a new experience that was extremely well received upon its release .
TheShadows of the Empiregame was released on the Nintendo 64 in 1996 and on PC the following twelvemonth .
Star Wars Outlaws takes place during the same timeframe as the 1996 Star Wars project Shadows of the Empire , and it would be fun to see some sharing .
Some Elements Of Shadow Of The Empire Are Non-Canon
In 2014 , two year after Disney acquired the integrality of Lucasfilm , the company announce that the entireStar WarsExpanded Universe - includingShadows of the Empire- was no longer canon , becoming part of the " caption " continuity and exonerate the way for Disney ’s own sequel trilogy of moving picture , along with various new comics and Disney+ shows . Some elements , such as Prince Xizor ’s crime family , Black Sun , were kept as canon , however , being incorporated into the 5th season ofStar Wars : The Clone Wars .
A ship that looked fabulously like to Rendar ’s Outrider spaceship was in brief seen in a Season 3 sequence ofStar Wars Rebelsin 2016 , but director Dave Filoni confirmed during aStar WarsCelebration panel that it did n’t have in mind Dash Rendar was canon , just that it was the same make of ship .
Recent comics have told a different report circumvent Boba Fett ’s transportation of the fixed Han Solo to Jabba , with theWar of the Bounty Huntersarc prove the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate - which was only innovate in the 2018Solo : A Star Wars Storymovie as a successor to Darth Maul ’s Shadow Collective - steal the Carbonite Solo from Boba Fett as part of a hole before the H.M.S. Bounty hunter reacquired him and delivered him to Jabba the Hutt , negating the part ofShadow of the Empire ’s story in which Rendar tracked him down .
The upcoming Star Wars Outlaws has plenty in unwashed with a 1997 cult Greco-Roman Star Wars biz . It should slip sealed element and update them .
Star Wars Outlaws Will See A Return To This Era Of The Franchise
Kay Vess Will Deal With The Criminal Underworld
by and by this year , Massive Entertainment ’s open - world title , Star Wars Outlawswill finally revisit this era in theStar Warstimeline . Thepotentially M - rated storyis coiffe to stave off focusing on the coreconflict between the Rebels , Jedi , or the Empire , so even if Disney were to reintroduce Dash Rendar or theShadow of the Empireevent , the plot likely wo n’t reference them directly . It will , however , search the major offense syndicates on the Outer Rim , three of which are presently confirm : the Hutts , the Pykes , and a newfangled kinship group called the Ashiga . Throughout the biz ’s political campaign , its protagonist , Kay Vess , has to sail these criminal offence lords , with players ' legal action determining their relationships and how each junto will respond to them in bend .
While the likes of Jabba the Hutt - whom developers have confirmedKay will be capable to take jobsfrom - have been present since the original 1977 movie , Kay and her faithful Axolotl companion , Nix are totally new additions to the franchise . Kay , who is on the run for some reason , is volunteer the fortune to avail with the largest rip-off the Outer Rim has ever seen by Kaylen , a moon-curser - type lineament that the game’sdevelopers have insist is not Kyle Katarn , despite suffer a striking resemblance to theStar Wars : Dark ForcesandStar war : Jedi Knightprotagonist . From here , she joins forces with other new characters to assist her , let in a struggle - hardened , trenchcoat - wear BX Commando droid called ND-5 .
How exactly Kay ’s rip-off unfolds - and whether she ’ll be capable to buy her freedom - is yet to be seen , but with theStar Wars Outlawsdue to be released sometime this yr , players hopefully wo n’t have to await long to find out . While it may not be retreading the same dry land or overlapping withShadow of the Empire , it will be great to revisit this epoch of theStar Warstimeline once again from a whole new view .
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