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The third and final wave of books and comics in Phase I of Star Wars: The High Republic start arriving today, marking the one-year anniversary of our first steps into the new era.

To celebrate, Krystina Arielle gathered the five architects of the initiative — Claudia Gray, Justina Ireland, Daniel José Older, Cavan Scott, and Charles Soule — and some other very special guests for a dazzling anniversary edition of the Star Wars: The High Republic Show.

Here are 10 things we learned from the event, which you can watch for yourself below.

1. Phase II: Quest of the Jedi begins October 2022. With the final wave of books and comics in Phase I: Light of the Jedi, we’re looking forward to the next leg of the adventure starting this fall.

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Bring Home the Bounty revealed a galaxy of Star Wars products, but the fun’s not over! Every Tuesday, StarWars.com will showcase select new Bonus Bounties, featuring collectibles, print-on-demand offerings, and more based on The Book of Boba Fett, now streaming only on Disney+, as well as the legacy of bounty hunters. Check StarWars.com each week, and get your tracking fobs ready.

This week, Bonus Bounties debuts Hasbro’s Star Wars: The Black Series version of Boba Fett, hearkening back to early designs of the fan-favorite character, and more! Check out all the new targets below, and happy hunting.

Star Wars: The Black Series Boba Fett (Prototype) by Hasbro

Fun fact: Boba Fett’s now-iconic armor was actually designed for “super troopers” of the Empire. When that idea was abandoned, however, filmmakers repurposed

His name is Boba Fett. And he’s back.

The Book of Boba Fett, a new Original Series following the legendary bounty hunter and his deadly partner, Fennec Shand, has arrived on Disney+! Chapter 1 is now streaming, with subsequent installments of the seven-episode season premiering every Wednesday.

The Book of Boba Fett is set within the timeline of The Mandalorian and stars Temuera Morrison as the titular armored warrior, along with Ming-Na Wen as Fennec Shand. Robert Rodriguez — who directed Chapter 14 of The Mandalorian, a thrilling installment that reintroduced Boba Fett to the Star Wars galaxy — joins Favreau and Dave Filoni as executive producer of the series.

For more on Boba Fett, check out a bounty of StarWars.com’s in-depth coverage of the iconic character:

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Every Tuesday, BringHomeTheBounty.com will reveal new products inspired by everything from The Book of Boba Fett, premiering exclusively on Disney+ December 29, to The Mandalorian, the Skywalker saga, animated series, and much more. Check StarWars.com each week for a few of the major new releases headed to this galaxy, then get your tracking fobs ready.

This week, Bring Home the Bounty features a new Boba Fett-themed apparel and accessories collection, and much more!

The hunt is on at BringHomeTheBounty.com, with the latest products inspired by The Book of Boba Fett and more, including new books, apparel, accessories, and collectibles. Many new items are on sale or available for pre-order starting tomorrow at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET across top retailers globally, including shopDisney.com. Check out a few of our favorites below!

And next week, tune in for Bring Home the Bounty

Felicity Jones was just coming off of what would become her Oscar-nominated turn as Jane Hawking in The Theory of Everything when she stepped into the Star Wars galaxy as the lead in the franchise’s first standalone film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in 2015.

“I couldn’t believe what an amazing part it was,” Jones tells StarWars.com now, as the film marks the five-year anniversary of its release in December of 2016. “Most of the female roles in franchises at that time were supporting roles.” But Jyn Erso was different: scrappy, tough, resilient, and undoubtedly center stage as the leader of an impressive team of rogues and rebels. “I just felt instinctively that I understood Jyn and knew how I wanted to play her.”

Jones had long been

The Book of Boba Fett arrives in less than two weeks, streaming exclusively on Disney+ beginning December 29. As we’ve been counting down the days, we began to wonder: are we more like notorious bounty hunter and son of Jango Fett, Boba, or the elite assassin with a heart of gold, Fennec Shand? There’s only one way to settle this dispute: a StarWars.com quiz!

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There are many Lucasfilm heroes, but not all of them wield lightsabers.

Lynne Hale started at Lucasfilm over 35 years ago, the only publicity employee in the entire company at the time. Working directly with George Lucas, her first projects were Willow, Tucker, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Years later, when Star Wars entered new eras of activity and Lucasfilm began to grow, Lynne led teams and would oversee campaigns for the Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition, the Star Wars prequels, Red Tails, and the Star Wars sequel trilogy and standalone films. It’s quite a résumé, and one Lynne can be proud of as she enters retirement.

But what a résumé can’t convey is someone’s heart, enthusiasm, and sense of kindness. Anyone who knows Lynne will tell you

This year, Lucasfilm marked its 50th with a year-long celebration of the company’s galaxy-spanning stories created over five decades. But like Luke Skywalker, our eyes are also on the horizon and the things yet to come. Star Wars: The High Republic ushered in a new multimedia initiative set in a previously unexplored era on the galactic timeline, Star Wars: The Bad Batch focused all-new animated adventures in the immediate aftermath of Order 66, and soon The Book of Boba Fett will reignite our love for the fan-favorite character. We can’t wait to see what next year has in store.

Before we say goodbye to 2021, here are our favorite Star Wars announcements, releases, and moments from this year!

Star Wars: The High Republic changed our view of the peaceful Republic and the

Most Star Wars fans have dreamed of flying an X-wing. When Brian Volk-Weiss was five years old, however, he was a little more serious about it.

“I was young enough when I saw Star Wars that I really didn’t understand what a movie is,” he tells StarWars.com. “And I didn’t know the word ‘documentary,’ but if you looked at how I was acting after I saw the movie, you would think I thought it was a documentary. Whenever somebody would say to me, ‘Hey, Brian, what do you want to be when you grow up?’ I would say, ‘Well, you know, I’d like to be an X-wing pilot in the Rebellion, and I love T-65s…’” Yet while this response was cute, his family began to feel a disturbance in the

You know it’s a bad sign when Doctor Aphra is the most accountable person in the room.

In StarWars.com’s exclusive preview of Marvel’s Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #17, the rogue archeologist and Sana Starros meet Aphra’s old nemesis on Coruscant — in the midst of an arcane ritual, of course. Meanwhile, Beilert Valance faces off with the Imperial who first inspired him to join the Empire in the next issue of Star Wars: Bounty Hunters.

Doctor Aphra #17, from writer Alyssa Wong and artist Minkyu Jung, with a cover by Sara Pichelli, arrives January 5 and is available for pre-order now on ComiXology; Bounty Hunters #19, from writer Ethan Sacks and artist Ramón F. Bachs, with a cover by Giuseppe Camuncoli, lands December 29 and is available for pre-order now on ComiXology. Both will also be on sale at your local comic