Hello there one and all, and thanks for tuning in to another weekly roundup of news from a galaxy far, far away. As always, we’re happy to have you! This week’s news is meager in quantity, but epic in scale.

First: new Age of Resistance comics were officially announced this week and I cannot overstate how thrilled the folks here at Tosche Station are about them. Following the lead of the Age of Republic and Age of Rebellion miniseries, Age of Resistance will feature in-depth looks at some of our Star Wars favorites. Rose Tico, Kylo Ren, Snoke (I have questions!), and Rey are all to be featured in their own books. The Age of Resistance comics are written by Tom Taylor and are set to release this coming September. This is in addition to the previously announced comics that will feature Finn, Poe Dameron, Captain Phasma, and General Hux.

The rest of this week’s news is a celebration! Or, rather, it’s about a celebration– Star Wars Celebration, Anaheim that is. Tickets went on sale this week for Lucasfilm & ReedPop’s next big event, to be held August 27-30 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. The Jedi Master VIP ticket tier sold out in a matter of moments, and adult 4-day passes weren’t far behind. Single-day Saturday tickets sold out just hours later. If you’re still hoping to join the celebration, never fear! Single-day tickets for Thursday, Friday, and Sunday are still available as of the writing of this post (kids tickets, too!) and Lyte will once again be the official reseller for the show.

That’s it for this week! As I mentioned: light on quantity, but the content is a doozy.

As always, send your Star Wars news tips to Tosche Station and send your Celebration Anaheim panel suggestions to @MandaTheGinger

MTFBWY!!!

The countdown to the nation’s most anticipated event of 2020 has begun. A time when famous public figures will be on stage debating the very essence of good and evil, freedom and security, war and resistance. A time to delve into the critical issues pertaining to the future of… Star Wars.

That’s right, it’s Star Wars Celebration Anaheim!

And that countdown will end on Thursday, August 27, 2020, as we found out this week! Celebration Anaheim will only run 4 days this time, through August 31, but will no doubt have just as many memorable moments packed into that shorter period of time. Can’t wait to start planning your queuing schedule? You won’t have to – tickets go on sale this Friday at 9am PT, with hotel reservations going live an hour after that.

What’s that? You need something else to do between now and 14 months from now? Jeez, talk about needy. Fine, maybe you can satisfy yourself reading the newly announced Marvel miniseries, Jedi: Fallen Order – Dark Temple, a prequel to the upcoming video game that will reportedly introduce us to a young Cere Junda, Cal’s mysterious mentor/probable plot explainer in the game. Issue #1 comes out in September, so clear your schedules.

Finally, a hearty congratulations to Michelle Rejwan, who was just named Lucasfilm’s Senior VP of Live Action Development and Production. The co-producer of a few small cult favorites you may have heard of like The Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker, Rejwan will oversee the development of future movies and episodic content, both on the big screen and for Disney+. Can’t wait for Star Wars Reddit to claim they knew her the whole time and she’s actually the one who forged George Lucas’s signature when Disney stole Star Wars away, duh. (Really, they have no problem with women being in charge, as long as it’s done right.)

So ends a slightly snarky Holonet Blast – now if you’ll excuse me, time to grab a new box of tissues and go back to reading Alphabet Squadron.

YES we have news this week! (The news last week was “idk there’s no news I think it’s just Galaxy’s Edge opening?????” which is plenty of news for my delicate heart.)

Folks got their first in-depth look of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order this week at EA Play so—VIDEO GAAAMES!!!

First, we have the Official Release from Star Wars Dot Com: some stuff we already know–the main character is named Cal and he’s a Jedi in hiding after Order 66. In this “TOTALLY CANON” (emphasis mine, obviously) story, we see Cal on Kashyyyk to help the wookiee natives. We also know he’s got a buddy named BD-1 (VERY CUTE DROID), and we’re seeing Saw Gerrera again, voiced by Forest Whitaker (!!!).

The game looks beautiful. This is not surprising. Using the Force, though, and what that will look like is kind of a surprise: new abilities like running on walls, Force push/pull, lightsaber throws, and more. We also got our first in-game look at Purge troopers, which basically sound like specially trained Jedi-hunters. AT-ATs are back and we get to see Inquisitors–count me in.

Over at Game Informer, we get an exploration of what sets Jedi: Fallen Order apart from some of the Star Wars games that came before it. (Though, I’d argue, since Lucasfilm decided to move forward with an integrated story-telling approach, they’ve included the gaming properties and talked about continuing that approach moving forward.) Read the piece if you want more info on the choice to go with Respawn for this particular game, game play (lots of lightsaber talk), story (plus the author’s ideas about how this may tie into the larger canon), music, effects, and lots in between. Disappointingly, there isn’t anything about how the game/game play might translate to the accessibility controller(s) for various consoles. As people are having more and more discussions around accessibility and ableism, we would love to see this highlighted in future reviews!

Over in other media, my tardiness on the news today is your gain because we’ve got some bonus lit content! SyFy Wire got an exclusive excerpt (text and audiobook, woo!) from the upcoming Alphabet Squadron  “standalone prose novel and also a dynamic crossover title with Marvel’s Star Wars: TIE Fighter comic miniseries!” There’s also an exclusive interview with Alexander Freed (WHOM WE LOVE). Go read/listen. Right meow.

And that’s the news! Talk to y’all again soon.