The Last Jedi: Bomber Command is a canon young-readers book written by Jason Fry and based on the film Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Its story is told as an in-universe journal written by Resistance gunner Paige Tico. The book was published by Studio Fun International on December 15, 2017.
Publisher's summary[]
Complete with stories, secrets, and insights, this guide will immerse readers in the world of Cobalt Squadron from Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Includes gatefolds with exclusive artifacts including starship schematics and more!
Continuity[]
The Last Jedi: Bomber Command is a companion book to The Last Jedi: Cobalt Squadron, a novel by Elizabeth Wein.[2] Bomber Command is one of several The Last Jedi-adjacent works to use the term "magno-charge" to refer to the bombs dropped by a MG-100 StarFortress SF-17 heavy bomber. The term would largely be dropped over the ensuing years as some fans read it to mistakenly assume the bombs were magnetically attracted to a target.[3] While Pablo Hidalgo of the Lucasfilm Story Group reasoned that the bombs were perhaps designed with magnetism in mind, he noted that the magnetic-type deployment was not required for the bombs to be used.[4] Instead, the intention with the term "mago-charge" was to help explain the accelerated deployment[3] of bombs from an MG-100.[5] Magnetic devices in the MG-100, therefore, exist to help even out the drop rate amongst the ship's arsenal when dropping the bombs.[6]
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- ISBN 9780794440848; December 15, 2017; Studio Fun International; US hardcover[1]
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US hardcover
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Sources[]
New Star Wars: The Last Jedi Books and More Revealed at SDCC 2017 on StarWars.com (backup link)- The Star Wars Show: New The Last Jedi Images, The Star Wars Show Goes Hollywood, Lost Lucasfilm Loot, & More! on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) (Posted on StarWars.com)
- 5 Ways Bomber Command Connects to the Larger Star Wars Universe on StarWars.com (backup link)
- How the Last Jedi Novelization Connects to a Galaxy of Star Wars Books and Comics on StarWars.com (backup link)
- "Launchpad" — Star Wars Insider 181
- Looking for a Star Wars Summer Reading List? Found One, You Have! on StarWars.com (backup link)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
Star Wars VIII The Last Jedi: Bomber Command on Studio Fun International's official website (backup link)
- ↑ The Star Wars Show: New The Last Jedi Images, The Star Wars Show Goes Hollywood, Lost Lucasfilm Loot, & More! on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) (Posted on StarWars.com)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Pablo Hidalgo (@infinata.bsky.social) on Bluesky (post on May 28, 2025): "People mistook that term to mean that they were magnetically attracted to their targets when it was more about their accelerated deployment." (backup link) (In response to: "I've returned to BlueSky and I have remembered to ask @jasoncfry.bsky.social @infinata.bsky.social @holocronkeeper.bsky.social about the ordnance, which is utilised in the MG-100 StarFortress bombers. These were defined as magno-charges, but subsequent sources drop this term. Any reason as to why?")
- ↑ Pablo Hidalgo (@infinata.bsky.social) on Bluesky (post on May 28, 2025): "I think it’s fair to say they were designed to be magnetically deployed, but that deployment style isn’t required." (backup link) (In response to: "I liked that you essentially merged information together in your Fascinating Facts book. I always inferred that the artificial gravity present within the bombers accelerated the proton bombs, which is a sufficient explanation in of itself. Seems that mis-understanding was even in a source or two." and "I liked the magno-charge term however, I assumed they were type of proton bomb which were manufactured with the magnetic plates within the bomb bays of the MG-100s in mind, in which case they are still magnetically propelled too, just in tandem with actual gravity. Would that be fair to say?")
- ↑ Pablo Hidalgo (@infinata.bsky.social) on Bluesky (post on May 28, 2025): "(The overwrought reasoning is that without something to even out the drop speed the bombs at the top of the clip would be falling faster than the ones at the bottom of it in space)" (backup link)
- ↑ Star Wars: Fascinating Facts
