Star Wars: Legacy (set 145 ABY and starring Cade Skywalker)

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-02-01 07:44pm

This seriously reads like something that SuperShadow would have masturbated into existance.

Darksider · Post by **Darksider** » 2006-02-01 10:31pm

Well, it seems that despite a successfull and very entertaining conclusion to the Movies, Star Wars will still go the way of Trek. With various authors pulling shitty stories out of their asses and fanwhores like supershadow gobbeling them up, fecal matter and all. After the excellent conclusion of the prequel trilogy in ROTS, I had hoped Wars would be given a dignified ending, but I don't have much hope anymore

Post by **Vympel** » 2006-02-01 10:44pm

The Expanded Universe was responsible for maintaining a level of fan interest in Star Wars and keeping it in the public profile long after RotJ finished. I'm not entirely ungrateful, no matter how sucky some of the plots are. As for this comic- bah. I don't read EU in general, I only like the movie reference books, which is why I own almost the entire DK series. Labyrinth of Evil and Dark Lord were a recent exception, since they form a trilogy with the RotS novelization. I also have Crimson Empire I and II, Dark Empire I, II, and Empire's End, and the Zahn novels in comic form form, but that's only because I got them for free from somewhere.

JME2 · Post by **JME2** » 2006-02-01 11:33pm

While Sue Rostini had said that the Legacy era would span the decades, I didn't give it much heed. Regardless, I'm sticking with what I said in the Worst Novels thread -- with the exceptions of any more Clone Wars-era material and James Luceno novels, I'm done with the post-ROTJ EU and this pretty much seals it...

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2006-02-01 11:43pm

It'll probably have beam-porters. And quantum turbophasers.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2006-02-01 11:45pm

Well, at least it's a hundred years ahead of everything else, so if it doesn't go over well, it can safely be ignored without messing with too much.

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2006-02-01 11:46pm

I hope it has some rousing time-travel adventures.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2006-02-01 11:52pm

No, no, why couldn't this be 2 months from today, then we could all just enjoy a good laugh over the blown out of proportion reactions.

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2006-02-01 11:58pm

I wonder they'll have some badass, yet hot and sexy, female character who's always arguing with Cade. That would be fresh and totally unexpected.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2006-02-02 01:00am

Galvatron wrote:I wonder they'll have some badass, yet hot and sexy, female character who's always arguing with Cade. That would be fresh and totally unexpected.

Watch it be the female Sith lord who is seduced by Cade's roguish charms

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VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2006-02-02 01:29am

Since they're going to do this no matter what anyone says, they might as well use the tried and true gimmick of "Palpatine The Undying". Seriously, now that we're already in fan-wank territory, why not bring him back?

Let Lumiya have had a vessel prepared for his soul, let him brood/plot/scheme a few decades (it's not like he's hasn't been the underdog before), and then slowly corrupt the "Galactic Alliance" or whatever they're calling it this month. I never liked his "death" in EE anyway (being dragged with another soul into the Force? WTF). I'm not saying it's a good idea, I'm just saying it might improve a nigh unsalvagable situation. :P

Ghost Rider wrote: Watch it be the female Sith lord who is seduced by Cade's roguish charms :P .

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/6730 ... cov4il.jpg

I'll only read any of this if she wears a cloak. And nothing else. :P

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2006-02-02 01:57am

VT-16 wrote: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"

Is that a joke? It could entirely be possible.

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2006-02-02 02:15am

This reads like a marketing tie-in for the next in their line of first-person shooters.

President Sharky · Post by **President Sharky** » 2006-02-02 03:08am

And so Star Wars chose the path of an undignified, drawn out death.

It is a sad day.

Tiriol · Post by **Tiriol** » 2006-02-02 04:08am

My first thought when I read this: bloody hell, that's one bad pirate.

Then, when I realized that it was for real (most likely, I still have the remnants of my shattered hope), my thought was: oh dear...

It doesn't look good. Both in plot prospects (new Empire? New Sith Order? Oh dear...) and that main character is a rip-off of Quinlan Vos, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and the Jedi exile in KotOR 2.

