The second installment in Chuck Wendig ’s trilogy set after Return of the Jedi , Aftermath : Life Debt stick to Norra Wexley and her team as they look for for the missing Han Solo . We talked to Wendig about write the novel , integrating his original melodic theme with the existing Star Wars universe , and the gist of The Force Awakens on it all .
io9 : What was the scope of the original Aftermath pitch ?
Chuck Wendig : As in , how far did it go ? It was a auction pitch for one Good Book , but had a smaller pitch nested in it that blab about the focal point of the overall trilogy .
What things about the DoS of the world were you say versus how much you got to create ?
Wendig : I incur to make up quite a lot , thankfully . I was chip in things I was n’t allowed to pen about , which set up my approaching — I knew I had to gloss within a certain lot of lines , so to speak .
How much of this trilogy was write before The Force Awakens came out ?
Wendig : All of the first Word and some of the second , if I recall .
Did you worry about lose some of the dramatic tension since Temmin is clearly alive ( as X - Wing pilot Snap ) in The Force Awakens ?
Wendig : Not really . fable is at its spoiled when it hangs on OH GOSH WHO LIVES AND WHO DIES . That ’s how you get punch-drunk cliffhanger TV appearance and simulated drama . We as people are more than our deaths , and characters are the same . It ’s not about how or when they die , but what happens to them and how they change . There ’s a smashing mountain of narrative latent hostility in who Temmin Wexley is and who he becomes and how he gets there — and how it all touch on him in the death .
How firmly is it to balance the stories of the original characters with familiar ones ?
Wendig : Not hard . Star Wars is a wandflower of many voices and eccentric and it ’s a lot of fun to see them recreate together .
The moral force between the team is so much fun and nuanced — what was your favorite routine to pen ?
Wendig : Really , anytime I get the whole gang together , it ’s great . But there are some tantrum just between Sinjir and Temmin I really care . The path they interact , snarking at each other but also really learning to become friends ? It ’s cool .
You had tell that the first Aftermath book was n’t originally live to bestow “ the braggy three ” in , but the Han and Chewie panorama from that Christian Bible really chair into Life Debt . How did that germinate ?
Wendig : That interlude was turn over a dark-green illumination after most of the record book was write , and we decided then it would help us to inform the 2nd volume more completely . Tease it a snatch . That first rule book presages a lot of the thing to add up , some of them in the interlude .
The book ends with a middling clear mission for the team . How long did you do it you were make up to that storey for the finale ?
Wendig : really , my initial pitch had them in that function of “ Imperial Hunters ” already — but we decided that it was best to build into that a little more . It ’s authoritative Star Wars , I think , to see how a team come together .
Mr. Bones is great , but so are IG-88 andTriple - Zero . Why do you call up homicidal droids so much playfulness ?
Wendig : I do n’t know what it is ! It ’s dependable too of murderous AIs ( GlaDOS , HAL , Typhon from my own ZER0ES novel ) . Bones for me is a piddling more interesting because despite being murderous , he ’s also a piece sweet ? He ’s very firm and is a echt friend to Temmin in his own mechanical droid - like path .
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