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So, late this spring Dark House comics will begin publishing Star Wars: Legacy.
Unlike previous Star Wars comics, this book will not take place during the original trilogy era, the prequel era, or any of the time periods currently being seen in the video games, cartoons, and novels.
It's supposed to be set 100 years after the most recent "New Republic" stories...and the main character ("Cade Skywalker) is either Luke's grandson, or his great-grandson.
Other than the series will be written by John Ostrander (who's a pretty good writer) not much has yet been revealed about it.
I find myself...interested.
Apparently the issue #0 of the new series will only be 25 cents. Can't hurt to check it out.
(Or so I suppose, sight unseen.)
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Hmmmm, I'd say his grandson. After all I think I read that Luke got married eventually. And he is a Jedi, and for that matter Yoda lived to be like 800yrs old. So there should even be the possabllity that Luke could still be alive either way.
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Yoda lived to be 900 years old because of his race, not because he was one with the universe. Lukes dead. Or wearing diapens.
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quote:After all I think I read that Luke got married eventually.
Yup. He married Mara Jade, and in the NJO books (before I gave up and stopped reading them) they had their first child-- Ben. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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Oye... I stopped reading Star Wars with the NJO books. They destroyed the universe if you ask me. I might pick it up again with this comic... maybe...
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Actually, the NJO did eventually get better again, to the point that it was no longer completely incoherent. There were just too many cooks.
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I tried a few of the NJO books but could never get into them. Then, a few months ago I checked out one of the books that takes place during the clone wars.
I don't remember the title, but I read about three sentences and had to quit because the writing was so bad.
I'm guessing that's common for many novelizations.
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Yeah, NJO killed it for me too. I only made it through the first two books before giving up. I did, however, find Timothy Zahn's last Star Wars book to be pretty good. He's one of the few Star Wars authors that I honestly enjoy, and they had gotten him involved in the NJO series I might have actually read them.
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NJO got pretty silly, but I stuck with it and finished the series. It got better. Still, I was less than thrilled with a lot of it.
I'm still considering whether or not I want to read the books that go beyond NJO, there's a lot of them planned.
As for Cade, I'd say great grandson. In the most recent Star Wars book, Ben Skywalker is already the apprentice of Jacen Solo, in another hundred years, it'd have to be Ben's son, or even his grand or great grandson.
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Yes. Like Barbara Hambly's contributions. *shudders* I LOVE her other books. But she and SW do not belong together, obviously.
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Series writer John Ostrander has popped up on the Dark Horse comics message boards to clarify: While Cade Skywalker -is- a direct descendant of Luke Skywalker, he's not necessarily also a descendant of Ben Skywalker.
So, Luke may have other kids in the upcoming "Legacy of the Force" novel series, or something.
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Hmm... the only expanded universe novels I've read are Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire trilogy. I loved those books. They felt like, well, a logical progression of Star Wars.
And Admiral Thrawn rules.
Anyway... I dunno if I'll read the NJO or not. It doesn't look very good, after all.
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quote:Originally posted by 0Megabyte: Hmm... the only expanded universe novels I've read are Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire trilogy. I loved those books. They felt like, well, a logical progression of Star Wars.
And Admiral Thrawn rules.
Anyway... I dunno if I'll read the NJO or not. It doesn't look very good, after all.
I'd recommend reading the X-Wing series, followed by I,Jedi, and then reading the two Hand of Thrawn books. Most of the other books are really skippable.
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: I loved the X-Wing books. Okay, I love Corran Horn, period. My favorite is I, Jedi.
I think that Stackpole is selling signed hardcover copies of I, Jedi on his website.
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I never read the NJO books. I heard they slaughtered a bunch of main characters or something so i never wanted to read that. It would depress me.
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quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: I loved the X-Wing books. Okay, I love Corran Horn, period. My favorite is I, Jedi.
We're kindred spirits KQ. I just finished rereading I, Jedi last night. Corran Horn is my hero, and I, Jedi RULES!
And Mike Stackpole will sign ANY of his books that you send to him so long as you pay for postage and tell him who to sign it to. He specifically mentions I, Jedi, because apparently hardcover copies of the book are very hard to come by now.
quote:An upcoming comic book series from Dark Horse called Star Wars: Legacy, which will be based a hundred years after the end of Return of the Jedi, will feature a direct descandent of Luke Skywalker known as Cade Skywalker. From an early biography of Cade, it is shown that he has completely abandoned the Jedi way and has become a bounty hunter. What lead him to turn away from the Jedi Order, and what happened with the Solo family line, remains to be seen.
According to Wikipedia.
So, it's 80 years after the last NJO storym give or take. And I find it very interesting that he won't be a Jedi, but a bounty hunter, a very powerful one at that. Luke and Mara would possibly still be alive. Jedi can still live much longer than the average person through using the Force. Interesting.
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Of course, many "completely abandoned the *blank* way" stories tend to be the story of how the character returned to said ways.
Lyrhawn, series writer John Ostrander said it'll be 100 years after the upcoming "Legacy of the Force" novels, which he indicated take place a bit after the NJO novels.
