Characters Of ‘Star Wars The High Republic’: Meet Lina Soh!
Lucasfilm continues to introduce fans to The High Republic with a new series of animated shorts focusing on key characters like Supreme Chancellor Lina Soh!
Star Wars: The High Republic is a multimedia epic set two centuries before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, during the prime of the Jedi Order. It spans novels, comic books, and short stories, written by a brain trust of outstanding Star Wars writers including Justina Ireland, Charles Soule, Daniel Day Older, Cavan Scott, and Claudia Gray.
Through the new web series Characters of Star Wars: The High Republic, animated shorts that tell the stories of The High Republic’s heroes and villains, fans are getting to know many of the major characters. Each episode focuses on one character and their journey leading up to the events that kick off The High Republic. This week belongs to leader of the High Republic, Lina Soh.
Lina Soh is the dutiful Chancellor of the Republic, ensuring peace and justice prosper in her galaxy. She is a major focus of the first full-length novel of The High Republic, Light of the Jedi. Her actions are instrumental in figuring out The Great Disaster and opening up the galaxy to being what it will eventually become.
The animated short has quite a bit in common with the Galaxy Of Adventures shorts in terms of style and length. It’s just over a minute, so it’s a quick and visually compelling introduction to one of the more interesting new characters in The High Republic era so far.
Lina Soh is based on a concept drawing by famed Star Wars conceptual artist Ian McCaig, who also helped create numerous prequel characters, including Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace.
Characters of Star Wars: The High Republic will be available exclusively on YouTube.com/StarWars and StarWars.com.
DARBY HARN is a novelist, freelance writer and podcaster. His novels include Ever The Hero, The Judgement of Valene, Nothing Ever Ends and A Country Of Eternal Light. His short fiction appears in Strange Horizons, Interzone, Shimmer and other venues.
