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

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

Written by Lamar Giles (Wreck Highway), the story takes place in direction of the top 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 current 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 individuals, and ferrying a pregnant couple on the run. Hunter needs to be wise 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 because of give beginning any day now.

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

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

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