In June 2006 Dark Horse Comics launched a new Star Wars series entitled Star Wars: Legacy. Set 137 years after the Battle of Yavin, (a.k.a. Episode IV: A New Hope, for those not obsessed with dates and titles), we meet Cade Skywalker, a descendant of Luke Skywalker who has given up his Jedi heritage to pursue a life as a bounty hunter. The galaxy is in a state of civil war, with a Sith Lord seated on the Imperial Throne seeing his power being challenged by many different forces.
This series is the brain-child of writer John Ostrander and artist Jan Duursema, who had previously worked together on over 50 issues of Star Wars: Republic. The tagline for the series was great; it simply stated: "All new Sith Order! All new Empire! All new Skywalker!"
Cade isn’t the nicest guy in the galaxy either. Think: what if Han Solo was a Jedi? He saw his father killed in at the Jedi temple by Sith and has vowed revenge. The first three arcs in issues 1-13 set up the universe and what we might expect for the series.
Issues 14-19, entitled “Claws of the Dragon,” make up the 4th arc for this series and are reprinted in Star Wars: Legacy, Volume 3 - Claws of the Dragon. This arc had some big payoffs and advanced the plot of the series further.
Cade is bringing in a Jedi master to the Sith on Coruscant when he is captured and delivered to the self-proclaimed emperor of the Sith Empire, Darth Krayt. In a story that somewhat mirrors the Emperor/Vader/Skywalker scenes in Return of The Jedi, Krayt tells Cade he will learn to be a sith or die. He injects Cade with a venom that causes excruciating pain and can only be expelled using a dark-side power. Krayt is hoping that once Cade starts using the dark side, he won’t be able to stop.
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