Ca n’t await for Rogue One to last make it next month ? Then you should knowCatalystby James Lucerno , a prequel novel that set the stage for the events of Rogue One , comes out today . If you ’ve ever had a hankering to know all about how the Death Star was built , this is the book for you . But here ’s all the info that matters to the movie that ’s in the book .
Catalyst is mostly the story of scientist Galen Erso ( played by Mads Mikkelsen in the movie ) and Imperial officer Orson Krennic ( Ben Mendelsohn in the flick ) and their family relationship to the building of the Death Star . To be true , if it were n’t a Star Wars Scripture , Catalyst would n’t be worth understand . It ’s really the depth it give to the characters we ’ve only glimpse in dawdler that makes the book interesting . Although again , if you ’re dying to live how the Empire and Director Krennic got the Death Star built , this record will give you all of those details . So many details .
Other than the last entry in this listing , nothing here should really spoil the story ( such as it is ) . That say , if you do n’t want to have it off anything about the book :
The Ersos
A great deal of this book is dedicated to explore the parents of Rogue One ’s main character , Jyn Erso ( Felicity Jones ) . Her dad is Galen and he is a genius scientist , whose entire personality is or so “ socially clumsy man who can not stop sciencing . ” His specialness is in generating business leader through the utilization of certain crystal , and he is so notable among scientist that everyone recognise his study immediately .
Galen ’s not a rooter of getting involved in political relation and refuses to do any weapons research , so during the Clone Wars he leaves Coruscant and takes a occupation working for a neutral , tiresome company on the major planet Vallt , where concentre on building a root of clean , meretricious get-up-and-go for the existence . But it ’s very easy to get Galen so caught up in his oeuvre he does n’t notice things , and his planet fall in the Separatists .
On the polar side of the spectrum is Galen ’s wife , Lyra Erso . Where he ’s a scientist haunt with theory , she ’s much more down to ground . When they met , her job was assess the impact of propose architectural plan on a major planet ’s environment , and she ’s been to a lot of planets as a surveyor . Lyra ’s also one of those multitude who hero-worship the Force without being a Jedi . She believes in it and in the power of nature and living thing . Her whole deal is roughly … rough and tumble infinite hippie .
Now , the timeline of this book is a small perplexing , but it seems like Jyn is born a few year before Revenge of the Sith and the annihilation of the Jedi . She ’s mostly a background persona in the Word of God , a rambunctious child run around . Catalyst to a great extent imply that the necklace we hear her mom give her in the Rogue One trailer is simply one her mother bought on Coruscant and not one of the many kyber crystal her father was studying ( kyber crystals being used to major power lightsabers and the Death Star ’s superlaser ) . I have my doubts , though .
Orson Krennic
We know that Orson Krennic is called “ Director Krennic ” in Rogue One , and that might have something to do with the fact that his military social status is n’t nearly as telling . And he has ambitions to a much grander title — throughout the book , Krennic dreams of success with the Death Star netting him the social rank of Rear Admiral . It does n’t quite go down that way , and deputy commanding officer is where his rank stays for most of the book . There is something very dry in how he makes a prank out of Wilhuff Tarkin ’s many title in Catalyst when , by Rogue One , he wo n’t be snuff it by his military rank but by “ Director of Advanced Weapons Research . ”
An engineer and a designer , Krennic was also in the Futures Program , where he somehow came in contact with Galen Erso . Galen thinks Krennic is great . Galen is wrong . This is how he has the idea to bring in Galen Erso to serve them with the station ’s weapon system . ( This is also in keep with music director Gareth Edwardsthinkingthat this type was n’t upper - form but “ much more working - social class ” and receive ahead “ through gossamer personnel of personality and idea . ” )
Krennic rescues the Galen and his kinsfolk from Vallt and brings them to Coruscant , at which degree he reveals just how manipulative he is . He makes sure that Galen ’s caper offers are beneath him before giving him his ambition job : being in charge of a adeptness investigate the clean-living vigor potency of kyber crystals . He of class collapse Galen ’s inquiry to others to change his employment into weapon research . He spy on the Erso family . And when Lyra and Galen ( mostly Lyra ) finally starts to realize something ’s up , Krennic start making threats .
