In an excerpt from the upcoming Star Wars novel, Star Wars: The Living Force, the Jedi Council faces a formidable new adversary: a pirate queen named Zilastra. The Living Force, written by John Jackson Miller, is a canonical Star Wars book set just before Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace in the Star Wars timeline. The novel will see the Jedi retreating further and further away from the galaxy, setting the stage for the events of the prequel trilogy and the Star Wars movies and TV shows that follow.
The excerpt of Star Wars: The Living Force shared by Gizmodo introduces the sardonic personality of pirate queen Zilastra and a peek into her piracy. Author of the book John Jackson Miller provided further context in his post on X, sharing that 'Zilastra was a lot of fun to write.'
