Legacy starts long a few generations after Luke Skywalker, with the descendants of the Skywalker and Solo clan. The galaxy is led by a triumvirate of the Galactic Alliance, the Fel Empire and the Jedi. But some decisions the Jedi made are controversial. A new Sith has arisen, and they take advantage to create division.
The attack on Ossus and decimation of the Jedi has orphaned Cade Skywalker, separated him from other survivors. He is forging his own path in the galaxy, rescued by pirates who have no idea who and what he is.
Cade has become a bounty hunter, and when he crosses the line and sells a Jedi to the Sith, the force and his family legacy will challenge him. He can fall to the dark side, or return to the Jedi but it will not leave him alone.. Darth Krayt, leader of the One Sith, wants his power to cure him of a Yuuzhan Vong induced illness. This power, when used, tends to take Cade to the dark side. And Cade is reckless, guilt stricken and has crossed lines he should not have.
The fate of the galaxy may depend on Cade Skywalker accepting the legacy he had abandoned.
New Characters of Legacy:
(Not a complete list)
- Cade Skywalker – bounty hunter, pirate, former Jedi
- Jariah Syn – male pirate
- Blue – zeltron female mechanicKol Skywalker – Cade’s fatherBantha Rawk
- Droo Rawk
- Shado – Twilek Jedi male
- Sazen – Zabrak Jedi maleEmperor Roan Fel – Imperial Knight and head of the Empire
- Marasiah Fel – Imperial Knight, Princess
- Draco Antares – Imperial Knight male
- Ganner Krieg – Imperial Knight maleDarth Krayt – head of the One Sith
- Darth Talon – the ‘hand’ of Darth Krayt
- Darth Nihl – hand of Krayt
- Wyrlokk – closest assistant to KraytMorrigan Corrde – Imperial spy with a secret
- Nina Calixte – Imperial intelligence Director
- Moff Rulf Yage
- Gunner Yage – pilot and leader of the Skulls
- Morlish Veed – Imperial who would be Emperor
Legacy Story Arcs
Broken
Intro to the main characters, flashbacks to how the Jedi and the Triumverate fell, how Cade became a pirate and bounty hunter, and the mistake he makes that sets him on his path.
Claws of the Dragon
Cade begins to retrain, but has to right a wrong and is captured by the Sith. Only his friends, and the mysterious spy Morrigan Corde can save him now. Darth Krayt reveals his true identity. But Krayt has a problem: he is in danger of being destroyed by inventions of the Yuuzhan Vong.
Indomitable
Concurrent with Cade’s story, the renegade Galactic Alliance leader, last of the old fleet, plans an attack on a Mon Calamari shipyard to steal a sith ship.He has the aid of spies, as the Mon Calamari have always supported the Republic and GA. But the consequences for the natives will be dire.
Loyalties
Cade returns to Rawk’s nest, where ‘Bantha’ and his family live. But in defending it, he is revealed and that information will be sold to enemies. An old childhood friend, Azlyn Rae, tracks him there. But her motives are questionable.
The Hidden Temple
Cade is taken to a hidden Jedi temple to present a plan to end Krayt. The Imperial Knights who serve Emperor Roan Fel, seek an Alliance with them.
Into the Core
Wyrlook heads to the core, seeking Darth Andeddnus secrets, thinking it will help Krayt.
Vector
The crossover that began in Knights of the Old Republic, and continued into Empire and Dark Times, finally ends here. Cade and his allies, seeking to destroy Krayt, meet Celeste Morn and plan a way to use the Muur talisman, and the old ghost himself, to defeat the Sith.
Storms
Wyrlokk turns on the near death Darth Krayt. Cade uses the force to keep his old girlfriend alive after she mortal injury, but his methods alienate many.
Renegade
Admiral Staze of the GAR and Emperor Roan Fel test their new alliance on a joint strike. But their idea of a partnership isn’t going well.
Return to Tatooine
Cade and crew try and return to their old life, with the added twist of using Cade’s jedi powers, pitting the Sith against criminal organizations. Now both are hunting him. Meanwhile, Morrigan Corde’s secret is about to unravel.