Additionally , Krennic came up with a way to strip “ legacy ” worlds of their protection against being core out out for resources . He has a smuggler deliver weapons , he has the weapon found , the satellite has to be investigated , meanwhile the minelaying company implicated in the artillery deal is forced to work for the Empire , and all the material go to the Death Star labor . Unfortunately for Krennic , in his forwardness , he constantly pass his authority .
Which brings us to the other , really important thing about Krennic : he and Moff Tarkin ( not a Grand Moff yet ) loathe each other . Krennic thinks he should be higher on the totem terminal and Tarkin just does n’t opine the upstart has what it take . They both keep trying to maneuver the other one into problem , with Tarkin attempt to ensure Krennic does n’t finish up require the Death Star . We ’ve image A New Hope , and Grand Moff Tarkin is everywhere and Krennic is nowhere to be seen so we know how this end up , but Krennic definitely put up a salutary fight . I ’m wager the event of Rogue One stamp out his career . Also , very possibly , they literally belt down him .
The Building of the Death Star
Rather presumptuously , the Death Star was in the process of being built long before they had any planet - destroying optical maser to put in it . We know from the prequels and Clone Wars that the theme and plans for a giant space post were initially conceived by the Separatists , led by Count Dooku . The plans those two received were “ passed on ” to then - Chancellor Palpatine , who put Krennic in charge of completing its construction — and all of this took place before the events of Revenge of the Sith . That ’s how long the Death Star read to build up : its grammatical construction started during the Clone Wars .
Once Krennic bring Galen to Coruscant to help create the Death Star ’s laser ( again , not that he lie with what he ’s helping with ) , Krennic gives him atomic pile of kyber crystals to work on . found on the size and form of them , Lyra realizes they were all taken from the lightsabers of fallen Jedi , which bother her .
A giant kyber , which the Jedi prehend and hid from the Separatists during the Clone Wars , is used by Galen in his enquiry . Kyber crystals take energy and overstate it , but refract that amplified vigour in all directions , which causes end and destruction . Galen ’s hypothesis is that he can use scientific discipline to aim the vigor in the same means Jedi employ the Force to do the same with the crystals in their lightsabers . He figures out a elbow room to thin the kyber to pore the vigor into a shaft But when others taste to use Galen ’s research , they basically reenact Chernobyl , but on a much larger , venomous scale .
Galen eventually realizes what ’s plump on , and his family finally escape Coruscant . But as we ’ve seen from the trailer , Krennic appropriate Galen after his escape , and Catalyst unveil that this is because a ) Krennic takes it very personally when Galen stops puzzle out and leaves b ) they ’re still having a lot of hassle deciphering his work and accommodate it to the superlaser . Krennic ’s staked everything on the Death Star and he ’s convinced he needs Galen to complete it .
Oh , remember how I mentioned there was one part of Catalyst that actually a giant spoiler ? Well , study this your 2d warning .
Saw Gerrera
control Gerrera ( played by Forest Whitaker in Rogue One ) demonstrate up at the closing of Catalyst . First , he lends his expertise in fighting against forces trying to take over a planet in the Salient star organisation , which was being set up by the Empire in the “ industrial plant weapons and then exhibit in and declare them traitors ” program . There , he campaign Tarkin and meets a smuggler who knows Lyra Erso .
While the Empire finally manages to shell Salient into entry , the moon-curser and Gerrera make it to Coruscant . Gerrera transports the whole Erso family off the planet and into concealment on a satellite predict Lah’mu . Saw also call to shoot the breeze and pass Lyra a card that will allow for her to call him if she need assistant . So expect Jyn and Saw to be very intimate with each other in Rogue One — to the point where I almost guess she ’ll call for aid from him when things go south , rather than them just meeting him accidentally .
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