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

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

Written by Lamar Giles (Damage 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 responsibility after the planet’s latest tsunami. That results in them operating two completely 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 desires 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 as a result of give beginning any day now.

Giles advised Polygon he hopes the novel looks like “the sensation of an prolonged bonus episode the place our favourite characters bought thrilling moments that felt recent and acquainted. I needed it to really feel like seeing outdated associates after a while aside amid an intense journey.” You’ll be able to learn an excerpt here, which options the Clones attempting to get the relic by way of typical public sale means earlier than issues inevitably pop off.

Sanctuary: A Unhealthy Batch Novel releases August 5. For those who’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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