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Why Star Wars’s The Acolyte Is Set an Even Longer Time Ago
Welcome to the High Republic.
The franchise’s latest TV show, The Acolyte, begins about 100 years before we ever met Anakin Skywalker, toward the end of a galactic dominion called the High Republic. The books’ Nihil leader, Marchion Ro, is a villain for the ages thanks to his cunning and his absurdly cool aesthetic (think Darth Vader meets Thor). And it’s also not out of the question that we see the four-armed diner owner Dexter Jettster — who shows up in High Republic comics but is best known for identifying Obi-Wan’s mystery dart in Attack of the Clones while scratching his ass in full view of his customers.
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