Twilight Company (Star Wars: Battlefront, #1)
Alexander Freed
A companion novel inspired by the hotly anticipated videogame Star Wars: Battlefront, this action-packed adventure follows a squad of soldiers caught in the trenches of the ultimate galactic war between good and evil. The bravest soldiers. The toughest warriors. The ultimate survivors. Among the stars and across the vast expanses of space, the Galactic Civil War rages. On the battlefields of multiple worlds in the Mid Rim, legions of ruthless stormtroopers—bent on crushing resistance to the Empire wherever it arises—are waging close and brutal combat against an armada of freedom fighters. In the streets and alleys of ravaged cities, the front-line forces of the Rebel Alliance are taking the fight to the enemy, pushing deeper into Imperial territory and grappling with the savage flesh-and-blood realities of war on the ground. Leading the charge are the soldiers—men and women, human and nonhuman—of the Sixty-First Mobile Infantry, better known as Twilight Company. Hard-bitten, war-weary, and ferociously loyal to one another, the members of this renegade outfit doggedly survive where others perish, and defiance is their most powerful weapon against the deadliest odds. When orders come down for the rebels to fall back in the face of superior opposition numbers and firepower, Twilight reluctantly complies. Then an unlikely ally radically changes the strategic equation—and gives the Alliance’s hardest-fighting warriors a crucial chance to turn retreat into resurgence. Orders or not, alone and outgunned but unbowed, Twilight Company locks, loads, and prepares to make its boldest maneuver—trading down-and-dirty battle in the trenches for a game-changing strike at the ultimate target: the very heart of the Empire’s military machine. From the Hardcover edition.
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0Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company follows the 61st Mobile Infantry of the Rebel Alliance, better known as Twilight Company. This group of renegade soldiers is known for being tough and willing to commit whatever sacrifice Commander “Howling Mad” Evon deems necessary. While the heroes of the Alliance deal with Death Stars, Twilight Company is sent to capture strategic locations by whatever means necessary. It’s bloody, dangerous and inglorious work that not everyone can handle. When the Alliance is dealt a blow at Hoth, it’s up to Twilight Company to find their own way of striking back at the Empire even as most of the Alliance retreats and regroups.
“Twilight Company had become the rear guard of a massive withdrawal. It deployed to worlds it had helped capture mere months earlier and evacuated the bases it had built. It extracted the Rebellion’s heroes and generals and pointed the way home. It marched over the graves of its own dead soldierse. Some of the company lost hope. Some became angry. No one wanted to go back.”
In a lot of ways, Twilight Company made me think of Rogue One. I can’t claim to have played much of the new Battlefront games (I’ve been too busy complaining about how I really wanted a re-make of the old ones) but I really enjoyed the cynical renegade soldier element of this story. In particular, I really liked Hazram Namir as the embittered sergeant who reluctantly takes part in a mission so dangerous it really only counts as a suicide one. I liked the way his history as a mercenary on a savage, backwater planet gave him a more cynical view of the Alliance and its fight against the Empire. I also appreciated characters like Brand and Roach who joined Twilight Company for their own reasons which are also slowly revealed and are never as simple as “wanting to save the galaxy.”
If I have a complaint about Twilight Company, its that the subsections of the book don’t seem to have much in common with what’s actually happening. The sections about withdrawal, regroupment and attack don’t actually directly correspond to the way that events are happening and it creates this kind of confusion about the timeline of the story (at least for me). The characters are fascinating but the story is definitely driven by said characters and there are pieces that seem out of place or odd. It’s not enough to derail the story but it is a little annoying.
If you liked the group of soldiers in Rogue One who refused to give up on the Rebellion because they had done terrible things in the name of the Alliance, or enjoy the more cynical view of warfare that you find more in Warhammer 40k than you usually do in Star Wars, Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company will be right up your alley. It’s a grittier version of a familiar universe with a compelling cast of complicated characters who will steal your heart even knowing that few of them are safe from death.
0A must read for every Star Wars fan! This book gives a complete and insight description of a rebel company that keeps getting the short end of the stick. The despair, the lack of purpose, the grueling physical circumstances come across well.
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