As many Star Wars fans know by now, just about every piece of media in the franchise is now all part of the same canon. This is why there was a great deal of interest in this fall’s novel Catalyst by James Luceno, as the book serves as a prequel to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Set years before the spinoff film, the book details the relationship between Galen Erso and Director Orson Krennic, revealing how the latter manipulated the former into working on the Death Star. A brilliant scientist, Galen believed his research on kyber crystals was being used to create renewable energy for the galaxy, but it instead laid the blueprint for the Death Star’s turbo laser.
At the end of Catalyst, when Galen discovers the horrifying truth, he flees to a remote planet with his wife Lyra and young daughter Jyn. However, he cannot stay out of the Empire’s ...
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