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I thought there were more than two Hand Of Thrawn books? Didn't Zahn feature him in a trilogy?
I don't know, it's been a while since I read them (like, since they first were published), but I agree with the truncated recommendations of x-wing, I, Jedi, and the thrawn books.
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The Heir to the Empire Trilogy mentioned earlier was also about Thrawn but the Hand of Thrawn consisted of only two books.
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Zahn also wrote "Survivor's Quest" concerning the remnants of the Outbound Flight. And he just published "The Outbound Flight", set before EpIII about Palpatine's dispatching of a number of Jedi on the flight and Thrawn. I'll probably get it today.
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quote:Originally posted by IanO: Zahn also wrote "Survivor's Quest" concerning the remnants of the Outbound Flight. And he just published "The Outbound Flight", set before EpIII about Palpatine's dispatching of a number of Jedi on the flight and Thrawn. I'll probably get it today.
I'll have to look for that. I've been waiting for it to come out even since I read Survivor's Quest. I became disinterested in the SW universe after reading a couple of the NJO books, but I always look forward to the Zahn ones.
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Also check out the Dark Nest trilogy. New enemies whose threat is very real. And a nice tie in to the prequels, as well, since Luke discovers a segment of Artoo's memory concerning his father.
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Troy Denning. He also wrote "Tatooine Ghost", which attempted (somewhat successfully) to have Leia come to terms with the Father she knew (the evil Dark Lord, Vader) with the boy/young man he was and his fall. I have mixed feelings about this book because there were absolutely great things and then there were areas where I was scratching my head.
The Dark Nest trilogy is pretty good. It's post NJO and deals with the ramifications of the new view on the force. It's the first in a new arch, The Legacy of the Jedi (I think that's the name). Occassionally, there were too many battles, but for the most part were well done and rather gritty. Not as machiavellian as, say, Cloak of Deception (a real masterpiece- Palpatine/Sidious is amazing) or Labyrinth of Evil. But still good.
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I don't know, the Dark Nest trilogy is iffy to me. For me anyway, it's just too far departed from what I've always thought of as Star Wars. The focus is mainly on EU characters, with only a few of the original characters even left with major or even minor roles.
If that sort of thing doesn't bother you at all, then full steam ahead, but it's way the heck out there now, and I'm not sure yet how I feel about that.
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Actually, Luke, Han, Leia, Artoo and Threepio all have very big roles. In fact, I'd guess that 3/4 of the trilogy is from their POV.
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quote:For me anyway, it's just too far departed from what I've always thought of as Star Wars. The focus is mainly on EU characters, with only a few of the original characters even left with major or even minor roles.
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quote:Originally posted by Anti-Chris: Yoda lived to be 900 years old because of his race, not because he was one with the universe. Lukes dead. Or wearing diapens.
Hey, there have been other human Jedi who have lived for over a hundred years and still kicked butt. I believe that Mace was at least a hundred.
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quote:For me anyway, it's just too far departed from what I've always thought of as Star Wars. The focus is mainly on EU characters, with only a few of the original characters even left with major or even minor roles.
And yet you like the X-wing books?
Wedge, Janson, Hobbie, Ackbar, Tycho, they were all characters that were in the movie.
By EU characters, I meant characters that were only created by authors in the EU.
I make an exception for Corran Horn. He's just amazing.
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Wedge and Ackbar were minor characters; Janson and Tycho were almost unnoticeable. Their character, per se, was created by authors in the EU.
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The EU that is now premised and focused on, as for that matter was MUCH of the second half of the NJO, second generation EU characters, if you think of first generation as characters created in or directly after the movies and then expanded upon.
When the story starts to focus on a bunch of Jedi that I've never heard of, and New Republic officials that I've never heard of, so on and so forth never heard of, as main characters, some of the magic is lost for me. Wedge, Corran, Hobbie, Luke, Mara, I think of them as part of the first generation. They're the generation of the Galactic Civil War. But that's over, and now Jaina, Jacen, Tenal Ka and Ben Skywalker are taking over so to speak.
I'll probably end up reading some of it, but I'm not as excited to get to it.
(Also, the X-Wing books were largely side events, they didn't deal with major crises like the NJO or Thrawn Trilogy did. Fighting Isard and Zsinj was part of a long slug match against the remnants of the Empire and theirs was, in many cases, just a piece of the war)
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I was just teasing you. I think the X-wing books had more of the feel of the original movies than most of the books, regardless of characters.
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I've just started reading Outbound Flight so I can't have a fully-formed opinion, but so far it's been pretty freaking great.
It has a bunch of characters from earlier T.Z. SW stuff, such as Thrawn (of course), C'boath (who I really want to learn about), and Car'das.
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Oh, and regarding NJO: a bunch of it was garbage. Some was acceptable. Others were very good, such as Traitor and Destiny's Way-in my opinion.q
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Ummm...I have no idea, KQ. I'm nearly done with it and it does not appear to be an AU, and I saw no reference to it being so.
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