While the Sequel Trilogy touches on the idea of “balance” through “Force dyads” and family lineage, it’s ultimately about the light defeating the dark, and not really about opposite energies existing together. But rarely are the Jedi and the Sith treated like factions that can coexist. Throughout the Star Wars saga, the light and dark sides are presented as opposite poles, too. To be sure, allegiances are key here, especially when the characters don’t line up on the Star Wars morality scale how we expect. There’s the Traveler, a mysterious Force-user without a clear alliance at first, and Chie, a member of the Jedi clans who serve Imperial lords. The book is technically a tie-in to the anime anthology Star Wars: Visions, and its first few chapters even retell the first episode, “The Duel,” but with more backstory for the characters we already know ( the mysterious Ronin himself, who wields red lightsabers to defend a town, and the bandit who attacked it) as well as new allies and foes. The franchise has done this before (in the comic book series Star Wars Infinities in the early 2000s), but not so much in the novel space.
Ronin is a reinterpretation of Star Wars - not an alternate universe with a neat explanation like Marvel’s multiverse stories tend to have, but more of a “what if” story. Are they divinely appointed arbiters or inept police officers? What is the nature of the Force, and why does it have a light side and a dark side? The new novel Star Wars: Ronin answers these questions in new ways by redefining the Force and the Jedi, and presenting heroes who don’t fit the conventional labels of Jedi or Sith.
The morality of the Jedi is an oft-debated part of Star Wars lore. This Star Wars article contains spoilers.
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