
After I wrote the script, it quickly became apparent that I had to do this, even if it meant running it parallel to The Pack. I had no idea that there would be an equal excitement for an African-inspired Space Opera. When I started this journey, I made peace with the fact that The Pack would occupy most of my adult life. “It was only natural that I use the same research I use on The Pack and push it in the other direction of science fiction.

“As with The Pack and High Fantasy, I felt that this beloved genre significantly lacked diversity not only in the characters but in the underlying source of design,” Louise-Julie writes in a press release. That same research is the backbone of his Pack graphic novel, which Louise-Julie says is part of his larger goal of “creating a new mythology for the Black Diaspora.” The further expansion of the Star Wars universe carries on the tradition of space opera beyond the films.Like Star Wars, Yohancé is set in a far-off galaxy, though Louise-Julie says everything in this galaxy is integrally rooted in his research of ancient African cultures, like his hero’s Central African Fang Mask-inspired head gear for instance. By the peak mania for 'Star Wars' in late summer 1977, the sprawling space saga was playing in a stratospheric 1,098 theaters across America, with the longest-running engagement being 76 weeks at. Star Wars is typically characterized as belonging to the space opera genre, and many classic space opera serials such as Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers were among the impressions that inspired George Lucas into making the Star Wars movies. Space opera is a real-world subgenre of science fiction which is itself a genre of speculative fiction that emphasizes romantic adventure, exotic places, and larger-than-life characters in a galactic or intergalactic setting.

The theater Five Star Entertainment located in the City of Masks on Genarius performed a space opera named " A Rodian Love Story." Space opera is a genre of science fiction in theater and comic book entertainment. Help us improve this article by referencing valid resource material. This article needs appropriate citations. This article is in need of referencing per Wookieepedia's sourcing guidelines.
