The show, which is currently in development at Lucasfilm, will be the first set in that High Republic era.
If you’re not the kind of Star Wars fan who really goes hard into the ancillary literature, you’ve barely experienced the High Republic.
Plenty of comics and novels have been set in the so-called “High Republic” era of Star Wars, the century-plus before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace when, supposedly, things were awesome for the Jedi and the Sith were basically nonexistent.
And because it is set in this era where the bad guys basically don’t exist, they become “the underdogs” in the story.