Via Starwars.com:

The Servants of the Empire young-adult series is the story of Zare Leonis and his family, who came to Lothal as supporters of the Empire. In the first book, Edge of the Galaxy, Zare learned about leadership on his school’s grav-ball field while discovering the Empire wasn’t the force for good he’d grown up believing in. That book culminated with his sister Dhara’s disappearance from the Academy and Zare’s decision to follow her into Imperial service — but as a secret enemy of the Empire trying to find Dhara and save her.

In the second book, Rebel in the Ranks, we learn about Zare’s Academy life. The book includes the events of the Star Wars Rebels episode “Breaking Ranks,” butRebel in the Ranks is much more than an adaptation. It’s a longer story — the events of the actual episode start on page 125 — and it’s told from a different point of view.

Which posed an interesting challenge as a writer.

For openers, “Breaking Ranks” is Ezra Bridger’s story, but Rebel in the Ranks is Zare’s. (If you haven’t watched “Breaking Ranks,” stop now — spoilers lie ahead.) So if Zare didn’t witness something at the Academy, I couldn’t show it in telling his part of the story. On the other hand, there was no reason I couldn’t keep the cameras rolling, so to speak, after a scene in the TV ended — or begin before that scene started.

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