Damn, now I'm depressed.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2006-02-02 04:40am

and that main character is a rip-off of Quinlan Vos, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and the Jedi exile in KotOR 2.

Yes it's quite amazing how they managed to combine that many characters into one. 'Amazing' as in 'fucking pathetic'.

Is that a joke? It could entirely be possible.

It was meant as a joke but the realization of how plausible it would be to use as an actual plotpoint, now dawns on me. Wouldn't be the first time they've made retcons to connect new plots with old eras. (Although the previous Yuuzhan Vong cross-era-retconning ranks up there with ST's Borg/TNG references in pre-TOS times as fucking terrible ideas, whose inventors should be shot. Repeatedly.)

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2006-02-02 04:53am

*Begins to break down and weep* WHY? WHY! What did we do deserve this.

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2006-02-02 06:59am

Star Wars: The Next Generation

loomer · Post by **loomer** » 2006-02-02 07:56am

Dear god, kill me! Kill me now!

...Anyone else notice that all the renders are hideous? I'm assuming the usage of Poser or something similar. I've seen amateur artists make more attractive images.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2006-02-02 10:51am

The cause of this is that small minority of total fanboys who'll buy anything they produce. Just like with Trek, you don't have to worry about not making bullshit when the freaks will not descriminate at all. Just look at that thread at Dark Horse.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2006-02-02 11:11am

I saw the top half of the cover, and my first thought was that it was some piece-of-shit fan fic or fan film. Instead, it's a piece-of-shit Dark Horse comic.

One of the alluring things about writing in the Star Wars Universe is that it's huge. You can tell any story you want. All we've been getting from these writers is the same fucking story with the same fucking characters over and over again.

Here's a novel idea. How about a story that doesn't involve the Jedi, Skywalkers, a new Empire, the Sith or the Force at all?

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2006-02-02 12:00pm

Setting it many years into the future could be interesting; they could do something completely new. But it seems like that's not what they're going to do, which is a damn shame. Oh, and they're going to have another nearly naked Twi'lek woman in it, too! Are Twi'lek females extraordinarily warm-blooded or why is it so rare for them to wear actual clothes?

The Twi'lek looks pretty evil actually, with those gloves and everything (no wait, besides underwear, those gloves are everything she is wearing. That makes sense). I wonder if she'll be turned to the good side by that Cade person and then start lamenting over the evil deeds she did. But you just know that Cade himself at some point is going to do just that at least; "Woe is me! If only I hadn't turned my back on the Jedi and changed my name I could have saved all those people."

Yep, shit. Too bad.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2006-02-02 12:26pm

I think an interesting story would be to jump an abritrarily large number into the future, the jedi are extinct, the galaxy in turmoil from pirating and the government simply doesn't care anymore, due to lack of effective law inforcement on a galactic scale, and one "lucky" guy discovers an ancient repository of knowledge of coruscant.

Thats a Star Wars story that would pique my interest.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2006-02-02 12:44pm

To be quite brutally honest, this is really no worse than some of the previous comicbook escapades. Come on, who did not groan when finding out that Palpatine reincarnated himself into a backup Empire at Byss that had somehow stayed hidden and passive all that time? That's at least as retarded as anything we're seeing here.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2006-02-02 01:11pm

Dooey Jo wrote:Setting it many years into the future could be interesting; they could do something completely new. But it seems like that's not what they're going to do, which is a damn shame. Oh, and they're going to have another nearly naked Twi'lek woman in it, too! Are Twi'lek females extraordinarily warm-blooded or why is it so rare for them to wear actual clothes?

The Twi'lek looks pretty evil actually, with those gloves and everything (no wait, besides underwear, those gloves are everything she is wearing. That makes sense). I wonder if she'll be turned to the good side by that Cade person and then start lamenting over the evil deeds she did. But you just know that Cade himself at some point is going to do just that at least; "Woe is me! If only I hadn't turned my back on the Jedi and changed my name I could have saved all those people."

Yep, shit. Too bad.

most Twi'lek females outside Ryloth are slaves, as IIRC Ryloth is very isolationist