<Li> Jump up ^ Each date is linked to the article about the awards held that year, wherever possible . </Li> <P> Characters from the film appeared in the second half of the animated television series Star Wars Rebels, starting with Saw Gerrera in the Season 3 mid-season one - hour special episode "Ghosts of Geonosis". The Imperial Death Troopers appeared in that season's one - hour finale, "Zero Hour". More characters and vehicles that were first introduced in the film appear in the series' fourth and final season, while the film's main antagonist, Orson Krennic, is mentioned by name . </P> <P> A tie - in novel to the film, Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel, was released on November 15, 2016 . Written by veteran Star Wars novelist James Luceno, the story is set some years before the events of Rogue One, and provides a backstory to the 2016 film . Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was written by Alexander Freed, and was released on December 16, 2016 . </P> <P> Months after the film was released, Disney Lucasfilm Press published another novel titled Star Wars: Rebel Rising on May 2, 2017 . Written by Beth Revis, the novel explains what happened to Jyn Erso between the time her mother died and the day when Rebel agents freed her from an Imperial labor camp, a time period that the film skips over in its opening minutes . </P>

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