Divided Loyalties
Hodo Karr, member of Rogue Squadron with Anj, is sent to help refugees of Dac. It reveals his true past: Mando, betrayed, escaping as a trooper and being assigned to the Sith trooper Joker squad. But now his past is about to catch up. (story started in Broken)
Imperial Knight Dare, left on Dac after the Sith Empire retaliated for it’s stolen ship, is caught between aiding the desperate Mon Calamari rangers or obeying Emperor Fel and returning to Bastion.
Monster
Cade takes a job that leads to Wayland, a place with bad memories of things going wrong when he was a Jedi apprentice. But it’s a trap.
On Agamar, a meeting between Emperor Fel and the Jedi is set to discuss an Alliance. But the enemy launches an attack aimed specifically at capturing Emperor Fel and Princess Marasiah.
Extremes
The Sith launch a bio weapon to destroy Dac, and continue on to destroy any that aid the refugees. The new alliances are tested as they rush to the rescue. Meanwhile a rescue mission to save or silence the captured Imperial Knight is on. Cade goes after the scientist behind the bioweapon.
War
Krayt is revealed alive, and Cade accepts his destiny to go after him. Emperor Roan Fel makes a fateful decision.
Legacy Review
I had no idea what to make of Cade at first glance. Luke Skywalker was a farm boy who stayed true and positive through it all. Anakin had big dreams, but he felled for fear of losing those he loved. Cade Skywalker, being a pirate, struck me as the opposite of either. He lacked the sass of Ben Skywalker, had a very hard edge and just seems apathetic to anyone’s suffering but his own.
Legacy though, does take him on an interesting journey. In truth, you might say Cade is ‘deconstructed’ but this is only the start of the tale, by the end, he is reconstructed. Broken, but eventually made whole.
Cade has an ability Anakin Skywalker literally murdered for is an interesting twist. And it isn’t like he has no redeeming qualities: he does care, it was his intense pain at such loss from boyhood that has led to how apathetic and scarred within he his now. His story isn’t just rising to be a hero, its recovering from terrible loss, terrible choices and addiction to finally becoming who he was meant to be. The more you see how he became this way, the more I root for him to overcome it.
I loved the idea of the Imperial Knights that Legacy introduces, and the checks on supporting the Emperor only as long as he didn’t fall to the Dark Side. They aren’t the same as the Jedi, but nor are they Sith. They have far more in common with the Jedi and are more like rivals. It’s a shame we didn’t get to their origins, although its clearly something to do with Jaina and Jagged Fel’s marriage, or their offspring.
I am sorry at what was left out when it was cut off: I’d love to have read more on his Nat ‘Bantha’ Skywalker. I also would have loved to know about where the family tree is: the gaps between the last book of the Expanded Universe (Crucible) in the timeline, were cut off before anything could be established. That said I am just as glad at what was not referenced: Legacy of the Force isn’t referenced at all. It was being written at pretty much the same time.
Also, the Hondo Karr and Joker story feels like an interesting direction tested but that was left unexplored.
The twist of who Darth Krayt was actually disappointed me. The shock factor is probably what they wanted, but I had higher hopes for a character who has appeared in other stories.
Continuity and Lore
Ossus was reestablished as a Jedi world as a safe haven after the Yuuzhan Vong War in New Jedi Order. It was first seen in the Tales of the Jedi comics.
Rogue Squadron reappears, in new fighters. It was founded as Rogue Flight by Luke Skywalker in the Empire Strikes Back. It’s has a long legacy as the top fighter squadron in the Republic and Galactic Alliance. This was continued in X-Wing novels and the New Jedi Order. Among it’s famed members were Wedge Antillies and Jaina Solo.
The Fel Empire and the Imperial Knights do appear in Legacy 2, which stars Ania Solo.
Twin Suns Squadron was established as a Jedi Squadron in New Jedi Order. This continues in Legacy.
The Yuuzhan Vong and its terraforming is established in the New Jedi Order series.
Dac is also known as Mon Calamari, after one of it’s residence.
Moappa, species from Dac as mentioned in the comic are established as a group mind in one of the Clone Wars adventures digests, based on the microseries.
Whaladons are introduced as a sentient species in the Jedi Prince books. The Legacy comics treat them as such.
