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PATHFINDERS EXPLORE NEW SYSTEMS & RUN INTO MONSTERS IN PHASE 2 OF THE HIGH REPUBLIC! Quest For The Hidden City is the focus of this episode; Mike provides an overview of Phase 2 of The High Republic, including how it differs from Phase 1 and what Pathfinder teams are, before providing his spoiler-free thoughts on the novel.He then reads the blurb and provides more information on the book, lightly speaking about characters and themes. After reading the crawl, Mike gives the final spoiler-warning and talks in-depth about the characters and gives an overview of the book’s plot, some connections to other content and more!
This book is the second book in the second phase of the High Republic, it centres around pathfinding teams on the new worlds of Gloam & Aubadas, plus the Katikoot species, master & padawan Rooper Nitani and Silandra Sho, a father & son exploration team, a strange, but valuable, mineral surrounded by monsters and more!
Quest For The Hidden City is a junior novel written by George Mann, it is set in Phase 2, Wave 1 of THR; 350 years before the Skywalker Saga and was released November 1st 2022.
Mike has tackled every piece of the High Republic content on this show! Phase 2 kicked off with his Path Of Deceit review on 7thJanuary 2023.
Mike has tackled all High Republic content from Phase 1 - all episodes are on these feed or can be found here on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcO1Ib_BGD8bsER_4sqfhNFfd5aoWT_YX
Mike spoke with fellow High Republic architect Cavan Scott in April 2022 which can be found on this very feed or on YouTube, which has their conversation with video!
Last week, in ep 119, Mike delved into 6 issues of Greg Pak’s Darth Vader run, set after Crimson Reign, where Vader & Sabé pursue an imperial governor working with Crimson Dawn and along the way Vader meets two people from his childhood on Tatooine. Palpatine also meets & tests Sabé and when the other handmaidens hear what Sabé has been up to, Dormé is sent to investigate! Mike also provides information on handmaidens and the Iakaru species!
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Outro read by BZ The Voice: http://www.bzthevoice.com
Intro theme arranged by Mike Burton, backing music by Eric Matyas at www.soundimage.org
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:41 Book Info
02:12 High Republic Overview & Episodes
03:20 Phase 2 Overview
07:37 Spoiler-Free Thoughts & Overview
12:24 Blurb & Minor Spoiler-Warning
14:03 Themes, Character Briefs & Mild Spoilers
24:49 Crawl & Final Spoiler Warning
25:52 More In-Depth Character Info
29:18 Full Plot Overview (Major Spoilers)
33:00 Final Thoughts
35:08 Other Content
36:38 Solo Podcast Feed
37:19 Pop Culture Collective
37:55 Support & Patreon
39:50 Coming Up
41:08 Outro
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