This top-secret cache reproduces highly sensitive intelligence that traces the Rebel Alliance from its formation through its tireless fight against the Empire. From its earliest beginnings in covert opposition to Imperial operations, the Alliance could not trust its most sensitive information to risk of digital interception. Instead, it was kept in a secure case, traveling with key senior Rebel personnel. Lost in the chaos surrounding the Battle of Endor, it was rediscovered many years later by the newly formed Resistance.
Richly illustrated and full of strategic detail and history, the files also feature additional annotation by Resistance members such as General Leia Organa, Mon Mothma, Poe Dameron, and Admiral Ackbar, making this a crucial read for fans seeking a deeper understanding of the saga.
It was first to be released in October 2017.
According to a StarWars.com blog entry dated October 7, 2017, the deluxe edition of Star Wars: The Rebel Files was scheduled to be released in the United States on November 14 of that year, but no such product was available. Major online book retailers Amazon and Barnes & Noble didn't have a product listing for the deluxe edition. Only Australian online retailers indicated that the deluxe edition would be released in Australia on December 1, 2017. The deluxe edition started to appear on online retailers on November 19.
- On page 14, Hera Syndulla is referred to as Spectre One, when that callsign was attributed to Kanan Jarrus in Star Wars Rebels.
- Page 15 has a photo of the Spectres after the Mission to Malachor. This is inconsistent, as the photo was being used by Ahsoka Tano in a document demonstrating the Spectres to Rebel Alliance Intelligence Service. Ahsoka had no contact with the Spectres during the time portrayed in the photo. Additionally, the photo depicts the Spectres as they appeared during Season Three of Star Wars Rebels, rather than Season Two, when the mission took place.
- On page 17, Jun Sato's surname is misspelled "Soto."
- On page 18, in a letter to MoffStattata, Leia Organa states that she arrived on Lothal at the capital; she actually arrived at Jalath.
- On page 25, an image of the Thranta-class corvette from the Star Wars Legends video game Star Wars: The Old Republic was used in place of the canonSphyrna-class Hammerhead corvette.
- On page 38, the map of the galaxy mistakenly depicts Alderaan as being in the Colonies instead of the Core Worlds and has the labels for the Expansion Region and the Mid Rim improperly switched.
- On page 122, Amilyn Holdo states that the Resistance did not have any spies within the First Order. However, Poe Dameron: Flight Log previously established that the Resistance spy droid network did have spies, including RA-7-D4, within the First Order.
- On page 145, Lothal is included as part of a list of highlighted targets for Operation Ringbreaker. However, the Star Wars RebelsSeason Four episodes "Family Reunion – and Farewell" would later reveal that Lothal was liberated from Imperial rule years before the operation and would stay that way past the events of the Battle of Endor, thus leaving its inclusion in the highlighted targets to be contradictory.
- On page 146, Sullust is misspelled "Sollust" at one point.
- On page 152, the image of the DS-2 Death Star II Mobile Battle Station's reactor core is upside-down.
- On page 153, Basteel, Jaresh and Sesid are all misspelled as "Bastille," "Juresh" and "Sessid."
- On page 165, Haxen Delto's name is misspelled as "Haxan"
- On page 166, Poe Dameron states that prior to the Battle of Endor, his mother, Shara Bey, would have been prepping her X-wing starfighter, when she pilots an RZ-1 A-wing interceptor.
- Originally, Davits Draven was alive until at least during the rescue of Han Solo and just prior to the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY as Star Wars: The Rebel Files had established. Due to a miscommunication, notes were missed during production of Star Wars: The Rebel Files. Star Wars (2015) 54 had Draven dying aboard the Executor. Matt Martin specified that for the time being, the comic is the definitive story for Draven.
- In a similar situation to Davits Draven, Jan Dodonna is stated to be alive post-Hoth despite his death in Star Wars (2015) 55. Similarly, the comic book's timeline of events takes priority, and the contradiction is planned to be fixed in later reprints of Star Wars: The Rebel Files.
- ISBN 9780760355459; November 21, 2017, becker&mayer! boxed set
- ISBN 9781452170145; July 3, 2018, Chronicle Books hardcover