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Star Wars: Legacy (set 145 ABY and starring Cade Skywalker)
Posted: 2006-02-01 03:26pm
by 000
John Ostrander on theforce.net lit forum wrote:The secret is out.
The "mystery project" that Jan [Duursema] and I have been working on these past few months has been announced over on the Dark Horse boards. It is STAR WARS LEGACY and it is set 100 years AFTER the events in NJO and the upcoming Legacy of the Force novels. In other words -- an era you've never seen before. Anywhere.
Randy Stradley on darkhorse.com boards wrote:There have been lots of wild theories bandied about regarding the "secret" project that John Ostrander and Jan Duursema (and Dan Parsons and Brad Anderson) have been cooking up. Rumors have ranged from a new series set in the immediate aftermath of Revenge of the Sith to the miniseries focusing on Quermian society and just what those long-necked aliens are doing with that shorter second set of arms under their robes all the time. (Okay, I admit I started that second rumor. Just now.)
Well, it's time for all of the rumors to end and for all of the wild, unsupported speculation to begin, Below is a peek at what's coming your direction this summer. You'll be reading about it shortly in Diamond Previews, and by tomorrow on many of the fan and retailer websites. But, for once, we wanted to be the first to announce one of our own projects (it seems fair, right?). So, without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, I give you Star Wars Legacy:
The cover to Legacy #0 (by Jan Duursema):
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And a sample interior page from Legacy #0:
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Legacy #0 (25ยข, shipping in May) will serve as a primer of sorts for the characters and settings in the Legacy ongoing series (which begins the following month). Rather than an actual comics story, #0 will be your handbook for a wider, wilder new galaxy.
Note that in all likelihood, the actual interior pages of #0 will be typeset in a more traditional book-style typeface.
There. That's about as much as I'm willing to tell you at this point.
Link to Darkhorse.com thread
Posted: 2006-02-01 03:36pm
by Ghost Rider
Wow...let me contain the excitement of what appears to be a bold yet scruffy pirate, perhaps we'll have a naive queen from Tatooine?
New Sith Order....*groan*
NEW EMPIRE?!
100 years and Luke's Jedi order fucks up this bad, this fast? Man, Yoda must be spinning in the Force now.
Posted: 2006-02-01 03:58pm
by Doctor Doom
Only 100 years? That's stupid. If they want a "new galaxy" they should set their sights a little higher. Hell, with only 100 years passing some of the characters from the NJO might very well still be alive. Bullshit.
Posted: 2006-02-01 03:59pm
by Perseid
I wonder who's incharge of the Jedi order at this point, and whether Jacen and co are still alive.
Posted: 2006-02-01 04:07pm
by 000
Yeah, I refrained from commenting in the OP, but I'm more than a little concerned about this.
We can only hope the "New Empire" and "New Sith Order" are hyperbole.
Posted: 2006-02-01 04:10pm
by Darksider
Am I the only one who thought he was in the fanfic forum when initially viewing this thread?
I have a *Very* bad feeling about this...............
Posted: 2006-02-01 04:15pm
by VT-16
This does feel like a fanfic, and I was astonished to find it's an actual canonical story.
So much for Lucas saying there would be no more Sith after Sidious and Vader. *Groan*
Posted: 2006-02-01 04:15pm
by 000
Nope! The first thing I though when I read the announcement was "geeze, this smells like uninspired fanfic." I still haven't been able to shake that feeling.
The "Twi'lek Sith" in particular looks like a typical piece of fan-art.
I guess we'll find out.
Posted: 2006-02-01 04:27pm
by Jack Bauer
Posted: 2006-02-01 04:31pm
by Crazedwraith
oh god, this thread does not exsist. It is merely a hallucination caused by a bit of bad cheese.
Looking at that "Cade" sample page my brain exploded. A jedi who's turned his back on the jedi way and become a pirate complete with double-barrelled blaster and tattos. Any more cliche's we'd like to add in?
Posted: 2006-02-01 04:38pm
by VT-16
Ladies and gentlemen, Quinlan Vos 2.0
Posted: 2006-02-01 04:39pm
by Stravo
I came in here ready to move this thread into fanfiction....I will now leave slowly and pretend I just didn't see this fucking steaming pile.
