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

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

Written by Lamar Giles (Smash Street), 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 obligation after the planet’s current tsunami. That results in them operating two totally 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 needs 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 because of give start 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 I wished it to really feel like seeing outdated mates after a while aside amid an intense journey.” You may learn an excerpt here, which options the Clones attempting to get the relic via typical 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 via books, there’s additionally Finn and Jannah’s YA story The Last Order coming October 21 from Kwame Mbalia.

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