Supermarkets are selling “The Ultimate Guide to ‘Rogue One:
A Star Wars Story’”, 96 pages, glossy paper, published by Entertainment Weekly
as a “Collector’s Edition”.
The booklet has a preface (“A childhood dream, realized”) by
director Gareth Edwards, but most of the content is authored by Anthony
Breznican.
On pp 24-29 there is a detailed “Star Wars” franchise
timeline, which places “Rogue One” just before the time of the original 1977
movie. The “rebellion” has a female general Jyn (Felicity Jones), who is
described as the kind of revolutionary young woman that might have been in the People’s
Party back in 1972 when I collided with that group. Earlier, the federation had become militarized, first with conscription and then by creating clone or robot soldiers.
On p. 70 there is a “Cosmic Cartography” map of the “Galaxy”
with the Key Planets (about 20 of them) without a clear indication of what
stars the revolve around. There are galactic regions like “The Core”, “The
Colonies”, the “Inner Rim”, “Expansion Region”, and “Mid Rim”. There
are routes on the diagram that make it look like a board game template (like “Global
Pursuit”). Planet seem to have single
ecosystems (some may be tidally locked).
Much of this new movie happens on a newly introduced “tropical paradise”
planet called “Scarif”. On p. 68 there
are typical scenes from some of the planets, starting with the richer “core
worlds”.
Of course, there’s no way you could develop a political
organization among different worlds in a “Hyperspace” (around different stars) without breaking the speed of light barrier, with
warp drives or wormholes (or The Alcubierre Drive ).
The timeline is helpful in my contemplation of my own novel
manuscripts, as what is now “Angel’s Brother” is a contracted story (from the
viewpoint of two particular characters, Randy and Sal), extracted from a much
longer narrative originally called “Brothers”.
At one time (in 2004) I had designed a “Hauge screenplay analysis” (here
) from the viewpoint of each of the major characters and place them on one
Access database. The “Star Wars” story
line seems to have been developed along a similar technique.
I had strung together narratives called “Brothers Prequel”, “Rain
on the Snow”, and “Tribunal and Rapture” (all on one Access database), from
which I extracted my current 27-chapter novel manuscript.
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