Posted: 2006-02-01 04:43pm
by Connor MacLeod
I actually think it might be rather amusing and/or humorous.
Posted: 2006-02-01 04:47pm
by 000
Stravo wrote:I came in here ready to move this thread into fanfiction...
Heh. If only.
Posted: 2006-02-01 04:59pm
by VT-16
I only take solace in knowing that, 100 years from now, most information about SW will be contained in some form of SW Wiki/CUSWE decendant, and people will never actually have to read all this crap.
Posted: 2006-02-01 05:27pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
Who wants to be that they'll completely screw up the presentation and state of technology, unaware of the whole technological stasis thing?
I also wish I never saw this thread...
Posted: 2006-02-01 05:28pm
by Knife
Blah!
Posted: 2006-02-01 06:03pm
by nightmare
It seems to be a reharsh of several already played out, known and previously successful concepts. In other words, the worst way of slow, painful killing of originality. Also known as beating a dead horse or cheapen the original stories.
It seems to me like it's mixing Boba Fett, Luke Skywalker, and Han Solo into one person and have him go at the new, evil and no doubt still incompetent imperials, and the even more evil, new sith, who haven't learned a thing since. What's next, he's also got an astromech named R2-D2?
Posted: 2006-02-01 06:07pm
by Sonnenburg
Ghost Rider wrote:100 years and Luke's Jedi order fucks up this bad, this fast? Man, Yoda must be spinning in the Force now.
"Told you I did. Reckless is he. Now matters are worse..."
Posted: 2006-02-01 06:12pm
by nightmare
Addendum: Oh dear God* and the fanboys are already all over it. Including Nathan "Long-Winded" Chronoradio.
*There just isn't a good substitute for that expression.
Posted: 2006-02-01 06:19pm
by Noble Ire
Damn them. Why can't they just stick with the pre-ROTJ time period? A great deal of recent material from it is quite good, if not excellent, and there are plenty of concepts to tackle that haven't been touched on very much. Simulatenuously, post ROTJ EU is getting progressively more contrived and half-assed. If you really want to do some future thing, why not wait for a few years, focus on the KOTOR and Imperial periods for a while, then move the story a few thousandyears into the future, where it might actually have a chance of being fresh.
Posted: 2006-02-01 06:21pm
by VT-16
Marketing: "You see, Naga Sadow found a way to split his "essence" in two during the Great Hyperspace War. One half stayed in the GFFA, the other half travelled through the cosmos. Now, over 5,000 years later, having scoured distant galaxies for Force-sensitives, the Extragalactic Sith Order returns! They got Yuuzhan Vong Sith Lords and everything!!!!1111oneone And a twilek Sith Lady, too!!!1111122222"
Posted: 2006-02-01 06:21pm
by Knife
Noble Ire wrote:Damn them. Why can't they just stick with the pre-ROTJ time period? A great deal of recent material from it is quite good, if not excellent, and there are plenty of concepts to tackle that haven't been touched on very much. Simulatenuously, post ROTJ EU is getting progressively more contrived and half-assed. If you really want to do some future thing, why not wait for a few years, focus on the KOTOR and Imperial periods for a while, then move the story a few thousandyears into the future, where it might actually have a chance of being fresh.
Yeah, one could easily jump (arbitrary number) 4000 years ahead and tell some interesting stories. Hell, if they really want pirates and rogues, make the Jedi extinct.
Posted: 2006-02-01 06:30pm
by atg
*puts hands over ears*
La la la la this isn't real la la la la
WTF are they thinking. This just sounds like someone crapped the general idea out of their arse and decided to label Star Wars on it to 'guarantee' success.
Nightmare wrote:What's next, he's also got an astromech named R2-D2?
It'll be THE R2-D2 who conveniently is still able to hack elevators and bridge computers to serve his master.
Or R2-D2 will be sick of serving whiney Skywalkers and has formed the new empire to wipe out all of the skywalker blood line, which will turn into remorse while remembering the good times he had with his masters, and then will sacrifice himself while single handedly destroying the *insert generic superweapon here* he's been constructing.
Posted: 2006-02-01 07:38pm
by Trogdor
Stravo wrote:I came in here ready to move this thread into fanfiction....I will now leave slowly and pretend I just didn't see this fucking steaming pile.
Wait for me! *Runs away*
