The Warrior Princess: #SWPD2026: SWBTF #284

About this episode

The hosts discuss the ongoing adventures of Rogue Squadron in the New Republic era following Return of the Jedi.

Welcome to Star Wars Podcast Day 2026! Welcome to Star Wars Beyond the Films! Your Hosts: Mark Hurliman, and Jim Lehane have been members of the Fandom for multiple decades. Mark joined the podcasting world when he joined EUCast in the summer of 2007. Jim's first podcast was actually Beyond the Films, he was a guest host for episode 170: Heir to the Jedi back in 2015. Since that time, Mark has hosted Episodes of EUCast, The Bothan Report, MarvelCast: Earth's Mightiest Podcast, Rebels Roundtable, The Padawan Perspective, The Star Wars Report, and SW Beyond the Films, and guest hosted on scores of other shows. You may also recognize Jim's voice from Talkin' TaunTauns , another Star Wars Podcast with Nicole Quinn. This episode your hosts explore the era set after Return of the Jedi, where the New Republic is struggling to build itself up in a Galaxy that doesn’t know who to believe anymore. And leading the New Republic Forces are none other than the pilots of Rogue Squadron. While the roster of the squadron is ever changing, what do we know about our current pilots? Wedge was surprised to learn one of his pilots is literal Royaltee! But then again, so was the Princess! All this, and…

People in this episode

Hosts: Mark Hurliman, Jim Lehane

Topics covered

• Rogue Squadron
• New Republic
• Star Wars Podcast Day
• Return of the Jedi
• Podcasting history
• Fandom
• Star Wars discussions

Keywords

• Star Wars
• Rogue Squadron
• New Republic
• podcast
• Mark Hurliman
• Jim Lehane
• Return of the Jedi
• Heir to the Jedi
• Star Wars Podcast Day

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Heir to the Jedi, X-Wing: Rogue Squadron

Places: New Republic, Galaxy

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