Suvudu Universe

On Thursday at San Diego Comic-con, Del Rey and Lucasfilm held a panel for A New Dawn by John Jackson Miller. During that panel they also discussed the other announced forthcoming novels and revealed a new book as well. The new book is an as yet untitled novel written by Christie Golden that will star Asajj Ventress and Quinlan Vos and be based on unproduced stories from Star Wars: The Clone Wars. From StarWars.com’s Live Blog of the panel:

2:33: New reveal! An Asajj Ventress novel (featuring Quinlan Vos) by Christie Golden! Filoni: “Ventress had become one of the most interesting characters…we had all this material, we had all these designs…This is based on scripts we had written with George Lucas…I’m super excited about this book.” Check out the cover! 2:37: Heddle says that it will be more of a novel for adults, and Hidalgo notes that the novel will be able to go deeper in ways that the show could not.

Del Rey’s Facebook  post:

Exciting news from our panel Dave Filoni, executive producer and supervising director of Star Wars Rebels has announced Del Rey’s upcoming Star Wars novel. Starring Asajj Ventress and Quinlan Vos based on unaired Star Wars: The Clone Wars scripts, the book is being written by Christie Golden and is scheduled for publication in the summer of And Bonus! Check out the exclusive art by Aaron Mcbride featuring Ventress’s new look.

It certainly seems like Quinlan Vos was set for a much bigger role in The Clone Wars based on Writer’s conference story sketches by Dave Filoni that he published on StarWars.com as a thank you for fans support of Season 6: The Lost Missions release on Netflix.   It appears based on this artwork that Vos may have been placed undercover and taken as a Sith Apprentice by Dooku. In the season 6 sketch we see an image of Vos with yellow eyes and fighting Darth Maul.

 

In the season 7 sketch we see Vos standing over what looks like a defeated Dooku and then carrying away what looks to be a dead or grievously injured Ventress. My bet is they lifted some of Vos’ story from the comics and tweaked it. He goes undercover but loses himself in the darkness and Ventress goes after him and tries to bring him turn him away from Dooku and the Dark side.

This book is being written by Christie Golden who was previously contracted to write the Sword of the Jedi trilogy. In all likelihood this is to fulfill Del Rey’s contract for with the author. I would expect that we will see at least two more books by Golden if her Sword of the Jedi contract was already signed for all three books.

Asajj Ventress was one of the characters that they spent the most time developing in The Clone Wars and she had a very long and complicated character arc. I am excited to see where her story was and is going. I also hope this is the first of other novels based on unproduced story arcs from The Clone Wars. There certainly is room for a Rex novel given his absence from Revenge of the Sith. The biggest hope is that we see Ahsoka’s story finished but that is big enough that I wonder if they might hold off on that for a few years and come out with an animated movie or series of animated movies starring Ahsoka.

Stay tuned to this site for more news about this exciting new novel when it becomes available.

SOURCE: StarWars.com