Long before Rogue One was conceived, there was another Star Wars story that followed another band of rogues: Michael A. Stackpole’s X-Wing series. When I watched one of the later trailers for Rogue One, I was struck by one of the scenes: a squadron of X-Wing fighters weaving in and out of an Imperial space station, and noted that it’s like something out of Michael A. Stackpole’s novels. Stackpole’s X-Wing series follows the Rogue Squadron, one of the Rebel Alliance’s best-known units.