There are soldiers with post traumatic stress, horrific wounds, drug addiction, and more. This book takes the fun and adventure of the rest of the saga and throws it out of the window, giving us instead a story of regular people worn down to breaking point. They are often left to fend for themselves, sometimes unsure if their superiors are still around, and are given little to no information about the larger fight. Twilight Company are sent into some of the worst fighting, losing soliders again and again. Hope is in very short supply in this story, however, as the grim reality of fight against the Empire is brutally laid out. Hope built the Rebellion, hope gives them something to fight for, and hope helps them to win. The Star Wars films keep talking about hope. The heroes of the main Star Wars saga are spoken about here as myths, figures that inspire the regular troops, and villains like Darth Vader as whispered about like nightmare bogeymen. The story of Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company follows a regular company in the Rebel army, the titular Twilight Company, as they find themselves in a desperate fight not just to hurt the Empire, but for their very own survival.

This book is about war, more so than the films have ever been. There are no lightsaber duels or medal ceremonies. Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company isn’t about senators, generals, or Jedi. The story of the regular front line troops in the Galactic Civil War. Timed with the release of the first Star Wars Battlefront game, Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company tells the story that should have been included in the game, the story that should have been it’s single player campaign.

Alone and outgunned, Twilight Company locks, loads, and prepares to make its boldest maneuver, to strike at the very heart of the Empire’s military machine.’ ‘The members of this renegade outfit survive where others perish, and defiance is their most powerful weapon against the deadliest odds. Leading the charge are the soldiers of the Sixty-First Mobile Infantry, known as Twilight Company. The Rebel Alliance are taking the fight to the enemy, pushing deeper into Imperial territory. On multiple worlds legions of stormtroopers are waging brutal combat against an armada of freedom fighters.

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